[38] The god of thunder. [39] The god of war and death. [40] The Chaldeo-Assyrian Hercules. [41] The superior heaven of the fixed stars. [42] Vases of the measure called in Hebrew _Seäh_. This relates to a detail of the ritualistic prescriptions for sacrifice. [43] These metaphorical expressions appear to designate the rainbow. [44] The god of epidemics. [45] _Studien zur Kritik und Erklarung der Biblischen Urgeschichte_, p. 150. [46] Oannès and Euahanès belong to an Accadian form: Êa-Khan, "Êa the fish;" Oès to the simple Êa, as the Aos of Damascus. [47] _Vendidâd_, ii. 46. [48] Chapter vii. [49] See especially _Yesht_ viii., 13 _Vendidâd_, xix. 135. [50] It is in virtue of this assimilation that Plutarch (De Solert anim. 13) speaks of the dove sent out by Deucalion to see if the Deluge had ceased, a circumstance mentioned by no other Greek mythographer. [51] "Myvyrian Archæology of Wales," vol. ii. p. 50, triad 13. [52] _Ibid._ p. 71, triad 97. [53] Vafthrudnismal, st. 29. [54] Hanwsch, _Slawischer Mythus_, p. 234. [55] "Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archæology," vol. iv. pp. 1-19. [56] Personification of the primordial abyss. [57] Nevertheless, the Deluge holds an important place among the cosmogonic traditions--decidedly original in character--which Reguly has found among the Voguls. We also hear of a diluvian story among the Eulets or Kalmuks, where it seems to have come in with Buddhism. [58] We must, however, observe that Buddhist missionaries appear to have introduced the diluvian tradition of Judea into China. Gutzlaff, "On Buddhism in China," in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1st series, vol. xii. p. 78), affirms that he saw its principal episode represented in a very fine painting of a temple to the goddess Kivan-yin. [59] Recently published, not recently collected. The date of Pedro de los Rios shows this. [60] "The Native Races of the Pacific States," vol. iii. p. 68. [61] By a singular alteration of the text it is said that the jaguars "were devoured," instead of "they devoured." [62] From the day of the year when the final cataclysm was supposed to have occurred. [63] This designation of the year accords with the system of Mexican cycles, containing four groups of years, each named after some object or animal. [64] "Essai de commentaire des fragments de Berose," p. 283. [65] This name looks like a corruption of that of the Indian Manu Vaivasvata. [66] Except in the Fiji Islands, where the Polynesians have been for some time settled among the Melanians, and have only been destroyed by these after having infused into the population an element sufficiently marked to render the Fijis a mixed rather than a purely black race. [67] Gaussin: "Du Dialecte de Tahiti et de la Langue polynésienne," p. 235. See also Ellis's "Polynesian Researches."