... historical sense AMERICAN HERO-MYTHS. A STUDY IN THE NATIVE RELIGIONS OF THE WESTERN CONTINENT. BY DANIEL G. BRINTON, M.D., MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY; THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN ... p. 20, in Pinart, Coleccion de Linguistica y Etnografia Americana. Tom. iv.] [Footnote 5: Sir George W. Cox, An Introduction to the Science of Comparative Mythology and Folk- Lore, p. 17.] ... useful arts, gave them the maize or other food plants, initiated them into the mysteries of their religious rites, framed the laws which governed their social relations, and having thus started...