Note 35 — XVII. COW DUNG AND COW URINE IN RELIGION.
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After the publication of his original pamphlet, the author became acquainted with the views of Mr. Lang upon this subject. An examination of them, as given in his “Myth, Ritual, and Religion,” vol. ii. p. 137, will show that he perceives the defect in the explanation given by De Gubernatis in much the same manner as here expressed.
“The clouds in the atmosphere being often viewed as a herd of cows.”—(Introduction to vol. iv. of “Zendavesta,” p. 64, James Darmesteter, edition of Oxford, 1880: “Sacred Books of the East,” edited by Max Müller.)
A personal letter received from W. S. Wyndham, Esq., Boyne Island, Queensland, Australia, relates that the tribes of Australia “have the stars laid out the same as we have, only, instead of the Great Bear, etc., they have the Emu, Kangaroo, Dog, and other things and men introduced.”