Note 207 — LECTURE IV. Primitive Religious Expression: In the Object.

I have pointed out that in various American dialects, as the Chipeway and Cree, the Maya, Quichua, etc., there are words of native origin, which were used to convey the notion of the love of the gods in pure and high senses. See the article on “The Conception of Love in American Languages,” in Essays of an Americanist, pp. 416, 421, 428, etc.