Religions of Primitive Peoples

by Daniel G. Brinton

[71] Gill, Myths and Songs, p. 13; Fornander, The Polynesian Race, vol. iii., p. 153.

[72] Gill, ubi supra, pp. 3, 17, 44.

[73] E. W. Man, in Jour. Anthrop. Institute, vol. xii., p. 166.

[74] Th. Hahn, Tsuni ǁGoam, pp. 124, 126.

[75] Clark, Indian Sign Language, p. 186; Jour. Anthrop. Institute, vol. x., p. 285.

[76] Myths of the New World, pp. 97, 165, etc.

[77] Fornander, Polynesian Race, vol. i., p. 78; Gill, Myths and Songs, p. 18.

[78] Musters, Among the Patagonians, ch. v.; Ling Roth, Natives of Sarawak, vol. ii., App., p. clxx.; Hahn, Tsuni ǁGoam, p. 37.

[79] Clark, Indian Sign Language, p. 189.

[80] Castren observes: “Es hat innerhalb der weitgestreckten Gränzen Asiens kaum ein einziges Volk gegeben, welches nicht den Himmel verehrt hätte.”—Finnische Mythologie, p. 14. He might as well have said, “the habitable globe” instead of Asia only.