_Iliad_, xiv. 347 _sqq._ Hera was worshipped under the title of Flowery at Argos (Pausanias, ii. 22. 1; compare _Etymol. Magn._ _s.v._ Ἄνθεια, p. 108, line 48), and women called Flower-bearers served in her sanctuary (Pollux, iv. 78). A great festival of gathering flowers was celebrated by Peloponnesian women in spring (Hesychius, _s.v._ ἠροσάνθεια, compare Photius, _Lexicon_, _s.v._ Ἠροάνθια). The first of May is still a festival of flowers in Peloponnese. See _Folk-lore_, i. (1890) pp. 518 _sqq._ Footnote 480: J. Grimm, _Deutsche Mythologie_, 4th ed., i. 176; P. Herrmann, _Nordische Mythologie_ (Leipsic, 1903), pp. 198 _sqq._, 217, 520, 529; E. H. Meyer, _Mythologie der Germanen_ (Strasburg, 1903), pp. 366 _sq._ The procession of Frey and his wife in the waggon is doubtless the same with the procession of Nerthus in a waggon which Tacitus describes (_Germania_, 40). Nerthus seems to be no other than Freya, the wife of Frey. See the commentators on Tacitus, _l.c._, and especially K. Müllenhoff, _Deutsche Altertumskunde_, iv. (Berlin, 1900) pp. 468 _sq._ Footnote 481: Gregory of Tours, _De gloria confessorum_, 77 (Migne’s _Patrologia Latina_, lxxi. col. 884). Compare Sulpicius Severus, _Vita S. Martini_, 12: “_Quia esset haec Gallorum rusticis consuetudo, simulacra daemonum candido tecta velamine misera per agros suos circumferre dementia_.” Footnote 482: “Passio Sancti Symphoriani,” chs. 2 and 6 (Migne’s _Patrologia Graeca_, v. 1463, 1466). Footnote 483: These crazy wretches castrate men and mutilate women. Hence they are known as the Skoptsy (“mutilated”). See N. Tsakni, _La Russie sectaire_, pp. 74 _sqq._ Footnote 484: As to this feature in the ritual of Cybele, see _Adonis, Attis, Osiris_, Second Edition, pp. 219 _sqq._ Footnote 485: Max Buch, _Die Wotjäken_ (Stuttgart, 1882), p. 137. Footnote 486: E. A. Gait, in _Census of India, 1901_, vol. vi. part i. p. 190. Footnote 487: P. J. de Arriaga, _Extirpacion de la idolatria del Piru_ (Lima, 1621), p. 20. Footnote 488: Father Lacombe, in _Missions Catholiques_, ii. (1869) pp. 359 _sq._ Footnote 489: _Relations des Jésuites, 1636_, p. 109, and _1639_, p. 95 (Canadian reprint); Charlevoix, _Histoire de la Nouvelle France_, v. 225; Chateaubriand, _Voyage en Amérique_ (Paris, 1870), pp. 140-142. Footnote 490: Rev. F. Hahn, “Some Notes on the Religion and Superstitions of the Orāos,” _Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal_, lxxii. part iii. (Calcutta, 1904) p. 12. For another account of the ceremonies held by the Oraons in spring see above, pp. 76 _sq._ Footnote 491: P. Rascher, “Die Sulka,” _Archiv für Anthropologie_, xxix. (1904) p. 217. Footnote 492: W. Crooke, _Popular Religion and Folk-lore of Northern India_ (Westminster, 1896), ii. 118. Footnote 493: W. Crooke, _op. cit._ ii. 138. Footnote 494: