Hence, the devaluation of the cowry was a logical result.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

The idea that the cowry was the giver of life and the parent of men was also transferred to crude stone imitations of the shell.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

It seems that the cowry trade was suddenly disrupted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

Diagrams illustrating the form of cowry-belts worn in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

In Beibi Yanjiu (Studies on cowry currency), ed. Yang Shouchuan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

Yang, Shouchuan, ed. Beibi Yanjiu (Studies on the cowry currency).    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

In Beibi Yanjiu (Studies on the cowry currency), ed. Yang Shouchuan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

Thus gradually there developed out of the cowry-amulet the conception of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

Then, in many places, the cowry was replaced by an actual metallic coin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

Found a small cowry shell of remarkable beauty on dead coral in the Bay.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Tropic Isle] Reference

Thus gold came to share the same magical reputation as the cowry and the pearl.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

I have already mentioned the outstanding features of the symbolism of the cowry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

"Yunnan Yong Haibei zuo Huobi de Lishi Kaocha" (A historical survey of the cowry in Yunnan).    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

"Yunnan Yong Bei zuo Huobi de Qishi Shidai" (When Yunnan began to use the cowry as currency).    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

Moreover, we know why the cowry was regarded as feminine and accredited with life-giving attributes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

The magic girdle assumed a great variety of forms as the number of surrogates of the cowry increased.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

Diagrams illustrating the form of cowry-belts worn in (a) East Africa and (b) Oceania respectively.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

"Gudai Yunnan yong Beibi de Dagai Qingxing" (General information of cowry currency in ancient Yunnan).    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

As the giver of life, the cowry came to have attributed to it by some people definite powers of creation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

In Greece and Italy, the sweet basil has a reputation for magical properties analogous to those of the cowry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

"Yunnan yong Bei zuo Huobi de Shidai ji Bei de Laiyuan" (The date and source of cowry as currency in Yunnan).    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

For they were originally nothing more than personifications of the life-giving cowry amulets from the Red Sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

I have already referred to the origin of the idea of the cowry (or some other shell) as the parent of mankind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

This affords corroboration of the view that Hathor assumed the functions originally attributed to the cowry-shell.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

In the version we are now considering the pearl's place is taken by the pig, both of them surrogates of the cowry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

Both this reputation and the association with the female organs of reproduction link up the symbol with the cowry, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

"Guanyu Yuandai Yunnan de 'Zhenba' 'Siba' Wenti" (On the official cowry money and private cowry money in the Yuan dynasty).    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

"Shiqi Shiji Yunnan Beibi Bengkui de Yuanyin" (Reasons for the collapse of Yunnan cowry currency in the seventeenth century).    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

Therefore, even when Chinese states forbade the use of cowry money as the medium of trade, cowries continued to enter Yunnan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

The powers of the cowry, as a product of the sea, were rationalized into an expression of the great creative force of the water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

For reasons which I shall discuss in the following pages, the rôle of the cowry and pearl as representatives of the Great Mother was in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

Aphrodite was associated not only with the cowry, the pearl, and the mandrake, but also with the octopus, the argonaut, and other cephalopods.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

But the circumstances which led to the development of the shell's symbolism naturally and inevitably conferred upon the cowry special power over women.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference