[252]. Ibid., p. 204.
[253]. Ibid., p. 220.
[254]. Roberts’s Oriental Illustrations of the Scriptures, p. 148 f.
[255]. Williams’s Middle Kingdom, I., 731.
[256]. See McDowell’s “A New Light on the Chinese,” in Harper’s Magazine for Dec., 1893, with illustration of “The Gods of the Threshold.”
[257]. Isabella Bird’s Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, I., 117, 273.
[258]. Wilkinson’s Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, I., 362 f., and note.
[259]. See Tertullian “On Idolatry,” and “On the Soldier’s Chaplet,” in Ante-Nicene Christian Library, XI., 164 f., 353.
[260]. Tr. Rowan, in “Ximenes,” p. 183; cited in Spencer’s Descrip. Soc., II., 22.
[261]. Darmesteter’s translation of Zend Avesta, in “Sacred Books of the East,” IV., 12, note.