[ [169] See [Index], Tsuji-ura.
[ [170] Measures were taken in ancient Greece to check the excesses of the Bacchanalian rites.
[ [171] For further evidence on this subject, Dr. Buckley's 'Phallicism in Japan' (Chicago, 1895), the Nihongi, i. 11, and Dr. Griffis's 'Religions of Japan' may be consulted.
[ [172] Nihongi, i. 30.
[ [173] According to St. Augustine, the devils of Scripture are our passions and unbridled appetites.
[ [174] For an account of similar priests or medicine men in many other countries, see 'The Golden Bough.' The Nazirite (Numbers vi.) is their Jewish counterpart.
[ [175] See Hirata's Koshiden, xviii. 23.
[ [176] II. 395.
[ [177] The old Hebrew idea (Genesis viii. 21) was that the food actually reached God in the form of the fragrant fire-distilled essence, and thus gratified him as an agreeable gift. Hastings, 'Dict. of the Bible.'
[ [178] Robertson Smith, 'Religion of the Semites,' p. 345.