[170.2] Grimm, Teut. Myth., iii. 924.
[171.1] Ovid, Fasti, iii. 285.
[171.2] Pausanias, i. 4, 5; Ovid, Metam., xi. 90; Herod., viii. 138; Ælian, Var. Hist., iii. 18.
[171.3] Iliad, v. 370 sqq.
[172.1] R. E. E. S., i. 338.
[172.2] As an example the Nattu Malayans of Cochin in the south of India may be cited. “When questioned as to their ideas of gods, they say that they are like men themselves, but invisible, yet all-powerful” (Anantha Krishna, i. 34).
[173.1] Herod., ii. 122. Gods, like men, were addicted to gambling. According to Plutarch (De Iside), Hermes in Egyptian legend played with the moon and won the seventieth part of each of her light periods, wherewith he made the last five days of the year and added them to the calendar.
[173.2] Herod., vii. 35.
[173.3] Bérenger-Feraud, Superst., i. 473. The author has collected in the chapter from which this is cited numerous other instances of the punishment of the recalcitrant god.
[173.4] Herod., ii. 111.