Lane's Arabian Nights, Vol. III. p. 380. Ralston, Songs of the Russian
People, p. 179.]
[Footnote 91: Thorpe, Northern Mythology, III. 173; Kennedy, Fictions of
the Irish Celts, p. 123.]
[Footnote 92: Kennedy, Fictions of the Irish Celts, p. 168.]
[Footnote 93: Baring-Gould, Book of Werewolves, p. 133.]
[Footnote 94: Muir's Sanskrit Texts, Vol. IV. p. 12; Muller, Rig-Veda
Sanhita, Vol. I. pp. 230-251; Fick, Woerterbuch der Indogermanischen
Grundsprache, p. 124, s v. Bhaga.]
[Footnote 95: In the North American Review, October, 1869, p. 354,
I have collected a number of facts which seem to me to prove beyond
question that the name God is derived from Guodan, the original form of
Odin, the supreme deity of our Pagan forefathers. The case is exactly
parallel to that of the French Dieu, which is descended from the Deus of
the pagan Roman.]
[Footnote 96: See Pott, Die Zigeuner, II. 311; Kuhn, Beitrage, I. 147.
Yet in the worship of dewel by the Gypsies is to be found the element of
diabolism invariably present in barbaric worship. "Dewel, the great
god in heaven (dewa, deus), is rather feared than loved by these
weather-beaten outcasts, for he harms them on their wanderings with his
thunder and lightning, his snow and rain, and his stars interfere with
their dark doings. Therefore they curse him foully when misfortune
falls on them; and when a child dies, they say that Dewel has eaten it."
Tylor, Primitive Culture, Vol. II. p. 248.]
[Footnote 97: See Grimm, Deutsche Mythologie, 939.]
[Footnote 98: The Buddhistic as well as the Zarathustrian reformation
degraded the Vedic gods into demons. "In Buddhism we find these ancient
devas, Indra and the rest, carried about at shows, as servants of
Buddha, as goblins, or fabulous heroes." Max Muller, Chips, I. 25. This
is like the Christian change of Odin into an ogre, and of Thor into the
Devil.]
[Footnote 99: Zeus--Dia--Zhna--di on............ Plato Kratylos, p. 396,
A., with Stallbaum's note. See also Proklos, Comm. ad Timaeum, II. p.
226, Schneider; and compare Pseudo-Aristotle, De Mundo, p. 401, a, 15,
who adopts the etymology. See also Diogenes Laertius, VII. 147.]
[Footnote 100: Marcus Aurelius, v. 7; Hom. Iliad, xii. 25, cf. Petronius
Arbiter, Sat. xliv.]
[Footnote 101: "Il Sol, dell aurea luce eterno forte." Tasso,
Gerusalemme, XV. 47; ef. Dante, Paradiso, X. 28.]
[Footnote 102: The Aryans were, however, doubtless better off than
the tribes of North A
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