dam, in Gen. ii, is able, as a matter of course,
to give names to the animals. In early myths beasts have the
power of speech. In a Nandi folk-story (Hollis, _The Nandi_,
p. 113) what excites the wonder of the thunder and the
elephant is not man's capacity of speech, but the fact that
he can turn over when asleep without first getting up.

[1070] For female deities the title "grandmother" occurs
(Batchelor, _The Ainu_ [1901], p. 578). The devil's
grandmother figures in Teutonic folk-stories; see _Journal
of American Folklore_, xiii, 278 ff.; Frazer, _Golden
Bough_, 1st ed., i, 336.

[1071] Attempts to prove a primitive monotheism usually fail
to take this distinction into account.

[1072] Howitt, _Native Tribes of South-East Australia_, p.
488 ff.

[1073] Boas, Introduction to Teit's _Thompson River
Indians_, p. 7.

[1074] Callaway, _The Amazulu_, p. 1 ff.

[1075] Kidd, _The Essential Kafir_, p. 101 ff.

[1076] A. B. Ellis, _Tshi_, chaps. v-vii; _E['w]e_, chap. v;
_Yoruba_, chap. iii. Cf. C. Partridge, _Cross River Natives_
(South Nigeria), p. 282 ff.

[1077] W. Crooke, _The Popular Religion and Folklore of
Northern India_ (1907), chap. ii.

[1078] Hopkins, _Religions of India_, p. 537 f.

[1079] Rivers, _The Todas_, chap. xix.

[1080] Matthews, _Navaho Legends_, p. 35 ff.

[1081] Jochelson, in _Jesup North Pacific Expedition_, vi,
i, 36-43.

[1082] Aston, _Shinto_, Index, s.v. _Kami_; Knox, _Religion
in Japan_, p. 27 ff.

[1083] Tylor, _Primitive Culture_, ii, 255; cf. ii, 337.

[1084] Dorsey, _The Skidi Pawnee_, p. xix; Matthews, _Navaho
Legends_, p. 34 f.

[1085] Hopkins, _Religions of India_, p. 532.

[1086] Spence, in Hastings, _Encyclopaedia of Religion and
Ethics_, ii, 835.

[1087] A. B. Ellis, _E['w]e_ (Dahomi), p. 104.

[1088] On the ascription of divinity to men in great
civilized religious systems see above, Sec. 351 ff.

[1089] Maspero, _Dawn of Civilization_, p. 120 ff.; Ed.
Meyer, _Geschichte des Alten Aegyptens_, p. 31 ff.;
Wiedemann, _Religion of the Ancient Egyptians_, p. 109;
Erman, _Handbook of Egyptian Religion_, pp. 21 f., 39.

[1090] Cf. W. von Baudissin, _Studien zur semitischen
Religionsgeschichte_, i, 28 f.

[1091] R. Smend, _Alttestamentliche Religionsgeschichte_, p.
33 f. In regard to the original home of Yahweh and the
diffusion of his cult among other peoples than