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1. Original Sanskrit Texts, v. 356, note.

2. This is what F. Max Müller (Ancient Sanskrit Literature, London, 1859, pp. 526 ff.) called "henotheism."

3. Original Sanskrit Texts, v. 64, note.

4. See M. Bloomfield, Religion of the Veda, pp. 12, 126 ff. For the Iranian Asha see infra, pp. 260, 264.

5. For the Iranian conceptions of Ahura Mazda and Mithra see infra, pp. 260-61, 275 ff., 287-88, 305 ff.

6. For Ouranos see Mythology of All Races, Boston, 1916, i. 5-6, and for Moira see ib. pp. 283-84.

7. See H. Winckler, in Mitteilungen der deutschen Orientgesellschaft, No. 35 (1907); E. Meyer, "Das erste Auftreten der Arier in der Geschichte," in Sitzungsberichte der königlich-preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1908, pp. 14-19, and Geschichte des Altertums, I. ii. 651 ff. (3rd ed., Berlin, 1913) ; H. Jacobi, in JRAS 1909, pp. 721 ff., H. Oldenberg, ib. pp. 1095 ff., J. H. Moulton, Early Zoroastrianism, London, 1913, pp. 6 ff.

8. For the Amesha Spentas see infra, p. 260.

9. R. T. H. Griffith, Hymns of the Rigveda, ii. 87.

10. See infra, pp. 282, 294, 304.

11. See M. Bloomfield, in American Journal of Philology, xvii. 428 (1896), from vi+snu (cf. sānu, "back").

12. See Mythology of All Races, Boston, 1916, i. 26-27, 246-47.

13. See Mythology of All Races, Boston, 1916, i. 245-46.

14. See A. Hillebrandt, Vedische Mythologie, iii. 157 ff.

15. See Shāhnāmah, tr. J. Mohl, Paris, 1876-78, i. 69-70.

16. See infra, pp. 267, 340.

17. The word śiva means "auspicious."

18. See L. von Schroeder, Mysterium und Mimus im Rigveda, pp. 47 ff., 124 ff.

1. See A. Hillebrandt, Vedische Mythologie, ii. 122-23.

2. Cf. Mythology of All Races, Boston, 1916, i. 208-09, 298.