Brihaspati is the ’Brahm[=a] of gods.’  The next (Brahmanic) step is deified brahma, the personal Brahm[=a] as god, called also Father-god (Praj[=a]pati) or simply The Father (pit[=a]).]

[Footnote 33:  Cat.  Br. iii. 1. 2. 13 ff.; l. 1. 2. 18; iii. 6. 1. 8 ff.; ii. 5. 2. 1; iv. 2. 1. 11; iii. 4.4. 3 ff.; 2. 3. 6-12, 13-14; iv. 5. 5. 12; 1.3. 13 ff.; iii. 2. 4. 5-6; 3. 2. 8; 7. 1. 17; iv. 2. 5. 17; 4. 1. 15; i. 7. 4. 6-7; ii. 4. 3. 4 ff.; li. 5.2.34; 5. 1. 12; 5. 1. 1 ff.; RV. viii. 104. 14.  The reader must distinguish, in the name of Brahm[=a], the god from the priest, and this from brahm[=a], prayer.  The first step is brahma—­force, power, prayer; then this is, as a masculine Brahm[=a], the one who prays, that is, prayer, the Brahman priest, as, in the Rig Veda, x. 141. 3.  Brihaspati is the ’Brahm[=a] of gods.’  The next (Brahmanic) step is deified brahma, the personal Brahm[=a] as god, called also Father-god (Praj[=a]pati) or simply The Father (pit[=a]).]

[Footnote 34:  Compare M[=a]it.  S iii. 10. 2; [=A]it.  Br. ii. 8; Cat.  Br. i. 2. 3. 5; vi. 2. 1. 39; 3. 1. 24; ii. 5. 2. 16, a ram and ewe ‘made of barley.’  On human sacrifices, compare Mueller, ASL. p. 419; Weber.  ZDMG. xviii. 262 (see the Bibliography); Streifen, i.54.]

     [Footnote 35:  Weber has translated some of these legends.
     Ind.  Streifen, i. 9 ff.]

     [Footnote 36:  T[=a]itt.  Br. iii. 2. 9. 7; Cat.  Br. i. 2.
     5. 5; ii. 1. 2. 13 ff.; vii. 5. 1. 6.]

[Footnote 37:  Compare M[=a]it.  S. i. 9. 8; Cat.  Br. i. 6. 1. 1 ff.  The seasons desert the gods, and the demons thrive.  In Cat.  Br. i. 5. 4. 6-11, the Asuras and Indra contend with numbers.]

     [Footnote 38:  Mueller, ASL. p. 529.]

[Footnote 39:  M[=a]it.  S. iv. 2. 12; Cat.  Br. i. 7. 4. 1; ii. 1. 2. 9; vi. 1. 3. 8; [=A]it.  Br. iii. 33.  Compare Muir, OST. iv. p. 45.  At a later period there are frequently found indecent tales of the gods, and the Br[=a]hmanas themselves are vulgar enough, but they exhibit no special lubricity on the part of the priests.]

     [Footnote 40:  Idam aham ya ev[=a] smi so asmi, Cat.  Br. i.
     1. 1. 6; 9. 3. 23.]

     [Footnote 41:  RV. viii. 51. 2; Zimmer, loc. cit. p. 328.]

[Footnote 42:  Compare Weber, Episch. in Vedisch.  Ritual, p. 777 (and above).  The man who is slaughtered must be neither a priest nor a slave, but a warrior or a man of the third caste (Weber, loc. cit. above).]

[Footnote 43:  Le Mercier, 1637, ap.  Parkman, loc. cit. p. 80.  The current notion that the American Indian burns his victims at the stake merely for pleasure is not incorrect.  He frequently did so, as he does