[245] The Origin of Civilization and the Primitive Condition of Man, 1870.
[246] Strabo, xiii, 1.
[247] 1 Chronicles, xix, 2.
[248] Indian Myths, p. 44.
[249] The History of the Heavens. Translated from the French by J. B. de Freval. Two volumes. London, 1741, vol. i, p. 42. The first volume is a very able and interesting mythological production.
[250] Beginnings of History, p. 114.
[251] Myths of the New World, p. 120.
[252] “The Origin of Serpent Worship,” in the Journal of the Anthropological Institute, vol. ii, p. 373.
[253] By Plutarch, in Isis and Osiris.
[254] In an extant fragment from Sanchoniathon, after the statement that “Taautus first consecrated the basilisk and introduced the worship of the serpent tribe, in which he was followed by the Phœnicians and Egyptians,” it is said of the animal that it is “the most inspired of all the reptiles and of a fiery nature, inasmuch as it exhibits an incredible celerity, moving by its spirit without either hands or feet or any of those external organs by which other animals effect their motion.” See Cory’s Ancient Fragments, p. 22. Edition by Hodges.