Note 470 — Chapter IX · MYTHOLOGY (continued).

Williams, ‘Fiji,’ vol. i. p. 205. Compare the Caroline Island myth that in the beginning men only quitted life on the last day of the waning moon, and resuscitated as from a peaceful sleep when she reappeared; but the evil spirit Erigirers inflicted a death from which there is no revival: De Brosses, ‘Hist. des Navig. aux Terres Australes,’ vol. ii. p. 479. Also in a song of the Indians of California it is said, that even as the moon dies and returns to life, so they shall be re-born after death; Duflot de Mofras in Bastian, ‘Rechtsverhältnisse,’ p. 385, see ‘Psychologie,’ p. 54.