01] _The Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia_, R. Campbell Thompson, vol.
i, p. 53 et seq.

[102] _Omens and Superstitions of Southern India_, E. Thurston, p. 124.

[103] _The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria_, p. 110.

[104] _Beowulf_, Clark Hall, p. 14.

[105] _Ezekiel_, viii.

[106] _Psalms_, cxxvi.

[107] _The Burden of Isis_, J.T. Dennis _(Wisdom of the East_ series), pp.
21, 22.

[108] _Religion of the Semites_, pp. 412, 414.

[109] _Egyptian Myth and Legend_, pp. 45 et seq.

[110] Langdon's _Sumerian and Babylonian Psalms_, pp. 319-321.

[111] Campbell's _West Highland Tales_, vol. iii, p. 74.

[112] _West Highland Tales_, vol. iii, pp. 85, 86.

[113] If Finn and his band were really militiamen--the original Fenians--as
is believed in Ireland, they may have had attached to their memories
the legends of archaic Iberian deities who differed from the Celtic
Danann deities. Theodoric the Goth, as Dietrich von Bern, was
identified, for instance, with Donar or Thunor (Thor), the thunder
god. In Scotland Finn and his followers are all giants. Diarmid is the
patriarch of the Campbell clan, the MacDiarmids being "sons of
Diarmid".

[114] Isaiah condemns a magical custom connected with the worship of Tammuz
in the garden, _Isaiah_, xvii, 9, 11. This "Garden of Adonis" is dealt
with in the next chapter.

[115] Quotations are from _Sumerian and Babylonian Psalms_, translated by
Stephen Langdon, Ph.D. (Paris and London, 1909), pp. 299-341.

[116] _Beowulf_, translated by J.R. Clark Hall (London, 1911), pp. 9-11.

[117] For Frey's connection with the Ynglings see Morris and Magnusson's
_Heimskringla_ (_Saga Library_, vol. iii), pp. 23-71.

[118] _The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria_, p. 72.

[119] Langdon's _Sumerian and Babylonian Psalms_, pp. 325, 339.

[120] Professor Oldenberg's translation.

[121] Osiris is also invoked to "remove storms and rain and give fecundity
in the nighttime". As a spring sun god he slays demons; as a lunar god
he brings fertility.

[122] Like the love-compelling girdle of Aphrodite.

[123] A wedding bracelet of crystal is worn by Hindu women; they break it
when the husband dies.

[124] Quotations from the translation in _The Chaldean Account of Genesis_,
by George Smith.

[125] Langdon's _Sumerian and Babylonian Psalms_, p. 329 _et seq._

[126] _The Burden of Isis_, translated by J.T. Dennis (_Wisdom of the East_
series), pp. 24, 31, 32, 39, 45, 46, 49.

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