[1424] See, for example, the two accounts of creation in the Book of Genesis. In the earlier account (chap. ii) the procedure of Yahweh is mechanical, and things do not turn out as he intended; in the later account (chap. i) there is no mention of a process—it is the divine word that calls the world into being.
[1425] Dixon, The Northern Maidu, p. 263.
[1426] See R. Andree, Die Flutsagen; article "Flood" in Hastings, Dictionary of the Bible.
[1427] Matthews, Navaho Legends, p. 37; cf. Dorsey, The Skidi Pawnee, p. 14 ff.
[1428] Grey, Polynesian Mythology, p. 57 f.; cf. Tylor, Primitive Culture, i, 335.
[1429] Callaway, The Amazulu, pp. 3, 4, 100, 138.
[1430] Gen. v; vi, 4; Herodotus, iii, 23; Roscher, Lexikon, s.v. Giganten; cf. Tylor, op. cit., i, 385 ff.; Brinton, American Hero-Myths, p. 88.
[1431] Brinton, Religions of Primitive Peoples, p. 126 f.; Maspero, Dawn, p. 158; Gen. ii, iii; Avesta, Vendidad, Fargard ii; Spiegel, Eranische Alterthumskunde, i, 463 ff.; Windischmann, Zoroastrische Studien, p. 19 ff.; Hopkins, in Journal of the American Oriental Society (September, 1910), pp. 362, 366; article "Hesperiden" in Roscher's Lexikon; commentaries of Kalisch, Dillmann, Driver, Skinner, and others on Gen. ii, iii; Jewish Encyclopædia, s.v. Paradise; Delitzsch, Wo lag das Paradies? On the character of the abode of the Babylonian Parnapishtim see Jastrow, Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, pp. 488, 496.
[1432] 2 Pet. iii, 7, contrast with the old destruction by water; Hindu eschatology.
[1433] The Norse myth of "the twilight of the gods" has perhaps been colored, in its latest form, by Christian eschatology.