[2014] Possibly the civilization of China was in earliest times identical with or similar to that Central Asiatic civilization out of which Mazdaism seems to have sprung. Cf. R. Pumpelly, in Explorations in Turkestan (expedition of 1904), i, pp. xxiv, 7, chap. iv f.
[2015] The same feeling appears in the treatment of images of saints by some European peasants.
[2016] For Egyptian forms see Rawlinson, History of Ancient Egypt, vol. i; Maspero, Dawn of Civilization; for Semitic, Ohnefalsch-Richter, Kypros, the Bible, and Homer; for Indian, Lefmann, "Geschichte des alten Indiens" in Oncken's Allgemeine Geschichte.
[2017] Even the Hindu women's linga-cult is said to be sometimes morally innocent.
[2018] A church is here taken to be a voluntary religious body that holds out to its members the hope of redemption and salvation through association with a divine person or a cosmic power.
[2019] § 530 f.
[2020] W. Ellis, Polynesian Researches, vol. i, chap. ix.
[2021] H. Webster, Primitive Secret Societies, chap. vii.
[2022] For a large definition of the term see S. Reinach, Orpheus (Eng. tr.), p.v.
[2023] For a possible influence see below, § 1101.