[1094] Jastrow, Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, Index, s.vv.; articles in Roscher's Lexikon; "Eshmun" in Orientalische Studien Nöldeke gewidmet.
[1095] See, for example, Pausanias, i, 37, 3 (Zeus Meilichios); ii, 19, 3 (Apollo Lykios); iii, 13, 2 (Kore Soteira—Persephone, the protectress); v, 25, 6 f. (Heracles); viii, 12, 1 (Zeus Charmon).
[1096] Macdonell, Vedic Mythology, p. 15 ff.; Bloomfield, Religion of the Veda, p. 90.
[1097] Sir C. R. Markham, The Incas of Peru, p. 104.
[1098] L. Spence, The Mythologies of Ancient Mexico and Peru, p. 24 f.
[1099] See above, § 647.
[1100] Roscher, Lexikon, article "Heros," col. 2473 ff.
[1101] Works and Days, 155 ff.
[1102] He appears to be usually beneficent; but, like all the dead, he might sometimes be maleficent.
[1103] But these origins, going far back into prehistoric times, are obscure.