Note 465 — MENSIS MAIUS.
Reading edition
Baumkultus, 214-16, 355, &c. On p. 356 is a valuable note giving examples from America, India, &c. For a remarkable case from ancient Egypt, of which the object is not rain, but inundation, see Tylor, Prim. Cult. ii. 368. See also Grimm, Teutonic Mythology (E. T.), p. 593 foll.