[481] Campbell’s Superstitions of the Scottish Highlands, p. 288.

[482] Indian Myth and Legend, p. 95.

[483] Ibid., pp. 329-30.

[484] Crete, the Forerunner of Greece, C.H. and H.B.  Hawes, p. 139

[485] The Discoveries in Crete, pp. 137-8.

[486] Religion of the Semites, p. 294.

[487] Egyptian Myth and Legend, p. 59.

[488] Including the goose, one of the forms of the harvest goddess.

[489] Brand’s Popular Antiquities, vol. ii, 230-1 and vol. iii, 232 (1899 ed.).

[490] Ibid., vol. iii, 217.  The myrtle was used for love charms.

[491] The Golden Bough (Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild), vol. ii, p. 293 (3rd ed.).

[492] Herodotus, ii, 69, 71, and 77.

[493] Brand’s Popular Antiquities, vol. iii, p. 227.

[494] Cited by Professor Burrows in The Discoveries in Crete, p. 134.

[495] Like the Egyptian Horus, Nebo had many phases:  he was connected with the sun and moon, the planet Mercury, water and crops; he was young and yet old—­a mystical god.

[496] Aspects of Religious Belief and Practice in Babylonia and Assyria, pp. 94 et seq.

[497] Babylonian Magic and Sorcery, L.W.  King, pp. 6-7 and 26-7.

[498] 2 Kings, xiii, 3.

[499] 2 Kings, xiii, 14-25.

[500] 3 Kings, xiii, 5, 6.

[501] The masses of the Urartian folk appear to have been of Hatti stock—­“broad heads”, like their descendants, the modern Armenians.

[502] It is uncertain whether this city or Kullani in north Syria it the Biblical Calno. Isaiah, x, 9.

[503] 2 Kings, xv, 19 and 29; 2 Chronicles, xxviii, 20.

[504] 2 Kings, xviii, 34 and xix, 13.

[505] 2 Kings, xiv, 1-14.

[506] 2 Kings, xv, 1-14.

[507] 2 Kings, xv, 19, 20.

[508] 2 Kings, xv, 25.

[509] Amos, v.

[510] Amos, i.

[511] 2 Kings, xvi, 5.

[512] Isaiah, vii, 3-7.

[513] 2 Kings, xv, 3.

[514] Isaiah, vii, 18.

[515] Kir was probably on the borders of Elam.

[516] 2 Kings, xvi, 7-9.

[517] 2 Kings, xv, 29, 30.

[518] 2 Kings, xvi, 10.

[519] In the Hebrew text this monarch is called Sua, Seveh, and So, says Maspero.  The Assyrian texts refer to him as Sebek, Shibahi, Shabe, &c.  He has been identified with Pharaoh Shabaka of the Twenty-fifth Egyptian Dynasty; that monarch may have been a petty king before he founded his Dynasty.  Another theory is that he was Seve, king of Mutsri, and still another that he was a petty king of an Egyptian state in the Delta and not Shabaka.