Society_, iv, 312 f.

[159] S. St. John, _The Far East_, 2d ed., i, 182 f.; cf.,
i, 184.

[160] Marillier, op. cit. Here suicide appears to be
regarded as a heroic act, and the women in question perish
in doing a service to the tribe.

[161] Dixon, _The Northern Maidu_, p. 261; Westermarck,
_Moral Ideas_, Index, s.v. _Future Life_; Hobhouse, _Morals
in Evolution_, ii, 271 ff.; Tylor, _Primitive Culture_, ii,
83 ff.

[162] Castren, _Finnische Mythologie_, p. 126; Turner,
_Samoa_, p. 259; Lawes, "New Guinea," in _Journal of the
Anthropological Institute_, viii, 370; Rochas, _Nouvelle
Caledonie_ (_Bulletin de la Societe d'anthropologie_, 1860),
p. 280; Lister, _Journal of the Anthropological Institute_,
xxi, 51; Dixon, op. cit., p. 262; Mueller, _Amerikanische
Urreligionen_, p. 289 (Brazil).

[163] See Westermarck, loc. cit.

[164] Hawkins, _Creek Country_, p. 80.

[165] For details on this point see L. Marillier, _La
survivance de l'ame_.

[166] Williams and Calvert, _Fiji_, p. 193 f.

[167] _Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society_, 1842, p. 172,
and 1852, p. 211; Hopkins, _Religions of India_, p. 530 f.

[168] Sepulchral inscriptions of Tabnit and Eshmunazar, and
the inscriptions of Antipatros (_Corpus Inscriptionum
Semiticarum_, vol. i, part i, p. 9 ff.; Lidzbarski,
_Handbuch der nordsemitischen Epigraphik_, part ii, pl. iv,
1, 2; part i, p. 117; Rawlinson, _Phoenicia_, p. 394 f.).

[169] Breasted, _Egypt_, p. 173 ff.; Bloomfield, _Religion
of the Veda_, p. 252; Hopkins, _Religions of India_, pp.
336, 380, 443; _Texts of Taoism_, ed. J. Legge, ii, 6 f. (in
_Sacred Books of the East_, vol. 40); Legge, _Religions of
China_, p. 82; De Groot, _Religion of the Chinese_, pp. 6,
25, 54, 70 ff., 117; Spiegel, _Eranische Alterthumskunde_,
ii, 158 ff.; Plato, _Republic_, 614 (story of Er); Book of
Enoch passim.

[170] W. Ellis, _Polynesian Researches_, chap. xv; Will and
Spinden, _The Mandans_, p. 133; Dixon, _The Northern Maidu_,
p. 261; _Rig-Veda_, i, 356; vii, 104. Cf. article "Blest,
abode of the" in Hastings, _Encyclopaedia of Religion and
Ethics_.

[171] Tartarus is as far below Hades as the earth is below
the sky (_Iliad_, viii, 16).

[172] Hopkins, _Religions of India_, p. 379 ff.

[173] Wiedemann, _Egyptian Doctrine of Immortality_, p. 50
f.; Maspero, _Dawn of Civilization_, p. 183 ff.; Breasted,
_History