Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative MythologyHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1882 - 251 pages |
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Achilleus ancestors ancient Aphrodite appears Arabian arrow Aryan Aryan Nations Athene barbaric Baring-Gould beast belief bird body Brahman Cacus called cannibal carried century character Christian clouds common conception cows dark Dawn dead deity demon Devil divining-rod divinity Dyaus earth evidence explained fetichistic fiend folk-lore G. C. Lewis ghosts giant Gladstone Greek hand heaven Herakles Hercules Hermes Hindu Homeric poems human Iliad illustration Indra Ioskeha killed king language legend light Luxman Mara Max Müller Michabo mind moon myth mythical mythology nature never night night-demons Norse notion Odin Odysseus Oidipous once origin Panis phenomena philology philosophy primeval primitive Punchkin race regarded resemblance Rig-Veda Sanskrit Sarama savage schamir Sculloge Sigurd similar slays solar hero soul story strange superstition supposed swan-maidens tale Tannhäuser Tell theory thought tion told Troll Tylor Veda Vedic Vritra werewolf wife wolf words Zeus Zulu
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Page 213 - Sixpence,' his claim would be easily established, — obviously the. four-and-twenty blackbirds are the four-and-twenty hours, and the pie that holds them is the underlying earth covered with the overarching sky, — how true a touch of nature it is that when the pie is opened, that is, when day breaks, the birds begin to sing ; the King is the Sun, and his counting out his money is pouring out the sunshine, the golden shower of Danae' ; the Queen is the Moon, and her transparent honey the moonlight;...
Page 28 - JACK and Jill went up the hill, To fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown And Jill came tumbling after.
Page 50 - The clouds, too, had many other representatives besides ships and cows. In a future paper it will be shown that they were sometimes regarded as angels or houris ; at present it more nearly concerns us to know that they appear, throughout all Aryan mythology, under the form of birds. It used to be a matter of hopeless wonder to me that Aladdin's innocent request for a roc's egg to hang in the dome of his palace should have been regarded as a crime worthy of punishment by the loss of the wonderful...
Page 92 - ... at Thurso for a long time tormented an honest fellow under the usual form of cats, till one night he put them to flight with his broadsword, and cut off the leg of one less nimble than the rest; taking it up, to his amazement he found it to be a woman's leg, and next morning he discov. ered the old hag its owner with but one leg left.
Page 110 - The poets of the Veda indulged freely in theogonic speculations without being frightened by any contradictions. They knew of Indra as the greatest of gods, they knew of Agni as the god of gods, they knew of Varuna as the ruler of all ; but they were by no means startled at the idea that their Indra had a mother, or that their Agni [Latin ignis] was born like a babe from the friction of two fire-sticks, or that Varuna and his brother Mitra were nursed in the lap of Aditi.
Page 29 - Then Tannhauser, full of despair and with his soul darkened, went away, and returned to the only asylum open to him, the Venusberg. But lo ! three days after he had gone, Pope Urban discovered that his pastoral staff had put forth buds and had burst into flower. Then he sent messengers after Tannhauser, and they reached the Horsel vale to hear that a wayworn man, with haggard brow and bowed head, had just entered the Horselloch. Since then Tannhauser has not been seen
Page 226 - Seminoles of Florida, when a woman died in childbirth, the infant was held over her face to receive her parting, spirit, and thus acquire strength and knowledge for its future use Their state of mind is kept up to this day among Tyrolese peasants, who can still fancy a good man's soul to issue from his mouth at death like a little white cloud.
Page 228 - wraiths" and "fetches," the appearance of a double, like that which troubled Mistress Affery in her waking dreams of Mr. Flintwinch, has been from time out of mind a signal of alarm. " In New Zealand it is ominous to see the figure of an absent person, for if it be shadowy and the face not visible, his death may erelong be expected, but if the face be seen he is dead already. A party of Maoris (one of whom told the story) were seated round a fire in the open air, when there appeared, seen only by...
Page 27 - ... exiled thither for many centuries, and who is so far off that he is beyond the reach of Death. He has once visited this earth, if the nursery rhyme is to be credited, when it asserts that — " The Man in the Moon Came down too soon, And asked his way to Norwich ;" but whether he ever reached that city, the same authority does not state.
Page 156 - The victor returned to his grandmother, and established his lodge in the far east, on the borders of the great ocean whence the sun comes. In time he became the father of mankind, and the special guardian of the Iroquois.