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G. Müller, p. 56. Further American evidence in Brinton, ‘Myths of New World,’ pp. 50, 74; Cranz, ‘Grönland,’ p. 267 (Sillagiksartok, Weather-spirit); De la Borde, ‘Caraïbes,’ p. 530 (Carib Star Curumon, makes the billows and upsets canoes).

Footnote 633:

Ellis, ‘Polyn. Res.’ vol. i. p. 329 (compare with the Maori Tempest-god Tawhirimatea, Grey, ‘Polyn. Myth.’ p. 5); Schirren, ‘Wandersage der Neuseeländer,’ &c. p. 85; Yate, ‘New Zealand,’ p. 144. See also Mariner, ‘Tonga Is.’ vol. ii. p. 115.

Footnote 634:

Steller, ‘Kamschatka,’ p. 266.

Footnote 635:

Castrén, ‘Finn. Myth.’ pp. 37, 68.

Footnote 636:

Boecler, pp. 106, 147.

Footnote 637:

See also Klemm, ‘Cultur-Gesch.’ vol. iv. p. 85 (Circassian Water-god and Wind-god).

Footnote 638:

Muir, ‘Sanskrit Texts,’ vol. v. p. 150.

Footnote 639:

Homer. Il. xxiii. 192, Odyss. xx. 66, 77; Apollon. Rhod. Argonautica; Apollodor. i. 9. 21; Virg. Æn. i. 56; Welcker, ‘Griech. Götterl.’ vol. i. p. 707, vol. iii. p. 67.

Footnote 640:

Grimm, ‘Deutsche Myth.’ pp. 121, 871.

Footnote 641:

Wuttke, ‘Deutsche Volksabergl.’ p. 86.

Footnote 642:

Tanner’s ‘Narrative,’ p. 193; Loskiel, l.c. See also Rochefort, ‘Iles Antilles,’ p. 414; J. G. Müller, p. 178 (Antilles).

Footnote 643:

Garcilaso de la Vega, ‘Commentarios Reales,’ i. 10; Rivero & Tschudi, p. 161; J. G. Müller, p. 369.

Footnote 644:

Waitz, ‘Anthropologie,’ vol. ii. p. 170.

Footnote 645:

‘Report of Ethnological Committee, Jubbulpore Exhibition,’ 1866-7. Nagpore, 1868, part ii. p. 54.

Footnote 646:

Macpherson, ‘India,’ chap. vi.

Footnote 647:

Georgi, ‘Reise im Russ. Reich,’ vol. i. pp. 275, 317. Castrén, ‘Finn. Myth,’ p. 86, &c.

Footnote 648:

Plath, ‘Religion der alten Chinesen,’ part i. pp. 36, 73, part ii. p. 32. Doolittle, ‘Chinese,’ vol. i. pp. 86, 354, 413, vol. ii. pp. 67, 380, 455.

Footnote 649:

‘Rig-Veda,’ i. 89. 4, &c., &c.

Footnote 650:

Welcker, ‘Griech. Götterl.’ vol. i. p. 385, &c.

Footnote 651:

Varro de Ling. Lat. iv.

Footnote 652:

Tacit. Germania, 40. Grimm, ‘Deutsche Myth.’ p. 229, &c.

Footnote 653:

Wuttke, ‘Deutsche Volksabergl.’ p. 87.

Footnote 654:

Liebich, ‘Die Zigeuner,’ pp. 30, 84.

Footnote 655:

Schoolcraft, ‘Indian Tribes,’ part iii. p. 485; Eastman, ‘Dahcotah,’ pp. i. 118, 161.

Footnote 656:

Clavigero, vol. ii. p. 14.

Footnote 657:

Marsden, ‘Sumatra,’ p. 301; see also 303 (Tagals).

Footnote 658:

Ellis, ‘Polyn. Res.’ vol. i. p. 328.

Footnote 659:

Bosman, ‘Guinea,’ letter xix.; in Pinkerton, vol. xvi. p. 494. Burton, ‘Dahome,’ vol. ii. p. 141. See also below, chap. xviii. (sacrifice).

Footnote 660:

Schlegel, ‘Ewe Sprache,’ p. xiv.

Footnote 661:

Garcilaso de la Vega, ‘Commentarios Reales,’ i. 10, vi. 17; Rivero & Tschudi, ‘Peru,’ p. 161.

Footnote 662:

Steller, ‘Kamtschatka,’ p. 265.

Footnote 663:

Siebold, ‘Nippon,’ part v. p. 9.

Footnote 664:

Herod. vi. 76.

Footnote 665:

Cicero, De Natura Deorum, iii. 20.

Footnote 666:

Homer, Il. i. 538, xiii. 18, xx. 13. Welcker, ‘Griech. Götterl.’ vol. i. p. 616 (Nereus), p. 622 (Poseidon). Cox, ‘Mythology of Aryan Nations,’ vol. ii. ch. vi.

Footnote 667:

Loskiel, ‘Ind. of N. A.’ part i. pp. 41, 45. See also J. G. Müller, p. 55.

Footnote 668:

Irving, ‘Astoria,’ vol. ii. ch. xxii.

Footnote 669:

Torquemada, ‘Monarquia Indiana,’ vi. c. 28, x. c. 22, 30; Brasseur, ‘Mexique,’ vol. iii. pp. 492, 522, 536.

Footnote 670:

Schirren, ‘Wandersage der Neuseeländer,’ &c., p. 32; Turner, ‘Polynesia,’ pp. 252, 527.

Footnote 671:

Burton, ‘Dahome,’ vol. ii. p. 148; Schlegel, ‘Ewe Sprache,’ p. xv.

Footnote 672:

Steller, ‘Kamtschatka,’ p. 276.

Footnote 673:

Batchelor in ‘Tr. As. Soc. Japan,’ vols. x. xvi.

Footnote 674:

Castrén, ‘Finn. Myth.’ p. 57; Billings, ‘N. Russia,’ p. 123 (Yakuts); Bastian, ‘Vorstellungen von Wasser und Feuer,’ in ‘Zeitschr. für Ethnologie,’ vol. i. p. 383 (Mongols).

Footnote 675:

Klemm, ‘Cultur-Gesch.’ vol. vi. p. 85 (Circassia). Welcker, vol. i. p. 663.

Footnote 676:

See ‘Records of the Past,’ vol. iii. p. 137, vol. ix. p. 143; Sayce, ‘Lectures on Rel. of Ancient Babylonians,’ p. 170. For accounts of Semitic fire-worship, see Movers, ‘Phönizier,’ vol. i. p. 327, &c., 337, &c., 401.

Footnote 677:

‘Rig-Veda,’ i. 1. 1, 19. 2, iii. 1. 18, &c.; Max Müller, vol. i. p. 39; Ward, ‘Hindoos,’ vol. ii. p. 53. Haug, ‘Essays on Parsis,’ iv.; ‘Early Hist. of Mankind,’ p. 255.

Footnote 678:

Hanway, ‘Journal of Travels,’ London, 1753, vol. i. ch. lvii.

Footnote 679:

Diog. Lært. Proœm. ii. 6. Sextus Empiricus adv. Physicos, ix.; Strabo, xv. 3, 13.

Footnote 680:

John Wilson, ‘The Parsi Religion,’ ch. iv.; ‘Avesta,’ tr. by Spiegel, Yacna, i. lxi.

Footnote 681:

Max Müller, ‘Chips,’ vol. i. p. 169. Haug, ‘Essays on Parsis,’ p. 281.

Footnote 682:

Hanusch, ‘Slaw. Myth.’ pp. 88, 98.

Footnote 683:

Homer. Hymn. Aphrod. 29, Hestia 1. Welcker, ‘Griech. Götterl.’ vol. ii. pp. 686, 691.

Footnote 684:

Ovid. Fast. vi. 295.

Footnote 685:

Boecler, ‘Ehsten Abergl.’ p. 29, &c.

Footnote 686:

Wuttke, ‘Volksabergl.’ p. 86. Grohmann, ‘Aberglauben aus Böhmen,’ p. 41.

Footnote 687:

D’Orbigny, ‘L’Homme Américain,’ vol. i. p. 242.

Footnote 688:

Herod, i. 216, iv. 184. Baker, ‘Albert Nyanza,’ vol. i. p. 144.

Footnote 689:

Waitz, ‘Anthropologie,’ vol. iii. p. 181 (Hudson’s B., Pottawatomies), 205 (Virginians). J. G. Müller, ‘Amer. Urrel.’ p. 117 (Delawares, Sioux, Mingos, &c.). Sproat, ‘Ind. of Vancouver’s I.’ in ‘Tr. Eth. Soc.’ vol. v. p. 253. Loskiel, ‘Ind. of N. A.’ part i. p. 43 (Delawares). Hennepin, ‘Voyage dans l’Amérique,’ p. 302 (Sioux), &c. Bartram, ‘Creek and Cherokee Ind.’ in ‘Tr. Amer. Eth. Soc.’ vol. iii.

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