where
developed.
[1272] Macdonell, _Vedic Mythology_, Sec. 20.
[1273] Cf. Hastings, _Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_,
article "Bengal," p. 491 ff., and the references there given
to authorities.
[1274] One form of Caktism is described (in Hastings, loc.
cit.) as being the general worship of the Mothers of the
universe represented as the wives of the gods.
[1275] _Rig-Veda_, x, 64, 92, 135, 21, 52, 14.
[1276] Ibid., x, 14; ix, 113. However, this title is given
to Varuna also (x, 14): Yama and Varuna are the two kings
whom the dead man sees when he reaches heaven.
[1277] Ibid., x, 10, 13, 14 (cf. Atharva-Veda, xviii, 13).
[1278] Hillebrandt, _Vedische Mythologie_, i, 394 ff., but
only for the Indo-Iranian period.
[1279] _Rig-Veda_, x, 64.
[1280] Cf. Mueller, _Lectures on the Science of Language_,
second series, p. 534 f.; Tylor, _Primitive Culture_, ii,
314; Bergaigne, _La religion vedique_, ii, 94, note 3;
Frobenius, _Childhood of Man_, chap. xxii. Cf. the Egyptian
conception of Osiris (Maspero, _Dawn of Civilisation_, p.
195).
[1281] Matthews, _Navaho Legends_, p. 80; other examples are
given in W. Ellis's _Polynesian Researches_, i, chap. v, and
Tylor, op. cit., ii, 312 ff.
[1282] Ellis, loc. cit.; Dorsey, _The Skidi Pawnee_, p. 6.
[1283] Hopkins, _Religions of India_, p. 128 ff.; Macdonell,
_Vedic Mythology_, Sec. 77; Bloomfield, _Religion of the Veda_,
Index, s.v. _Yama_; and see the references in these works to
other authors.
[1284] _Jewish Encyclopaedia_, articles "Adam" and "Adam
Kadmon"; _Koran_, ii, 29 ff.; cf. 1 Cor. xv, 45 ff.
[1285] See above. Sec.Sec. 67 ff., 82.
[1286] On the relation between the two "first ancestors,"
Yama and Manu, cf. Bloomfield, op. cit., p. 140 f.
[1287] Hopkins, _Religions of India_, p. 379 ff.
[1288] Tiele-Gehrich, _Geschichte der Religion im Altertum_,
vol. ii, part i.
[1289] See above, Sec. 703. Cf. articles by L. H. Mills in
_Journal of the American Oriental Society_, vols. xx and
xxi; L. H. Gray, in _Archiv fuer Religionswissenschaft_, vii
(1904), p. 345.
[1290] _Records of the Past_, vols. v, ix.
[1291] Many lesser divine beings are mentioned by Spiegel
(in _Eranische Alterthumskunde_, ii, 66 ff.); the advance to
a real monotheistic cult was not achieved in Persia without
many generations of struggle.
[1292] Cf. the similar pr
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