[14] Stucken, Astralmythen, pp. 233-234.
[15] Amer. Journ. of Folklore, xviii. 223 ff.
[16] Schirren, Wandersagen der Neuseeländer (1856), p. 193.
[17] Referring for Polynesia to Gerland in Waitz-Gerland, Anthropologie der Naturvölker, vi. 270-273 (1872). After a long interval, this theory has been taken up by Zimmern, KAT³, p. 355, and by Jensen, Das Gilgamesch-Epos (1906), p. 120; Winckler (AOF, 3rd series, i. 96) also speaks of the deluge as a “celestial occurrence.” For other forms of this view see Jeremias, ATAO, pp. 134-136; Usener, p. 239.
[18] Cheyne, Ency. Bib. cols. 1063-1064.
[19] Genesis, p. 67.
[20] Jastrow, Religion of Babylonia and Assyria (1898), pp. 502, 506.
[21] The view here adopted is that of Lindner and Usener. On the opposite side are Zimmern, Tiele, Jensen, Oldenberg, Nöldeke, Stucken, Lenormant.
[22] Held by Franz Delitzsch, Dillmann and Lenormant.