[1358] Hazlewood, in J. E. Erskine’s Cruise among the Islands of the Western Pacific (London, 1853), pp. 246 sq. Compare Ch. Wilkes, Narrative of the U.S. Exploring Expedition, New Edition (New York, 1851), iii. 87; Th. Williams, Fiji and the Fijians,² i. 219 sq.; R. H. Codrington, The Melanesians, p. 122. “A great chief [in Fiji] really believed himself to be a god—i.e. a reincarnation of an ancestor who had grown into a god” (Rev. Lorimer Fison, in a letter to the author, dated August 26, 1898).
[1359] J. Kubary, “Die Religion der Pelauer,” in A. Bastian’s Allerlei aus Volks- und Menschenkunde (Berlin, 1888), i. 30 sqq.
[1360] Porphyry, De abstinentia, iv. 9; Eusebius, Praeparatio Evangelii, iii. 12; compare Minucius Felix, Octavius, 29. The titles of the nomarchs or provincial governors of Egypt seem to shew that they were all originally worshipped as gods by their subjects (A. Wiedemann, Die Religion der alten Ägypter, p. 93; id. “Menschenvergötterung im alten Ägypten,” Am Urquell, N.F. i. (1897) pp. 290 sq.).
[1361] Diogenes Laertius, Vit. Philosoph. viii. 59–62; Fragmenta philosophorum Graecorum, ed. F. G. A. Mullach, i. pp. 12, 14; H. Diels, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker,² i. (Berlin, 1906), p. 205. I owe this and the following case of a human god to a lecture on Greek religion by my friend Professor H. Diels, which I was privileged to hear at Berlin in December 1902.
[1362] Plutarch, Demetrius, 10–13; Athenaeus, vi. 62 sq., pp. 253 sq. Apparently the giddy young man submitted to deification with a better grace than his rough old father Antigonus; who, when a poet called him a god and a child of the sun, bluntly remarked, “That’s not my valet’s opinion of me.” See Plutarch, Isis et Osiris, 24. For more evidence of the deification of living men among the Greeks see Mr. A. B. Cook, in Folk-lore, xv. (1904) pp. 299 sqq.
[1363] Tacitus, Germania, 8; id., Histor. iv. 61; Clement of Alexandria, Strom. i. 15. 72, p. 360, ed. Potter; Caesar, Bell. Gall. i. 50.
[1364] Tacitus, Germania, 8; id., Histor. iv. 61, 65, v. 22. Compare K. Müllenhoff, Deutsche Altertumskunde, iv. 208 sqq.
[1365] Strabo, vii. 3, 5, pp. 297 sq.
[1366] J. Dos Santos, “Eastern Ethiopia,” in G. M’Call Theal’s Records of South-Eastern Africa, vii. (1901) pp. 190 sq., 199.
[1367] J. Dos Santos, op. cit. p. 295.