[144] Weber, "Indische Streifen," i. p. 11.
[145] See Lecture V. p. 172.
[146] More accurately Ramanu, the Vul or storm-god of George Smith; and the god of the Mind and higher intellect at Babylon. His arcane name is said to have been Yav, יהו or 'Ιἁω.—A. W.
[147] See Haupt, "Der Keilinschriftliche Sintfluthbericht, 1881," p. 10.
[148] See M. M., "Genesis and Avesta" (German translation), i. p. 148.
[149] No one is more competent than the learned author to give a verdict on all the evidence which has been gathered; but we are only at the beginning of research into the intercourse of mankind in remote times, and much that was once thought home-grown has already been traced to distant points. It is in the general line of progress in research that more evidence may be expected to connect Vedic thought with other cultures.—Am. Pubs.