[547]. Ibid., V. 284.
[548]. An interesting Arabic parallel to this occurs in Yâḳût, III. 496. Thaḳîf and al-Nachaʿ, who with their herds were migrating together, determine to separate: ‘So one said to the other: Assuredly this land can never support both me and thee. If thou goest to the west, then I will go to the east; and if I go to the west, then do thou go to the east. Then said Thaḳîf, Well, I will choose the west. Then said al-Nachaʿ, Then I go to the east.’ Ibid., p. 498, occurs an equally curious arrangement between two nomad tribes.
[549]. De vita solit. I. 10. Inventores artium quarundam post mortem divinitatis honore cultos audivimus, grate quidem potius quam pie. Nulla enim est pietas hominis qua Deus offenditur, sed erga memoriam de humano genere bene meritorum inconsulta gratitudo mortalium, humanis honoribus non contenta, usque ad sacrilegas processit ineptias. Hinc Apollinem cithara, hinc eundem ipsum atque Aesculapium medicina, Saturnum, Liberumque et Cererem agricultura, Vulcanum fabrica deos fecit.
[550]. Ausland, 1875, p. 219 et seq.
[551]. Sir G. Wilkinson on Herodotus, II. 79, note 5.
[552]. Even Herder compared together these two sources of information on the story of Jemshîd, in the Appendix to vol. I. of his writings on Philosophy and History.
[553]. Geschichte der Amerikanischen Urreligionen, Basle 1867, p. 423. This myth of civilisation is given also by Tylor, Primitive Culture, I. 318 et seq.
[554]. See Dr. Robert Hartmann, Die Nigritier: eine anthropologisch-ethnologische Monographie, Berlin 1876, Thl. I. p. 176.
[555]. Brinton, Myths of the New World, New York 1868, p. 130.
[556]. Otto Henne-Am-Rhyn, Die deutsche Volkssage, etc., p. 281 et seq.