203-5, note.
[82-1] The analogy is remarkable between these and the "quatre actes de la puissance generatrice jusqu'a l'entier developpement des corps organises," portrayed by four globes in the Mycenean bas-reliefs.

See Guigniaut, _Religions de l'Antiquite_, i.p.374.It were easy to multiply the instances of such parallelism in the growth of religious thought in the Old and New World, but I designedly refrain from doing so.
They have already given rise to false theories enough, and moreover my purpose in this work is not "comparative mythology." [83-1] Mueller, _Amer.

Urreligionen_, p.

105, after Strahlheim, who is, however, no authority.
[83-2] Mueller, _ubi supra_, pp.

308 sqq., gives a good resume of the different versions of the myth of the four brothers in Peru.
[83-3] The Tupis of Brazil claim a descent from four brothers, three of whose names are given by Hans Staden, a prisoner among them about 1550, as Krimen, Hermittan, and Coem; the latter he explains to mean the morning, the east (_le matin_, printed by mistake _le mutin_, _Relation de Hans Staden de Homberg_, p.