331 P. Jensen, _Die Kosmologie der Babylonier_, pp. 304-306; H. Gunkel, _Schöpfung und Chaos in Urzeit und Endzeit_ (Göttingen, 1895), pp. 114 _sqq._; _id._, _Genesis übersetzt und erklärt_ (Göttingen, 1901), pp. 107 _sqq._; _Encyclopaedia Biblica_, _s.v._ “Creation,” i. coll. 938 _sqq._; S. R. Driver, _The Book of Genesis_4 (London, 1905), pp. 27 _sqq._ The myth is clearly alluded to in several passages of Scripture, where the dragon of the sea is spoken of as Rahab or Leviathan. See Isaiah li. 9, “Art thou not it that cut Rahab in pieces, that pierced the dragon?”: _id._ xxvii. 1, “In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea”: Job xxvi. 12, “He stirreth up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through Rahab”: Psalm lxxxix. 10, “Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces as one that is slain”: Psalm lxxiv. 13 _sq._, “Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces.” See further H. Gunkel, _Schöpfung und Chaos_, pp. 29 _sqq._ M81 Indian story of the slaying of Vṛtra by Indra. The story may be a myth descriptive of the beginning of the rainy season in India. 332 A. A. Macdonell, _Vedic Mythology_, pp. 58-60, 158 _sq._ Compare H. Oldenberg, _Die Religion des Veda_, pp. 134 _sqq._ 333 See M. Winternitz, “Der Sarpabali, ein altindischer Schlangencult,” _Mittheilungen der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien_, xviii. (1888) pp. 44 _sq._ M82 Similarly the other tales of the slaughter of the dragon may be mythical descriptions of the changes of the seasons. 334 A. Kuhn, “Wodan,” _Zeitschrift für deutsches Alterthum_, v. (1845) pp. 484-488. 335 P. Jensen, _Die Kosmologie der Babylonier_, pp. 315 _sq._; H. Gunkel, _Schöpfung und Chaos_, p. 25; _id._, _Genesis übersetzt und erklärt_, pp. 115 _sq._; M. Jastrow, _The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria_, pp. 411 _sq._, 429 _sq._, 432 _sq._; H. Zimmern, in _Encyclopaedia Biblica_, _s.v._ “Creation,” i. coll. 940 _sq._; _id._, in E. Schrader’s _Die Keilinschriften und das Alte Testament_,3 pp. 370 _sq._, 500 _sq._; S. R. Driver, _The Book of Genesis_4 (London, 1905), p. 28. M83 The cosmogonical significance of the Babylonian myth may have been an after-thought, the early philosophers picturing the creation of the world on the analogy of the change from winter to summer. 336 Virgil, _Georgics_, ii. 336-342.