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1716 Cf. above, § 895 f.
1717 This story (connected with Thebes) appears to represent some sort of protest against the Dionysiac cult when it was first brought to Greece; cf. Roscher, Lexikon, article "Pentheus."
1718 Cf. above, § 927.
1719 1 Sam. xix, 24; cf. Mic. i, 8 ff.
1720 Their "visions" sometimes show literary art (Ezek. xl ff.; Zech. i-viii).
1721 Roscher, Lexikon, article "Sibylla."
1722 That is, she was not to be tolerated as a rival of the great oracular god.
1723 Cf. Wissowa, Religion der Römer, pp. 239, 462 ff.
1724 Bouché-Leclercq, Histoire de la divination dans l'antiquité, ii, Index, s.v. Cumes.
1725 Wissowa, Religion der Römer, p. 463; Fowler, Religious Experience of the Roman People, p. 339.
1726 Augustine, De Civitate Dei, x, 27 (in connection with Vergil's verses, Eclogues, iv, 13 f.); xxviii, 23 (the initial letters in Sibylline Oracles, viii, 268-309, giving a title of Christ). So Eusebius, in his report of the Oration of Constantine, xviii; cf. Lactantius, Divinae Institutiones, lib. i, cap. vi.
1727Oracula Sibyllina, ed. Alexandre (Greek text, with Latin tr.); ed. Friedlieb (Greek text, with German tr. and additions by Volkmann); ed. Rzack (critical Greek text); Terry, The Sibylline Oracles (Eng. tr., blank verse).
1728 On the attitude of early Greek philosophers (Pythagoras, Democritus, Empedocles, Thales, Xenophanes) toward divination, and the relation of the latter to the idea of divine providence, see Bouché-Leclercq, Histoire de la divination dans l'antiquité, i, 29 ff.
1729 See Chapter iii.
1730 Cf. Barton, Semitic Origins, chap. i.
1731 Cf. Breasted, Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt.
1732 Fowler, Religious Experience of the Roman People, chaps. i, xvi.
1733 Bertrand, La religion des Gaulois; Rhys, Celtic Heathendom; Usener, Götternamen; articles "Celts" and "Aryan Religion" in Hastings, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics.
1734 Cf. the sketch given above, Chapter vii; Tylor, Primitive Culture; Frazer, Golden Bough, 2d ed., passim.
1735 Spencer and Gillen, Native Tribes of Central Australia, and Northern Tribes of Central Australia; Howitt, Native Tribes of South-East Australia; Quatrefages, The Pygmies; Hyades and Deniker, Mission scientifique du cap Horn; Seligmann, The Melanesians of British New Guinea.
1736 Fritsch, Die Eingeborenen Süd-Afrika's; article "Bantu" in Hastings, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics.
1737 Callaway, The Amazulu.
1738 See above, § 837.
1739 Rivers, The Todas.
1740 Codrington, The Melanesians; W. Ellis, Polynesian Researches; Williams and Calvert, Fiji; Turner, Samoa; Krämer, Die Samoa-Inseln; Taylor, New Zealand; H. Ling Roth, The Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo.
1741 Brinton, The Lenâpé; Matthews, Navaho Legends; Dorsey, Traditions of the Skidi Pawnee; Teit, Thompson River Indians; Boas, The Kwakiutl; Dixon, The Northern Maidu and The Shasta; Journal of American Folklore, passim.
1742 Van Gennep, Tabou et totémisme à Madagascar; A.B. Ellis, Eẃe, Tshi, Yoruba; Skeat, Malay Magic; Skeat and Blagden, Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula; Hopkins, Religions of India.
1743 Aston, Shinto; Knox, Development of Religion in Japan.
1744The Kalevala; Castrén, Finnische Mythologie.
1745 Prescott, Conquest of Mexico and Conquest of Peru; Winsor, Narrative and Critical History of America; Brinton, American Hero-Myths, Index; Lang, Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Index, s.vv. Mexican Divine Myths and Peruvian Myths.
1746 Ehrenreich, Mythen und Legenden der südamericanischen Urvölker.
1747 De Groot, Religious System of China.
1748 The Avesta; Spiegel, Eranische Alterthumskunde, vol. ii, bk. iv, chaps. i, ii; De Harlez, Avesta, Introduction, p. lxxxiv ff.; The Shahnameh.
1749 Maspero, Dawn of Civilization, p. 155 ff.; Steindorff, Religion of the Ancient Egyptians, p. 106 ff.
1750 Plutarch, Isis and Osiris; Steindorff, op. cit., Index, s.vv. Isis and Osiris; Roscher, Lexikon, articles "Isis," "Usire."
1751 R. F. Harper, Assyrian and Babylonian Literature; Jastrow, Aspects of Religious Belief and Practice in Babylonia and Assyria, Index, s.v. Myths.
1752 Job xxvi, 12; Ps. lxxxix, 11 [10]; Isa. li, 9.
1753 Deut. xxxii, 8 f.
1754 Gen. iv, 17 ff.; v, vi, 4; Ezek. xxxii, 27 (revised text).
1755 Gen. iii, 14 ff. On the loss of immortality see above, § 834.