Introduction to the History of Religions / Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV

by Crawford Howell Toy

[984] Cf. Hopkins, Religions of India, p. 448 ff.

[985] Cf. W. R. Smith, Religion of the Semites, additional note C.

[986] Rivers, The Todas, p. 405 ff.

[987] Tylor, Primitive Culture, i, 288, 354.

[988] For details see Frazer, Adonis Attis Osiris, bk. iii, chap. viii f.

[989] Hollis, The Nandi p. 95 f.

[990] Rhys Davids, Buddhism (in Non-Christian Religious Systems), p. 140 f. Thus, as the author remarks, uposatha is a weekly festival; and there is an approach to a true seven-day week.

[991] Alexander, Short History of the Hawaiian People.

[992] Details of the week are given in the article "Calendar" in Hastings, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, with references to authorities.

[993] Hollis, The Nandi, p. 79; Frazer, Adonis Attis Osiris, pp. 370 ff., 375.