[4] Schubert. Herodots Darstellung der Cyrussage, Breslau, 1890.
[5] Compare E. Stucken, “Astral mythen,” Leipzig, 1896-1907, especially Part V, “Moses.” H. Lessmann, “Die Kyrossage in Europe,” Wiss. beit. z. Jahresbericht d. städt. Realschule zu Charlottenburg, 1906.
[6] “Naturgeschichte d. Sage.” Tracing all religious ideals, legends, and systems back to their common family tree, and their primary root, 2 volumes, Munich 1864-65.
[7] Some of the important writings of Winckler will be mentioned in the course of this article.
[8] Zeitschrift f. d. Oesterr. Gym., 1891, p. 161, etc. Schubert’s reply is also found here, p. 594, etc.
[9] Lessmann, “Object and Aim of Mythological Research,” Mythol. Bibliot., 1, Heft 4, Leipzig.
[10] Winckler, “Die babylonische Geisteskultur in ihren Beziehungen zur Kulturentwicklung der Menschheit,” Wissenschaft u. Bildung, Vol. 15, 1907, p. 47.
[11] Of course no time will be wasted on the futile question as to what this first legend may have been; for in all probability this never had existence, any more than a “first human couple.”
[12] As an especially discouraging example of this mode of procedure may be mentioned a contribution by the well-known natural mythologist Schwartz, which touches upon this circle of myths, and is entitled: “Der Ursprung der Stamm und Gründungssage Roms unter dem Reflex indogermanischer Mythen” [Jena, 1898].
[13] Frobenius, Das Zeitalter des Sonnengotten, Berlin, 1904.