_, II, 494.

[1954] _Vererbung und Auslese_, 200.

[1955] Tiele-Gehrich, _Relig. in Alterthume_, I, 169.

[1956] Herod., I, 199; Hosea iv. 14; W. R. Smith, _Relig. of the
Semites_, 454.

[1957] W. R. Smith, _Relig. of the Semites_, 141.

[1958] Bancroft, _Native Races of the Pacific Coast_, II, 305,
308-309.

[1959] Schrader, _Prehist. Antiq. of the Aryans_, 422.

[1960] Hopkins, _Relig. of India_, 363, 450.

[1961] Maspero, _Peuples de l'Orient_, I, 680.

[1962] Maspero, _Peuples de l'Orient_, I, 123.

[1963] _Relig. of the Semites_, 365.

[1964] _Ibid._, 366, 375.

[1965] Cf. Deut. xviii. 10; 2 Kings xvi. 3; xxi. 6.

[1966] Levit. xviii. 21; Deut. xviii. 10. Molech is a false word.
It has the consonants of the word for "king" and the vowels of
the word for "shameful thing" (W. R. Smith, _Relig. of the
Semites_, 67).

[1967] 2 Kings xvi. 3; xvii. 7; xxi. 6; xxiii. 10.

[1968] Ex. xxii. 29.

[1969] Ex. xxxiv. 20.

[1970] Num. xviii. 15.

[1971] Ex. iv. 24.

[1972] Jer. xxxii. 35; Ezek. xx. 26, 31. According to 2 Chron.
xxviii. 3, Ahaz offered his son in the stress of war (Hastings,
Dict. of the Bible, _Relig. of Israel_).

[1973] _Globus_, LXXXVI, 321.

[1974] _Globus_, LXXXVI, 117-119.

[1975] Possibly 2 Kings iii. 27; 2 Chron. xxviii. 3; Pietschmann,
_Phoenizier_, 167.

[1976] W. R. Smith, _Relig. of the Semites_, 465.

[1977] _Ibid._, 370.

[1978] Tiele-Gehrich, _Relig. im Alterthum_, I, 212, 240;
Maspero, _Peuples de l'Orient_, I, 680; Sanchuniathon apud
Euseb., _Prep. Evang._, I, 10.

[1979] Pietschmann, _Phoenizier_, 229.

[1980] Tertullian, _Apol._, 9.

[1981] Pietschmann, _Phoenizier_, 222.

[1982] Lucian, _De Syria Dea_, 6.

[1983] _De Gubernat. Dei_, VII, 72-77; cf. VII, 15-16, 27, 86,
97-100.

[1984] Barton, _Semitic Origins_, 300.

[1985] Dubois, _Moeurs de l'Inde_, 439.

[1986] Darmstetter, _Zend-Avesta_, I, 100, 102.

CHAPTER XVII

POPULAR SPORTS, EXHIBITIONS, AND DRAMA

Limits of the study, Introduction.--Literature and drama in
ethology.--Public amusements of the uncivilized; reversion to
archaic, "natural" ways.--Chaldean and Mexican myths of
reproduction dramatically represented.--Limit of toleration for
propriety in exhibitions.--Origin of the Athenian