[1974] Some high official will, doubtless, now take the emperor's place.
[1975] This seems to remain true notwithstanding the present movement in China toward the adoption of Western methods of education. De Groot's estimate of Chinese religion (in op. cit.) is less favorable.
[1976] Garcilasso de la Vega, Royal Commentaries of the Yncas, ed. C. R. Markham, part i, bk. ii, chap. ix; Prescott, Peru, vol. 1, chap. iii; Payne, New World, called America, Index; A. Réville, Native Religions of Mexico and Peru, Index.
[1977] Sahagun, Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva España, Eng. tr. by Markham; Payne, op. cit.; Réville, op. cit.
[1978] In the political and social disorders in Judea in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. the priesthood was, probably, influential in maintaining and transmitting the purer worship of Yahweh, and thus establishing a starting-point for the later development.
[1979] Cf. Breasted, Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt, lecture x.
[1980] So Ezekiel's altar (probably a copy of that in the Jerusalem temple-court), over 16 feet high, with a base 27 feet square (Ezek. xliii, 13 ff.). The Olympian altar was 22 feet high and 125 feet in circumference. Cf. W. R. Smith, Religion of the Semites, 3d ed., pp. 202, 341, 377 ff. On the general subject see article "Altar" in Hastings, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics.
[1981] So in Australia (Spencer and Gillen, Native Tribes of Central Australia, Index, and Native Tribes of Northern Australia, Index), Samoa (Turner), Canaan (Genesis, Judges, passim), Greece (Gardner and Jevons, Greek Antiquities, p. 173), etc.
[1982] Gardner and Jevons, op. cit., Index, s.v. τἐμενος, Temple; Wellhausen, Reste arabischen Heidentumes, Index; W. R. Smith, op. cit., Index, s.v. Temples. There is perhaps a hint of such a place in Ex. iii, 5.
[1983] K. F. Hermann, Gottesdienstliche Alterthümer der Griechen, § 18; Jevons, Introduction to the History of Religion, 1st ed., p. 137.