181 Garcilasso de la Vega, _First Part of the Royal Commentaries of the Yncas_, bk. ii. chs. 8 and 15 (vol. i. pp. 131, 155, Markham’s Trans.) 182 Bancroft, _Native Races of the Pacific States_, ii. 146. 183 Dennys, _Folk-lore of China_, p. 125. 184 Ammianus Marcellinus, xxiii. 6, § 5 and 6. 185 C. P. Tiele, _History of the Egyptian Religion_, p. 103 _sq._ On the worship of the kings see also E. Meyer, _Geschichte des Altertums_, i. § 52; A. Erman, _Aegypten und aegyptisches Leben im Altertum_, p. 91 _sqq._; V. von Strauss und Carnen, _Die altägyptischen Götter und Göttersagen_, p. 467 _sqq._ 186 Ammianus Marcellinus, xxviii. 5, 14; Plutarch, _Isis et Osiris_, 73. 187 V. von Strauss und Carnen, _op. cit._ p. 470. 188 Tiele, _History of the Egyptian Religion_, p. 105. The Babylonian and Assyrian kings seem also to have been regarded as gods; at least the oldest names of the kings on the monuments are preceded by a star, the mark for “god.” But there is no trace in Babylon and Assyria of temples and priests for the worship of the kings. See Tiele, _Babylonisch-Assyrische Geschichte_, p. 492 _sq._ 189 Bastian, _Die Deutsche Expedition an der Loango-Küste_, ii. 230. 190 “Excursion de M. Brun-Rollet dans la région supérieure du Nil,” _Bulletin de la Société de Géographie_, Paris, 1852, pt. ii. p. 421 _sqq._ 191 W. Munzinger, _Ostafrikanische Studien_, p. 474 (Schaffhausen, 1864). 192 J. Moura, _Le Royaume du Cambodge_, i. 432-436; Aymonier, “Notes sur les coutumes et croyances superstitieuses des Cambodgìens,” in _Cochinchine Française, Excursions et Reconnaissances_, No. 16, p. 172 _sq._; _id._, _Notes sur le Laos_, p. 60. 193 Caesar, _Bell. Gall._ vi. 25. 194 Elton, _Origins of English History_, pp. 3, 106 _sq._, 224. 195 W. Helbig, _Die Italiker in der Poebene_, p. 25 _sq._ 196 H. Nissen, _Italische Landeskunde_, p. 431 _sqq._ 197 Neumann und Partsch, _Physikalische Geographie von Griechenland_, p. 357 _sqq._ 198 Grimm, _Deutsche Mythologie_,4 i. 53 _sqq._ 199 The _locus classicus_ is Pliny, _Nat. Hist._ xvi. § 249 _sqq._ 200 Grimm, _D. M._ i. 56 _sqq._ 201 Adam of Bremen, _Descriptio Insul. Aquil._ p. 27. 202 “Prisca antiquorum Prutenorum religio,” in _Respublica sive Status Regni Poloniae, Lituaniae, Prussiae, Livoniae_, etc. (Elzevir, 1627), p. 321 _sq._; Dusburg, _Chronicon Prussiae_, ed. Hartknoch, p. 79; Hartknoch, _Alt- und Neues Preussen_, p. 116 _sqq._ 203 Mathias Michov, “De Sarmatia Asiana atque Europea,” in _Novus Orbis regionum ac insularum veteribus incognitarum_ (Paris, 1532), pp. 455 _sq._ 456 [wrongly numbered 445, 446]; Martin Cromer, _De origine et rebus gestis Polonorum_ (Basel, 1568), p. 241. 204 See Bötticher, _Der Baumkultus der Hellenen_. 205 Pliny, _Nat. Hist._ xv. § 77; Tacitus, _Ann._ xiii. 58.