m"
in Hastings, _Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_;
Boissier, op. cit., bk. i, chap. ii.
[644] Spiegel, _Eranische Alterthumskunde_, bk. iv, chap.
iii.
[645] See the story of the power and fall of a great muni in
Lassen's _Anthologia Sanscritica_.
[646] So, many Christian and Moslem saints have been
wonder-workers without being divinized.
[647] Monier-Williams, _Brahmanism and Hinduism_, p. 510 f.
[648] _Fortnightly Review_, 1872.
[649] Stair, _Samoa_, p. 221; article "Bengal" in Hastings,
_Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_ (Brahmans often become
evil spirits).
[650] _The Todas_, pp. 193, 203, 446.
[651] _The E['w]e-speaking Peoples_, p. 88 ff.
[652] Breasted, _Records of Ancient Egypt_.
[653] Sec. 357.
[654] Here, as in the case of the divinization of living men
(Sec. 347 n., above), outside suggestion is probable.
[655] Cf. article "Caesarism" in Hastings, _Encyclopaedia of
Religion and Ethics_.
[656] Boissier, _La religion romaine_, i, 182. An
illustration of religious ideas in the third century is
afforded by the enrollment of Caracalla among the heroes, a
divinizing decree of the Senate having been extorted by the
turbulent and mercenary soldiery (Dio Cassius, ed.
Boissevain [Eng. tr. by H. B. Foster], lxxix, 9).
[657] A. Mueller, _Islam_, i, 494; W. Muir, _The Caliphate_,
p. 553 ff.
[658] In Isa. lxiii, 16, 'Abraham' appears to be a synonym
of 'Israel,' and the reference then is to the nonrecognition
of certain Jews by the national leaders.
[659] The narratives of the Pentateuch; Herodotus, v, 66;
Pausanias, i, 5, 1.
[660] Article "Romulus" in Roscher's _Lexikon_.
[661] See below, Sec. 652.
[662] Herodotus, v, 66 al.
[663] Saussaye, _Religion of the Teutons_, pp. 163, 170,
206.
[664] The Ojibwa god Manabozho (described in Schoolcraft's
_Algic Researches_) by some inadvertence got the name
'Hiawatha,' and so appears in Longfellow's poem. The real
Hiawatha was a distinguished Iroquois statesman (supposed to
be of the fifteenth century), the founder of the Iroquois
League, honored as a patriot, but never worshiped as a god.
See H. Hale, _Iroquois Book of Rites_, Index, s.v.
_Hiawatha_; Beauchamp, in _Journal of American Folklore_,
October, 1891.
[665] F. Pfister, _Der Reliquienkult im Altertum_.
[666] Spencer, _Principles of Sociology_, i; Grant Allen,
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