[248] The Religion of Ancient Rome, Cyril Bailey, p. 50.

[249] The Life and Exploits of Alexander the Great (Ethiopic version of the Pseudo Callisthenes), pp. 133-4.  The conversation possibly never took place, but it is of interest in so far as it reflects beliefs which were familiar to the author of this ancient work.  His Brahmans evidently believed that immortality was denied to ordinary men, and reserved only for the king, who was the representative of the deity, of course.

[250] Aspects of Religious Belief and Practice in Babylonia and Assyria, Morris Jastrow, pp. 358-9.

[251] The Mahabharata (Sabha Parva section), Roy’s translation, pp. 25-7.

[252] A History of Sumer and Akkad, L.W.  King, pp. 181-2.

[253] Genesis, xxxv, 2-4.

[254] The Religion of Ancient Egypt, W.M.  Flinders Petrie, p. 72.

[255] Sabha Parva section of the Mahabharata (Roy’s trans.), p. 29.

[256] Egyptian Myth and Legend, p. 214.

[257] Canto iv:—­

[258] 1 Samuel, xxiii, 9-11.

[259] 1 Kings, xix, 19 and 2 Kings, ii, 13-15.

[260] The Burial Customs of Ancient Egypt, John Garstang, pp. 28, 29 (London, 1907).

[261] Herod., book i, 198.

[262] Records of the Past (old series), xi, pp. 109 et seq., and (new series), vol. i, pp. 149 et seq.

[263] L.W.  King’s The Seven Tablets of Creation.

[264] Herodotus, book i, 179 (Rawlinson’s translation).

[265] Isaiah, xlv, 1, 2.

[266] Herodotus, book i, 181-3 (Rawlinson’s translation).

[267] History of Sumer and Akkad, L.W.  King, p. 37.

[268] Herodotus, book i, 196 (Rawlinson’s translation).

[269] Home Life of the Highlanders (Dr. Cameron Gillies on Medical Knowledge,) pp. 85 et seq. Glasgow, 1911.

[270] Translations by R.C.  Thompson in The Devils and Spirits of Babylon, vol. i, pp. lxiii et seq.

[271] Bridges which lead to graveyards.

[272] Genesis, xii and xiii.

[273] Genesis, xiv, 13.

[274] Ibid., xxiii.

[275] Ezekiel, xvi, 3.

[276] Genesis, xiv, 1-4.

[277] Ibid., 5-24.

[278] Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts, and Letters, C.H.W.  Johns, pp. 392 et seq.

[279] Translation by Johns in Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts, and Letters, pp. 390 et seq.

[280] Matthew, ix, 37.

[281] Johns’s Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, &c., pp. 371-2.

[282] The Land of the Hittites, John Garstang, pp. 312 et seq. and 315 et seq.

[283] The Ancient Egyptian, pp. 106 et seq.