330. Physical circumstances produced alterations in the mythologies, whose origin was the same. Thus, Loki, the god of fire, belongs to the Æsir, because fire is hostile to frost, but represents the treacherous and evil subterranean fires, which in Iceland destroyed with lava, sand, and boiling water more than was injured by cold.
331. Northern Mythology, by Benjamin Thorpe.
332. Gibbon, Chap. LVI.
333. Smith's Dictionary of the Bible. Neander, Church History, Vol. II. Appendix.
334. See, for the conversion of the German races, Gibbon; Guizot, History of Civilization; Merivale, Conversion of the German Nations; Milman, Latin Christianity; Neander, History of the Christian Church; Hegel; Lecky, History of European Morals.
335. Latin Christianity, Book III. Chap. II.
336. Palaztu, on the Western Sea. Rawlinson's Herodotus, Vol. I., p. 487.
337. The word has been deciphered "Pulusater." Smith's Dictionary of the Bible, Palestine.
338. Ibid.
339. Palestine, and the Sinaitic Peninsula. By Carl Ritter. Translated by William L. Gage. New York. 1866.