[{161}] L. Preller’s Ausgewählte Aufsätze. Greek ideas on the origin of Man. It is curious that the myth of a gold, a silver, and a copper race occurs in South America. See Brasseur de Bourbourg’s Notes on the Popol Vuh.
[{164a}] See essay on Early History of the Family.
[{164b}] This constant struggle may be, and of course by one school of comparative mythologists will be, represented as the strife between light and darkness, the sun’s rays, and the clouds of night, and so on. M. Castren has well pointed out that the struggle has really an historical meaning. Even if the myth be an elementary one, its constructors must have been in the exogamous stage of society.
[{169}] Sampo may be derived from a Thibetan word, meaning ‘fountain of good,’ or it may possibly be connected with the Swedish Stamp, a hand-mill. The talisman is made of all the quaint odds and ends that the Fetichist treasures: swan’s feathers, flocks of wool, and so on.
[{170}] Sir G. W. Cox’s Popular Romances of the Middle Ages, p. 19.
[{171}] Fortnightly Review, 1869: ‘The Worship of Plants and Animals.’
[{176}] Mr. McLennan in the Fortnightly Review, February 1870.
[{178}] M. Schmidt, Volksleben der Neugriechen, finds comparatively few traces of the worship of Zeus, and these mainly in proverbial expressions.
[{183}] Preller, Ausgewählte Aufsätze, p. 154.
[{184a}] Tylor, Prim. Cult., ii. 156. Pinkerton, vii. 357.