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666 TEEES AND ANIMALS.
AS. hryfter, hroSer, but wlio can tell whether rinde cortex was
not once aspirated too ? EvpaTrrj, the name of one quarter of
the earth, must surely also mean earth (evpela the broad), and on
p. 338 I made a guess that Euro-pa, whom Zeus courted in the
shape of a bull, must herself have been thought of as a cow, like
lo ; it was not the earth took name from her, but she from the
earth. On the worship of cows and oxen by the Indians, Egypt
s learned treatise. 1
ians and Eomans, I refer to A. W. Schlegel
The Israelites also made a burnt-offering of a red heifer (Goth,
kalbo) upon which never came yoke/ Numb. 19, 2 (see Suppl.).
The boar and the lie-goat were holy sacrificial beasts (p. 50-1-2),
the boar 2 dedicated to Freyr (p. 213), he and she goats to Thorr
(p. 185), as goats are even yet considered devil s creatures. 3 To
that divine boar s account I think we are also entitled to set
down the old song out of which Notker has preserved a passage
(he whose foreign learning so seldom suffers him to put down
anything he knew of his own country) :
Imo sint fuoze fuodernmze,
imo sint burste ebenho forste,
unde zene sine zuelif-elnige ;
his bristles are even-high with the forest, and his tusks twelve ells
long. A reason for the veneration of the boar has been found
in the fact that he roots up the ground, and men learnt from him
boars :
to plough. The Slavs also seem to have worshipped
Testatur idem antiquitas,
errore delusa vario, si quando his
saeva longae rebellionis asperitas immineat, ut e mari praedicto
(near Eiedergost) aper magnus et candido dente e spumis luces-
cente exeat, seque in volutabro delectatum terribili quassatione
multis ostendat/ Ditm. merseb. p. 812 (see Suppl.).
None but domestic animals were fit for sacrifice, and not all of
them, in particular not the dog, though
he stands on much the
same footing with his master as the horse ; he is faithful and in
telligent, yet there is something mean and unclean about him,
1
2
Ind. bibl. 2, 288295.
He enjoys a double appellation : OHG. epur, AS. eofor ; and OHG. per, AS.
bar (Goth. Mis?).
3 While God (Wuotan) made the wolf (p. 147), the devil (Donar ?) produced the
goat. In some places they will not eat goats feet (Tobler p. 214).