Note 164 — LECTURE IV. Primitive Religious Expression: In the Object.

Klemm, Culturgeschichte, Bd. ii., s. 316; Ling Roth, Natives of Sarawak, vol. ii., App., p. cxcviii.; Brinton, Myths of the New World, p. 154; Curr, The Australian Race, vol. ii., p. 48. The moon was sacred to Tina, the chief god of the Etruscans. Müller, Die Etrusker, Bd. ii., p. 43. Ně dîdâ, better known as Dido, has been identified with the moon as the leading deity of the Carthaginians and Phœnicians. Otto Meltzer, Geschichte der Karthager, Bd. i., s. 128. Danu, the goddess who presided over the Irish pantheon, the tuatha de Danann, was the moon (from daon, to rise).