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Source notes
1676 Haddon, Head-hunters, pp. 42, 182 f.; on the sacredness of the head see Frazer, Golden Bough, 2d ed., i, 362 ff.; Frobenius, Childhood of Man, chap. xiii.
1677 Hopkins, Religions of India, p. 532.
1678 So when Rebecca wished to obtain information about her children, soon to be born, it is said simply that she went to inquire of Yahweh (Gen. xxv, 22), as if there was, as a matter of course, a shrine in the neighborhood.
1679 Bouché-Leclercq, Histoire de la divination dans l'antiquité, ii, 250 ff.; iii.
1680 Cumont, Les religions orientales dans le paganisme romain, Eng. tr., The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism, pp. 105, 124 f., 168.
1681 Cf. Steindorff, Religion of the Ancient Egyptians, p. 113 f.
1682 Wellhausen, Reste arabischen Heidentumes, p. 126 ff.
1683 1 Sam. xiv, 36 ff.; xxiii, 2; xxx, 7 f.; Isa. lxv, 1; Ezek. xxxiii, 30 ff.
1684 2 Kings, i, 2. The prophet Elijah, who was a zealous Yahwist, was very angry with the king for applying to a foreign deity; but evidently the Philistine shrine enjoyed a greater reputation than any in Israel.
1685 Jastrow, Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, Index, s.v. Oracles.
1686 Cf. Aust, Religion der Römer, Index, s.v. Orakel; see below, § 933 ff.
1687 Friedländer, Roman Life and Manners under the Early Empire (Eng. tr.), p. 3, 129 ff.; Fowler, Religious Experience of the Roman People, p. 339.
1688 Cicero, De Divinatione, i, 34, 37 f.; Plutarch, De Pythiae Oraculis and De Defectu Oraculorum; Gardner and Jevons, Greek Antiquities, Index, s.v. Oracles; Bouché-Leclercq, Histoire de la divination dans l'antiquité, Index, and Stengel and Oehmichen, Die greichischen Sakralaltertümer, Index; Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed., article "Oracle."
1689 On the position of women in ancient religion cf. Farnell's article in Archiv für Relgionswissenschaft, 1904.
1690 Gruppe, Griechische Mythologie, pp. 102, 105; Farnell, Cults of the Greek States, iv, 187 ff.
1691 See above, §§ 362, 366.
1692 See article "Ancestor-worship" and articles on lower tribes in Hastings, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics.
1693 Jastrow, Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, p. 511.
1694 1 Sam. xxviii; Isa. viii, 19.
1695 Ezek. xxi, 26 [21] (King Nebuchadrezzar divines by teraphim).
1696 Bouché-Leclercq, Histoire de la divination dans l'antiquité, iii, 363 ff.; Daremberg and Saglio, Dictionnaire des antiquités grecques et romaines, article "Divination," p. 308.
1697 1 Cor. xv, 49; 2 Cor. v, 8; Cumont, Astrology and Religion among the Greeks and Romans, lecture vi.
1698 Cranz, Greenland, i, 192 ff.; Rink, Danish Greenland, p. 142 f.
1699 Brinton, Cakchiquels, p. 47.
1700 Cf. Nöldeke, article "Arabs (Ancient)" in Hastings, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, i, 667, 671.
1701 Ellis, Yoruba, p. 56 ff.; id., Tshi, p. 124 ff.
1702 P. R. Gurden, article "Ahoms" in Hastings, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics.
1703 Rivers, The Todas, p. 249 ff.
1704 A. Bertrand, La religion des Gaulois, pp. 257, 259, 263.
1705 Jastrow, Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, p. 341.
1706 On Hebrew divination see articles "Divination" in Hastings, Dictionary of the Bible, and in the Encyclopædia Biblica.
1707 Deut. xiii, 1; xviii, 10.
1708 The Hebrew text is doubtful, and its meaning is not clear; cf. Gray, "The Book Of Isaiah," in The International Critical Commentary.
1709 Gen. xliv, 5.
1710 Cf. Bouché-Leclercq, Histoire de la divination dans l'antiquité, ii, 1 ff., 62 ff.
1711Timæus, 72.
1712 Xenophon, Memorabilia, i, 3, 4: τὰ ὑπο τῶν θεῶν σημαινόμενα.
1713 Originally diviners from the flight of birds, but the area of their divinatory functions was gradually extended. See Wissowa, Religion der Römer, p. 450 ff.; Fowler, Religious Experience of the Roman People, lecture xiii.
1714 Charged with the interpretation of the entrails of sacrificed animals, and also of lightning and portents.
1715 Wissowa, op. cit., p. 474.