_Ausland_, 1875, p. 219 _et seq._ Footnote 551: Sir G. Wilkinson on _Herodotus_, II. 79, note 5. Footnote 552: Even Herder compared together these two sources of information on the story of Jemshîd, in the Appendix to vol. I. of his writings on Philosophy and History. Footnote 553: _Geschichte der Amerikanischen Urreligionen_, Basle 1867, p. 423. This myth of civilisation is given also by Tylor, _Primitive Culture_, I. 318 _et seq._ Footnote 554: See Dr. Robert Hartmann, _Die Nigritier: eine anthropologisch-ethnologische Monographie_, Berlin 1876, Thl. I. p. 176. Footnote 555: Brinton, _Myths of the New World_, New York 1868, p. 130. Footnote 556: Otto Henne-Am-Rhyn, _Die deutsche Volkssage, etc._, p. 281 _et seq._ Footnote 557: _Ibid._, p. 285, the author says on the other hand: ‘The blind sister is of course always the invisible new moon, the half-black and half-white the half moon, the quite white the full moon.’ Footnote 558: See Hellwald, _Ueber Gynäkokratie im alten Amerika_, third art. in _Ausland_ for 1871, no. 44, p. 1158. In the language of the Algonkins the ideas Night, Death, Cold, Sleep, Water, and Moon are expressed by one and the same word. Footnote 559: _A vogul föld és nép, Reguly Antal hagyományaiból_, Pest 1864, p. 139. Footnote 560: In the Hottentot story it is the Hare (on his solar significance see supra p. 118) that is represented as the origin of death, in opposition to the Moon (Waitz, _Anthropologie der Naturvölker_, II. 342). Footnote 561: See the article ‘Une genèse vogule,’ in Ujfalvy’s _Revue de Philologie_, Paris 1874, livr. 1. The original text and a Hungarian translation are given by P. Hunfalvy in his lately quoted work, p. 119–134. Footnote 562: _Ausland_, 1875, p. 951 _et seqq._ Footnote 563: Whitney, _Language and the Study of Language_, London 1867, p. 346. Footnote 564: _Amerikanische Urreligionen_, p. 305. Footnote 565: Waitz, l.c. I. 464 _note_. Among other examples Waitz quotes this: ‘In Mexico Huitzlipochtli, was born of a woman who took to her bosom a feather-ball is a solar designation, is not easily determined.’ In connexion with it I will only mention that Shakspeare in one passage calls the sun a ‘burning crest.’ But even this night,—whose black contagious breath Already smokes about the burning crest Of the old, feeble, and day-wearied sun,— Even this ill night, your breathing shall expire.—_King John_, V. 4. Footnote 566: Manṭiḳ al-ṭeyr, ed. Garcin de Tassy, p. 58 (from a communication of my friend Dr. W. Bacher). Footnote 567: By the Red the Sun is surely unquestionably to be understood, and not, as Max Müller says (_Introduction to the Science of Religion_, p. 64), the Earth. Footnote 568: