he name Yahweh is, 'he who causes (rain) to fall.'

[586] Examples of such gods, in Africa, America, and Asia,
are given in Tylor's _Primitive Culture_, ii, 259 ff.

[587] Hopkins, _Religions of India_, p. 99 ff.

[588] So in the _Secrets of Enoch_ (ed. R. H. Charles),
chaps. iv-vi, the treasuries of rain and dew in the lowest
heaven are guarded by angels.

[589] Jastrow, _Religion of Babylonia and Assyria_, Index,
s.vv.

[590] Matthews, _Navaho Legends_, p. 37; Dorsey, _The Skidi
Pawnee_, p. 8; Teit, _Thompson River Indians_, p. 56 f.; R.
Taylor, _New Zealand and its Inhabitants_, p. 130; Hopkins,
_Religions of India_, p. 168, n. 1; Roscher, _Lexikon_,
article "Prometheus." Accounts of the original production or
the theft of fire are found in savage mythology the world
over; see Frobenius, _Childhood of Man_, chaps. xxv-xxvii;
Seligmann, _The Melanesians of British New Guinea_, p. 379;
Tylor, _Primitive Culture_, ii, 277 ff.; O. T. Mason,
_Origins of Invention_, chap. iii.

[591] So among the Todas (Rivers, _The Todas_, p. 437) and
the Nandi (Hollis, _The Nandi_, p. 85).

[592] On an identification of Agni with fire see Bloomfield,
_Religion of the Veda_, p. 158 ff.

[593] See Chap. VI.

[594] Shahrastani (12th century), _Kitab al-Milal
wa'l-Nihal_, a sketch of religions and philosophical sects,
Moslem and other (Germ. tr. by Haarbruecker, p. 298 f.).

[595] Hopkins observes (_Religions of India_, p. 105) that
originally fire (Agni), in distinction from sun and
lightning, is the fire of sacrifice. Cf. Bloomfield,
_Religion of the Veda_, p. 157.

[596] Rivers, _The Todas_, p. 437; cf. the ceremony
described on page 290 f.

[597] A. M. Tozzer, _Comparative Study of the Mayas and the
Lacandones_, p. 133.

[598] Prescott, _Peru_, i, 106 f.

[599] Plutarch, _Aristides_, 20.

[600] The Hebrew expression, rendered in the English version
"cause to pass through fire," means simply 'devote by fire.'

[601] Ex. xix, 18; Ezek. i, 4; Ps. xviii, 9 [604];
_Rig-Veda_, iii, 26, 7 (Indra).

[602] Rivers, _The Todas_, p. 437. In Gen. i, 3, light
appears before the creation of the heavenly bodies.

[603] So in Carinthia, the Tyrol, and neighboring districts
(Wuttke, _Der deutsche Volksaberglaube der Gegenwart_, p.
86).

[604] Dorsey, _The Skidi Pawnee_, p. xix.

[605] See below, Sec. 662, etc.

[606] Ps. xviii, 1