Note 565 — Chapter VI · THE MYTH OF CIVILISATION AND THE FIRST SHAPING OF HEBREW RELIGION.

Waitz, l.c. I. 464 note. Among other examples Waitz quotes this: ‘In Mexico Huitzlipochtli, was born of a woman who took to her bosom a feather-ball is a solar designation, is not easily determined.’ In connexion with it I will only mention that Shakspeare in one passage calls the sun a ‘burning crest.’

But even this night,—whose black contagious breath

Already smokes about the burning crest

Of the old, feeble, and day-wearied sun,—

Even this ill night, your breathing shall expire.—King John, V. 4.