iii. chap. 13). Macrobius, so far from coinciding with
him, explains the great antiquity of Egyptian civilization by the
hypothesis that that country is so happily situated between the pole and
equator, as to escape both the deluge and conflagration of the great
cycle (_Somnium Scipionis_, lib. ii. cap. 10).
[201-1] Schoolcraft, _Ind. Tribes_, iii. p. 263, iv. p. 230.
[201-2] Oviedo, _Hist. du Nicaragua_, pp. 22, 27.
[201-3] Mueller, _Amer. Urrelig._, p. 254, from Max and Denis.
[202-1] Morse, _Rep. on the Ind. Tribes_, App. p. 346; D'Orbigny, _Frag.
d'un Voyage dans l'Amer. Merid._, p. 512.
[202-2] When, as in the case of one of the Mexican Noahs, Coxcox, this
does not seem to hold good, it is probably owing to a loss of the real
form of the myth. Coxcox is also known by the name of Cipactli, Fish-god,
and Huehue tonaca cipactli, Old Fish-god of Our Flesh.
[202-3] My knowledge of the Sanscrit form of the flood-myth is drawn
principally from the dissertation of Professor Felix Neve, entitled _La
Tradition Indienne du Deluge dans sa Forme la plus ancienne_, Paris,
1851.
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