[299.4] Zimmern, op. cit., p. 169.
[300.1] Zimmern, Beiträge, pp. 30-31; he mentions also the similar practice of tying up a sheepskin or a fillet of wool and throwing it into the fire.
[300.2] Zimmern, op. cit., p. 33: note magic use of knots in general, vide Frazer, G.B.2, vol. i. pp. 392-403; Archiv. für Religionsw., 1908, pp. 128, 383, 405. The superstition may have prevailed in Minoan Crete (see A. Evans, Annual British School, 1902-1903, pp. 7-9) and was in vogue in ancient Greece.
[300.3] W. Warde Fowler, The Religious Experiences of the Roman People, Gifford Lectures, p. 49.
[301.1] Vide supra, pp. [248]-[249]; Cults, iv. p. 191.
[301.2] For the main facts relating to the Babylonian system and the “baru”-priests, vide Zimmern, Beiträge, etc., pp. 82-92; for the Hellenic, vide Cults, iv. 190-192, 224-231; also vol. iii. 9-12.
[301.3] The documentary evidence, from a very early period, is given by Zimmern, Beiträge, etc., pp. 85-97.
[301.4] L. 322: Clytemnestra speaks of pouring oil and vinegar into the same vessel and reproaching them for their unsociable behaviour.
[302.1] We have also one example of an oracle of Ishtar (in plain prose), Keil. Bibl., ii. p. 179.
[303.1] Zimmern, op. cit., p. 89.