[73.1] _Cf._ the prayer to Ninlil or Belit (a parallel form to Ischtar) of Asarhaddon, “may the lips of Nin-lil, the Mother of the Great God, utter daily a gracious word before Aschur for the King of Assyria” (Jastrow, _op. cit._ p. 525). Mary was chiefly worshipped in the same way as an intercessor. [73.2] For the identity of Father and Son in the later Mithraic cult-dogma, _vide_ Dieterich, _Eine Mithras-Liturgie_, p. 68: for the Trinitarian idea in Mithraism, _vide_ Cumont, _Die Mysterien von Mithra_ (_deutsche Ausgabe_), pp. 96, 145: Mr Cook endeavours to trace it in the old Pelasgian cult of Zeus, _Class. Rev._ 1903, 1904: vide _Hell. Journ._, 1901, p. 139, for Trinitarian symbolism in Carthaginian worship. (Note a certain mystic sanctity attached to the triad in later Greek philosophy, _e.g._ in Porphyry, Serv., Verg., _Ecl._, 5, 66: Io. Lydus, _de Mens._, 2, 19.) [74.1] _Sacred Books of the East_, vol. xxxi. pt. iii. p. 278. [75.1] Vide _Cults of the Greek States_, vol. i. p. 306. LECTURE III NOTES [91.1] _De Mysteriis_, 5, 23. [97.1] _Sacred Books of the East_, vol. iv., Zend-Avesta, pt. i. pp. 58-59. [99.1] _E.g._ onions, pease-soup, cheese: I-Tsing, _Records of the Buddhist Religion_, p. 138, “onions have a foul smell and are impure”: _cf._ list of impure substances in ritual inscription of Rhodes, _C.I.G. Ins. Mar. Æg._ i. No. 789. [99.2] _Sacred Books of the East_, Zend-Avesta, pt. i. p. 105. [101.1] _C.I.A._, 3, 73. [101.2] The purifying power that ashes possess in certain ritual may be derivative from fire. [103.1] _Op. cit._, pt. i. p. 120. [104.1] _E.g. op. cit._, pp. 201, 204. [105.1] _E.g._ Porphyry in Euseb., _Præp. Evang._, 4, 22. [106.1] Steinmetz, _Die Entwickelung der Strafe_, vol. ii. p. 355. [106.2] _Cf._ “Ye shall be holy, for I am holy,” Lev. xi. 44; Deuteron. xxiii. 12. [107.1] Jastrow, _op. cit._, p. 500. [108.1] _Germania_, c. 40. [108.2] Golther, _op. cit._ p. 570. [108.3] Golther, _op. cit._ p. 607. [112.1] Casalis, _Les Bassoutos_, p. 269: among the Zulus, sin and dirt are spoken of as the same,--“You have dirt, you are dirty” = “You have done wrong,” Leslie, _Among the Zulus_, p. 170. (These and other references to the evidence from savage society I owe to the kindness of my friend Mr R. Marett.) [113.1] P. 301. [114.1] Andoc., _De Myst._, 110. [115.1] _Op. cit._, p. 102. [116.1] The same kind of ceremonious logic inspires the practice of the Damaras, who, when making peace with an alien tribe, go into a river with their foes and throw water into their faces to wash away enmity.--Sir J. E. Alexander, _Expedition and Discoveries_, vol. ii. p. 171. [117.1] Veniaminoff ap. Petroff, _Alaska_, p. 158. [117.2] Molina, _Fables and Rites of the Yncas_ (Hakluyt Society), p. 22. [118.1] Lev. xvii. [118.2] 2, 39. [119.1] The cathartic process of transference applied to plague as well as actual sin, _e.g._ Aristotle, _Frag._, 454, transference of disease into a raven.