[1444] So in Polynesia, North America, China, ancient Greece, and among the Hebrews.
[1445] As, for example, the Hebrews (Deut. xxxii, 8 f.)
[1446] Spencer and Gillen, Native Tribes of Central Australia, p. 119 ff.; Taylor, New Zealand, chap. xiv and p. 325; Turner, Samoa, p. 3 ff.; J. G. Müller, Geschichte der amerikanischen Urreligionen, pp. 33 ff., 179 ff., § 61.
[1447] So the Hindu Manu (man), or Father Manu (Rig-Veda, ii, 33, 13), is the progenitor of the human race. Cf. the "first man," Yama. For the Old-Persian genealogical scheme see Spiegel, Eranische Alterthumskunde, i, 473, 500 ff.
[1448] Deut. xxxii.
[1449] Codrington, The Melanesians, p. 156 ff.; Réville, Native Religions of Mexico and Peru, p. 64; Brinton, Myths of the New World, p. 264, and American Hero-Myths, pp. 186 f., 195 ff.; cf. R. B. Brehm, Das Inka-Reich, p. 24 ff.
[1450] Jastrow, Aspects of Religious Belief and Practice in Babylonia and Assyria, p. 89.
[1451] Gen. iv, 16 ff.
[1452] Gen. vi, 1, 2, 4 (verse 3 is an interpolation).
[1453] Herodotus, v, 57 f.; Roscher, Lexikon, s.v. Kadmos.