[160] Dorsey, Siouan Cults, p. 433; the Popol Vuh, passim.
[161] Hale, Ethnog. and Philol. of the U. S. Exploring Expd., p. 55.
[162] E. T. Dalton, Ethnology of Bengal, p. 258.
[163] See remarks of W. W. Newell in his introduction to Fanny D. Bergen, Current Superstitions (Mems. Amer. Folk-lore Society, vol. iv.).
[164] Klemm, Culturgeschichte, Bd. ii., s. 316; Ling Roth, Natives of Sarawak, vol. ii., App., p. cxcviii.; Brinton, Myths of the New World, p. 154; Curr, The Australian Race, vol. ii., p. 48. The moon was sacred to Tina, the chief god of the Etruscans. Müller, Die Etrusker, Bd. ii., p. 43. Ně dîdâ, better known as Dido, has been identified with the moon as the leading deity of the Carthaginians and Phœnicians. Otto Meltzer, Geschichte der Karthager, Bd. i., s. 128. Danu, the goddess who presided over the Irish pantheon, the tuatha de Danann, was the moon (from daon, to rise).
[165] Montesinos, Ancien Perou, p. 17; Venegas, Hist of California, p. 107; Smyth, Aborigines of Victoria, vol. i., p. 459.
[166] Brincker in Globus, Bd. lxviii., p. 97.
[167] Martin de Leon, Camino del Cielo, fol. 101.
[168] Montesinos, Ancien Perou, pp. 14-16; Ximenes, Origen de los Indios de Guatemala, p. 157.
[169] Sir George Grey, Polynesian Mythology, p. 5; Egede, Nachrichten von Grönland, s. 137.