e Alterthumskunde_, ii, 161; H. Warren, _Buddhism
in Translations_, p. 315 ff.
[1435] Matthews, _Navaho Legends_, p. 63 ff.
[1436] Hartland, _Primitive Paternity_, chap. i.
[1437] Grey, _Polynesian Mythology_, chap. i.
[1438] Maspero, _Dawn_, p. 128 f.
[1439] _Aitareya Brahmana_, iv, 27.
[1440] Hollis, _The Masai_, p. 279; cf. Turner, _Samoa_, p.
198.
[1441] Gruppe, _Griechische Culte und Mythen_. Cf. the
birth-myth in Matthews, _Navaho Legends_, p. 71.
[1442] So Heracles, Achilles, AEneas, and the heroes
mentioned in Gen. vi, 4.
[1443] Gen. ii, 7.
[1444] So in Polynesia, North America, China, ancient
Greece, and among the Hebrews.
[1445] As, for example, the Hebrews (Deut. xxxii, 8 f.)
[1446] Spencer and Gillen, _Native Tribes of Central
Australia_, p. 119 ff.; Taylor, _New Zealand_, chap. xiv and
p. 325; Turner, _Samoa_, p. 3 ff.; J. G. Mueller, _Geschichte
der amerikanischen Urreligionen_, pp. 33 ff., 179 ff., Sec. 61.
[1447] So the Hindu Manu (man), or Father Manu (_Rig-Veda_,
ii, 33, 13), is the progenitor of the human race. Cf. the
"first man," Yama. For the Old-Persian genealogical scheme
see Spiegel, _Eranische Alterthumskunde_, i, 473, 500 ff.
[1448] Deut. xxxii.
[1449] Codrington, _The Melanesians_, p. 156 ff.; Reville,
_Native Religions of Mexico and Peru_, p. 64; Brinton,
_Myths of the New World_, p. 264, and _American Hero-Myths_,
pp. 186 f., 195 ff.; cf. R. B. Brehm, _Das Inka-Reich_, p.
24 ff.
[1450] Jastrow, _Aspects of Religious Belief and Practice in
Babylonia and Assyria_, p. 89.
[1451] Gen. iv, 16 ff.
[1452] Gen. vi, 1, 2, 4 (verse 3 is an interpolation).
[1453] Herodotus, v, 57 f.; Roscher, _Lexikon_, s.v.
_Kadmos_.
[1454] _Rig-Veda_, i, 93, 6.
[1455] Hesiod, _Works and Days_, 49 ff.
[1456] In the story in Genesis (ii, 17; iii, 5, 22-24) there
is a trace of such jealousy; and it is by violation of the
command of the deity that man attains the knowledge of good
and evil.
[1457] L. Frobenius, _Childhood of Man_, chap. xxv (and cf.
chap. xxvi).
[1458] Chapter iii.
[1459] Spencer and Gillen, _Native Tribes of Central
Australia_, p. 394 ff.
[1460] See above, Sec. 153 ff.
[1461] Gen. xvii.
[1462] Ex. iv, 24-26; Josh. v, 2 ff.
[1463] W. Matthews, _Navaho Legends_, p. 40 ff.; J. W.
Fewkes, _The Winter Solstice Ceremony at Walpi_.
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