astrow, _Religion of Babylonia and Assyria_, pp. 356
ff., 457.
[1232] De Groot, _Religion of the Chinese_, p. 5 (cf. J.
Edkins, _Religion in China_, p. 105 ff.).
[1233] Hopkins, _Religions of India_, pp. 204, 266, 526.
[1234] Judg. v, 20; Isa. xxiv, 21 ff.; Job xxxviii, 7; Enoch
xviii, 12; xxi, 1 (cf. Rev. ix, 1); cf. Neh. ix, 6. See
Baudissin, _Semitische Religionsgeschichte_, i, 118 ff.;
article "Astronomy and Astrology" in Hastings, _Dictionary
of the Bible_.
[1235] 2 Kings xxiii, 5.
[1236] The corrupt and obscure passage Amos v, 26, cannot be
cited as proving a cult of a deity Kaiwan (Masoretic text
Kiyyun, Eng. R.V. "shrine") identical with Assyrian kaiwan
or kaiman, the planet Saturn; there is no evidence that this
planet was worshiped in Assyria.
[1237] Hastings, _Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_, i,
660.
[1238] Cf. W. R. Smith, _Kinship and Marriage in Early
Arabia_, chap. vi, note 8; Hastings, _Encyclopaedia of
Religion and Ethics_, loc. cit.
[1239] Spiegel, _Eranische Alterthumskunde_, ii, 70 ff.
[1240] Cf. Gruppe, _Griechische Mythologie_, Index, s.vv.
_Stern_ and _Sternbilder_.
[1241] Cumont, _Les religions orientales parmi les peuples
romains_, chap. vii.
[1242] The Franciscan Fathers, _Ethnologic Dictionary of the
Navaho Language_, Index, s.v.; Tylor, _Primitive Culture_,
i, 293 f.
[1243] This is the full development of what had doubtless
been felt vaguely from the beginning of religious history.
[1244] On Kronos and the Titans cf. article "Kronos" in
Roscher's _Lexikon_.
[1245] Caelus (or Caelum) was sometimes called the son of
AEther and Dies (Cicero, _De Natura Deorum_, iii, 17, 24).
[1246] Ed. Meyer, _Geschichte des Alten Aegyptens_ (and cf.
his _Geschichte des Altertums_, 2d ed.); Maspero, _Dawn of
Civilisation_; Wiedemann, _Religion of the Ancient
Egyptians_, and article "Religion of Egypt" in Hastings,
_Dictionary of the Bible_, vol. v; Erman, _Handbook of
Egyptian Religion_; Breasted, _History of Egypt_.
[1247] Breasted, op. cit., pp. 36, 46; id., _Ancient Records
of Egypt_, under the various kings.
[1248] So Ed. Meyer, in article "Horos" in Roscher's
_Lexikon_.
[1249] So Steindorff, _Religion of the Ancient Egyptians_,
p. 26 f.
[1250] Cf. Steindorff, op. cit., p. 30 f.
[1251] _Records of the Past_, vi, 105 ff.; Steindorff, op.
cit., p. 107 ff.
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