[164] Klemm, _Culturgeschichte_, Bd. ii., s. 316; Ling Roth, _Natives of Sarawak_, vol. ii., App., p. cxcviii.; Brinton, _Myths of the New World_, p. 154; Curr, _The Australian Race_, vol. ii., p. 48. The moon was sacred to Tina, the chief god of the Etruscans. Müller, _Die Etrusker_, Bd. ii., p. 43. Ně dîdâ, better known as Dido, has been identified with the moon as the leading deity of the Carthaginians and Phœnicians. Otto Meltzer, _Geschichte der Karthager_, Bd. i., s. 128. Danu, the goddess who presided over the Irish pantheon, the _tuatha de Danann_, was the moon (from _daon_, to rise).
[165] Montesinos, _Ancien Perou_, p. 17; Venegas, _Hist of California_, p. 107; Smyth, _Aborigines of Victoria_, vol. i., p. 459.
[166] Brincker in _Globus_, Bd. lxviii., p. 97.
[167] Martin de Leon, _Camino del Cielo_, fol. 101.
[168] Montesinos, _Ancien Perou_, pp. 14-16; Ximenes, _Origen de los Indios de Guatemala_, p. 157.
[169] Sir George Grey, _Polynesian Mythology_, p. 5; Egede, _Nachrichten von Grönland_, s. 137.
[170] _Zeitschrift für Ethnologie_, Bd. ix. The Eskimo called it _Sillam Eipane_, winds-house. Egede, _u. s._
[171] The urn or vase was, in classical antiquity, the emblem of the fecundating waters (Guigniaut, _Religions de l’Antiquité_, tom. i., p. 509). Vases full of water were interred with the dead in Peru to symbolise the life beyond. Meyen, _Die Ureinwohner von Peru_, p. 29.
[173] Probably for this reason the ceremonial law of the Bushmen, especially that relating to puberty and marriage, enjoins “to avoid the wrath of the Water.” Bleek, _Bushman Folk-lore_, p. 18.
[174] Compare Klemm, _Culturgeschichte_, Bd. ii., s. 315 (after Steller), with Man, in _Jour. Anthrop. Soc._, vol. xii., p. 163.
[175] The specific effect of certain colours on the sub-consciousness, and thus on the religious emotions, is practically recognised in sacred art; but so far as I know this has not been made a subject of study by the experimental psychologist. Allowance must always be made for association of ideas; as when the Mozambique negroes paint the images of their bad spirits white, on account of their hatred of Europeans!
[176] Arnobius, _Adversus Gentes_, lib. vii., cap. 49.
[177] Fornander, _The Polynesian Race_, _u. s._; Hale, _Ethnog. and Philol_., p. 25.