ews of Origins in Connexion with
Similar Babylonian Beliefs," _Journal of the American Oriental Society_,
Vol. XXXVI, 1916, pp. 300-20.]
[113: This is Professor Carnoy's summary of Professor Jastrow's views as
expressed in his article "Sumerian and Akkadian Views of Beginnings".]
[114: Jastrow's interpretation of a recently-discovered tablet published
by Langdon under the title _The Sumerian Epic of Paradise, the Flood and
the Fall of Man_.]
[115: I have already (p. 43) mentioned the fact that it is still
preserved in China also.]
[116: Henry Whitehead (Bishop of Madras), "The Village Deities of
Southern India," Madras Government Museum, Bull., Vol. V, No. 3, 1907;
Wilber Theodore Elmore, "Dravidian Gods in Modern Hinduism: A Study of
the Local and Village Deities of Southern India," University Studies:
University of Nebraska, Vol. XV, No. 1, Jan., 1915. Compare the
sacrifice of the fore-leg of a living calf in Egypt--A. E. P. B.
Weigall, "An Ancient Egyptian Funeral Ceremony," _Journal of Egyptian
Archaeology_, Vol. II, 1915, p. 10. Early literary references from
Babylonia suggest that a similar method of offering blood was practised
there.]
[117: William Ellis, "Polynesian Researches," 2nd edition, 1832, Vol. I,
p. 373.]
[118: See H. Vincent, "Canaan d'apres l'exploration recente," Paris,
1907, p. 395.]
[119: "Les Premieres Civilizations," Paris, 1909, p. 404: Memoires de la
Delegation en Perse, Tome VIII, archeol.; and Mission Scientifique au
Caucase, Tome I.]
[120: W. J. Perry, "The Relationship between the Geographical
Distribution of Megalithic Monuments and Ancient Mines," _Memoirs and
Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society_, Vol.
60, Part I, 24th Nov., 1915.]
[121: The evidence for this is being prepared for publication by Captain
Leonard Munn, R.E., who has personally collected the data in Hyderabad.]
[122: Annual Report of the Archaeological Department, Southern Circle,
Madras, for the year 1915-1916. See for example Mr. A. H. Longhurst's
photographs and plans (Plates I-IV) and especially that of the old Siva
temple at Kambaduru, Plate IV (b).]
[123: As I shall show in "The Birth of Aphrodite" (Chapter III).]
[124: W. J. Perry, "The Megalithic Culture of Indonesia".]
[125: "A Penitential Rite of the Ancient Mexicans," Archaeological and
Ethnological Papers of the Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Vol. I,
No. 7, 1904.]
[126: Bancroft, _op. cit._ Vol.
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