he New World_, p. 248. A good instance of bad comparison
in eschatology will be found in Geiger, _Ostir. Cult_. pp.
274-275.]

[Footnote 8: Parkman, _loc. cit_. p. LXXXVI.]

[Footnote 9: _Sits. Berl. Akad_. 1891, p. 15.]

[Footnote 10: Brinton, _American Hero Myths_, p. 174. The
first worship was Sun-worship, then Viracocha-worship arose,
which kept Sun-worship while it predicated a 'power beyond.]

[Footnote 11: Brinton, _Myths of the New World_, pp. 85,
203.]

[Footnote 12: _Ib_. pp. 86, 202.]

[Footnote 13: Brinton, _Myths of the New World_, p. 243. The
American Indians "uniformly regard the sun as heaven, the
soul goes to the sun."]

[Footnote 14: _Ib._ p. 245.]

[Footnote 15: _Ib._ p. 239-40.]

[Footnote 16: _Ib._ p. 50, 51.]

[Footnote 17: _Ib._ pp. 242, 248, 255; Schoolcraft, III.
229.]

[Footnote 18: Renouf, _Religion of Ancient Egypt_; pp. 103,
113 ff.]

[Footnote 19: Teutonic Tuisco is doubtful, as the identity
with Dyaus has lately been contested on phonetic grounds.]

[Footnote 20: V[=a]ta, ventus, does not agree very well with
Wotan.]

[Footnote 21: _[=A]it. Br._ III, 34. [Greek: haggaron pur]
is really tautological, but beacon fires gave way to
couriers and [Greek: haggaros] lost the sense of fire, as
did [Greek: haggelos].]

[Footnote 22: But the general belief that fire (Agni, Ignis,
Slavic ogni) was first brought to earth from heaven by a
half-divine personality is (at least) Aryan, as Kuhn has
shown.]

[Footnote 23: Compare the _kavis_ and _ugijs_ (poets and
priests) of the Veda with the evil spirits of the same names
in the Avesta, like _daeva_ = _deva_. Compare, besides, the
Indo-Iranian feasts, _medha_, that accompany this
Bacchanalian liquor-worship.]

[Footnote 24: Ludwig interprets the three Ribhus as the
three seasons personified. Etymologically connected is
Orpheus, perhaps.]

[Footnote 25: [Greek: o de chalkeos asphales aien edos menei
ouranos], Pind. N. vi. 5; compare Preller[4], p.40.]

[Footnote 26: Wahrscheinlich sind Uranos und Kronos erst aus
dem Culte des Zeus abstrahirt worden. Preller[4], p. 43.]

[Footnote 27: When Aryan deities are decadent, Trita, Mitra,
etc.]

[Footnote 28: Spiegel holds that the whole idea of future