[594] Shahrastani (12th century), Kitab al-Milal wa'l-Nihal, a sketch of religions and philosophical sects, Moslem and other (Germ. tr. by Haarbrücker, p. 298 f.).
[595] Hopkins observes (Religions of India, p. 105) that originally fire (Agni), in distinction from sun and lightning, is the fire of sacrifice. Cf. Bloomfield, Religion of the Veda, p. 157.
[596] Rivers, The Todas, p. 437; cf. the ceremony described on page 290 f.
[597] A. M. Tozzer, Comparative Study of the Mayas and the Lacandones, p. 133.
[598] Prescott, Peru, i, 106 f.
[599] Plutarch, Aristides, 20.
[600] The Hebrew expression, rendered in the English version "cause to pass through fire," means simply 'devote by fire.'
[601] Ex. xix, 18; Ezek. i, 4; Ps. xviii, 9 [8]; Rig-Veda, iii, 26, 7 (Indra).
[602] Rivers, The Todas, p. 437. In Gen. i, 3, light appears before the creation of the heavenly bodies.
[603] So in Carinthia, the Tyrol, and neighboring districts (Wuttke, Der deutsche Volksaberglaube der Gegenwart, p. 86).