Myths of Babylonia and Assyria

by Donald A. Mackenzie

[[484]] Crete, the Forerunner of Greece, C.H. and H.B. Hawes, p. 139

[[485]] The Discoveries in Crete, pp. 137-8.

[[486]] Religion of the Semites, p. 294.

[[487]] Egyptian Myth and Legend, p. 59.

[[488]] Including the goose, one of the forms of the harvest goddess.

[[489]] Brand's Popular Antiquities, vol. ii, 230-1 and vol. iii, 232 (1899 ed.).

[[490]] Ibid., vol. iii, 217. The myrtle was used for love charms.

[[491]] The Golden Bough (Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild), vol. ii, p. 293 (3rd ed.).

[[492]] Herodotus, ii, 69, 71, and 77.

[[493]] Brand's Popular Antiquities, vol. iii, p. 227.