Chateaubraud’s _Voyage en Amérique_, pp. 130–136; cited in Frazer’s _Golden Bough_, II., 383.
Ellis’s _Polynesian Researches_, II., 206.
Ellis’s _Hist. of Madagascar_, I., 176–187.
_Ibid._, p. 135 f.; also, Isabella Bird’s _Six Months in the Sandwich Islands_, p. 196.
Ellis’s _Through Hawaii_, p. 153 f. See, also, Isabella Bird’s _Six Months in the Sandwich Islands_, p. 135 f.
Num. 35 : 6–32; Deut. 4 : 41–43; 19 : 1–13; Josh. 20 : 1–9.
Comp. Gill’s _Myths and Songs from the South Pacific_, pp. 3, 4, 7, 14, 18, 20, 26, 152, 155, 158, 160, 170; also Turner’s _Samoa_, p. 259.
Rawlinson’s _Inscript. of W. Asia_, Vol. I., pl. 69, Col. II., l. 29 ff.
See Hilprecht’s _Assyriaca_, pp. 54, 55, 97.
Inscription in the temple of Rameses III. at Karnak.
See “Grihya-Sutras,” in _Sacred Books of the East_, XXX., 193–201; also De Coulange’s _Ancient City_, pp. 36, 47 f.
See Julien’s _Mémoires de Hionen-Thsang_, I., 459–466; Cunningham’s _Archæological Survey of India_, I., 1–12; Sir Monier Monier-Williams’s _Buddhism_, pp. 390–401.
Cunningham’s _Archæological Survey of India_, II., 212, 213.
“The Shih King,” Bk. 7, § 3, in _Sacred Books of the East_, III., 111.
Harrison and Verrall’s _Myth. and Monu. of Anc. Athens_, pp. 353–361.
Henderson’s _Iceland_, II., 64–67; also _ibid._, I., xiv.
Brugsch’s _Egypt under the Pharaohs_, I., 411.
As evidenced in the traditional claim that the grave of Adam was under the cross.
See Sale’s _Koran_, “Preliminary Discourse,” Sect. IV.; Burton’s _Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah_, III., 149–222; Hughes’s _Dictionary of Islam_, s. vv. “Abraham,” “Adam,” “Arafāt,” “Hagar,” “Ishmael,” “Kaʿbah,” “Masjidu ʾl-Harām,” “Zamzam;” Sprenger’s _Life of Mohammad_, pp. 46–62; Muir’s _Mahomet and Islam_, pp. 12–17, 215–219.
Man’s first dwelling-place was the cave, or the tent, or the hut, in which he made a home with his family. The threshold and hearth of that dwelling-place was the boundary of his earthly possessions. It was the sacred border or limit of the portion of the earth’s surface over which he claimed control, and where he and his were under the special protection of the deity with whom he was in covenant. Therefore the threshold hearth was hallowed as a place of covenant worship.