[100] Rig-Veda, I. 131. 1.
[101] Rig-Veda, I. 153; IV. 19. 2.
[102] Ibid., VIII. 100. 3.
[103] Origin and Growth of Religion, p. 205 note.
[104] Max Müller says: “There is also a common saying or riddle in German which you may hear repeated to the present day:—
‘O sagt mir doch wie geht es zu
Dass weis die milch der rothen Kuh?’”
—Physical Religion, p. 101.
[105] Dante at one time was of this opinion. “In his Il Volgare Eloquio, lib. 1, cvi. p. 155, he says: ‘It was the Hebrew idiom which was uttered by the lips of the first man who ever spoke in this world!’ This idea was afterwards relinquished by him, as in the Paradiso he puts these words into the mouth of Adam:—
‘The language I did use