[1884] Cumont, The Mysteries of Mithra (Eng. tr.), p. 160. On the magical element in mysteries cf. De Jong, Das antike Mysterienwesen, chap. vi.
[1885] See above, § 1024.
[1886] Iliad, i, 66 f.; Odyssey, x, 518 ff.; Gen. viii, 21.
[1887] So Wellhausen, Prolegomena to the History of Israel (Eng. tr.), p. 62. In the Roman sacra gentilicia it was rather the divinized ancestors who were the guests—they were entertained by the living.
[1888] In his article "Sacrifice" in Encyclopædia Brittanica (1886) and his Religion of the Semites (new ed., 1894).
[1889] The assumption that the victim is a totem is not necessary to his argument, which rests on the sacredness (that is, the divinity) of the victim—a fact universally admitted.
[1890] Isa. lxv, lxvi.
[1891] Spencer and Gillen, Native Tribes of Central Australia; id., Native Tribes of Northern Australia.
[1892] On this point and on Smith's theory in general see the exposition of the theory by Jevons, Introduction to the History of Religion, chap. xii.
[1893] The Dying God (part iii of 3d ed. of The Golden Bough).