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Preface
willing to devote themselves to the serious study of ancient religion
on one or another of its many sides. To not a few of them I am
much beholden.
The bulk of my proofs has been read by Miss J. E. Harrison,
and the whole of them by Dr J. Rendel Harris. Both are workers
with books of their own half-written; and I appreciate the generous
spirit in which they have hindered themselves to help me.
For matters outside my competence I have been able to cite
the expert opinion of others. Chinese parallels to Greek mythology
have been furnished by Prof. H. A. Giles ; Japanese parallels, by
my friend Mr H. G. Brand, long resident in Tokyo, and again by
his friend Prof. Takeo Wada of Kyoto University. Mesopotamian
texts have been explained to me, not only by the late Dr C. H. W.
Johns, but also by my friend and former pupil Mr Sidney Smith,
Assistant in the Assyriological department of the British Museum.
On several points of Egyptology I have consulted Mr F. W. Green,
Honorary Keeper of the Egyptian Antiquities in the Fitzwilliam
Museum, Cambridge, and Mr F. LI. Griffith, Reader in Egyptology
at Oxford. For Phoenician names I have applied to my neighbour
Mr N. McLean, University Lecturer in Aramaic, and to my
colleague the Rev. Dr R. H. Kennett, Regius Professor of Hebrew;
for Lydian names, to Mr W. H. Buckler, editor of the inscriptions
found at Sardeis. On a few details of Indian cult I have been
aided by Prof. E. J. Rapson and by Mr H. B. Thompson of
Queens' College, Cambridge. In dealing with Celtic and Germanic
deities I have been guided on occasion by Prof. H. M. Chadwick,
while references to Icelandic sagas were collected for me by
Miss N. Kershaw (now Mrs Chadwick). An important note on
the Anglo-Saxon rune Y (ear or tir) was sent me by Mr B. Dickins
of Edinburgh University.
For Greek and Latin etymologies I have time after time used
as a touchstone the wise judgment of my friend and colleague
Dr P. Giles, Reader in Comparative Philology to the University
of Cambridge. Mr J. Whatmough, a former pupil of us both, now
Lecturer in Classics at Bangor, has revised my restoration of a
ritual text in old Latin, the well-known but little-understood hymn
of the Salii. Questions of Thracian and Illyrian phonetics have
been considered for me by Mr B. F. C. Atkinson of Magdalene
College, Cambridge, whose results, reached along the lines of strict
philological method, have opened up a new vista of possibilities
to the historian of early Greek religion. Here and there my
Preface
willing to devote themselves to the serious study of ancient religion
on one or another of its many sides. To not a few of them I am
much beholden.
The bulk of my proofs has been read by Miss J. E. Harrison,
and the whole of them by Dr J. Rendel Harris. Both are workers
with books of their own half-written; and I appreciate the generous
spirit in which they have hindered themselves to help me.
For matters outside my competence I have been able to cite
the expert opinion of others. Chinese parallels to Greek mythology
have been furnished by Prof. H. A. Giles ; Japanese parallels, by
my friend Mr H. G. Brand, long resident in Tokyo, and again by
his friend Prof. Takeo Wada of Kyoto University. Mesopotamian
texts have been explained to me, not only by the late Dr C. H. W.
Johns, but also by my friend and former pupil Mr Sidney Smith,
Assistant in the Assyriological department of the British Museum.
On several points of Egyptology I have consulted Mr F. W. Green,
Honorary Keeper of the Egyptian Antiquities in the Fitzwilliam
Museum, Cambridge, and Mr F. LI. Griffith, Reader in Egyptology
at Oxford. For Phoenician names I have applied to my neighbour
Mr N. McLean, University Lecturer in Aramaic, and to my
colleague the Rev. Dr R. H. Kennett, Regius Professor of Hebrew;
for Lydian names, to Mr W. H. Buckler, editor of the inscriptions
found at Sardeis. On a few details of Indian cult I have been
aided by Prof. E. J. Rapson and by Mr H. B. Thompson of
Queens' College, Cambridge. In dealing with Celtic and Germanic
deities I have been guided on occasion by Prof. H. M. Chadwick,
while references to Icelandic sagas were collected for me by
Miss N. Kershaw (now Mrs Chadwick). An important note on
the Anglo-Saxon rune Y (ear or tir) was sent me by Mr B. Dickins
of Edinburgh University.
For Greek and Latin etymologies I have time after time used
as a touchstone the wise judgment of my friend and colleague
Dr P. Giles, Reader in Comparative Philology to the University
of Cambridge. Mr J. Whatmough, a former pupil of us both, now
Lecturer in Classics at Bangor, has revised my restoration of a
ritual text in old Latin, the well-known but little-understood hymn
of the Salii. Questions of Thracian and Illyrian phonetics have
been considered for me by Mr B. F. C. Atkinson of Magdalene
College, Cambridge, whose results, reached along the lines of strict
philological method, have opened up a new vista of possibilities
to the historian of early Greek religion. Here and there my