the Hebrews
exact information is lacking.

[1092] Pietschmann, _Phoenizier_, pp. 170 f., 182 ff.

[1093] Hastings, _Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_, i,
664.

[1094] Jastrow, _Religion of Babylonia and Assyria_, Index,
s.vv.; articles in Roscher's _Lexikon_; "Eshmun" in
_Orientalische Studien Noeldeke gewidmet_.

[1095] See, for example, Pausanias, i, 37, 3 (Zeus
Meilichios); ii, 19, 3 (Apollo Lykios); iii, 13, 2 (Kore
Soteira--Persephone, the protectress); v, 25, 6 f.
(Heracles); viii, 12, 1 (Zeus Charmon).

[1096] Macdonell, _Vedic Mythology_, p. 15 ff.; Bloomfield,
_Religion of the Veda_, p. 90.

[1097] Sir C. R. Markham, _The Incas of Peru_, p. 104.

[1098] L. Spence, _The Mythologies of Ancient Mexico and
Peru_, p. 24 f.

[1099] See above, Sec. 647.

[1100] Roscher, _Lexikon_, article "Heros," col. 2473 ff.

[1101] _Works and Days_, 155 ff.

[1102] He appears to be usually beneficent; but, like all
the dead, he might sometimes be maleficent.

[1103] But these origins, going far back into prehistoric
times, are obscure.

[1104] Codrington, _The Melanesians_, p. 132.

[1105] Tregear, in _Journal of the Anthropological
Institute_, xix, 97 ff.; Grey, _Polynesian Mythology_, p.
164.

[1106] Alexander, _Short History of the Hawaiian People_.

[1107] E. H. Gomes, _Southern Departments of Borneo_.

[1108] Skeat, _Malay Magic_, chap. iv; Skeat and Blagden,
_Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula_, ii, 245 ff.

[1109] Hopkins, _Religions of India_, p. 529 f.; Crooke,
_Popular Religion and Folklore of Northern India_, i, chap.
ii.

[1110] Hollis, _The Masai_, p. 264. The related Nandi
worship the sun (Asista) mainly, but have also a thunder-god
(Hollis, _The Nandi_, p. 40 f.).

[1111] Hollis, op. cit., p. 279.

[1112] With them, as everywhere else, there is occasional
discrimination in the functions of magicians, different men
healing or inflicting different sicknesses; cf. article
"Bantu" in Hastings, _Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_.

[1113] A. B. Ellis, _E['w]e_, chap. v; _Tshi_, chap. v;
_Yoruba_, p. 45.

[1114] Jochelson, in _Jesup North Pacific Expedition_, vi,
i, 33 ff., 27 ff.

[1115] Batchelor, _The Ainu_, chap. li.

[1116] Herodotus, iv, 94.

[1117] Demetrius Klementz, article "Buriats" in Hastings,
_Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_.

[1118] Brinton, _The Lenape_,