[1274] One form of Çaktism is described (in Hastings, loc. cit.) as being the general worship of the Mothers of the universe represented as the wives of the gods.
[1275] Rig-Veda, x, 64, 92, 135, 21, 52, 14.
[1276] Ibid., x, 14; ix, 113. However, this title is given to Varuna also (x, 14): Yama and Varuna are the two kings whom the dead man sees when he reaches heaven.
[1277] Ibid., x, 10, 13, 14 (cf. Atharva-Veda, xviii, 13).
[1278] Hillebrandt, Vedische Mythologie, i, 394 ff., but only for the Indo-Iranian period.
[1279] Rig-Veda, x, 64.
[1280] Cf. Müller, Lectures on the Science of Language, second series, p. 534 f.; Tylor, Primitive Culture, ii, 314; Bergaigne, La religion védique, ii, 94, note 3; Frobenius, Childhood of Man, chap. xxii. Cf. the Egyptian conception of Osiris (Maspero, Dawn of Civilisation, p. 195).
[1281] Matthews, Navaho Legends, p. 80; other examples are given in W. Ellis's Polynesian Researches, i, chap. v, and Tylor, op. cit., ii, 312 ff.
[1282] Ellis, loc. cit.; Dorsey, The Skidi Pawnee, p. 6.
[1283] Hopkins, Religions of India, p. 128 ff.; Macdonell, Vedic Mythology, § 77; Bloomfield, Religion of the Veda, Index, s.v. Yama; and see the references in these works to other authors.