[290] They were preserved in the original tongue by the first missionaries, Sahagun, Olmos, Bautista, etc., and have, in part, been published.
[291] This is further set forth in Rostock, Das Religionswesen der rohesten Naturvölker, p. 145, sq.; and Curr, The Australian Race, vol. i., pp. 51-54.
[292] Klemm, Culturgeschichte, Bd. ii., s. 309.
[293] Walthouse, in Jour. Anthrop. Soc., vol. xiv., p. 189.
[294] The amok of the Malays, the mali-mali of the Tagalese, etc., is a maniacal religious psychosis in which the subject will rush violently through a street, killing or wounding any one he meets. See Dr. Rasch’s discussion of it in Centralblatt für Anthropologie, vol. i., p. 54, who considers it a “suggestive influence.” Similar examples are common among American Indians.
[295] Arnobius, Adversus Gentes, bk. ii., cap. 62.
[296] Worship of the Romans, p. 211. This was, of course, but one side of it, though usually the most important.
[297] Professor Lazarus observes: “In der Religion zeigt sich der ganze Mensch” (Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie, Bd. i., s. 47). That is, that the individual in no other condition of mind realises and reveals his full personality so completely as in that which is created by the religious sentiment.
[298] Judaism and Christianity, pp. 5-7.
[299] The literature relating to these august characters in American legendary literature is presented in my American Hero-Myths, passim; also, Myths of the New World, pp. 336, 337.