M61 The saints in modern Syria are the equivalents of the ancient Baal or Adonis. M62 Belief in the physical fatherhood of God not confined to Syria. Sons of the serpent-god. 258 For more instances see H. Usener, _Das Weihnachtsfest_2 (Bonn, 1911), i. 71 _sqq._ 259 G. Dittenberger, _Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum_,2 vol. ii. pp. 662, 663, No. 803, lines 117 _sqq._, 129 _sqq._ 260 Pausanias, ii. 10. 3 (with my note), iii. 23. 7; Livy, xi. Epitome; Pliny, _Nat. Hist._ xxix. 72; Valerius Maximus, i. 8. 2; Ovid, _Metam._ xv. 626-744; Aurelius Victor, _De viris illustr._ 22; Plutarch, _Quaest. Rom._ 94. 261 Aristophanes, _Plutus_, 733; Pausanias, ii. 11. 8; Herodas, _Mimiambi_, iv. 90 _sq._; G. Dittenberger, _Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum_,2 vol. ii. p. 655, No. 802, lines 116 _sqq._; Ch. Michel, _Recueil d’Inscriptions Grecques_, p. 826, No. 1069. 262 Pausanias, ii. 10. 3, iv. 14. 7 _sq._ 263 Pausanias, ii. 10. 4. 264 Pausanias, ii. 11. 5-8. 265 Suetonius, _Divus Augustus_, 94; Dio Cassius, xlv. 1. 2. Tame serpents were kept in a sacred grove of Apollo in Epirus. A virgin priestess fed them, and omens of plenty and health or the opposites were drawn from the way in which the reptiles took their food from her. See Aelian, _Nat. Hist._ xi. 2. 266 Pausanias, iv. 14. 7; Livy, xxvi. 19; Aulus Gellius, vi. 1; Plutarch, _Alexander_, 2. All these cases have been already cited in this connexion by L. Deubner, _De incubatione_ (Leipsic, 1900), p. 33 note. 267 Aelian, _De natura animalium_, vi. 17. M63 Women fertilized by stone serpents in India. 268 H. V. Nanjundayya, _The Ethnographical Survey of Mysore_, vi. _Komati Caste_ (Bangalore, 1906), p. 29. M64 Belief that the dead come to life in the form of serpents. 269 T. Arbousset et F. Daumas, _Voyage d’Exploration au Nord-Est de la Colonie du Cap de Bonne-Espérance_ (Paris, 1842), p. 277; H. Callaway, _Religious System of the Amazulu_, part ii. pp. 140-144, 196-200, 208-212; J. Shooter, _The Kafirs of Natal_ (London, 1857), p. 162; E. Casalis, _The Basutos_ (London, 1861), p. 246; “Words about Spirits,” (_South African_) _Folk-lore Journal_, ii. (1880) pp. 101-103; A. Kranz, _Natur- und Kulturleben der Zulus_ (Wiesbaden, 1880), p. 112; F. Speckmann, _Die Hermannsburger Mission in Afrika_ (Hermannsburg, 1876), pp. 165-167; Dudley Kidd, _The Essential Kafir_ (London, 1904), pp. 85-87; Henri A. Junod, _The Life of a South African Tribe_ (Neuchatel, 1912-1913), ii. 358 _sq._ 270 W. A. Elmslie, _Among the Wild Ngoni_ (London, 1899), pp. 71 _sq._ 271 O. Baumann, _Usambara und seine Nachbargebiete_ (Berlin, 1891), pp. 141 _sq._