sen (_Das
Gilgamesch Epos_), and others.
[1418] Cf. article "Cosmogony and Cosmology" in Hastings,
_Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_.
[1419] Sec. 225 ff.
[1420] _Catapatha Brahmana_, xi, 1, 6, 1.
[1421] R. B. Dixon, _The Northern Maidu_, p. 335 f.
[1422] Spiegel (_Eranische Alterthumskunde_, ii, 144)
ascribes to the Eranians the conception of creation out of
nothing. See also the Hawaiian representation of the origin
of all things from the primeval void, and the orderly
sequence of the various forms of life.
[1423] A. Lang, _Myth, Ritual, and Religion_ chap. vi ff.
[1424] See, for example, the two accounts of creation in the
Book of Genesis. In the earlier account (chap. ii) the
procedure of Yahweh is mechanical, and things do not turn
out as he intended; in the later account (chap. i) there is
no mention of a process--it is the divine word that calls
the world into being.
[1425] Dixon, _The Northern Maidu_, p. 263.
[1426] See R. Andree, _Die Flutsagen_; article "Flood" in
Hastings, _Dictionary of the Bible_.
[1427] Matthews, _Navaho Legends_, p. 37; cf. Dorsey, _The
Skidi Pawnee_, p. 14 ff.
[1428] Grey, _Polynesian Mythology_, p. 57 f.; cf. Tylor,
_Primitive Culture_, i, 335.
[1429] Callaway, _The Amazulu_, pp. 3, 4, 100, 138.
[1430] Gen. v; vi, 4; Herodotus, iii, 23; Roscher,
_Lexikon_, s.v. _Giganten_; cf. Tylor, op. cit., i, 385 ff.;
Brinton, _American Hero-Myths_, p. 88.
[1431] Brinton, _Religions of Primitive Peoples_, p. 126 f.;
Maspero, _Dawn_, p. 158; Gen. ii, iii; _Avesta, Vendidad_,
Fargard ii; Spiegel, _Eranische Alterthumskunde_, i, 463
ff.; Windischmann, _Zoroastrische Studien_, p. 19 ff.;
Hopkins, in _Journal of the American Oriental Society_
(September, 1910), pp. 362, 366; article "Hesperiden" in
Roscher's _Lexikon_; commentaries of Kalisch, Dillmann,
Driver, Skinner, and others on Gen. ii, iii; _Jewish
Encyclopaedia_, s.v. _Paradise_; Delitzsch, _Wo lag das
Paradies?_ On the character of the abode of the Babylonian
Parnapishtim see Jastrow, _Religion of Babylonia and
Assyria_, pp. 488, 496.
[1432] 2 Pet. iii, 7, contrast with the old destruction by
water; Hindu eschatology.
[1433] The Norse myth of "the twilight of the gods" has
perhaps been colored, in its latest form, by Christian
eschatology.
[1434] Hopkins, _Religions of India_, p. 421; Spiegel,
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