XVI-FATHER JOVE AND MOTHER VESTA. Similarity between the fire -customs of the Herero and the ancient Latins, Rites performed by the Vestals for the fertility of the earth and the fecundity of cattle, The Vestals as embodiments of Vesta, a mother-goddess of fertility, The domestic fire as a fecundating agent in marriage ritual, Newborn children and the domestic fire, Reasons for ascribing a procreative virtue to fire, Fire kindled by friction by human representatives of the Fire-father and Fire-mother, Fire kindled by friction by boy and girl or by man and woman, Human fire-makers sometimes married, sometimes unmarried, Holy fire and virgins of St. Brigit in Ireland, The oaks of Erin, Virgin priestesses of fire in ancient Peru and Mexico, The Agnihotris or fire-priests of the Brahmans, Kinds of wood employed for fire-sticks in India and ancient Greece.
