A correction with regard to: "Das Tor zur Unterwelt: Mythologie und Kult des Termitenhuegels in der Schriftlichen und Muendlichen Tradition Indiens" [Wiesbaden, 1984]. It's author, Ditte Koenig, informs me that she is not at all a 'he', but bery much a 'she.' Mea culpa, George