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SLAVIC MYTHOLOGY
  1. Mannhardt, p. 87.
  2. Stender, pp. 233, 262, 266.
  3. Nesselmann, no. 2; Rhesa, no. 27; Schleicher, no. i; Mannhardt, no. 76 (cf. also Mannhardt, no. 73).
  4. Cf. such Lithuanian words as perkúnyja, "thunder-storm," perkunůti, "to thunder," perkùno mušimas, "thunderclap" ("Perkunas's stroke "), and Lettish terms like pehrkona lohde, "thunder-bolt " ("Pehrkon's ball"), pehrkona spehreens, "thunderclap." The ordinary Prussian word for "thunder " is given as percunis (for the etymology see R. Trautmann, Die altpreussischen Sprachdenkmäler, Göttingen, 1910, pp. 395–96).
  5. Mannhardt, p. 317, suggests that "in the very primal spring" may refer to the first springtime of the world.
  6. Mannhardt, p. 298.
  7. Andrejanoff, pp. 63–64.
  8. Only the earliest stars are really the offspring of this union; the later stars are born from the wedlock of the elder ones (Stender, p. 270).
  9. Nesselmann, no. 4; Rhesa, no. 62; Schleicher, no. 4; Mannhardt, no. 78. Cf. also Mannhardt, nos. 72-75, 79, and for the Lettish version see Ullmann, pp. 145, 186, 195–96.
  10. For the oak as sacred to Perkunas see the Jesuit report of 1618 (Rostowski, p. 251); and for the sanctity of the tree see the reports of 1583 (ib. p. Ill), 1606 (ed. K. Lohmeyer, in MlilG iii. 390, 394 [1893]), and 1 61 8 (ed. in Mittheilungen aus dem Gebiete der Geschichte Liv-, Ehst- und Kurland's, iv. 494–501 [1874]); cf. also an official report of 1657, ed. in NPPBl III. x. 159 (1865).
  11. Mannhardt, pp. 222–25.
  12. Alannhardt, no. 72. For nine as a sacred number in Indo-European see A. Kaegi, "Die Neunzahl bei den Ostariern," in Philologische Abhandlungen Heinrich Schweizer-Sidler . . . gewidmet, Zurich, 1891, pp. 50–70.
  13. Von Schroeder, i. 532.
  14. Mannhardt, p. 318.
  15. ib. p. 232.
  16. See Mythology of All Races, Boston, 1917, vi. 32–35, and E. W. Hopkins, "Indra as the God of Fertility," in Journal of the American Oriental Society, xxxvi. 242–68 (1917).
  17. J. Bassanovič and A. Kurschat, in MlilG ii. 342 (1887); Mythology of All Races, Boston, 1917, vi. 33, 35, 264–66, 323, 350.
  18. Mannhardt, p. 308.
  19. Mythology of All Races, Boston, 1916, i. 157.
  20. Mannhardt, pp. 91, 306–09, 316–19, nos. 13–15, 39-40, 44.
  21. ib. nos. 22, 24, 42, 26, 28, 32, and pp. 97, 100, 103.
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