[1142]. Pliny, l.c.
[1143]. C. Neumann und J. Partsch, Physikalische Geographie von Griechenland, p. 379.
[1144]. C. Neumann and J. Partsch, op. cit., p. 382, note.
[1145]. Cervantes, Don Quixote, part ii. ch. 50, vol. iv. p. 133 of H. E. Watts’s translation, with the translator’s note (new edition, London, 1895); Neumann und Partsch, op. cit. p. 380; P. Wagler, Die Eiche in alter und neuer Zeit, i. (Wurzen, 1891) p. 35. The passage in Don Quixote was pointed out to me by my friend Mr. W. Wyse.
[1146]. Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th. Ed., xvii. 692.
[1147]. H. E. Watts, loc. cit.
[1148]. Encyclopædia Britannica, l.c.
[1149]. To avoid misapprehension, I desire to point out that I am not here concerned with the evolution of Aryan religion in general, but only with that of a small, though important part of it, to wit, the worship of a particular kind of tree. To write a general history of Aryan religion in all its many aspects as a worship of nature, of the dead, and so forth, would be a task equally beyond my powers and my ambition. Still less should I dream of writing a universal history of religion. The “general work” referred to in the preface to the first edition of The Golden Bough is a book of far humbler scope.
[1150]. For examples of such ceremonies, see above, pp. [18]-20, [34]-38.
[1151]. For evidence of these aspects of Zeus and Jupiter, see L. Preller, Griechische Mythologie, i. 4th ed., 115 sqq.; id., Römische Mythologie, 3rd Ed., i. 184 sqq. In former editions of this book I was disposed to set aside much too summarily what may be called the meteorological side of Zeus and Jupiter.