[1110] E. J. Payne, History of the New World called America, i. (Oxford, 1892) pp. 520–523; K. Th. Preuss, in Verhandlungen der Berliner anthropologischen Gesellschaft, November 15, 1902, pp. (449) sq., (457) sq.; id., “Die Feuergötter als Ausgangspunkt zum Verständnis der mexikanischen Religion,” Mitteilungen der anthropolog. Gesellschaft in Wien, xxxiii. (1903) pp. 157 sq., 163. A Mexican legend relates how in the beginning the gods sacrificed themselves by fire in order to set the sun in motion. See B. de Sahagun, Histoire générale des choses de la Nouvelle Espagne, bk. vii. ch. 2, pp. 478 sqq. (French trans. by Jourdanet and Simeon).
[1111] Festus, s.v. “October equus,” p. 181, ed. C. O. Müller.
[1112] 2 Kings xxiii. 11. Compare H. Zimmern, in E. Schrader’s Die Keilinschriften und das Alte Testament³ (Berlin, 1902), pp. 369 sq.
[1113] Pausanias, iii. 20. 4.
[1114] Xenophon, Cyropaed. viii. 3. 24; Philostratus, Vit. Apollon. i. 31. 2; Ovid, Fasti, i. 385 sq.; Pausanias, iii. 20. 4. Compare Xenophon, Anabasis, iv. 5. 35; Trogus Pompeius, i. 10. 5.
[1115] Herodotus, i. 216; Strabo, xi. 8. 6. On the sacrifice of horses see further S. Bochart, Hierozoicon, i. coll. 175 sqq.; Negelein, in Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, xxxiii. (1901), pp. 62–66. Many Asiatics held that the sun rode a horse, not a chariot. See Dittenberger, Sylloge inscriptionum Graecarum,² No. 754, with note⁴.
[1116] A. Bastian, Die Völker des östlichen Asien, iv. 174. The name of the place is Andahuayllas.
[1117] Th. Williams, Fiji and the Fijians², i. 250.
[1118] Mr. Fison’s letter is dated August 26, 1898.
[1119] H. R. Schoolcraft, The American Indians (Buffalo, 1851), pp. 97 sqq.; id., Oneota (New York and London, 1845), pp. 75 sqq.; W. W. Gill, Myths and Songs of the South Pacific, pp. 61 sq.; G. Turner, Samoa, pp. 200 sq.