[1414] Cf. Tylor, Primitive Culture, chaps. viii-x; Jastrow, Study of Religion, Index, s.vv. Myth, Mythology; Lang, Custom and Myth, and Myth, Ritual, and Religion; articles "Mythologie" in La Grande Encyclopédie, and "Mythology" in Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed.
[1415] Belief in miracles, which is found in some higher religions, may here be left out of the account as belonging in a separate category.
[1416] Lang, Myth, Ritual, and Religion, chaps. ii-iv.
[1417] So with the theory of universal borrowing from one center advocated by Stucken (Astralmythen), Winckler (Himmels- und Weltensbild der Babylonier als Grundlage der Weltanschauung und Mythologle aller Völker), Jeremias (Das Alte Testament im Lichte des Alten Orients), Jensen (Das Gilgamesch Epos), and others.
[1418] Cf. article "Cosmogony and Cosmology" in Hastings, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics.
[1419] § 225 ff.
[1420] Çatapatha Brahmana, xi, 1, 6, 1.
[1421] R. B. Dixon, The Northern Maidu, p. 335 f.
[1422] Spiegel (Eranische Alterthumskunde, ii, 144) ascribes to the Eranians the conception of creation out of nothing. See also the Hawaiian representation of the origin of all things from the primeval void, and the orderly sequence of the various forms of life.
[1423] A. Lang, Myth, Ritual, and Religion chap. vi ff.