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where developed. [1272] Macdonell, _Vedic Mythology_, Sec. 20. [1273] Cf. Hastings, _Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_, article "Bengal," p. 491 ff., and the references there given to authorities. [1274] One form of Caktism is described (in Hastings, loc. cit.) as being the general worship of the Mothers of the universe represented as the wives of the gods. [1275] _Rig-Veda_, x, 64, 92, 135, 21, 52, 14. [1276] Ibid., x, 14; ix, 113. However, this title is given to Varuna also (x, 14): Yama and Varuna are the two kings whom the dead man sees when he reaches heaven. [1277] Ibid., x, 10, 13, 14 (cf. Atharva-Veda, xviii, 13). [1278] Hillebrandt, _Vedische Mythologie_, i, 394 ff., but only for the Indo-Iranian period. [1279] _Rig-Veda_, x, 64. [1280] Cf. Mueller, _Lectures on the Science of Language_, second series, p. 534 f.; Tylor, _Primitive Culture_, ii, 314; Bergaigne, _La religion vedique_, ii, 94, note 3; Frobenius, _Childhood of Man_, chap. xxii. Cf. the Egyptian conception of Osiris (Maspero, _Dawn of Civilisation_, p. 195). [1281] Matthews, _Navaho Legends_, p. 80; other examples are given in W. Ellis's _Polynesian Researches_, i, chap. v, and Tylor, op. cit., ii, 312 ff. [1282] Ellis, loc. cit.; Dorsey, _The Skidi Pawnee_, p. 6. [1283] Hopkins, _Religions of India_, p. 128 ff.; Macdonell, _Vedic Mythology_, Sec. 77; Bloomfield, _Religion of the Veda_, Index, s.v. _Yama_; and see the references in these works to other authors. [1284] _Jewish Encyclopaedia_, articles "Adam" and "Adam Kadmon"; _Koran_, ii, 29 ff.; cf. 1 Cor. xv, 45 ff. [1285] See above. Sec.Sec. 67 ff., 82. [1286] On the relation between the two "first ancestors," Yama and Manu, cf. Bloomfield, op. cit., p. 140 f. [1287] Hopkins, _Religions of India_, p. 379 ff. [1288] Tiele-Gehrich, _Geschichte der Religion im Altertum_, vol. ii, part i. [1289] See above, Sec. 703. Cf. articles by L. H. Mills in _Journal of the American Oriental Society_, vols. xx and xxi; L. H. Gray, in _Archiv fuer Religionswissenschaft_, vii (1904), p. 345. [1290] _Records of the Past_, vols. v, ix. [1291] Many lesser divine beings are mentioned by Spiegel (in _Eranische Alterthumskunde_, ii, 66 ff.); the advance to a real monotheistic cult was not achieved in Persia without many generations of struggle. [1292] Cf. the similar pr
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