(Tylor,
_Prim. Cult._ i. 294).
[7] See Jeremias, _Das Alte Testament im Lichte des Alten Orients_,
p. 121, 1; Winckler, _Die Keilinschriften und das Alte Testament_[3],
p. 333.
[8] Reville, _Religions of Mexico and Peru_, p. 129.
[9] Garcilasso el Inca, _Comment. de los Incas_, lib. ii. c. 2; cf.
Lang, _The Making of Religion_, pp. 262-270.
[10] Reville, p. 187.
[11] Reville, p. 158. Garcilasso (lib. i. c. 18) says that Manco
Capac "taught the subject nations to be men," and also founded the
imperial city of Cuzco ( = navel).
[12] _De las antiquas gentes del Peru_ (ed. 1892), pp. 55, 56.
[13] See especially Waitz-Gerland, _Anthropologie der Naturvolker_,
vi. 229-302; Gill, _Myths and Songs of the South Pacific_; Schirren,
_Wandersagen der Neuseelander_; also an older work (Sir George)
Grey's _Polynesian Mythology_.
[14] See Schirren, op. cit., pp. 64-89.
[15] J. Muir, _Metrical Translations_, pp. 188-189.
[16] J. Muir, _Sanscrit Texts_, iv. 26.
[17] See Tylor, _Early History of Mankind_, p. 340; _Primitive
Culture_, i. 329; Oldenberg, _Religion des Veda_, pp. 85 f.
[18] See Maspero, _Dawn of Civilization_, p. 127; also Brugoch,
_Religion und Mythologie der alten Agypter_.
[19] See illustration in Maspero, p. 157.
[20] See Maspero, pp. 146-147.
[21] Maspero, pp. 160-169.
[22] See ZOROASTER, and cf. _Ency. Bib._, "Creation," S 9:
"Zoroastrianism," SS 20, 21.
[23] West, _Pahlavi Texts_ (S.B.E.), vol. i., introd. p. xxiii. We
need not deny that, late as the Bundahish may be as a whole, the
traditions which it contains are often old.
[24] Fragments of older works are cited by Philo of Byblus (in
Eusebius, _Praep. Evang._ i. 10) and Mochus and Endemus (in
Damascius, _De primis principiis_, c. 125).
[25] See Jastrow, _Religion of Babylonia and Assyria_, p. 428.
[26] See _Bundahish_, xv. 2 (_S.B.E._, v. 53).
COSMOPOLITAN (Gr. [Greek: kosmos], world, and [Greek: polites],
citizen), of or belonging to a "citizen of the world," i.e. one whose
sympathies, interests, whether commercial, political or social, and
culture are not confined to the nation or race to which he may belong,
opposed therefore to "national" or "insular." As an attribute the word
may be applied to a cultured man of the world, who has travelled widely
and is at home in many forms of civilization, to such ra
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