The Religions of India eBook

Edward Washburn Hopkins
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 825 pages of information about The Religions of India.

The Religions of India eBook

Edward Washburn Hopkins
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 825 pages of information about The Religions of India.
[Footnote 5:  Compare Cat.  Br.  VI. 1. 1, 12; VII. 5. 1, 2 sq., for the Hindu tortoise in its first form.  The totem-form of the tortoise is well known in America.  (Brinton, Myths of the New World, p. 85.)]

     [Footnote 6:  Charlevoix ap.  Parkman.]

[Footnote 7:  Parkman, loc. cit. p.  LXXII; Brinton, Myths of the New World, p. 248.  A good instance of bad comparison in eschatology will be found in Geiger, Ostir.  Cult. pp. 274-275.]

     [Footnote 8:  Parkman, loc. cit. p.  LXXXVI.]

     [Footnote 9:  Sits.  Berl.  Akad. 1891, p. 15.]

     [Footnote 10:  Brinton, American Hero Myths, p. 174.  The
     first worship was Sun-worship, then Viracocha-worship arose,
     which kept Sun-worship while it predicated a ’power beyond.]

     [Footnote 11:  Brinton, Myths of the New World, pp. 85,
     203.]

     [Footnote 12:  Ib. pp. 86, 202.]

     [Footnote 13:  Brinton, Myths of the New World, p. 243.  The
     American Indians “uniformly regard the sun as heaven, the
     soul goes to the sun.”]

     [Footnote 14:  Ib. p. 245.]

     [Footnote 15:  Ib. p. 239-40.]

     [Footnote 16:  Ib. p. 50, 51.]

     [Footnote 17:  Ib. pp. 242, 248, 255; Schoolcraft, III.
     229.]

     [Footnote 18:  Renouf, Religion of Ancient Egypt; pp. 103,
     113 ff.]

      [Footnote 19:  Teutonic Tuisco is doubtful, as the identity
     with Dyaus has lately been contested on phonetic grounds.]

     [Footnote 20:  V[=a]ta, ventus, does not agree very well with
     Wotan.]

[Footnote 21:  [=A]it.  Br. III, 34. [Greek:  haggaron pur] is really tautological, but beacon fires gave way to couriers and [Greek:  haggaros] lost the sense of fire, as did [Greek:  haggelos].]
[Footnote 22:  But the general belief that fire (Agni, Ignis, Slavic ogni) was first brought to earth from heaven by a half-divine personality is (at least) Aryan, as Kuhn has shown.]
[Footnote 23:  Compare the kavis and ugijs (poets and priests) of the Veda with the evil spirits of the same names in the Avesta, like daeva = deva.  Compare, besides, the Indo-Iranian feasts, medha, that accompany this Bacchanalian liquor-worship.]

     [Footnote 24:  Ludwig interprets the three Ribhus as the
     three seasons personified.  Etymologically connected is
     Orpheus, perhaps.]

     [Footnote 25:  [Greek:  o de chalkeos asphales aien edos menei
     ouranos], Pind.  N. vi. 5; compare Preller[4], p.40.]

     [Footnote 26:  Wahrscheinlich sind Uranos und Kronos erst aus
     dem Culte des Zeus abstrahirt worden.  Preller[4], p. 43.]

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