[200] Speaking of Jupiter, this fiery preacher exclaims: “Nor is there any kind of baseness in which you do not associate his name with passionate lusts.”—Adversus Gentes, lib. v., cap. 22.
[201] Howitt, in Jour. Anthrop. Inst., vol. xiii., pp. 192, 194; vol. xiv., p. 313.
[202] Robertson Smith, Religion of the Semites, p. 41; Herzog und Plitt, Real-Encyclopädie für Prot. Theologie, s. v. Gebet, etc.
[203] Hopkins, Religions of India, p. 412.
[204] Calloway, Religious System of the Amazulu, p. 34.
[205] As examples, I may name Unkululu, among the Zulus (Calloway, Relig. System of the Amazulu, pp. 40, 43); Singbonga, of the Munga-Kohls (Jellinghaus, in Zeit. für Ethnologie, Bd. iii., p. 330); the Hunahpu of the Quiches (Popol Vuh, p. 1); the Ahsonnuth of the Navahoes (8th Rep. Bur. Ethnol., p. 275); etc. I have discussed the psychic origin of androgynous deities in The Religious Sentiment, pp. 66, sqq. It was also strong in the early Christian Church, Origen and others of the fathers teaching that the Holy Ghost was the feminine principle in God (C. J. Wood, Survivals in Christianity, p. 63).
[206] These were frequent in quite primitive faiths. Some of the priests of ancient Mexico, for example, wholly extirpated the genitalia.—Davila Padilla, Hist. de la Prov. de Mexico, lib. ii., cap. 88. Comp. Charlevoix, Journal Historique, p. 350.
[207] I have pointed out that in various American dialects, as the Chipeway and Cree, the Maya, Quichua, etc., there are words of native origin, which were used to convey the notion of the love of the gods in pure and high senses. See the article on “The Conception of Love in American Languages,” in Essays of an Americanist, pp. 416, 421, 428, etc.
[208] Otto Gruppe, quoted by Schrader.
[209] Religion of the Semites, p. 18.