“Maya the queen . . .
Dreamed a strange dream; dreamed that a star from heaven—
Splendid, six-rayed, in colour rosy-pearl,
Whereof the token was an Elephant
Six-tusked, and white as milk of Kamadhuk—
Shot through the void; and, shining into her,
Entered her womb upon the right.”

—Buddha’s conception, Sir Edwin Arnold, The Light of Asia, 1879; Symbols of
Transformation, C.G. Jung, 1956.