[514] § 271.
[515] Lev. xvi.
[516] Gruppe, Culte und Mythen; Roscher, Lexikon. Cf. the developed cults of Vishnu and Çiva.
[517] On Osiris and Isis see below, § 728 f.
[518] Some instances of worship are given in Frazer's Golden Bough, 2d ed., i, 181, 189, 191. Frazer sometimes uses the term 'tree worship' where all that is meant is respect for trees as powerful things.
[519] See § 253 ff.
[520] See Revue de l'histoire des religions, 1881.
[521] So in Central Australia (Spencer and Gillen, Native Tribes of Central Australia, pp. 123 f., 137).
[522] The rock whence came the stones thrown by Deucalion and Pyrrha (the origin of the human race) also gave birth to Agdistis mugitibus editis multis, according to Arnobius, Adversus Nationes, v, 5. Mithra's birth from a rock (Roscher, Lexikon) is perhaps a bit of late poetical or philosophical imagery.
[523] For various powers of stones, involving many human interests, see indexes in Tylor's Primitive Culture, Frazer's Golden Bough, and Hartland's Primitive Paternity, s.v. Stone or Stones.