[1464] Reville, _Native Religions of Mexico and Peru_
(Hibbert Lectures), pp. 94 f., 110 (cf. ib., p. 224 f., on
Peruvian dances). See above, Sec. 109, note 6.

[1465] Gen. xxxii, 24 ff.

[1466] Fowler, _Roman Festivals_, p. 38.

[1467] Fowler, op. cit., p. 99 ff.; for another view see
Roscher, _Lexikon_, article "Maia II"; cf. Wissowa,
_Religion der Roemer_, p. 185.

[1468] Augustine, _De Civitate Dei_, 18, 9.

[1469] Judg. xi, 30 ff.

[1470] Plutarch, _Theseus_, 27.

[1471] F. B. Jevons, _Introduction to the History of
Religion_, chap. xxiii f.; Miss J. E. Harrison, _Prolegomena
to the Study of Greek Religion_, chap. x; K. H. E. de Jong,
_Das antike Mysterienwesen_, pp. 14, 16, 18; Preller,
"Eleusinia" in Pauly's _Realencyclopaedie_; Reitzenstein,
_Hellenistische Mysterienreligion_.

[1472] In Babylonia such roles are ascribed to Ea and Marduk
(Jastrow, _Religion of Babylonia and Assyria_, pp. 137, 139,
276).

[1473] See above, Sec. 844 f.; W. R. Smith, _Religion of the
Semites_, 2d ed., pp. 18, 173 ff., _Records of the Past_,
vi, 108.

[1474] The myths connected with Quetzalcoatl (see Brinton,
_American Hero-Myths_, and L. Spence, _Mythologies of
Ancient Mexico and Peru_) do not relate mostly to the
movements and deeds of the sun or the winds, but arose from
his character as local deity with universal powers. Social
and political events were woven into them. His contest with
Tezcatlipoca seems to reflect the struggle between two
tribes; his defeat signifies the victory of the conquering
tribe, and the expectation of his return (by which the
invading Spaniards, it is said, profited) was based on the
political hope of his people. Cf. similar expectations among
other peoples.

[1475] Gen. xxii.

[1476] B. Beer, _Leben Abraham's nach Auffassung der
juedischen Sage_, p. 5 and note 34; p. 102, note 30.

[1477] Turner, _Samoa_, Index.

[1478] Spencer and Gillen, _Native Tribes of Central
Australia_, chap. xviii.

[1479] Pausanias, _Description of Greece_, passim.

[1480] Semitic and other examples are given in W. R. Smith's
_Religion of the Semites_, p. 173 ff.

[1481] On the complicated myth of Phaethon see the article
in Roscher's _Lexikon_.

[1482] Isa. xxiv, 21; Tylor, _Primitive Culture_, i, 356 ff.

[1483] The Babylonians were the great astronomers and
astrologers of antiquity, but their emin