50, 51.] [Footnote 17: _Ib._ pp.

242, 248, 255; Schoolcraft, III.
229.] [Footnote 18: Renouf, _Religion of Ancient Egypt_; pp.

103, 113 ff.] [Footnote 19: Teutonic Tuisco is doubtful, as the identity with Dyaus has lately been contested on phonetic grounds.] [Footnote 20: V[=a]ta, ventus, does not agree very well with Wotan.] [Footnote 21: _[=A]it.

Br._ III, 34.

[Greek: haggaron pur] is really tautological, but beacon fires gave way to couriers and [Greek: haggaros] lost the sense of fire, as did [Greek: haggelos].] [Footnote 22: But the general belief that fire (Agni, Ignis, Slavic ogni) was first brought to earth from heaven by a half-divine personality is (at least) Aryan, as Kuhn has shown.] [Footnote 23: Compare the _kavis_ and _ugijs_ (poets and priests) of the Veda with the evil spirits of the same names in the Avesta, like _daeva_ = _deva_.