[1754] Gen. iv, 17 ff.; v, vi, 4; Ezek. xxxii, 27 (revised text).
[1755] Gen. iii, 14 ff. On the loss of immortality see above, § 834.
[1756] On the ceremony of mourning for Tammuz (Ezek. viii, 14) see Jastrow, Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, p. 574 ff.; Pseudo-Lucian, De Syria Dea. In Babylonia the ceremony appears to have been an official lament for the loss of vegetation (the women mourners being attached to the temple); in Syria (Hierapolis) it took on orgiastic elements (perhaps an importation from Asia Minor). The women of Ezek. viii were attached, probably, to the service of the temple.
[1757] Barth, Religions of India; Hopkins, Religions of India; Macdonell, Vedic Mythology; Lang, Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Index.
[1758] This is true of all mythical and legendary creations of the thought of communities, but in an especial degree of the Greek.
[1759] Saussaye, Religion of the Teutons, Index, s.v. Myths; he distinguishes between the earlier and the later stories; R. M. Meyer, Altgermanische Religionsgeschichte, chaps. iii, iv.
[1760] Folk-lore and legend mingle with the myths.
[1761] See R. M. Meyer, op. cit., p. 444 ff.
[1762] Even in great modern religions nominally monotheistic a virtual polytheism continues to exist.
[1763] See above, § 683 ff.