[109] See _Early History of the Family_, _infra_. [110] The names _Totem_ and _Totemism_ have been in use at least since 1792, among writers on the North American tribes. Prof. Max Müller (_Academy_, Jan., 1884) says the word should be, not _Totem_, but _Ote_ or _Otem_. Mr. Tylor's inquiries among the Red Men support this. Long, an interpreter among the Indians, introduced the word _Totamism_ in 1792; but Lafitau (1724) had already explained some classical myths as survivals of Totemism. [111] Christoval de Moluna (1570), p. 5. [112] Cieza de Leon, p. 183. [113] _Idyll_ xv. [114] Sayce, _Herodotos_, p. 344; Herodotus, ii. 42; Wilkinson's _Ancient Egyptians_ (1878, ii. 475, note 2); Plutarch, _De Is. et Os._, 71, 72; Athenæus, vii. 299; Strabo, xvii. 813. [115] The Mouse, according to Dalton, is still a totem among the Oraons of Bengal. A man of the Mouse 'motherhood,' as the totem kindred is locally styled, may not eat mice (esteemed a delicacy), nor marry a girl who is a Mouse. [116] xiii. 604. Casaub. 1620. [117] There were Sminthiac feasts at Rhodes, Gela, Lesbos, and Crete (De Witte, _Revue Numismatique_, N.S. iii. 3-11). [118] _Iliad_, i. 39. [119] Ælian, _H. A._, xii. 5. [120] The bas-relief is published in Paoli's _Della Religi ne de' Gentili_, Naples, 1771, p. 9; also by Fabretti, ad Cal. Oper. _de Colum. Trajan._, p. 315. Paoli's book was written after the discovery in Neapolitan territory of a small bronze image, hieratic in character, representing a man with a mouse on his hand. Paoli's engraving of this work of art, unluckily, does not enable us to determine its date or _provenance_. The book is a mine of mouse-lore. [121] Colden, _History of the Five Nations_, p. 15 (1727). [122] _Onomast._, ix. segm. 84. [123] De Witte says Pollux was mistaken here. In the _Revue Numismatique_, N.S. iii., De Witte publishes coins of Alexandria, the more ancient Hamaxitus, in the Troad. The Sminthian Apollo is represented with his bow, and the mouse on his hand. Other coins show the god with the mouse at his foot, or show us the lyre of Apollo supported by mice. A bronze coin in the British Museum gives Apollo with the mouse beside his foot. [124] _Spanheim_, ad Fl. Joseph., vi. 1, p. 312. [125] _Della Rel._, p. 174. [126] Herodotus, ii. 141. [127] Liebrecht (_Zur Volkskunde_, p. 13, quoting _Journal Asiatique_, 1st series, 3, 307) finds the same myth in Chinese annals. It is not a god, however, but the king of the rats who appears to the distressed monarch in his dream. Rats then gnaw the bowstrings of his enemies. The invaders were Turks, the rescued prince a king of Khotan. The king raised a temple, and offered sacrifice--to the rats? The same story of rats gnawing bowstrings recurs, of all places, in the _Migration Legend of the Greeks_ (Brinton, Philadelphia. 1884). [128] _Herodotos_, p. 204. [129] Wilkinson, iii. 249, quoting the Ritual xxxiii.: 'Thou devourest the abominable rat of Ra, or the Sun.'