[54] Rigveda, ii, 53; iii, 55.

[55] Teutonic Myth and Legend, pp. 35-9.

[56] The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, T. G. Pinches, LL.D.

[57] An old Germanic name of Odin related to Divus. Odin's descendants were the “Tivar”. (Pronounce Dyaus as one syllable rhiming with mouse.)

[58] Rigveda, iv, 18. Wilson, vol. iii, p. 153.

[59] The Laws of Manu, ix, 8; p. 329. (Sacred Books of the East, vol. xxv.)

[60] Adi Parva, sect. lxxiv of Mahabharata, Roy's translation.

[61] See Egyptian Myth and Legend.

[62] The Satapatha Brahmana, translated by Professor J. Eggeling, Part I, pp. 369, 373. (Sacred Books of the East, vol. xii.)

[63] Arrowsmith's translation.