(as we have defined the word) make the first period of Vedic cult; and that the special liquor-cult, common to Iran and India, arose after the first period of Vedic worship, when, for example, Wind, Parjanya, and Varuna were at their height, and before the priests had exalted mystically Agni or Soma, and even Indra was as yet undeveloped. * * * * * FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 1: viii. 38. 4; i. 108. 3; Bergaigne, ii. 293.] [Footnote 2: On this point Bergaigne deprecates the application of the ritualistic method, and says in words that cannot be too emphasized: "Mais qui ne voit que de telles exptications n'expliquent rien, ou plutôt que le détail du rituel ne peut trouver son explication que dans le mythe, bien loin de pouvoir servir lui-mêmes à expliquer le mythe?... Ni le ciel seul ni la terre seule, mais la terre et le ciel étroitement unis et presque confondus, voilà le vrai domaine de la mythologie védique, mythologie dont le rituel n'est que la reproduction" (i. p. 24).] [Footnote 3: i. 58. 4; v. 7. 7; vi. 3. 4.] [Footnote 4: iii. 14. 4; i. 71. 9; vi. 3. 7; 6. 2; iv. 1. 9.] [Footnote 5: Or of time or order.] [Footnote 6: Or 'Finder-of-beings.'] [Footnote 7: _Herabkunft des Feuers und des Göttertrankes_.] [Footnote 8: RV. vi. 16. 13: "Thee, Agni, from out the sky Atharvan twirled," _nir amanthata_ (cf. Promantheus). In x. 462 the Bhrigus, [Greek: phleghyai], discover fire.] [Footnote 9: Compare v. 2. 1. Sometimes Agni is "born with the fingers," which twirl the sticks (iii. 26. 3; iv. 6. 8).] [Footnote 10: Compare ii. 1: "born in flame from water, cloud, and plants ... thou art the creator."] [Footnote 11: Bergaigne, i. p. 32 ff. The question of priestly names (loc. cit. pp. 47-50), should start with Bharata as [Greek: purphoros], a common title of Agni (ii. 7; vi. 16. 19-21). So Bhrigu is the 'shining' one; and Vasishtha is the 'most shining' (compare Vasus, not good but shining gods). The priests got their names from their god, like Jesuits. Compare Gritsamada in the Bhrigu family (book ii.); Viçv[=a]-mitra, 'friend of all,' in the Bharata family (book iii.); Gautama V[=a]madeva belonging to Angirasas (book iv.); Atri 'Eater,' epithet of Agni in RV. (book v.); Bharadv[=a]ja 'bearing food' (book vi.); Vasishtha (book vii.); and besides these Jamadagni and Kaçyapa, black-toothed (Agni).'] [Footnote 12: De Isid. et Osir. 46. Compare Windischmann, _Ueber den Somacultus der Arier_ (1846), and Muir, _Original Sanskrit Texts_, vol. ii. p. 471. Hillebrandt, _Vedische Mythologie_, i. p. 450, believes _haoma_ to mean the moon, as does _soma_ in some hymns of the Rig Veda (see below).]