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

by Crawford Howell Toy

[1084] Dorsey, The Skidi Pawnee, p. xix; Matthews, Navaho Legends, p. 34 f.

[1085] Hopkins, Religions of India, p. 532.

[1086] Spence, in Hastings, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, ii, 835.

[1087] A. B. Ellis, Eẃe (Dahomi), p. 104.

[1088] On the ascription of divinity to men in great civilized religious systems see above, § 351 ff.

[1089] Maspero, Dawn of Civilization, p. 120 ff.; Ed. Meyer, Geschichte des Alten Aegyptens, p. 31 ff.; Wiedemann, Religion of the Ancient Egyptians, p. 109; Erman, Handbook of Egyptian Religion, pp. 21 f., 39.

[1090] Cf. W. von Baudissin, Studien zur semitischen Religionsgeschichte, i, 28 f.

[1091] R. Smend, Alttestamentliche Religionsgeschichte, p. 33 f. In regard to the original home of Yahweh and the diffusion of his cult among other peoples than the Hebrews exact information is lacking.

[1092] Pietschmann, Phönizier, pp. 170 f., 182 ff.

[1093] Hastings, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, i, 664.