Note 659 — Chapter VI · ORIGINS OF THESE BELIEFS—continued The Notion of the Totemic Principle, or Mana, and the Idea of Force

In the expressions such as Ζεὺς ὕει or Ceres succiditur, it is shown that this conception survived in Greece as well as in Rome. In his Götternamen, Usener has clearly shown that the primitive gods of Greece and Rome were impersonal forces thought of only in terms of their attributes.