Edward Carpenter, Loves 's Coming of Age (Manchester, England, Labour Press, 1896), S. 28

Ruth Benedict, Pattems of Culture (Boston, Houghton-Mifflin, 1935), S. 59

Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West (New York, Knopf, 1926)

Ebd., S. 40. Dies war der Fall in Griechenland, Ägypten, Phrygien, Syrien, im Irak, in Palästina und Kanaan.

James, The Ancient Gods, op.cit.. S. 91-92

Reik, op.cit., S. 69-70

E.O. James, The Ancient Gods (New York, Putnam's, 1960), S. 91

Raphael Patai, The Hebrew Goddess (New York, Ktav, 1968)

Robert Aron, The God of the Beginnings (New York, Morrow, 1966),S. 10-11

Theodor Reik, Pagan Rites in Judaism (New York, Farrat, 1964) S. 76