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[1089] Maspero, _Dawn of Civilization_, p. 120 ff.; Ed.
Meyer, _Geschichte des Alten Aegyptens_, p. 31 ff.; Wiedemann, _Religion of the Ancient Egyptians_, p. 109; Erman, _Handbook of Egyptian Religion_, pp. 21 f., 39.
[1090] Cf. W. von Baudissin, _Studien zur semitischen Religionsgeschichte_, i, 28 f.
[1091] R. Smend, _Alttestamentliche Religionsgeschichte_, p.
33 f. In regard to the original home of Yahweh and the diffusion of his cult among other peoples than the Hebrews exact information is lacking.
[1092] Pietschmann, _Phonizier_, pp. 170 f., 182 ff.
[1093] Hastings, _Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_, i, 664.
[1094] Jastrow, _Religion of Babylonia and a.s.syria_, Index, s.vv.; articles in Roscher's _Lexikon_; "Eshmun" in _Orientalische Studien Noldeke gewidmet_.
[1095] See, for example, Pausanias, i, 37, 3 (Zeus Meilichios); ii, 19, 3 (Apollo Lykios); iii, 13, 2 (Kore Soteira--Persephone, the protectress); v, 25, 6 f.
(Heracles); viii, 12, 1 (Zeus Charmon).
[1096] Macdonell, _Vedic Mythology_, p. 15 ff.; Bloomfield, _Religion of the Veda_, p. 90.
[1097] Sir C. R. Markham, _The Incas of Peru_, p. 104.
[1098] L. Spence, _The Mythologies of Ancient Mexico and Peru_, p. 24 f.
[1099] See above, -- 647.
[1100] Roscher, _Lexikon_, article "Heros," col. 2473 ff.
[1101] _Works and Days_, 155 ff.
[1102] He appears to be usually beneficent; but, like all the dead, he might sometimes be maleficent.
[1103] But these origins, going far back into prehistoric times, are obscure.
[1104] Codrington, _The Melanesians_, p. 132.
[1105] Tregear, in _Journal of the Anthropological Inst.i.tute_, xix, 97 ff.; Grey, _Polynesian Mythology_, p.
164.
[1106] Alexander, _Short History of the Hawaiian People_.
[1107] E. H. Gomes, _Southern Departments of Borneo_.
[1108] Skeat, _Malay Magic_, chap. iv; Skeat and Blagden, _Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula_, ii, 245 ff.
[1109] Hopkins, _Religions of India_, p. 529 f.; Crooke, _Popular Religion and Folklore of Northern India_, i, chap.
ii.
[1110] Hollis, _The Masai_, p. 264. The related Nandi wors.h.i.+p the sun (Asista) mainly, but have also a thunder-G.o.d (Hollis, _The Nandi_, p. 40 f.).
[1111] Hollis, op. cit., p. 279.
[1112] With them, as everywhere else, there is occasional discrimination in the functions of magicians, different men healing or inflicting different sicknesses; cf. article "Bantu" in Hastings, _Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_.
[1113] A. B. Ellis, _E?e_, chap. v; _Ts.h.i.+_, chap. v; _Yoruba_, p. 45.
[1114] Jochelson, in _Jesup North Pacific Expedition_, vi, i, 33 ff., 27 ff.
[1115] Batchelor, _The Ainu_, chap. li.
[1116] Herodotus, iv, 94.
[1117] Demetrius Klementz, article "Buriats" in Hastings, _Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_.
[1118] Brinton, _The Lenape_, p. 65 ff.; Dorsey, _The Skidi p.a.w.nee_, p. xviii ff. On G.o.ds of air and winds see J. H.
Keane, in article "Air and G.o.ds of the Air" in Hastings, _Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_.
[1119] Hastings, op. cit., i, 382 ff., and ii, 837.
[1120] Brinton, _American Hero-Myths_, chap. iv; A. M.
Tozzer, _Comparative Study of the Mayas and the Lacandones_ (of Yucatan), pp. 80, 93 ff.; H. H. Bancroft, _Native Races of the Pacific States of North America_, ii, chap. xx ff.
[1121] J. G. Muller, _Geschichte der amerikanischen Urreligionen_, p. 577 ff.; Lang, _Myth, Ritual, and Religion_, chap. xiv; L. Spence, _Mythologies of Ancient Mexico and Peru_; E. Seler, _Gesammelte Abhandlungen_. For earlier authorities see Winsor, _Narrative and Critical History Of America_, vol. i, chaps. iii, iv.
[1122] J. G. Muller, _Geschichte der amerikanischen Urreligionen_, p. 313 ff.; Prescott, _Peru_, i, 91 ff.; C.
R. Markham, _The Incas of Peru_, chap. viii; and see preceding note.
[1123] Maspero, _Dawn of Civilization_, ii, 81, note 2; p.
82, notes 1 and 2.
[1124] Usener, _Gotternamen_ p. 122 ff.; L. R. Farnell, "The Place of the 'Sonder-Gotter' in Greek Polytheism" (in _Anthropological Essays presented to E. B. Tylor_).
[1125] Farnell, op. cit.; cf. T. R. Glover, _Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire_, p. 12.
[1126] Roscher, _Lexikon_, s.v.
[1127] Augustine, _De Civitate Dei_, vii, 22; cf. bks. vi, vii, pa.s.sim.
[1128] Cf. Wissowa, _Religion der Romer_, pp. 15, 145 ff.
[1129] Judg. viii, 33.
[1130] The name occurs only once, in 2 Kings, i, 2. It is incorrectly adopted in the English Version of the New Testament.
[1131] Found only in the Synoptic Gospels, Mk. iii, 22; Matt. x, 25; xii, 24, 27; Luke xi, 15, 18, 19.
[1132] Isa. lxiii, 15.
[1133] On these Semitic t.i.tles see articles "Baal" and "Baalzebub" in Hastings, _Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_; article "Beelzebul" in Cheyne, _Encyclopaedia Biblica_; various articles in Brown, Driver, Briggs, _Hebrew and English Lexicons_.
[1134] Batchelor, _The Ainu_, chap. x; Furness, _Home life of the Borneo Head-hunters_, p. 64 f.; Hopkins, _Religions of India_, p. 530, note 2; De Groot, _Religion of the Chinese_, p. 129 f.
