[45] Studien zur Kritik und Erklarung der Biblischen Urgeschichte, p. 150.
[46] Oannès and Euahanès belong to an Accadian form: Êa-Khan, "Êa the fish;" Oès to the simple Êa, as the Aos of Damascus.
[47] Vendidâd, ii. 46.
[48] Chapter vii.
[49] See especially Yesht viii., 13 Vendidâd, xix. 135.
[50] It is in virtue of this assimilation that Plutarch (De Solert anim. 13) speaks of the dove sent out by Deucalion to see if the Deluge had ceased, a circumstance mentioned by no other Greek mythographer.
[51] "Myvyrian Archæology of Wales," vol. ii. p. 50, triad 13.
[52] Ibid. p. 71, triad 97.
[53] Vafthrudnismal, st. 29.
[54] Hanwsch, Slawischer Mythus, p. 234.