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 426 The European Sky-god.

name, as I have elsewhere ^^^ pointed out, is an obvious derivative of the mistletoe ('I^twz/ from tfo?), and whose nature, as is commonly admitted,**^^^ was that of a sun-god. Thus both mythology and ritual attest the connection between mistletoe, especially oak-mistletoe, and the sun.

Arthur Bernard Cook.

[To be continued.)

Class. Rev., xvii. , 420. Roscher, Lex., ii., 770.