The ancient Arabs understood that the thunder and lightning were caused by the clouds whence they issued. Many passages might be quoted in support of this, but Lebîd Muʿallaḳâ v. 4, 5, is sufficient. Ḥanna (to sigh, to groan with desire) is therefore equivalent to ‘to thunder,’ e.g. _Aġânî_, XIII. 32. 8. ḳad raʿadat samâʾuhu wa-baraḳat wa-ḥannat warjaḥannat. Footnote 472: See W. Wright, _Opuscula Arabica_, p. 20. 10; 21. 7. Footnote 473: _Ibid._, p. 29. 2. Footnote 474: _Kitâb al-Aġânî_, XIX. 157. 1. Footnote 475: Jeremiah XXXI. 15, Matth. II. 18. Footnote 476: Compare al-Sherbînî Hezz al-ḳuḥûf, etc., lithographed Alexandria, p. 253. The Arabs also said of the red evening-sky that ‘it wept bloody tears’ (al-Maḳrîzî, _al-Chiṭaṭ_, Bûlâk edition, I. 430). Footnote 477: Clemens Alex. _Strom._ V. 571. Footnote 478: See Nöldeke’s _Beiträge zur altarab. Poesie_, p. 34. Footnote 479: In mythology the clouds are also called udders. See Mannhardt, _German Mythenf._, pp. 176–188; so in Arabic, Ibn Muṭeyr apud Nöldeke l. c. Footnote 480: Ibn Dureyd, _Kitâb al-ishtiḳaḳ_, ed. Wüstenfeld, pp. 13, 14. Footnote 481: Ibnat al-ʿinab, in the celebrated wine-song of Wâlid b. Yazîd (_Aġânî_, VI. 110. 5). Wine is well known to be called in Hebrew ‘Blood of the grape,’ dam ʿênâbh (_Deut._ XXXII. 14); compare the Persian chôni rûz in Waṣṣâf ed. Hammer, p. 138. 6: shahzâdegân bâ yekdiger chôni rûz chordend. Footnote 482: In Siamese luk mei is ‘son of the tree, fruit’ (Steinthal, _Charakteristik_, p. 150); compare Midrâsh rabbâ Leviticus, sect 7, where ‘children of the tree’ are spoken of, châlaḳtâ khâbhôd laʿêṣîm bishebhîl benêhem. The pearl is called by Waṣṣâf, p. 180. 15, zâdei yem ‘son of the sea.’ A curious mythological relationship is found in the Polynesian system; the year, a daughter of the first pair, combined with her own father to produce the months, and the children of the latter are the days (Gerland, _Anthropologie der Naturvölker_, VI. 233). Footnote 483: Fleischer in the _Zeitschr. d. D. M. G._, 1853, VII. 502 note. Footnote 484: _Aġânî_, XX. 54. 16. Footnote 485: Arabic tradition knows another name besides Zalîchâ for this person. In al-Ṭabarî her name is given as Râʿîl; see Ouseley, _Travels in various Countries of the East_, London 1819, I. 74; also in al-Beyḍâwî’s _Anwâr al-tanzîl_, ed. Fleischer, I. 456–8. Footnote 486: _Zeitschr. d. D. M. G._ 1849, III. 200. See above p. 73. _et seq._ Footnote 487: _Sonne, Mond und Sterne_, pp. 1. _et seq._ Footnote 488: Weil, _Biblische Legenden der Muselmänner_, p. 39. _Zeitschrift d. D. M. G._, 1861, XV. 86. Footnote 489: _Das Volksleben der Neugriechen_, Leipzig 1871, I. 36. Footnote 490: _Chips_, &c. vol. II., the latter part of ‘Comparative Mythology,’ and _Lectures on the Science of Language_, Second Series, Lecture IX. ‘The Mythology of the Greeks.’—TR. Footnote 491: