tine Cornell University Library.
in
To-day he
development
of
the
to
make
gods a rather
machinery which has
discovered these analogies,
A
useful
the
countenance
personal
consultation,
they
general
the
them with
to
illustrate
his
theories
own
criticism
regard
has also used as examples many myths which appear in
the
several
is further
and
Religio?z.
Lastly,
he
If it be
best from each
system, the answer
is that one
compiling
them,
but
102
IV
(COSMOGONY)
158
VII
definitions
will
it
is
account of the deeds of a god
or
mythic
science
its
scope
with
some
and
has obtained the advice and assistance of most of the
leading
authorities.
The
authority, and he was invited
to comment upon it. Such comments and criticisms
on certain portions of the definitions
either displaced the original material or were
incorporated with it, first of all being reduced
to
In the Handbook
to-day, while folklore
the
sign
definiteness, and
folklore
of
belief
are
frequently
discovered
among
primitive
people,
but
the
expression
religious
beliefs.^
is with
science,
philosophy,
subject-matter
of
the
science
before
philosophic
mind
through
centuries,
and
the
present
time,
although
that
all
purely
scientific
as
its
origin
through
but
this
of
Life,
tions as are
as
opposed
to
universal
examples
which
it
is
an
integral
part.
The
to
the
distinguished
folklorist
who
author
dated
November
myths are setiological
*'must
not
be
identified with history. This claim is based upon two facts, the
presence
uf
myth]
of
thought
to
periods and among
a wholesale
position
to
mythology or in a still more disastrous rejection both of the
tradition and the
as
an
have
obviously
passed
through
and
revision
at
savage
pristine
history.
for
by
a
modern
priesthood
*
tribe.
From
issued
persuaded the
second to
ascend a
religion,
that
the
youngest
brother,
'animism' i.e. the
bestowal of a
bear
upon
He hands the
op. cit.,
p. 132.)
be a relatively
late manifestation in
occur spontaneously wherever
had
overthrown
Uranus,
him
tore
it
from
its
crone
;
father.
Now
we
quarters
swallowed
Thurn found
Scotch
peasants
Galloway. Basutos', Eskimos',
abduct
each
other's
wives,
they
murderer who
actually kills
was, although a god,
to
the
religious
myths
are mostly
or
that
phenomenon
the
lily
white,
These
replies
are
One
sky,
river,
lightning,
beast,
tree,
prove that
myths,
which,
as
that
the
earliest
with
animism
in
its
pure
form
It is,
their
living
representingthis
petrified
regarding
the
soul.
development
from
blank
unbelief
into
even
the
whose
mind
know,
the
found telling
of journeys
or
Spirit
from that
age. The
tales of
spirit journeys
forth,
placed
different
and
Pre-animistic Religion
primitive
phase
in
the
preface in his
vague. The
and the like, and before
such ideas have become dominant
factors
from *'two groups of
:
*'
a
living
'
animism, and
feiti^o^
all over the
in
the
because
a
bundle
of
**
to
has
rendered
excellent
in all
while
no
equivalent
is
tendered
object
of
peculiar
take
up
its
residence
there.
It
a
god,
gods proper
are of
their
temples
stones
representing
'nameless
is
of
Leith,
the
a few
oysters or
so
that
in
the
end
regarded
his
demands
in
the
According
therein an
in
days
flounders
from
their
was
the
storm.
Among
many
peoples
the
Tohil,
who
gave
the
represented
by
a
flint-stone.
found in the
old Gothic word
and placated
gifts from
that sea-harvest
a similar
possessed
priestess
of
the
inhabitants.
It
within
o'
To
the
possessors of
see that
Brounger was
with
the
supernatural
may
possess
a
common
origin
encountered in
myth. Briefly
or uses it as
or
to
be
related
to
it.
the totem
may not
it is
Examples of
the totem
fre-
many
of
the
Egyptian
28
dealing with the various
divisions, more or less
description
fetishistic,
a
and
often
it has sprung.
travel,
the
adoption
of
foreign
deities,
the
right
to
indeed
higher
must be
attributed to
30
this
bestows
personality
and
the
myth
has
undoubtedly
European
influence
is
discernible.
The
impudence
country
of
the
Jay
as
the
winged
god,
the
principle
of
'evil,'
or
perhaps
Blue
Jay.
It
recounts
how
Uitzilopochtli,
the
Aztecs
from
the
Underworld
god
of
war,
the
most
important
Aztec
pantheon.
To
him
human
sacrifice
was
Romano-Greek winged
Mercury was
form,
wore
a
national
deity
like
Uitzilopochtli,
Blue
Jay
that
The
so
under
a
myth which would apply to a bird- or animal- or
tree-god
might
of the sacred
and abominations
this
resulted
of the
the
invariably
identified
with
one
or
other
of
ancient
a process
the
famous
combat
in
question
of
mythic
original
the
hand
of
the
levity than
trinity
Babylonian
and
Accadian
concept
of
this
Mummu leave it, and are heard
of no more in
It may be that at this point the story was
taken
one
centre
and
throughout
 
the
the
remote
are
preserved
by
the
Australians . , .
likely, however,
that they
are closely
arrived
in
the
was not
studying.^
the
universal
seminated from one
a
common
origin
is
proved
by
widespread
examples
to ancient
original conception
gave rise
separated
and prehistoric
to Professor
alter
them
they
tend
they were
myth and folk-tale.
fact
prompt
indignation
at
story
are
sense,
then,
the
more
spirit
came
aboriginal product of a
elements
in
An
outline
—and
chiefly
is enabled
into
the
grave
and
notions
not
dealing
with
religious
science,
us from
sketch of the history
folklore.
He
they
example, as
the gods
an
allegorical
elements. According
on. Other
of
that
the principle of time,
we have in Pherecydes'
of Zeus
and Hera.
Socrates
their names.
*
then
Ephorus
(c-
400-330
B.C.)
the
legends.
B.C.)>
the
worship
of
passed through a
to real
men have
confused or identified
religious
leaders
like
Mohammed,
Magus,
Damascus de-
encouraged
a
later
belief
that
the
Arch-fiend
against
During the
professed to give an
and
Rome,
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
to
fetiches
existed among
Jesuit missionary among
of the
intuition. The mythologist is, like the poet, born not made,
according
to
Creuzer.
Although
induction,
He
saw
much
philo-
by
show that widely
with
language.^
The
leader
evolution
of
mythic
science,
was
Professor
position
for
the
entire
Miillerian
conception
of
taken
as
tionary theory
hamper
most
distinguished
language only. It was not until
the
study of
myth on
of the
or
Jupiter
which
Diaush-Pitar
in
Sanskrit
was
any
ambiguity
Many of his
ludicrous
its conclusions,
although the
had
1
of
the
the
rising
over
Cephalus—
that
the sun in manifold
the
gods and
its
zealous
William
Cox
(1827-
1902),
logical
tude
to
mythology,
and
this
young
mythologists
would
do
identical
means
Miiller
that
all
are habitually assigned by
might easily
philological
be uncertain
in its
ideas in
observed among
 
Myths
(1858)
of
finding
a
myths
by
As Lang
has said
knew
a
as solar
work may
James
George
Frazer
and
examples. There
are groups
simple
this will
and again
drive us
begin, so
mythology
may
be
taken
as
a
basis,
civilised
origin,
though
-
it
will
fact of its
as
personal
beings.
and thus, by the
coincide too
closely for
their effects
to be
1
Primitive
essential weakness,
describe is
flourished in the world.
the untutored
on nature-myth, says Tylor,
evidence
wanton
incredulity
as
scenes
their first
(Sol) was
A
number
of
is such
reflection
on
finally
discounts
:
to
overlook
transferred
would
neighbourhood
of
some
mountain
believe him-
is
the
first
from beast
Spencer
Lang
has
said,
and
of
forgetfulness
years from
mythology
that
The
sacred
lore
of
part of
obligatory
as
ritual from
the myth.
antique religions
is connected
the
myth
is
merely
the
explanation
of
a
of
the
origin
of
narra-
tive
of
real
will not
not
theories
thus
developed
are
plainl)' of great importance as testimonies to the views of
62
nature of the gods that were prevalent when they were
formed.
propounds
the
difficult
to
discover
why
and
the
prescribed
rules
of
myths
importance
to
religion.
priesthood,
it
underlies
upon
a
fundamental
therefore 60
take
hold
primitive
religion.
the myth.
correct,
in
a
of the
a
sentiment
would
myth,
which
ethical
was
not
one
could
not
also untrue.
faith.
64
as an ally
school,
only
remarked
already
the
;
ism
long
glides
over
questions
that rife
achievements of
question
of
each
other
themselves.
After
taking
The
Aryan
Sanskrit to Choctaw,
the
problem
the
daughters
of
a civilised fancy
indeed to Mr Max Muller, the ugly scars
were the problem.
cathedrals
on
of miracle
upon
primitive
fiction,
mood, that
contention
would seem
cannot
be
myth ends and religion
the Greek Zeus
to
be
it can owe
matters from
the women
and boys.
is certainly the work of priesthoods, and as it often
accompanies
ritual,
the
immobile
genuineness. Again,
the
necessarily
animal
in
their
characteristics.
(3)
The
preservation
degree
only,
myth
is
p.
is,
of
mythology.
It
is
phenomenon.
We
are
chiefly
occupied
historical
which have
we
tion thereof,
particular
province,
mythology,
of
and apparently useless
and accidental features
in the human
or
rudimentary
earlier
The
persistence
Lang
argues,
pressed
too
far,
and
intricate
mythical
plots^
The
the
judgment
of
the
borrowing
speak
with
authority.^
proves
that
Tiele
anthropologist
compares
the
Hottentot
a
meaning
among
Hottentots,
or
other
attending
our
evidence,
method.
In
Dr
myths
about
Hottentot
divine
Dr
Aryan
languages.
I
have
already
quoted
Dr
historical sense,'
said Mannhardt.
above
all
of
local
and
mythical names.' I do not see that it is easier
when these
names are
part of
the book
a
idea
of
came
first
in
world and he
it
does
not
are
universally
in
the
transition
Mohammedan.
This
criticism
Lang
and
collected.
for early
admit that it is
if, indeed,
they were
heaven.
This
specification
can
allude
to
wholly
admit the correctness of such a
statement.
His
quotes
74
in primitive
so does
so
beasts.
The
solar
beings
with
vegetation.
Frazer's
Main
Contention
Frazer's
sanctuary
of
Diana
office until
of
their
deriva-
tive
institutions,
a
default of direct
or less probable
which it
fulfils the
essentially that
;
god
chief forest god
coat of
tree-moss, was
Arician
76
only be
with that
to
the
the incorporate or
length because
(line
136
and
so
onwards).
Virgil
golden branch,
years
after
Virgil's
his own time,
is,
in
fact,
not
known
antiquarian
learning.
It
comment
a
Proserpine
carried,
only the
jEneidy
much about
a certain grove,
of
to break
a bough.
If any
if
successful.
having
himself
to
instead
of
sacrificing
immigrants,
always are.
explain the
Hippolytus was
raised from
grove
King
of
the
Wood,
and
him.
The
title
of
Wood, the
(among other
tried
is sacred, not
Aureus.
si te
if you are Arthur
casual
branch
of
connect it with the
plucked
by
fugitive
challenge, but a talis-
slaves,
strongly
built,
At least,
in the
which
of the bird-and-serpent
many
outstanding
divine
forms
in
so rare
classifying
primitive
that religious experience is
classification, and
a period as
*
science
than
in
parative
works
on
particular
mythologies
are
of
Golden
New
Religion,
unless
Sir
James
Frazer's
great
work
'second-hand.'
In
works
dealing
he
possesses
the
faculty
of
seeing
resemblances
mythology,
again.
E.
J.
Payne
Edward
John
Payne,
in
his
History
of
mentioned above.
much the same state
of the
dare cast
has
*'
man
from
in
the
study
of
religious
science.
In
1905
Smith,
been a lowlier part
to diffuse them as
the
word
I read some lucubrations on
the Biblical
Maspero
and
Hamy.
The
heard
anti-Semite, an epithet
the
antiquity
and
English
kicked
most
obstinately
against
the
pricks
now
acknowledge
that
the
system
are
tales
:
evident. Some
myths, he
repeated for
priated to
tales
ere
from the beginning were tales
and not merely single incidents
;
produce a
unity of
(P.
254.)
and semi-consciously
story an analogous
interest would easily spread
the
spheres
religion may manifest
religious conscious-
the
whole
speculation
associated
with
an
carded
in
the child,
of the religious
being
informed
not take
one class of myth
influence
which furnish
are
as
much
can
exist
;
played
by
animism,
mythology,
a
man,
ere
he
into personal
(p. 149):
at
myth as
such state religion.
Early Celtic and
explain ritual, but such
myth
which
gave
rise
mana.
One
permitted by the
that
on the
assumption, the
not,
Historia
other tradition
a comparatively simple matter
fact
or from folk-tale
traditional
narrative,
the
myth,
long
old,
the
professed lover of
all
examination
of being
determined. The
date when and the circumstances in which a tradition is first
reduced
to
literary
is
preserved
they
date and of circumstances
the
student
its age, its
origin, and its
the
tradition.
Tradition
can
never
assume
the
to belong
of
thought
or
historic
cause of
the mythologists ;
the second
more disastrous rejection both of the
tradition
history
history which properly
belongs to it,
and something is
to trace
philosophical
Hindoos
and
determine the place of
and Aphrodite.
In Dr
respectively cults of
the
mandrake,
doctor's
itself
is
a
later
the
owl
the vine)
just as
view,
an
ivy
explanation by
Pythian games.
In this
way it
mistletoe
upon
the
apple-
tree
for
the
as some
next
Asklepios
were
transferred
Apollo
herbalist, and
of healing
of
the
other
short space of
logic
and
array
these
subterranean
gropings
different
appearance
the
a
few
finding
their
more
or
less
Birth of
the
possibility
of
tracing
begins with
not
an
inventive
mummification of the
and
the
early
idea
of
godhead
king,
whose
It
who
breath of life
incense
life. Mummification,
were built
up into
connected
aspirations
which
are
now
of water,
in connexion with
gods
and
of
current
Smith, is
dragon
myth,
however,
elixir
was
human
blood
to make
a
much-distorted
rumour
of
the
incidents
of
interpretation,
and
also
and
legendary
complications
is
we
ponder
as
Xalaquia
the
worn-out
goddess,
once
towered
above
the
entrance
reproduced
in
a
was a
distorted echo
of the
Egyptian.
But
the
evolutionary
process
is too apparent in Mexican art to permit of such an
hypothesis.
that
goddess,
not
to the
a
any
definite
to
quote
more
most
too much
as proven
data
prophetic
greater
number
of
beliefs,
prepared
with
adequate
means
he alone
has the
occupied
three
be greatly exceeded
myth who
and we will
and
place claimed
by religious conservatism
prevalence
of
associated
with
the
conception of
from
among
which
conception
has
been
provided
does not require
the
question
stage in
The
separable
of spirit or soul is concerned,
in sympathy
with the
animistic hypothesis
of
comparative
a worthy rival
should
spiritualiz-
is,
relic
of
was beheld was worshipped, but that period
must indeed have
probable
contemporary,
dawn of reason.
spirit,
could
scarcely
deny
it
him
when beheld in the convulsions of nature, as in the thunder-
storm or
winds and
how
to
unseen,
soul thus evolved
in fetishism,
evolved
from
ancestors
survive
more
than
several
generations,
religion of
a
and food,
or because
good or evil treatment
It is by no means
a tutelar deity, since it may be
bought
or
sold,
shape or
character, inhabiting
same. Says Mr Davenport Adams of the
Samoyede
image-
makers^
in the
minor
into
fishery,
a
removed
bank. Then his
dish
of
fish
will
him, are considered to
promising
further
offerings
of
the
appear to
them in
sacrifices
principle
which
lies
they are intended
are beings of
naturally invisible, but
earth, is conceived to be their proper element : it is
at any rate
must be committed
of doing
on the ground,
air
perhaps by
previous fasting,
blood,
spilled
the carcase
was
the
the
narcotics, perfumes,
parts
of
easily volatilised.
the
fish
abound,
and
agriculture
remains
in
its
rudiments,
the
region
of
these
purposes.
the
penates
an Aramaean sheikh
family gods when she crossed the
Euphrates
gods with
regarded
as
markets or
merely
totemic
in
origin.
These
says,
not necessarily totemic.
symbolically
by
work
been
conserva-
tive.
as its totem,
realize
the
not
yet
the
enormous
marvellous
adaptability
retaining
the
sun-goddess,
cat pure
humming-bird
shape
to
he
attained
man
wearing
on
his
manner
food.
Great
care
was
bestowed
mortem
welfare
of
of
his
a
watched
the
of Vishnu
a
niche
in
the
orthodox
pantheon.
a god.
No such
number
Compact with
the Gods
in the
fetish state
It
is
a
case,
as
the
this
fundamental
remains
the
not
deity,
and
beings, for his
an object
dwell
together
to
in turn
maintain thee
with sacrifice.
the corn-spirit,
and banish the older animistic deities of the chase? These
certainly
sink
into
hold
by
later
political
to
In what manner, then,
'ghost,*
or
object.
Representations
of
corn-
and
maize-gods
almost
invariably
show
them
returning
waters
legend, his
Isis
placed
is possible for
him to soar and
deity
exigencies
and
a guardian
which
Persephone and other
god
hands
both
savage
and
the
superior to that of
fully
interpretation.
doors
The
as many pitfalls
method, linguistic, solar,
let none be
evolution
these
and
air,
hunting,
higher
with
the
explanation of such
and
nomadic to
set
can procure, he
animal killed,
see
with
what
simple
religious
elements
the
train. He
recognizes other
personal
Later
he
great
hunter,
The wind and the
the breath and
fervour as
his sustenance on the
may
once
fear,
its
advice
or
magic
is
of
gods
which
preside
pon whose good-
after
scorched and withered
ever-present
sun
must
no scientific
old animistic idea of the
sun as a
religious
ideas)
that in later
idea
introduce
the
abode,
usually
in
a
westerly
Python,
the
serpent
of
Behind
these
anthropomorphic
conceptions,
however,
lurked
the
the Babylonian
of
the
sun as deity, let us attempt to discover first his attributes
as a
myth
attaches
to
him.
other direction. Abundant criticism has been launched
against
the
always
mythological
merits
alone.
the attributes
as
themselves. In
disentangling solar
A
rough
so
poor
was
it
with
the
drink
and
food
seizing
his
sojourn
in
Delos
was short, and a second hymn tells us of his
westward
wanderings,
of
how
he
white
mists,
until
favoured land
Parnassus,
where
the
that he
is confronted
over Parnassus,
favour
was the
but it was not as such that he was known
to the later
Indra, Cadmus, Horus,
been
interwoven
springs
into
almost
instant
prominence
and
is
itself
to
Table
of
be little
doubt. Other
bird form
obvious
distinct
presentation of
the deity who wielded the bolts of Heaven, or launched the
lightning
transition
their bird-like
as a
bird pure
Vancouver
of
metal.
The
thunder
of
Thor
is
produced
observe
here
war,
Mexican
god
range far and wide
lightning flash is symbolized
serpents, and
the
The Roman
Mars so
appears in
the song
and
as
Mars
might be connected
struck
but a
good many
goddess.
As
the
corn-
so
much
the
same
and
grasping
the connexion
a
parts
of
men
voyages,
would
naturally
navigation became
general. His
relation to
the other
gods would
regarded
in the scale of
universal mother, the
nocturnal abominations.
touched
upon.
This
moon, was also regarded as god of writing, and therefore,
by
goddesses, a patron of human fertility
and love. But
harvest.
grains and
an
individuals of a class
adventures, and
distinguished from
It
over
which
many other
by
connected
with
associated
with
the
of the sea.
Demeter
agriculture
may
the crops
one might
unquestionably
symbolic
of
and
king of the dead, was sought
for
in
corn-spirit
origin.
The
the
King
of
Byblos
through
incidents, well illustrate the
—
the wheat,
necessity
once
more
the
corn
sprouts
obvious
from
often an
artificer in
have
metals,
comparatively
recent
origin.
In
India
from men to
which arises from
his
appearance
Hephsestus
for
laboured in the bowels
does
Greek god.
with
the
giants, thus typifying
the twofold nature of fire as a friend and an enemy. He
was
A yellow
serpent sprawling
across his
hearth,
truly
departmental
animistic
conception
of
Agni, and Yibil,
breeze. In some
subordinate
position,
whereas
in
one of the
deified. Of course
its
movement
parents were separated.
just as
that
the
primeval
conception
dwelt in
before
one
god
was
signifies
seismic
there
was
'Tasting
finger to the
earth-god.
that
In
the
however.
An
earth-goddess
in
nant
to
have
had
a
more
agricultural
has been
an
observance
annual
Margaret
It can be traced back at least to the period
of the last
whose mother
was thirteen years of age at the date of that battle
(1746),
stated
that
Queensferry. On the
or
house
the village, summer
returning
or
reviving.
At
companions collect
swathe her
in birch
in
'
on the
2nd of
to
personify
a
sheaf,
and
in
procession
through
the
spring
the
children
choose
or fall,
mummers
by
flowers
and
given.
representation of the
elsewhere.
Myths of journeys
Myths
regarding
the
world of
Irin Mage,
each cycle
fifty-two years dwelt in
dread lest the period for the destruction of the earth by fire
had at
that
following
an
was
Central
America.
which a
cane
is
almost
universal,
and
with
rise
to
other hand
dwarf-parrots
among
the
other tribes. Only among
The idea of its
the
Bororos
and
districts.
As
the
four
outstanding
stars
hero
Tin,
and,
calling
upon
most
as a
formation
finds
expression
roots
spreading
southward
and
mythical twin-heroes Keri
this day
of
Orion
is
compared
by
daughters
of
Pleion,
with
whom
him.
The
wifely
relationship
(Tupi), Ceiguce
order to
forth two eggs, from which a boy and girl are
hatched, both
ornamented with stars. The girl, decked with seven stars, is
Seuci ; the boy,
perhaps Orion's belt. The children return
home
by
the
performance
of
stones.
Myths
of
Death
and
Taboo
magic or the
myth
tells
how
Mani
tried
to
the tale
the
her fear
husband for some time
attendant
the
matrimonial
and master, the
part
evilly disposed
victim, who
practice
gave
birth
some
future
period
will
good
and
evil
deities,
and
to
parallels.
Leda as a swan).
Algonquins. Manibozho, born of a virgin.
Hurons.
Joskeha,
born
Thlinkeet Indians. Yetl the
being
world.
The
creator
constantly thwarted
who,
for
every
good
and
beautiful
evil).
Babylonians,
afterward
collected.
Sunday.
Russia7is.
the mother
a vast
body
of
Tiawath.
the
giant
Ymir.
on
his
began his work of creating.
Japanese,
rose.
all things.
Iroquois Indians.
Mexicans. Tonacatecutli breathes
stillness and
Moulder,
abyss, calls
mouth of
beavers,
apes,
or
issued
from
caves.
Aztecs.
Ausiraliajis.
Pund-jel
makes
descended
rain.
Heracles,
son
Kiches. Hun-Apu and
emerged Apocatequil and
mission.
Toltecs.
Hueymactzin.
Australians.
Pund-jel.
things.
Hebrews.
Adam,
neglected
150
The moon
burns
a
wakes;
dying
made
easy.
Hurons.
Atsensic
Australians,
Woman
that men
of the upper
to die for
separated
from
him
is
kept
safe
or
remains
concealed,
its
owner
is
immortal.
(2)
Other
myths
dealing
with
Hebreivs.
hair.
by
Charon.
Romans,
Ceylon,
who
war with Rama.
Malays. Tree-trunk across boiling lake to
'
(hair).
U7iiversaL
grow
dark,
and
high
flames
Xbalaqnue
of the food
there, is unable
food of
Greeks.
Persephone.
are said
to cause
water).
Miiyscas.
Chia
the
the
sky.
gods
Hindus. Prajapati and his daughter become constellations.
Bushme?z. Metamorphosed men.
Mexicans. Quetzalcoatl
becomes a
general
Pentheus, to
prevent
ghosts'
return.
157
AND
that
*
have
been
the
chief
creation
tales
themselves,
of
those
tales
abyss
Was
it
beneath
Who
speculations of the
did
not
satisfy
of considerably
later origin
the
summer
animals with
they
the being
the
soul
Satapatha Brahmana,
much
as
gods.
creation of men and
his
eye,
a
soul,
therefore
they
say :
gives quite
a different
the
universe,
He desired
me
disappear '
She
be-
came
a
cow,
Kalu
(time).
any immediate
say
excellent
natural
abode
inscrutable,
assumed
a
perceptible
abided in it
that
^g%
were
the
continents
of
the
universe,
converted the world into
mystery, we find in papyrus
io,i88,
312
two
are a little
a form
through his godlike
was
;
performance
of
his
creative
Shu and
sun
was
manufactured
god,
included
in
and
Neb-er-tcher.
He
is
or the
which
were
created.
Like
Neb-er-tcher,
of multitudes of
alone, and
of
creation
at
the
command
of
formed the cosmic egg
man on his potter's
metal
plate or slab, each end of which rested upon a mountain, the
mountain of sunrise,
each
corner
resting
upon
and
the
were
shaped
like
and
the goddess
monsters
and
carries
on
unrelenting
she is anni-
sun,
moon,
part
body formed the
personified the primeval
Apsu, the name of
or
'great
fish'
of
Jonah.
Chinese
World-Making
Chinese
myth
divided into the male
became four,
from the
constituents
his breath the
Genesis
i,
6,
7,
14,
15
that
placed the heavenly
Tiawath
which kept
the
English
Bible
mass
germs.
This
^g^
quickened
Heaven,
ter-
restrial
sphere,
like
the
floating
transformed
into
of
Heaven
and
peered
into
the
brother
and
sister,
day
dawned
sweat, and
the man Gayomart.
a
by Muspel-
Muspelheim beating
the drops
at
four streams
of milk.
moisture ;
and
father of Odin.
Ymir, while asleep,
the
sky,
from
of
the sun was
like man
himself, was
semi-liquid mass,
and ulti-
Water-Sun
was
sometimes
identified
with
Tlaloc,
or
Xiuhtecutli
was
of fire, became transformed,
the
performance
signified
to
the
worshippers
from
Mayas
owners.
forests were
swept away.
complete creation
story, which
may be
sacred
book.
waste
of
*'the Old Ones
Xmucane.
Then
came
hurls
spoken
produced
by
Great Spirit, a former
sooner or later
living
beings
requires
some-
thing
more
the universe
Incan
rule,
when
a
declared that
by the
to earth
to
each
one,
and
he
ordered
son,
whom
Pachacamac
slew
an order
life of
which
we
are
living
at
present ;
that
was
the
who remained
of one
;
perfect
concord,
in
the
repose
of
a
primeval
chaos
know
them,
form
simply
nations, it s
One
god
of
great
creature corresponds in
the god from whose position it has fallen. In certain
single
cases
opponents
the
victor
says,
'
;
this
hke a Parthian
present
and
which
Argentina
animal
the waters of
suddenly
to
recreate
the
of
speech,
and
bird failed to
some
were not
it
palm himself
Sigu
into
the
water
beneath
to
at length
he heard
had
passed.
human
were saved
beautiful bird,
water the
a myth that Aimon
from which the
followers saved
by
a
river
different
linguistic
divisions
in
California,
the
similarity
of
who discovered
the world
beings
but these
creation had been buried.
the
universe.
the
Siamese
twins.
They
met
the
part
or
interest
existence
it.
now
that
their
original
the
of
the
Zufti
the coming together
they exchanged
the mystical twin heroes
up
so
much
earth
until
at
last
Keri
and
Kame
Zufli
earth. From
These beings after
beetle constructed
a man
gave power
to the
early
a powerful
authority
gives
the
as
thunder-
storms
the
idea
that
influence
being
or
its
curious than
Indians
and
A
Tupi-GuARANi
Legend
a
in South
of
stealing
184
184
his daughter,
fruits
were
of the
approach and
of his
the magic bird
had long been in love
with
united in the
maiden.
the banks
mother of
my children,
of
his
new
companion
the
on
earth.
The
of
Fate
the
earth
skies,
while
herself
in
chief
these
traced to
denying the
circulation of
lack the
thing
from
all or
most barbarian
elsewhere
(see
1854
or
1855,
and
was
successful
the
city
of
Guatemala.
It
was
convent
at
Chichicastenango,
manuscript, which
Guatemala^
took a copy
side
is
and vuh or
annals of which the
of
authentic
personages.
It
may,
the
Heimskringla
of
Snorri,
no
signs
of
Christian
Ossian
the same
has
given
it
The
fact
that
it
was
illustrate
the
point
in
question.
the
Indians
caught
the
notion
account in
a reviewer in a weekly
journal
and classical
point
of
virtual
impossibility
in
mind,
as
it
is
of
constant
occurrence,
can
possibly
obtain.
190
length the
depths, but not
same legend
given by
once perceive that Christian
accept the
at
the
following
those
The
original
the face of
(Egypt),
world is
original
PRINCIPAL
CREATION
since
the
beginning
which to
reproduce themselves.
propagate
original
deity.
Babylonia
are
springs
is formed.
splits into
on
one
side
(5)
These
gods
progeny
save
(2)
principle.
(4)
Man
passes
from
transformed
unite and give birth to
islands,
seas,
bodies.
19^
of punishment are
will
ever
—
myth, however,
those peoples in
who
delighted
in
often
their
abode
antiquity,
we decide
to ethical
world,
or
attempt
to
place
But
it
must
be
borne
in
not
concerned
with
195
sake of
means
later development
of the
was not origin-
but
when slain,
was bravely
Again, they are often
of
and abounding
dead. Hel was a
the
world.
due,
Huntsman (no other than Odin) on his
weird nightly chase.
Charle-
warriors
fallen
god
in
feast
stag
Eikthyrmir
heroes.
Its
portals
were
this myth is
Mexico, where the
remember,
lack of
we find that at
were
Cult oj
Othin\ and
sometimes the
he might be induced to put
an end
to a
Valhalla
reception
concerning
the
darkness
exactly
texts of
ver}- considerable
on his
behalf. Another
whose
human
world
above,
which
one
being
directed the course of
chief of Heaven.
upon
subsisted
bearing
heavy
crops,
where the
secure
the Paradise
no
ground
for
been
confounded
that of the
dweller in towns.
regarded
as
a
place
of
Ra
of
the
accuracy
of
but it
is usually
employed in
dead
Assyria's
was full
every
description,
through
inas-
of
wisdom,
and planets, so that
living
bodies,
mythology. This
Heaven. The gods
Sin, the
followed
by
of the gods
and assumed supreme
was
perhaps
a
more
alike after
death, and
meet
thrones
all
Art thou also
?
 
the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover
thee.
1
1
The
read
this
the Biblical verses
in
of
are said,
the
fears,
the
desires,
the
whispers, the songs
we list
—
especial
torment
and
merits pre-
not feel
syste-
matically
despise
to
eternal
altogether
realm, Sheol
;
before
Him,
SheoL Sheol was silent
murmur ; neither in
God.
It
had
from
punishment,
and
an
darkness or
to come is
together
are
to
Mishnah is
foretold
selected
and
his
At
first
an
'eternal
house'
appropriate habitations.
abstract
regions,
Hades,
their
worth,
into
on its western,
stream had
no mouth
mingle with
the sea
Plato described a still more gloomy region. He speaks of
the plain of
of
infernal
on
a
in
Petelia
at
the
regarded as one of
was
Pluto,
brother
of
Zeus
spouse of
he
was
feared
by
Greek
mythology,
how-
ever,
good
and
of
the
perfect
kingdom.
this delectable country. In Hesiod, in addition to this descrip-
tion, Elysium is
father
of Prague and
be
traced
with
any
certainty.
world,
and
the
;
preserved,
to
be
restored
The
and
fruitfulness.
Buyan
a
potent
Like everything else connected
burning, dazzling brilliance.
Peklo also was
;
signify
Christian ideas,
mention
Sometimes,
as
has
been
indicated,
the
soul
be
situated
in
the
hollow
Sidhe or elder
Some
think
sojourn in that
the
tropical
blooms
feign that
there is
plenteousness of
green maize,
variegated blossoms.
race was
Mictlan, presided
over by
Mictlantecutli (Lord
who fared thither
telling him
to a
offered gifts to its lord
—coloured paper, perfumes, and torches,
mantles and
whose shores dwelt
to
carry
them
across
the
stream.
sunny
days
and
natives
to
Roger
Williams,
Our knowledge is scanty of the doctrines taught by the
Incas
he
and
abode
continual
home
of
great luminary
bridged either by
land
Those who entered it
gourds,
plantations
is stated in
were
but
death
the
ghosts,
the irrevocable
and
which is spirited away
a similar belief.
of Yucatan,
it came
reason
the
personal
name
was
sacred
regarded
as
part
of
the
ego might
peoples
of
both
Americas.
In
the
the
occurs
morning star,
He
returns
to
earth
with
recognize the
From
her
an
him immune.
The myth
was probably
of South America
in the body, is feared and respected in the spirit-
world. Those who were related
in
develop, and for
its
murder
of
spirit cannot take
to
enjoy
such
spirit
form,
and
the living,
about, do
by
the
lower
that it moves over
and the
sustenance.
Others
of
hold
that
serfdom 'for
beyond
the
grave,
savage
judged
does
life.
and
more upon philosophic than
barbaric
stage,
a
headship,
of
Hades,
and
myths in which
that of the
was grafted on
the already accepted
the chief of
had grown
sun
good,
the
nourisher,
him in his
of
the
great
mountains,
death of his
in
some
region
 
region,
he
would
argue
of
old
time
reason
astrologer-priests
The scenery
of the
cavernous.
policy
or
contempt
of
the
conquerors.
chief gods
principles
govern
it
will glean much
former *'the study
living faith,
Folklore
as
an
But the myth lives on through
the affections
of the
All
whole
theory
falls
to
that
exactly
non-Aryan
Max
gods and
metamorphosed
dimly-remembered
customs
incidents for
susceptible of
not
of
Language^
Mr
Sayce
admits
'that
instances in which
did
beliefs, tradi-
stance,
perhaps
of
student
of
bring
the
relics
of
St
Andrew
to God. The
was
whether she
where she
Throughout
the
bhndness, and
Fair.
Authorities
are
divided
of
by
have
been,
as
is
generally
original well.
This building
since
the
restoration
of
this
chapter-house
modern
engineering
skill
has
flow of
the sightless in hope
Thus
sore
eyes,
and
Miss
not the
'Young Tamlane
or
wee man. The portion of
the
well-
beneath.
mystic
cauldron
very clear
cause to
a
dishonoured
goddess,
rather
than
in
the
eration.
From
those who follow
to
give
where
possible
examples
;
;
a
local
story
with
in
the
ascribing
a
although
it
first
took
up
residence
in
the
cottage
attached
to
in
Leith,
specially
suitable to his
years at sea.
he
of absence
for a week. On his return at the termination of that
period
it
to be
spend
vacation
a
at
suspicions that
When
brief
exit
he
returned
with
half
a
vessel
to
the
spy
boat was seen far in advance and close inshore on
the
Mid-
lothian side of the river. On the right, near North
Berwick,
Gordon
steered
his
craft
shipped his
gigantic
figures
digging. At this
any
farther,
very same day he gave
a
leave his situation. At the
end of that time it was
rumoured that he had bought up
nearly
the
entire
buildings
was
this
addressed
as
and
days, and one by
called upon
the room
as were in
their
at
who
many
annoyances
by
paid
On
dance
that
they
ceased, and for
then
a
terrible
through
of
the
laid the
unacquainted with
the local
iron-bound
chest, in which were the titles of the properties in Broad
Wynd.
to rest upon
drank
given
by
Wierus
or
Wier,the
great
demonologist,
we
find
a
certain
does
not
possess,
a
certain
isolated
the known
Historical Science
compre-
hensive
kind
may
of
Guatemala
allusions
to
That of the
never
be
spoken
of. If it were, the whole crew would start, grasp the
nearest iron
class
of
torrent is set free.
whose
Highlands is
loss to assign a
terror
when
such
were mentioned
 it
but
sharp
one) ;
a
the
sea
undergo
were originally
to
of ancient
comes
of
a
family
in
which
been
practised
for
many
generations.
I
may
been the
accumulation in
such families
of much
Roman
minor
but
wizards
and
their
traditions,
the
latter
unconsciously
charm
are old
people in
by
their
or Theocritus.
acquainted
in
1886,
and
have
is true
long practice has per-
of her kind.
religione,
female
it
of
of
comparative religion, but
to myth.
question
The only
238
ritualistic rather
with
ritual
movements
in the
the
tongs
does
give them
that of
music
his
hammer
part of the ritual
past by some
Of
Peebles
May,
on
the
and the old custom or ritual
would
unquestionably
practice
of
Rood
churches
day of May,
meet on the
moors. They cut a table on the green sod, of a round shape,
to
hold
the
up,
they
divide
the
cake
into
persons
in
the
company.
portions
with
charcoal
until
the
black
Baal,
whose
favour
the different
other as a
Scotland^ thus described
of
their Beltane (a
in the ground,
eggs, oatmeal, butter,
plenty
cake of oatmeal,
or
to
his
shoulder,
says
the
being
whom
he
thanks,
of
to
light
which
Me-na-bealtine,
in
the
Irish,
Dor
Keating''
of the
find
in
the
god
of
Day festival. It is alluded
to by Ferguson, who
to
wring
and freckles,
the morning of
seen an object
limb from limb and
explanatory
As
Falstaff
says
without the
senses,
he
it. The
circumstances point
much light
against
secondary
interpretations
of
ritual,
which
in
most
244
of myth
are ancient
portant
passages
deeds
they
celebrate,
the
of
Central
America,
the
information
was
second-hand
of
the
only
thankful
treats
of
soul
Heliopolis, and
was based
Pepi contain
and Xlth Dynasties.
its
arrangement.
As
pictures
was necessary
door-
keeper,
the dead, and
place
in
the
mountains
of
Memphis
ofthe damned
council, and in the seventh sat the god Osiris, with
Thoth
and
Anubis.
pro-
vide
that
first
tenet in the creed of all good mythologists—not, of course,
that
reveals
that
that
Anapou's
intimated
him
by
the
Seven
Pharaoh
that
Bitou
had
a
beautiful
girl away.
the
acacia-
tree,
whereupon
the
who
he
was.
to
animal's
neck
these, and Pharaoh
his chair
chip
time she had a
he
succeeded
several
worship. At the
had
had
was
others.
a
to be of high
some two
It is
by no means infrequently
of various
legends of
to be.
of a god,
and
protege
he
is.
The
people
of
Erech
at
length
subdue him.
the
gazelles
as
with news
of him
falls before
freedom
episode of the heroes'
with Khumbaba
between
light
and
darkness.
of
fertility
and
of
expedition to the forest of cedars, Gilgamesh lays aside his
armour
and
becoming
state.
desires him for her
thou
But Gilgamesh
will have
In a speech
her treatment
Tabulu and the gardener
cruel tortures
and
shame
appeals
to
her
of
describes
the
gloomy
and
wretched
aspect
of
which
recounts
mutilated condition.
and
a
great dread comes upon him, so that he resolves to go to
the
abode
of
his
Ut-Napishtim,
the
downward
from
the Mountain of the
the sea,
persuasion
him
across
his quest
(to learn
the secret
suspicions
domains
day
on
ship
raven, and the
Ut-Napishtim and all his household came out and offered a
libation
gods
descended
the lady of
wroth
to
raise
Ut-Napishtim
his
quest
still
unfulfilled
he
was
obliged
death,
and
sojourn
until
restore him to
length Ea hearkens and intercedes with Nergal, god of the
Netherworld, who consents
care for
the Under-
wretchedness.
We
astrological
Aquarius,
the
water-bearer;
while
equivalents
The generic
Brahmanical
scriptures.
The
Veda
comprised
a
of
appended
three
Aryan
settlers
in
India,
veda,
resemblances
India
between
logical allusions which enrich
a
attributes
usefulness as a
tells
of
a
in its
development. It
epics, the ///Wand
tradition-
antiquity nothing is known of their early history save what
may be gleaned from
that
are generally
in
her
nature,
becoming
a
bird
form they reached the
the Hesiodic tales
Artemis, all the
time by the
pen of Homer,
primitive chronique
Homeric
to
his
the
weak.
To
his
duties
of
man.
Round
shown, it has not. It has
likewise
been
brought
aspect in the
Odyssey from which
exigencies of composition than
to a different author.
widest
more
the
works
of
the
ancient
poet
formed
the
scriptures
of
the
Greek
religion,
the
very
foundation-stone
it
are
said
seventh
century
A.D.,
these
mythic
annals
712,
and
gave
her
as
helper
the
the Japanese
early
sovereigns.
same
ground
it
occasionally
alters
slightly,
supplementing
here
remainder of the
therefore does not
fall to be
the
hero-gods
of
the
Scandinavian
Iceland
from
about
105
composed in
collected
from
oral
tradi-
tion.
The
is
the
later
Scandi-
whole extremely difficult to
myth
myth
which
recounts
Scandinavia
is
and
who
became
the
up
Jarl,
to the
myth
as
hero-story.
The
principal
manuscript
of much
mythological interest.^
and these are
Red
Book
of
Hergest,
a
fourteenth-century
manuscript
eval
ana-
also
divine.
So
tales. One
of
Wales,
while
were the
borrowers. This last theory is rendered untenable by the fact that
the Mabinogion
to have
the older cycle of the Tuatha
de
as of
old mytho-
logical origin.
that
to a
Sahagun, a
Not
content
to
take
at
second-hand
mythological
deities, their
book.
The
acquaints
us
with
the
circumstances
of
the
manner
the
A
magnificent
example
what occurred
gods
to
consultation
primeval
deities
who
Green
The wretched
mannikins, taken
away,
and
the
little
After
which at last
to
who
father,
earth the
to
Vukub-Cakix,
extracted
his
teeth.
With
magicians,
who
Zipacna to
to
into
ever, tumbling down a ravine,
was
killed
by
by
overstrain-
ing
himself
by
Hunhun-Apu
of
ball,
the
America. The
attention of the
by its rulers Hun-Came
secret
societies
their
grandmother,
but
which had
small
a
number
of
and when they
were shut
up for
House
of
body in
Xibalbans, and hit the ball close to the ring, whereupon
a
rabbit
away. The
ball, pursued
hung up
as magicians,
so
forth.
Hun-Came
267
work. Post-
and Vukub-Hunapu,
the four hun-
The
first
three
religion.
Tulan-
a
thunder-deity,
struck
as required.
a bat
acquiescence
All
the
condition
as other
sat
tribal
gods
great attack
settlement on the
with great loss to the invaders. The death day
of the
calling
the
behind
them
a
bundle
which
bundles of
possessed by their
to
obtain
the
insignia
of
but
little
of
the
matter
that
As has been
as the
Popol Vuh.
aboriginal character,
and that
most
difficult,
and
for
the
269
Ximenez
and
the
French
translation
of
Kiche,
I
language,
the
Old
Testament.
American
Indian
Mythic
Writings
also
Red
was ever
verse
order,
had
published
of
strictest
literalness,
were
in
former
was
a
history
ferred
themselves
power
of
increasing
his
stature
at
will.
the Mitchell
and
beauty of its
who
poem,
venture to say from
the
created animals.
made them
smaller and
weaker in
order that
drinking
but the
beaver dodged
heart to
drown them,
the
them
By
haunts of
men, yet
many Indians sought his abode, though the way was long
and
arduous,
the
extreme.
This
befell
Glooscap.
One
was
of
many
and the fulfilment
received
a
and
on
the
issued
host
of
witches
in
root,
and
Glooscap
it
with the
sound, soon
This so
Bird-who-blows-
the-winds.
Many
islands, streams,
The fifth part of the epic treats mainly of the
god's en-
poem
down,
and
his
and
pro-
ceeded
their
queen, whose name was Summer, he hid her in his bosom.
Then he retraced his
still
of Glooscap he determined
to throw the deity into a sleep that would last for ever; but
this time
the hidden
the northern
bore
with
splendid
wigwam,
its earliest and
state of
the sagas
Indians, all celebrate the
poetry
many
had
rebirth of learning
fashion
for
literary
authors,
who
of letters known as
principal figures
of Latin
and Greek
made plenteous
Morris,
and
Swinburne,
as
well
as
the ancient
made use
the poem
in the
light of
light may
but
not
the
Panthea?
What
crime against
how
some
by
Zeus,
or
Jupiter,
and
Juno.
air was there,
the soundless
Milton
summarizes
;
and fallen
The simile
forms
to
the
lightning-
glamour
of
ages
upon
them.
Jupiter,
as
one of the
He snatched from Ida hill, and
with him
How
it is reasonably
pain
That
Wherewith
But
tremblingly
dead face
Olympus
noon to dewy
crown.
to poets.
She was
water, a
silver splendour,
Of
gaining
and
of
to be
deal more
as we
their lives
minds
of
probably
the
heavens,
being
later,
figure
he
would
pantheon, composed of other
well have begun as
and
attributes
are
doubt that
making
of
the
he
has
decidedly
totemic
ravens,
himself
the
type.
Hermes—
Mercury
Hermes,
called
by
ready-
tongued,
of others as
a
later
Nile country.
pantheon ever
rose
and
fixed divine hierarchy
as the
nor less than
pure
as
a
deity
of
evil,
to Horus,
the
sister
and
connected
with
the
she has
so loudly as to
that he
was
he
emanated,
symbolic
of
the
to
power of
famous
code
of
laws
into
the
and sexual goddess of Babylon, and among
the Assyrians ap-
identified with the planet Venus, and her cult was associated
with
that
ance of whose daughter
Nergal assisted her, and he was also a god of
disease,
and
with
the
calendar,
was
oldest
commentators
on
the
Vedas,
three
principal
Agni appears
himself.
These
three
formed
another
sense,
he
was
a
god
true that the Ramayana and
the
whatever
are
revealed
as
character
a great earthly
in
one
spot
diffuses
light
as we
are near
mysterious
or space, and exempt from diminution and decay. . . . He is
the
be
for
ever
adoration.
Brahma.
is the
who rendered
the
idea
that
the
sun
known
races, notably
the Greeks,
who
in
mankind.
man of venerable
Scandinavian
last
employ his
defeat. Protean
riddle
of
Teutonic
mythology,
clinches the matter. His many
evil deeds were at
head
of
such
a
seeker
may
become
enamoured
; but there are
we are
connexion with
the Gr^co-Roman
mythology,
which
altered
upon
Agricultural
became an agricultural people,
but not to the
(among
Caturix,
Dea. In-
scriptions make
evil
eye ;
nothing
could
live
Tribe of the
worship
ap-
were
called
sidhe
or
an immense pot or
cauldron called Undry, the
and was probably originally
son,
Silver
Hand
He has a British
many
arts,
and
a god
suggests
inspiration.
Her
son
Avaggdu
was
for his ugliness.
famous for
are, of
conquerors,
error has been
shown
elsewhere
polished mirrors in which
connexion
of
the
Egyptian
god
Kneph.
Strangely
the prayers
fortune with power
the shape
of a
humming-bird. He
on his altar;
drawn
up,
to
was
drowned,
dropsy
probably to represent
picturesque Aztec deities
was Quetzalcoatl, probably
the
floated away
A number
which
the country
by Tezcatlipoca,
Moreover,
he
of
America
possess
at some
length. The
a
medico-
religious
practices
Their
natural beings of
of
the
as
People,
by
using
their
own
;
of the
loi. Blue
surrounded
spoken to by
He
takes
a
mischievous
delight
in
reducing
by mix-
so
arms.
In
which
savage and
foiling its evil inhabitants.
Hun-Apu
and
the Kiche
the
similar
figures.
to cut
beak.
various.
The
most
terrible
appears
he
pursues
five
brothers,
They are
markedly egotistical,
to any extent
concert
Their
methods
were
much
approached
from
behind,
the
shaman
in
and
brought
back,
after
a
in
the
regions
of
the
shamans
would
say,
to
man's soul
the
corn-mother,
might
be-
cause
Pluto
had
given
to
drink,
to
also
to
the
Choctaw
Indians,
formerly
Nottoway Qui-oki,
the Iroquois
*
they call
not address
to
their
what appears
re-
*
to
as
confederacy,
and
unanimously
located
River in
the Natchez
This
vol.
iii,
p.
216.
305
the
officials
of
the
some
offerings. The
Muskhogean
a
blade
Dry
their present
places, and
had made.
The fact
that the
myth of
tribes. They
present world
will be
consumed by
is, and that then
bone-
where man
have acted as
appears to
being
onomatopoetic.
breath
was
also
in
vogue
1
Myths
of
people
went
to
the
necessi-
tated,
placed
as is
carrying
on
from
by
contains some
are
archaisms,
or
ceremonies
or
as the
those
light-
ning,
kindle
arms
He
Punchau Inca,
their
Peruvian
neighbours,
the
protector
Aka-Kanet, throned
almost
all
and possessing
Theg-Theg, believing that it
it
approaches
too
says
wooden bowls to
celestial hierarchy of
charge
of
of chastity, propagation
one
to them
;
Araucanians
beings
worship
or
p.
87,
recalls
that
the
smoke
to
the
four
cardinal
Pillan.
On
stition.
ances
usual
machinery
of
the
field
of
owl.
The
also
a
called
were
nocturnal
birds,
to
fly
through
the
air,
their
enemies,
existence
communities
being
believed
'),
to be
their dead
riding full
after which
pyramid
or
cairn
of
quantities of
called Tempuleague
only
method
of
districts
worshipped
the
particular
species
god
was
originally
borrowed
probably
confirmed by the nature
a
rude
to earthly existence,
had
the
was
inhabited
known
the sun Anti, and the moon
Kayan
262
Aimon
Kondi,
deity
7L
73-74
of,
31 ;
flint-gods
of,
26
145 ;
170
Asshur,
Assyrian
god,
286 ;
de-
288
134
Egypt
and
^93
of,
155
97-98
Dualism,
143-144
myth,
191
75-81
Indian creation myth, 180-181
20
Karaya
148 ;
their
myth
of
ment of,
j
on
ligion,
67
Day
character,
136
Irish
Hades,
263,
295
142
myth,
141
78
Shaddai,
178
207-209
Smith,
Professor
G.
Tinneh
grove,
76