Primitive Time-reckoning / A study in the origins and first development of the art of counting time among the primitive and early culture peoples

by Martin P. Nilsson

[709] Ellis, Yoruba, p. 144.

[710] Merker, pp. 154 ff.

[711] Hesiod, Op., v. 773.

[712] See my remarks in Arch. f. Religionswiss., 14, p. 432.

[713] Barrett, p. 35.

[714] Stannus, p. 288.

[715] Gutmann, pp. 238 ff.

[716] Merker, pp. 154 ff.

[717] De Backer, p. 407; for the Andamanese cp. [above, p. 155].

[718] See the passage from a Babylonian Creation epic quoted by Boll in Pauly-Wissowa’s Realcykl. der klass. Altertumswiss., VII, 2551.