[484] Spiegel, Eranische Alterthumskunde, ii, 114 ff.; Tiele-Gehrich, Geschichte der Religion im Alterium, ii, ii, p. 234 ff.
[485] Mannhardt, Baumkultus and Antike Wald- und Feldkulte; Frazer, Golden Bough, Index, s.v. Corn-spirit.
[486] Cf. below, § 751 ff.
[487] The connection between such posts and the North-Semitic goddess Ashera is uncertain.
[488] Ward, Seal-cylinders of Western Asia.
[489] Cf. the suggestion of A. Réville (in his Prolégomènes de l'histoire des religions) that images arose in part from natural woods bearing a fancied resemblance to the human form.
[490] Boas, The Kwakiutl; Swanton, "Seattle Totem Pole," in Journal of American Folklore vol. xviii, no. 69 (April, 1905).
[491] See below, "Totemism," § 449 f.
[492] Crooke, Popular Religion and Folklore of Northern India, ii, 115 ff.
[493] Pausanias, x, 31, 4; Roscher, Lexikon, article "Meleagros."