[38] Cf. Max Müller: "Lectures on the Science of Language," and
"Lectures on the Science of Religion;" Michel Bréal, "Mélanges de
Mythologie et de Linguistique."
[39] Maury, "Histoire des Religions de la Grèce;" Preller, "Griechische
Mythologie."
[40] See Muir, "Sanscrit Texts," v. 58; Max Müller, "Lectures on the
Origin and Growth of Religion," p. 284.
[41] "This Lord."
[42] The cloud often compared to a tree branching out in the sky.
[43] The fire (Ignis) which is born in the waters of heaven in the form
of lightning.
[44] A sacred plant whose sap is offered to the gods. It is pressed
between two stones to extract the sacred liquor.
[45] The sea of the earth and the sea of the clouds.
[46] See J. Darmesteter, "Ormazd et Ahriman," §§ 18-59.
[47] Ormazd is the modern name, contracted from the ancient Ahura Mazda.
[48] Which is the same word as the Sanskrit Asura.
[49] The sun is also the bird of Zeus (Æschylus, the Suppliants).
[50] That is to say "to their Supreme God."
[51] G. Klek, "Einleitung in die Slavische Literatur-Geschichte."
[52] "Ormazd et Ahriman," §§ 62, sq.
[53]
Praeterea, coeli rationes ordine certo
Et varia annorum cernebant tempora vorti;
Nec poterant quibus id fieret cognoscere causis.
Ergo perfugium sibi habebant omnia Diveis
Tradere, et ollorum nutu facere omnia flecti.
In coeloque Deum sedes et templa locarunt,
Per coelum volvi quia nox et luna videtur,
Luna, dies, et nox et noctis signa severa,
Noctivagaeque faces coeli, flammaeque volantes,
Nubila, sol, imbres, nix, ventei, fulmina, grando,
Et rapidei fremitus, et murmura magna minarum.--v. 1187.
[54] In other systems, having regard to the eternity of the God and no
longer to his immensity, boundless Time became the first principle
(Zarvan Akarana).
[55] His mother.