Folklore; Manners and customs; Mythology; Religion
{55b} Rel. de la Nouvelle-France (1636), p. 114.
{56} Codrington, in Journal Anthrop. Inst. Feb. 1881. There is a Breton
Marchen of a land where people had to 'bring the Dawn' daily with carts
and horses. A boy, whose sole property was a cock, sold it to the people
of this country for a large sum, and now the cock brings the dawn, with a
great saving of trouble and expense. The Marchen is a survival of the
state of mind of the Solomon Islanders.
{58a} Selected Essays, i. 460.
{58b} Ibid. i. 311.
{59} Ueber Entwicklungsstufen der Mythenbildung (1874), p. 148.
{60a} ii. 127.
{60b} G. D. M., ii. 127, 129.
{61a} Gr. My., i. 144.
{61b} De Abst., ii. 202, 197.
{61c} Rel. und Myth., ii. 3.
{61d} Ursprung der Myth., pp. 133, 135, 139, 149.
{62a} Contemporary Review, Sept. 1883.
{62b} Rev. de l'Hist. rel. i. 179.
{65} That Pururavas is regarded as a mortal man, in relations with some
sort of spiritual mistress, appears from the poem itself (v. 8, 9, 18).
The human character of Pururavas also appears in R. V. i. 31, 4.
{66a} Selected Essays, i. 408.
{66b} The Apsaras is an ideally beautiful fairy woman, something
'between the high gods and the lower grotesque beings,' with 'lotus eyes'
and other agreeable characteristics. A list of Apsaras known by name is
given in Meyer's Gandharven-Kentauren, p. 28. They are often regarded as
cloud-maidens by mythologists.
{68} Selected Essays, i. p. 405.
{69a} Cf. ruber, rufus, O. H. G. rot, rudhira, [Greek]; also Sanskrit,
ravi, sun.
{69b} Myth. Ar. Nat., ii. 81.
{69c} R. V. iii. 29, 3.
{69d} The passage alluded to in Homer does not mean that dawn 'ends' the
day, but 'when the fair-tressed Dawn brought the full light of the third
day' (Od., v. 390).
{70a} Liebrecht (Zur Volkskunde, 241) is reminded by Pururavas (in
Roth's sense of der Bruller) of loud-thundering Zeus, [Greek].
{70b} Herabkunft des Fetters, p. 86-89.
{71} Liebrecht (Zur Volkskunde, p. 241) notices the reference to the
'custom of women.' But he thinks the clause a mere makeshift, introduced
late to account for a prohibition of which the real meaning had been
forgotten. The improbability of this view is indicated by the frequency
of similar prohibitions in actual custom.
{72} Astley, Collection of Voyages, ii. 24. This is given by Bluet and
Moore on the evidence of one Job Ben Solomon, a native of Bunda in Futa.
'Though Job had a daughter by his last wife, yet he never saw her without
her veil, as having been married to her only two years.' Excellently as
this prohibition suits my theory, yet I confess I do not like Job's
security.
{73a} Brough Smyth, i. 423.
{73b} Bowen, Central Africa, p. 303.
{73c} Lafitau, i. 576.
{73d} Lubbock, Origin of Civilisation (1875), p. 75.
{74a} Chansons Pop. Bulg., p. 172.
{74b} Lectures on Language, Second Series, p. 41.
{75a} J. A. Farrer, Primitive Manners, p. 202, quoting Seemann.
{75b} Sebillot, Contes Pop. de la Haute-Bretagne, p. 183.
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