[1090] Among the Barotse, on the upper Zambesi, “the sorcerers or witch-doctors go from village to village with remedies which they cook in great cauldrons to make rain” (A. Bertrand, The Kingdom of the Barotsi, London, 1899, p. 277).
[1091] Phylarchus, cited by Athenaeus, xv. 48, p. 693 E F. If the conjectural reading τοῖς Ἐμεσηνοῖς were adopted in place of the manuscript reading τοῖς Ἕλλησιν, we should have to suppose that the custom was not observed by the Greeks, but by the people of Emesa in Syria, where there was a famous worship of the sun. But Polemo, the highest authority in such matters, tells us that the Athenians offered “sober” sacrifices to the sun and to other deities (Schol. on Sophocles, Oed. Colon, 100); and in a Greek inscription found at Piraeus we read of offerings to the sun and of three “sober altars,” by which no doubt are meant altars on which wine was not poured. See Ch. Michel, Recueil d’inscriptions grecques, No. 672; Dittenberger, Sylloge inscriptionum Graecorum,² No. 631; E. S. Roberts, Introduction to Greek Epigraphy, ii. No. 133; Leges Graecorum sacrae, ed. J. de Prott et L. Ziehen, ii. No. 18. In the passage of Athenaeus, accordingly, the reading τοῖς Ἐμεσηνοῖς, which has been rashly adopted by the latest editor of Athenaeus (G. Kaibel), may be safely rejected in favour of the manuscript reading.
[1092] Peter Jones, History of the Ojebway Indians, p. 84.
[1093] W. Smyth and F. Lowe, Narrative of a Journey from Lima to Para (London, 1836), p. 230. An eclipse either of the sun or the moon is commonly supposed by savages to be caused by a monster who is trying to devour the luminary, and accordingly they discharge missiles and raise a clamour in order to drive him away. See E. B. Tylor, Primitive Culture,² i. 328 sqq.
[1094] J. Gumilla, Histoire de l’Orénoque (Avignon, 1758), iii. 243 sq.
[1095] S. Krascheninnikow, Beschreibung des Landes Kamtschatka (Lemgo, 1766), p. 217.
[1096] A. G. Morice, “The Western Dénés, their Manners and Customs,” Proceedings of the Canadian Institute, Toronto, Third Series, vii. (1888–89) p. 154.
[1097] A. Moret, Le Rituel du culte divin journalier en Égypte (Paris, 1902), pp. 90 sq.; id., Du caractère religieux de la royauté pharaonique (Paris, 1902), p. 98.
[1098] Plutarch, Isis et Osiris, 52. The Esquimaux of Bering Strait give the name of “the sun’s walking-stick” to the vertical bar in a parhelion. See E. W. Nelson, “The Eskimo about Bering Strait,” Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, part i. (Washington, 1899) p. 449.
[1099] Father Lambert, in Missions Catholiques, xii. (1880) p. 216; id., Mœurs et superstitions des Néo-Calédoniens (Nouméa, 1900), pp. 193 sq.; Glaumont, “Usages, mœurs et coutumes des Néo-Calédoniens,” Revue d’ethnographie, vii. (1889) p. 116.