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of which some Europeans speak ; Batio of the Latins, and the Logos 

 of the Greeks." The resemblance between Mexican Teo and Greek 

 deoq, has been often noticed, but it has usually been dismissed as a 

 merely accidental, though curious coincidence. In comparison with 

 the analogues here given, it assumes a new importance. 



The association of the ideas of whiteness, purity {-op), brilliancy, 

 divine glory, and sacrifice, may perhaps account for such resem- 

 blances as C. yang, a sheep or goat, fire burning fiercely, bright, 

 splendid, the sun, male, the superior of the two material principles 

 into which, according to the Chinese, chaos was divided; S. yas, 

 light, lustre, adjas, a goat, yadj, to sacrifice, agni, a^gati, fire; L. 

 agnus ; Gr. al^ ; Y. ake, a goat, agutaij, a sheep, ako (= Eg. ka), 

 male, erag, a sheep (raij, yaij, saij, to shine, to burn, brilliantly); 

 J), sag, whitish or yellowish, agu, to burn on or on account of any- 

 thing, wiyakpa, iyoyagpa, to shine, agpao, day, takig-wanug-yag-pi 

 ( — "deer-accidentally-domesticated*-flock") sheep; Mandan, agsa- 

 kte (= "the great aijsa"), mountain sheep. The Shyennes call the 

 sheep "the white deer." 



Some of the Chinese religious expressions appear to furnish traces 

 of the remains of an early inspiration, as well as a parallelism of 

 thought that is indicative of a common origin. For example, by 

 combining the two characters which represent my and sheep, the 

 Chinese form the character for e, good, right, suitable, righteous- 

 ness. Morrison says (under the word "light"), "The Budhists 

 speak of a Hght within ; thus of the principles of the Kin Kang 

 King, they say, 'This sacred book is originally possessed by all man- 

 kind in their own nature, unperceived by themselves. When they 

 are awakened to know their own hearts, they are assured of the in- 

 ternal scripture. Having the light within, they do not, like the men 

 of the world, seek for Budh outside their own persons, nor seek for 

 a scripture externally, but rouse the internal mind, and adhere to the 

 internal mental scripture.' Does not this language resemble that of 

 the Friends, called Quakers?" 



Some of the latest triumphs of physical science have led to the 

 revival of beliefs nearly identical with the intuitive or inspired per- 

 ceptions of our early ancestors, as manifested in their worship of 

 the mysterious Agency that controls the Universe. Thus we find in 



* The Chinese speak of the lew chuh, the "six domestic animals," ma, the 

 horse (Cfr. G mahre, E. mare), new, the cow (Cfr. Sw. not, Dn. nod, W. cnud, 

 E. neat), yang, the sheep, ke, the fowl (the "caller"), keuen, the dog (Cfr. S. 

 gvan, Gr. kvwu), che. the hog (Cfr. F. cochon). 



