[1774] For example, by Waitz, Anthropologie, iii, pp. 182 f., 330, 334 f.; Waitz expresses doubt (p. 345) as to the correctness of certain accounts of the religious ideas of the Oregon tribes.
[1775] Gatschet, Migration Legend of the Creeks, p. 215 f., Brinton, The Lenâpé, p. 67 f.; Dorsey, The Skidi Pawnee, p. xviii f.; Dixon, The Shasta, p. 491 ff.
[1776] On methods of accounting for the existence of death in the world see above, § 834.
[1777] Brébeuf's account is given in Relation des Jésuites dans la nouvelle France, 1635, p. 34; 1636, p. 100; cf. the edition of the Relation by R. G. Thwaites, viii, 116 ff.; x, 126 f. Brébeuf appears to have followed Sagard, Canada (see Troas ed., p. 452 ff.). The story is discussed by Brinton, in Myths of the New World, 3d ed., p. 79 ff., and his criticism is adopted by Tylor, Primitive Culture, 3d ed., ii, 322.
[1778] Brinton, op. cit., p. 77.
[1779] Cf. Tylor, Primitive Culture, ii, 334 ff.; article "Algonquins" in Hastings, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, pp. 320, 323.
[1780] Batchelor, The Ainu, and his article in Hastings, op. cit.
[1781] Hopkins, Religions of India, p. 528 ff. The influence of Brahmanism is possible here; but cf. Hopkins, op. cit., p. 530, note 3.
[1782] Maspero, Dawn of Civilization, pp. 172, 202; Breasted, History of Egypt, p. 571; Steindorff, Religion of the Ancient Egyptians, p. 67 ff.
[1783] This myth may have trickled down to them (through the Canaanites or in some other way) in subdued form—it appears, perhaps, in the serpent of Gen. iii; but it seems to have been adopted in full form at a later time, apparently in or after the sixth century B.C.