PART II
CHAPTER I
1 This is the way it appears to us from the psychological standpoint. See below.
2 Samson as Sun-god. See Steinthal: "Die Sage von Simson," Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie, Vol. II.
3 I am indebted for the knowledge of this fragment to Dr. Van Ophuijsen of The Hague.
4 Rudra, properly father of the Maruts (winds), a wind or sun god, appears here as the sole creator God, as shown in the course of the text. The rôle of creator and fructifier easily belongs to him as wind god. I refer to the observations in Part I concerning Anaxagoras and to what follows.
5 This and the following passages from the Upanishads are quoted from: "The Upanishads," translated by R. G. S. Mead and J. C. Chattopâdhyâya. London 1896.
6 In a similar manner, the Persian sun-god Mithra is endowed with an immense number of eyes.
7 Whoever has in himself, God, the sun, is immortal, like the sun. Compare Pt. I, Ch. 5.
8 He was given that name because he had introduced the phallic cult into Greece. In gratitude to him for having buried the mother of the serpents, the young serpents cleaned his ears, so that he became clairaudient and understood the language of birds and beasts.
9 Compare the vase picture of Thebes, where the Cabiri are represented in noble and in caricatured form (in Roscher: "Lexicon," s. Megaloi Theoi).
10 The justification for calling the Dactyli thumbs is given in a note in Pliny: 37, 170, according to which there were in Crete precious stones of iron color and thumblike shape which were called Idaean Dactyli.
11 Therefore, the dactylic metre or verse.
12 See Roscher: "Lexicon of Greek and Roman Mythology," s. Dactyli.
13 According to Jensen: "Kosmologie," p. 292, Oannes-Ea is the educator of men.
14 Inman: "Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism."
15 Varro identifies the μεγάλοι θεοί with the Penates. The Cabiri might be simulacra duo virilia Castoris et Pollucis in the harbor of Samothrace.
16 In Brasiae on the Laconian coast and in Pephnos some statues only a foot high with caps on their heads were found.
