[206] See citations from various original sources, in Bancroft’s _Native Races of Pacific Coast_, II., 306-310, 707-709. [207] The Nahuas were “skilled ones,” or “experts,” who had emigrated Northward from the Maya land (Réville’s _Native Religions_, p. 20). [208] Clavigero’s _Anc. Hist. of Mex._, II., 45-49, cited in Bancroft’s _Native Races_, II., 307. [209] The proper centre of the Maya nations lay in Yucatan (Réville’s _Native Religions of Mexico and Peru_, p. 18). [210] Gomara, cited in Bancroft’s _Native Races_, II., 310 f. [211] Herrera, cited in Bancroft’s _Native Races_, II., 706 f. [212] _Native Religions of Mexico and Peru_ (Hibbert Lectures, 1884), p. 43 f. See, also, pp. 45, 46, 82, 99. [213] See Pindar’s _Olympian Odes_, Ode 1, line 146; Sophocles’ _Trachiniæ_, line 766; Virgil’s _Æneid_, Bk. XI., line 81 f. [214] Homer’s _Odyssey_, Bk. III., lines 11, 12, 461-463; _Iliad_, Bk. II., lines 427, 428. [215] Cicero’s _De Divinatione_, Bk. I., chap. 52, § 119. [216] See Sanchoniathon’s references to blood libations, in Cory’s _Ancient Fragments_, pp. 7, 11, 16. [217] See “The Hindu Pantheon,” in Birdwood’s _Indian Arts_, p. 96. [218] Frere’s _Old Deccan Days_, p. 266. [219] Williams’s _Middle Kingdom_, I., 194. [220] Edkins’s _Religion in China_, p. 22. [221] Williams’s _Mid. King._, I., 76-78. [222] The inscription was first found, in 1875, in the tomb of Setee I., the father of Rameses II., the Pharaoh of the oppression. A translation of it appeared in the _Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archæology_, Vol. 4, Part I. Again it has been found, in the tomb of Rameses III. Its earliest and its latest translations were made by M. Édouard Naville, the eminent Swiss Egyptologist. Meantime, Brugsch, De Bergmann, Lauth, Lefébure, and others, have aided in its elucidation (See _Proceed. of Soc. of Bib. Arch._, for March 3, 1885). Is there not a reference to this legend in the Book of the Dead, chapter xviii., sixth section? [223] Mandrakes, or “love-apples,” among the ancient Egyptians, as also among the Orientals generally, from the days of Jacob (Gen. 30 : 14-17) until to-day, carried the idea of promoting a loving union; and the Egyptian name for mandrakes--_tetmut_--combined the root-word _tet_ already referred to as meaning “arm,” or “bracelet,” and _mut_--with the signification of “attesting,” or “confirming.” Thus the blood and the mandrake juice would be a true _assiratum_. (See Pierret’s _Vocabulaire Hiéroglyphique_, p. 723.) “Belief in this plant [the mandrake] is as old as history.” (Napier’s _Folk-Lore_, p. 90.) See, also, Lang’s _Custom and Myth_, pp. 143-155. [224] Mendieta’s _Hist. Eccl. Ind._, 77 ff.; cited in Spencer’s _Des. Soc._, II., 38; also Brinton’s _Myths of the New World_, p. 258. [225] See Cory’s _Anc. Frag._, p. 59 f. [226] _Ibid._, p. 15. [227] Comp. Fabri’s _Evagatorium_, III., 218. [228] _Beginnings of History_, p. 52, note. [229] Bryant’s _Odyssey_, Bks. x. and xi.