Note (83) — 6.

Religion of the Semites, p. 412–413. »The mourning is not a spontaneous expression of sympathy with the divine tragedy but obligatory and enforced by fear of supernatural anger. And a chief object of the mourners is to disclaim responsibility for the god's death – a point which has already come before us in connection with theanthropic sacrifices, such as the »oxmurder at Athens«.