[163] See remarks of W. W. Newell in his introduction to Fanny D. Bergen, _Current Superstitions_ (_Mems. Amer. Folk-lore Society_, vol. iv.). [164] Klemm, _Culturgeschichte_, Bd. ii., s. 316; Ling Roth, _Natives of Sarawak_, vol. ii., App., p. cxcviii.; Brinton, _Myths of the New World_, p. 154; Curr, _The Australian Race_, vol. ii., p. 48. The moon was sacred to Tina, the chief god of the Etruscans. Müller, _Die Etrusker_, Bd. ii., p. 43. Ně dîdâ, better known as Dido, has been identified with the moon as the leading deity of the Carthaginians and Phœnicians. Otto Meltzer, _Geschichte der Karthager_, Bd. i., s. 128. Danu, the goddess who presided over the Irish pantheon, the _tuatha de Danann_, was the moon (from _daon_, to rise). [165] Montesinos, _Ancien Perou_, p. 17; Venegas, _Hist of California_, p. 107; Smyth, _Aborigines of Victoria_, vol. i., p. 459. [166] Brincker in _Globus_, Bd. lxviii., p. 97. [167] Martin de Leon, _Camino del Cielo_, fol. 101. [168] Montesinos, _Ancien Perou_, pp. 14-16; Ximenes, _Origen de los Indios de Guatemala_, p. 157. [169] Sir George Grey, _Polynesian Mythology_, p. 5; Egede, _Nachrichten von Grönland_, s. 137. [170] _Zeitschrift für Ethnologie_, Bd. ix. The Eskimo called it _Sillam Eipane_, winds-house. Egede, _u. s._ [171] The urn or vase was, in classical antiquity, the emblem of the fecundating waters (Guigniaut, _Religions de l’Antiquité_, tom. i., p. 509). Vases full of water were interred with the dead in Peru to symbolise the life beyond. Meyen, _Die Ureinwohner von Peru_, p. 29. [172] _Kalewala_, Runa iv. [173] Probably for this reason the ceremonial law of the Bushmen, especially that relating to puberty and marriage, enjoins “to avoid the wrath of the Water.” Bleek, _Bushman Folk-lore_, p. 18. [174] Compare Klemm, _Culturgeschichte_, Bd. ii., s. 315 (after Steller), with Man, in _Jour. Anthrop. Soc._, vol. xii., p. 163. [175] The specific effect of certain colours on the sub-consciousness, and thus on the religious emotions, is practically recognised in sacred art; but so far as I know this has not been made a subject of study by the experimental psychologist. Allowance must always be made for association of ideas; as when the Mozambique negroes paint the images of their bad spirits white, on account of their hatred of Europeans! [176] Arnobius, _Adversus Gentes_, lib. vii., cap. 49. [177] Fornander, _The Polynesian Race_, _u. s._; Hale, _Ethnog. and Philol_., p. 25. [178] Calloway, _Relig. System of the Amazulus_, p. 34; Hahn, _Tsuni ǁGoam_, p. 91; Garcia, _Origen de los Indios_, lib. iv., cap. 26. [179] _Jour. Anthrop. Inst._, vols. v., p. 412, x., p. 280. [180] They were called _huacanqui_. Montesinos, _Mems. Hist. sur l’ancien Perou_, p. 161. [181] Garcia, _Origen de los Indios_, lib. iv., cap. 26; Torquemada, _Monarquia Indiana_, lib. vi., cap. 41. [182] Hale, _Ethnog. and Philol. of the U. S. Explor. Exped._, p. 97. [183] Hopkins, _Religions of India_, p. 97.