319 (Sir) J. Rhys, _Celtic Heathendom_, pp. 411 _sq._, quoting the substance of a note by Thos. Hearne, in his edition of _Robert of Gloucester’s Chronicles_ (Oxford, 1724), p. 679. As to the derivation of the word see _New English Dictionary_ (Oxford, 1888- ) and W. W. Skeat, _Etymological Dictionary of the English Language_ (Oxford, 1910), _s.v._ “Lammas.” 320 See above, p. 100. 321 See _The Golden Bough_, Second Edition, ii. 459 _sqq._ 322 See _The Golden Bough_, Second Edition, ii. 460, 463, 464 _sq._ M77 If the great Irish fairs were instituted in honour of the dead, we can understand why their observance was supposed to ensure plenty of corn, fruit, milk, and fish. 323 See above, pp. 14 _sqq._, 21, 27, 33, 36 _sq._ 324 See above, p. 98. 325 See above, p. 93. M78 But the theory of the funeral origin of the Olympic games does not explain all the legends connected with them. Suggested theory of the origin of the Olympic games. 326 Pausanias, v. 1. 4, v. 8. 1. 327 Apollodorus, _Bibliotheca_, pp. 183-185 ed. R. Wagner (_Epitoma_, ii. 3-9); Diodorus Siculus, iv. 73; Hyginus, _Fabulae_, 84; Schol. on Pindar, _Olymp._ i. 114; Servius on Virgil, _Georg._ iii. 7. See _The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings_, ii. 299 _sq._ 328 Strabo, vi. 3. 9, p. 284; K. O. Müller, _Aeschylos Eumeniden_ (Göttingen, 1833), p. 144. 329 Pausanias, vi. 21. 9-11. M79 The Olympic games not a harvest festival, but based on astronomical considerations. M80 Widespread myth of the slaughter of a great dragon. The Babylonian story of the slaying of Tiamat by Marduk is a myth of the creation of cosmos out of chaos. 330 P. Jensen, _Die Kosmologie der Babylonier_ (Strasburg, 1890), pp. 263 _sqq._; _id._, _Assyrisch-babylonische Mythen und Epen_ (Berlin, 1900), pp. 3 _sqq._; M. Jastrow, _The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria_, pp. 407 _sqq._; L. W. King, _Babylonian Religion and Mythology_, pp. 53 _sqq._; H. Zimmern, in E. Schrader’s _Die Keilinschriften und das Alte Testament_ (Berlin, 1902), pp. 488 _sqq._; M. J. Lagrange, _Études sur les religions sémitiques_2 (Paris, 1905); pp. 366 _sqq._