Note 59 — Chapter II · Contamination of Instincts in Primitive Technology

Such seems to be the evidence, for instance, for Cybele, Astarte (Aphrodite, Ishtar), Mylitta, Isis, Demeter (Ceres), Artemis, and for such doubtfully late characters as Hera (Juno),—see Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion; Frazer, Adonis, Attis, Osiris, and The Golden Bough. Quanon may be a doubtful case, as possibly also Amaterazu. The evidence from such American instances as the great mother goddesses of the Pueblos and other Indian tribes runs perhaps the other way, or at the best it may leave the point in doubt. See, for instance, Matilda C. Stevenson, “The Zuñi Indians,” Report Bureau of American Ethnology, 1901–1902, section on “Mythology;” The same, ibid, 1889–1890, “The Sia;” Frank H. Cushing, ibid, 1891–1892, “Zuñi Creation Myths.”