[213] Ecclesiastes, ix, 7-9.

[214] Ibid., xii, 13.

[215] Perhaps brooding and undergoing penance like an Indian Rishi with purpose to obtain spiritual power.

[216] Probably to perform the ceremony of pouring out a libation.

[217] Saxo, iii, 71.

[218] Ibid., viii, 291.

[219] The Elder Edda, O. Bray, pp. 157 et seq.  See also Teutonic Myth and Legend.

[220] The Life and Exploits of Alexander the Great, E. Wallis Budge, pp. xl et seq., 167 et seq.

[221] The Koran, trans, by G. Sale, pp. 222, 223 (chap. xviii).

[222] Vana Parva section of the Mahabharata (Roy’s trans.), pp. 435-60, and Indian Myth and Legend, pp. 105-9.

[223] Vana Parva section of the Mahabharata (Roy’s translation), pp. 832, 833.

[224] Ea addresses the hut in which his human favourite, Pir-napishtim, slept.  His message was conveyed to this man in a dream.

[225] The second sentence of Ea’s speech is conjectural, as the lines are mutilated.

[226] The Muses’ Pageant, W.M.L.  Hutchinson, pp. 5 et seq.

[227] Indian Myth and Legend, pp. 107 et seq.

[228] Vana Parva section of the Mahabharata (Roy’s trans.), p. 425.

[229] Indian Myth and Legend, p. 141.

[230] Book of Leinster, and Keating’s History of Ireland, p. 150 (1811 ed.).

[231] Religion of the Ancient Egyptians, A. Wiedemann, pp. 58 et seq.

[232] Pinches’ The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, p. 42.

[233] The problems involved are discussed from different points of view by Mr. L.W.  King in Babylonian Religion (Books on Egypt and Chaldaea, vol. iv), Professor Pinches in The Old Testament in the Light of the Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia, and other vols.

[234] Primitive Constellations, vol. i, pp. 334-5.

[235] Indian Myth and Legend, chap. iii.

[236] Professor Macdonell’s translation.

[237] Indian Wisdom.

[238] “Varuna, the deity bearing the noose as his weapon”, Sabha Parva section of the Mahabharata (Roy’s trans.), p. 29.

[239] Indian Myth and Legend, pp. 38-42.

[240] Early Religious Poetry of Persia, J.H.  Moulton, pp. 41 et seq. and 154 et seq.

[241] The Elder Edda, O. Bray, p. 55.

[242] The Elder Edda, O. Bray, pp. 291 et seq.

[243] Celtic Myth and Legend, pp. 133 et seq.

[244] Tennyson’s The Passing of Arthur.

[245] Job, x, 1-22.

[246] The Elder Edda, O. Bray, pp. 150-1.

[247] Indian Myth and Legend, p. 326.