Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative MythologyHoughton, Mifflin, 1898 - 251 pages |
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Achilleus ancestors ancient Aphrodite appears Arabian arrow Aryan Nations Athene barbaric Baring-Gould beast believe bird body Brahman Cacus called cannibal carried century character Christian clouds common conception cows dark Dawn dead deity demon Devil divining-rod divinities 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 language legend light Luxman Mara Max Müller mediæval Michabo mind modern moon myth mythical mythology nature never night night-demons Norse notion Odin Odysseus Oidipous old Aryan once origin Panis phenomena philology primeval Primitive Culture Punchkin race regard resemblance Rig-Veda Sanskrit savage schamir Sculloge Sigurd similar slays solar hero soul story strange superstition supposed swan-maidens tale Tannhäuser Tell theory thought tion told tribes Troll Tylor Veda Vedic Vritra werewolf wife wolf words Zeus Zulu
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Page 27 - 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 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 50 - Sultan's army from tlK iol«r ray*. 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...
Page 92 - ... and cut off the leg of one less nimble than the rest : on his taking it up, to his amazement he found it belonged to a female of his own species, and next morning discovered the owner, an old hag, with only the companion leg to this.
Page 230 - If an animal or a plant die, its soul immediately goes to Bolotoo; if a stone or any other substance is broken, immortality is equally its reward; nay, artificial bodies have equal good luck with men, and hogs, and yams. If an axe or a chisel is worn out or broken up, away flies its soul for the service of the gods.
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 was born like a babe from the friction of two fire-sticks, or that Varu;;a and his brother Mitra were nursed in the lap of Aditi.
Page 73 - the name of the Arctic regions rests on a misunderstanding of a name framed thousands of years ago in Central Asia, and the surprise with which many a thoughtful observer has looked at these seven bright stars, wondering why they were ever called the Bear, is removed by a reference to the early annals of human speech.
Page 211 - the time-honoured rhyme really wants but one thing to prove it a sun-myth, that one thing being a proof by some argument more valid than analogy.