83 Plutarch, _Isis et Osiris_, 69-71. With the sleep of the Phrygian gods we may compare the sleep of Vishnu. The toils and anxieties of the Indian farmer “are continuous, and his only period of comparative rest is in the heavy rain time, when, as he says, the god Vishnu goes to sleep, and does not wake till October is well advanced and the time has come to begin cutting and crushing the sugar-cane and boiling down the juice” (W. Crooke, _Natives of Northern India_, London, 1907, p. 159). M33 Plutarch’s view that the worship of the fruits of the earth sprang from a verbal misunderstanding. 84 Plutarch, _Isis et Osiris_, 77. M34 His theory is an inversion of the truth: for fetishism is the antecedent, not the corruption, of theism. Lamentations of the savage for the animals and plants which he kills and eats. M35 Respect shown by savages for the fruits and the animals which they eat. _ 85 Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild_, ii. 204 _sqq._ 86 C. Hill Tout, “Report on the Ethnology of the Stlatlum Indians of British Columbia,” _Journal of the Anthropological Institute_, xxxv. (1905) pp. 140 _sq._ M36 Thus the lamentations of the sower become intelligible. 87 Psalm cxxvi. 5 _sq._ Firmicus Maternus asks the Egyptians (_De errore profanarum religionum_, ii. 7), “_Cur plangitis fruges terrae et crescentia lugetis semina?_” M37 Lamentations of the Egyptian corn-reapers. 88 As to the Egyptian modes of reaping and threshing see Sir J. Gardiner Wilkinson, _Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians_ (London, 1878), ii. 419 _sqq._; A. Erman, _Aegypten und aegyptisches Leben im Altertum_, pp. 572 _sqq._ 89 Diodorus Siculus, i. 14. 2. 90 Herodotus, ii. 79; Julius Pollux, iv. 54; Pausanias, ix. 29. 7; Athenaeus, xiv. 11 _sq._, pp. 618-620. As to these songs see _Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild_, i. 214 _sqq._ 91 H. Brugsch, _Adonisklage und Linoslied_ (Berlin, 1852), p. 24, corrected by A. Wiedemann, _Herodots zweites Buch_, p. 336. As to the lamentations for Osiris see above, p. 12. M38 Similar ceremonies observed by the Cherokee Indians in the cultivation of the corn. The Old Woman of the corn and the laments for her death. 92 J. Mooney, “Myths of the Cherokee,” _Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology_ (Washington, 1900), pp. 423 _sq._ I do not know what precisely the writer means by “the last working of the crop” and “the first working of the corn.” _ 93 Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild_, i. 180 _sqq._ 94 A. C. Hollis, _The Nandi_ (Oxford, 1909), p. 46. M39 Lamentations of Indians at cutting sacred wood. 95 S. Powers, _Tribes of California_ (Washington, 1877), p. 25. M40 Arab ceremony of burying “the old man” at harvest.