In Chinese cosmogony and mythology motherhood finds recognition. Besides the great Earth-Mother, we meet with Se-wang-moo, the "Western Royal Mother," a goddess of fairy-land, and the "Mother of Lightning," thunder being considered the "father and teacher of all living beings." Lieh-tze, a philosopher of the fifth century B.C., taught: "My body is not my own; I am merely an inhabitant of it for the time being, and shall resign it when I return to the 'Abyss Mother'" (434. 222, 225, 277). In the Flowery Kingdom there is also a sect "who worship the goddess Pity, in the form of a woman holding a child in her arms." Among the deities and semi-deities of the Andaman Islanders are _chän·a·ê·lewadi_, the "mother of the race,"--Mother E·lewadi; _chän·a·erep_, _chän·a·châ·riâ_, _chän·a·te·liu_, _chän·a·li·mi_, _chän·a·jär·a·ngûd_, all inventors and discoverers of foods and the arts. In the religious system of the Andaman Islanders, _Pû·luga-_, the Supreme Being, by whom were created "the world and all objects, animate and inanimate, excepting only the powers of evil," and of whom it is said, "though his appearance is like fire, yet he is (nowadays) invisible," is "believed to live in a large stone house in the sky with a wife whom he created for himself; she is green in appearance, and has two names, _chän·a·àu·lola_ (Mother Freshwater Shrimp) and _chän·a·pâ·lak-_--(Mother Eel); by her he has a large family, all except the eldest being girls; these last, known as _mô·ro-win--_ (sky-spirits or angels), are said to be black in appearance, and, with their mother, amuse themselves from time to time by throwing fish and prawns into the streams and sea for the use of the inhabitants of the world" (498. 90). With these people also the first woman was _chän·a·ê·lewadi_ (Mother E-lewadi), the ancestress of the present race of natives. She was drowned, while canoeing, and "became a small crab of a description still named after her _ê·lewadi_" (498. 96): Quite frequently we find that primitive peoples have ascribed the origin of the arts or of the good things of life to women whom they have canonized as saints or apotheosized into deities. We may close our consideration of motherhood and what it has given the world with the apt words of Zmigrodzki:--