[5] As do many primitive supernatural beings all over the world.
[6] This is typical of many water gods in America and Australia. See Lang, Myth, Ritual, and Religion, vol. i, p. 43.
[7] See Gomme, Ethnology in Folklore.
[8] See Lang, The Making of Religion and The New Mythology, for hypothesis of a monotheism prior to animistic belief.
[9] H. de Charencey, Le Mythe de Votan, p. 39. There is but little substantiation for the latter part of this statement, however. The bacabs were closely identified with the Maya chac, or rain-gods.
[10] See my Myths of Mexico and Peru.