[123] Frazer, _GB_, _Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild_, I. 307, 309 ff. (1912). The supremely important _rôle_ assigned to the sacred dance among the natives of Australia is well known; see Spencer, _Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia_, pp. 32, 106, 139 ff., 173, and the illustrations on p. 186 (1914); Howitt, _The Native Tribes of South-east Australia_, pp. 330, 416 (1904); Brough Smith, _The Aborigines of Victoria_, I. 166 ff. (1878), cp. Reinach, _Orpheus_, pp. 228 f. [124] _GB_, _Spirits of the Corn ..._, I. 311. [125] See the whole of the Note on “The Pleiades in Primitive Calendars,” _GB_, _Spirits of the Corn ..._, I. 307-319. [126] W. Schneider, _Die Religion der Afrikanischen Naturvölker_, p. 100 (1891). [127] Fritsch, _Die Eingeborenen Süd-Afrika’s_, p. 91 (1872). [128] Fritsch, _op. cit._ p. 352. [129] W. Schneider, _op. cit._ pp. 89 f. [130] For other dances in imitation of animals, see Ling Roth, _The Aborigines of Tasmania_, pp. 138 ff. (1899). [131] Cp. the personating of spirits or legendary animals among the N. American Indians, Frazer, _GB_, _The Scapegoat_, p. 375. [132] See, _e.g._, _GB_, _The Magic Art_, I. 302 ff. [133] _E.g._ Gen. xii. 6 f., xiii. 18, xiv. 13, xxxv. 4, 8; Josh. xxiv. 26; Judg. ix. 37; Jer. ii. 20, iii. 6, 13, xvii. 2; Ezek. vi. 13; Hos. iv. 13; cp. Isa. i. 29. [134] _E.g._ Gen. xiv. 7, xvi. 14; cp. xxi. 19, 33; Josh. xv. 7, xviii. 17, xix. 8. [135] See above, pp. 33 ff. [136] _Patrol. Graec._ (Migne), LXXIX. Col. 648. [137] _Rel. of the Semites_, pp. 135 f. [138] I. 189. Quoted by Buchanan Gray, _Numbers_ (Intern. Crit. Com.), pp. 288 f. (1903). [139] Cp. Jane E. Harrison, _Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion_, p. 127 (1903). [140] A reading based on the Samaritan and the Septuagint. [141] The name “calf,” _ʿēgel_, instead of “bull” or “cow,” refers to its smallness (perhaps in irony). Such images could not have been large as they were made of precious metal. But even when made of other materials, such as clay, they were small, to judge from the specimens found on the site of ancient Gezer. [142] It is true that the word is used of “surrounding” a table in the Hebrew of Ecclus. xxxv. 1 (xxxii. 1 in Greek), but it would be precarious to cite this late Hebrew meaning of it in support of the R.V. rendering of the word in 1 Sam. xvi. 11. In Ecclus. ix. 9 it is used of “mingling” strong drink. [143] Cp. Robertson Smith, _The Religion of the Semites_, p. 340, note 2: “The festal song of praise (_tahlil_) properly goes with the dance round the altar (cp. Ps. xxvi. 6 sq.), for in primitive times song and dance are inseparable.” [144] _Psalms_ (Intern. Crit. Com.), II. 408 (1907).