ence in this regard
belongs to their later period. After the fall of the later
Babylonian empire (B.C. 539) the term 'Chaldean' became a
synonym of 'astrologer' (so in the Book of Daniel, B.C.
165-164); cf. Jastrow, _Aspects of Religious Belief and
Practice in Babylonia and Assyria_, p. 259 f.
[1484] Brinton, _Myths of the New World_, passim; Hartland,
_Primitive Paternity_, i, 149 f.; Grey, _Polynesian
Mythology_, p. 1 ff.; Hickson, _Northern Celebes_; Lane,
_Arabian Nights_, i, 30 ff.; Saussaye, _Religion of the
Teutons_, p. 216 f.; _Iliad_, xxiii, 198 ff.; Tylor,
_Primitive Culture_, i, 360 ff.; Ratzel, _History of
Mankind_ (Eng. tr.), passim.
[1485] _Iliad_, xxiii, 200 f. For some wind-myths see
Roscher, _Lexikon_, articles "Boreaden," "Boreas,"
"Harpyia." Cf. the Maori myths given in R. Taylor's _New
Zealand_, chap. vi, and for Navaho winds see Matthews,
_Navaho Legends_, p. 226, note 75.
[1486] As in Goldziher's _Hebrew Mythology_ (Eng. tr.), a
view later abandoned by the author.
[1487] By Mannhardt, in _Mythologische Forschungen_, p. 224
ff.; Frazer, in _Golden Bough_, 2d ed. (see Index, s.v.
_Corn_); and others.
[1488] Cf. Frazer, op. cit., chap. iii, Sec. 16 f.; Roscher,
_Lexikon_, articles "Kybele," "Attis," "Persephone,"
"Ceres"; and Farnell, _Cults of the Greek States_.
[1489] See above, Sec. 678.
[1490] Gen. i, 2 f.
[1491] Dan. ii, 22; Rev. xxi, 23.
[1492] This is true even in the case of abstract deities;
see above, Sec.Sec. 696, 702 ff.
[1493] A myth is a purely imaginative explanation of
phenomena; a legend rests on facts, but the facts are
distorted. The two terms are often confused the one with the
other.
[1494] Some peculiar combinations appear in the figures of
Semiramis and the Kuretes and the Korybantes; see the
articles in Roscher's _Lexikon_ under these headings.
[1495] Cf. Gomme, _Folklore as an Historical Science_; Van
Gennep, _La formation des legendes_.
[1496] See the various folk-lore journals; W. W. Newell,
article "Folk-lore" in Johnson's _Universal Cyclopaedia_; cf.
Gomme, op. cit., and Sec. 881 below.
[1497] So in the cases of the Australian ancestors, the
Polynesian, Teutonic, Finnic, Slavic, Greek, Phrygian, and
other heroes and gods, the Hebrew patriarchs, and many other
such figures.
[1498] See above, Sec. 859.
[1499] See above, Sec. 649.
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