[494] Frazer, Golden Bough, 2d ed., iii, 391 ff.
[495] Gen. iii; cf. Hopkins, in Journal of the American Oriental Society, September, 1910. Whether the golden apples of the Hesperides had the life-giving quality is doubtful.
[496] This appears from a comparison of Gen. iii, 3 with ii, 17.
[497] Gen. iii, 5, 22.
[498] He is, perhaps, a diminished and conventionalized form of the old chaos dragon.
[499] On the various names and characters of this cosmic tree see Saussaye, Religion of the Teutons, p. 347 ff.
[500] Rig-Veda, x, 81, 4.
[501] 2 Sam. v, 24.
[502] Judg. ix, 37.
[503] See below, § 935 ff.