CHAPTER XI (continued 4)
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1476 B. Beer, Leben Abraham's nach Auffassung der jüdischen Sage, p. 5 and note 34; p. 102, note 30.
1477 Turner, Samoa, Index.
1478 Spencer and Gillen, Native Tribes of Central Australia, chap. xviii.
1479 Pausanias, Description of Greece, passim.
1480 Semitic and other examples are given in W. R. Smith's Religion of the Semites, p. 173 ff.
1481 On the complicated myth of Phaëthon see the article in Roscher's Lexikon.
1482 Isa. xxiv, 21; Tylor, Primitive Culture, i, 356 ff.
1483 The Babylonians were the great astronomers and astrologers of antiquity, but their eminence in this regard belongs to their later period. After the fall of the later Babylonian empire (B.C. 539) the term 'Chaldean' became a synonym of 'astrologer' (so in the Book of Daniel, B.C. 165-164); cf. Jastrow, Aspects of Religious Belief and Practice in Babylonia and Assyria, p. 259 f.
1484 Brinton, Myths of the New World, passim; Hartland, Primitive Paternity, i, 149 f.; Grey, Polynesian Mythology, p. 1 ff.; Hickson, Northern Celebes; Lane, Arabian Nights, i, 30 ff.; Saussaye, Religion of the Teutons, p. 216 f.; Iliad, xxiii, 198 ff.; Tylor, Primitive Culture, i, 360 ff.; Ratzel, History of Mankind (Eng. tr.), passim.
1485Iliad, xxiii, 200 f. For some wind-myths see Roscher, Lexikon, articles "Boreaden," "Boreas," "Harpyia." Cf. the Maori myths given in R. Taylor's New Zealand, chap. vi, and for Navaho winds see Matthews, Navaho Legends, p. 226, note 75.
1486 As in Goldziher's Hebrew Mythology (Eng. tr.), a view later abandoned by the author.
1487 By Mannhardt, in Mythologische Forschungen, p. 224 ff.; Frazer, in Golden Bough, 2d ed. (see Index, s.v. Corn); and others.
1488 Cf. Frazer, op. cit., chap. iii, § 16 f.; Roscher, Lexikon, articles "Kybele," "Attis," "Persephone," "Ceres"; and Farnell, Cults of the Greek States.
1489 See above, § 678.
1490 Gen. i, 2 f.
1491 Dan. ii, 22; Rev. xxi, 23.
1492 This is true even in the case of abstract deities; see above, §§ 696, 702 ff.
1493 A myth is a purely imaginative explanation of phenomena; a legend rests on facts, but the facts are distorted. The two terms are often confused the one with the other.
1494 Some peculiar combinations appear in the figures of Semiramis and the Kuretes and the Korybantes; see the articles in Roscher's Lexikon under these headings.
1495 Cf. Gomme, Folklore as an Historical Science; Van Gennep, La formation des légendes.
1496 See the various folk-lore journals; W. W. Newell, article "Folk-lore" in Johnson's Universal Cyclopædia; cf. Gomme, op. cit., and § 881 below.
1497 So in the cases of the Australian ancestors, the Polynesian, Teutonic, Finnic, Slavic, Greek, Phrygian, and other heroes and gods, the Hebrew patriarchs, and many other such figures.
1498 See above, § 859.
1499 See above, § 649.
1500 Such were the Greek rhapsodists (Müller and Donaldson, History of the Literature of Ancient Greece, i, 33 ff.), and probably the Hebrew mashalists (Numb. xxi, 27, Eng. tr., "they that speak in proverbs"). Such reciters are found in India at the present day.
1501 On the value of myths for religious instruction cf. Schultz, Old Testament Theology, Eng. tr. (of 4th German ed.), i, chap. ii.
1502 Geffcken, article "Allegory" in Hastings, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics.
1503Phædrus, 229; Cratylus, 406 f.; Republic 378.
1504 Cf. Müller and Donaldson, History of the Literature of Ancient Greece, chap. xxvi.
1505 1 Cor. ix, 9 f.; x, 1-4; Gal. iv, 24 ff.; Heb. vii, 2; Origen, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and commentators generally up to the sixteenth century and later.
1506Origine de tous les cultes ou religion universelle (1794).
1507Science of Language, 2d series; cf. his Hibbert and Gifford lectures.
1508 It is elaborated in G. W. Cox's Mythology of the Aryan Nations.
1509 Op. cit. § 864. Cf. article "Panbabylonianism" in Harvard Theological Review for January, 1910.
1510Astralmythen der Hebräer, Babylonier und Aegypter (1896-1907).
1511 So in folk-tales the same motif appears in a hundred different settings; but this is not necessarily a sign of borrowing.
1512 Op. cit., p. 190.
1513 See above, § 826, note.
1514 No well-defined Arabian myths are known.
1515 Most of the Old Testament mythical material has been worked over by Hebrew monotheistic editors.