... myth. The modern interpreter forgets, first, that to the myth-maker sky did not at all mean the same thing as it means to him. Sky meant, not an airy, ...
... odd rites of the mysteries, were common to Hellenic religion, and to the religion of African, Australian, and American tribes. Now, with regard ...
... than the men of the tribe. One woman believed she had heard Pundjel, the chief supernatural being, descend in a mighty rushing noise, that is, in the ...
... children of Uranus should hold kingly sway among the Immortals.' Cronus showed a ruling father's usual jealousy of his heirs. It was a case of Friedrich ...
... or he is the harvest- god, or the god of storm and darkness, or the midnight sky,-the choice is wide or he is the lord of dark and light, and his children ...
... and venomed breath. And, just as Urvasi could not abide with her mortal lover, after he transgressed the prohibition to appear before her naked, so ...
... shapes:-(1) Places would be named from mice, and mice would be actually held sacred in themselves. (2) The mouse-name would be given locally to the ...
... that divine succour would come to the Egyptians. {112a} In the night before the battle, field-mice gnawed the quivers and shield-handles of the foe, ...
... a limited amount of light round his house. Some children threw him into the sky, and there he shines.' The Homeric hymn to Helios, in the same way, as ...
... AND MANDRAGORA. 'I have found out a new cure for rheumatism,' said the lady beside whom it was my privilege to sit at dinner. 'You carry a ...
... or like one of the old Celtic bards, that he had been all things. 'When the earth was made I was there when space was unrolled I launched the sun on ...
... on forgotten bogies. Chairs move untouched by human hands, and tables walk about in lonely castles of Savoy, and no one marks them, till a day ...
... when their meaning was lost the names were then supposed to be gods, the nomina became numina, and out of the inextricable confusion of thought ...
... of an ancestral ghost with a game leg. If this view be correct, myth is the result of thought, far more than of a disease of language. The comparative ...
... the idea of a kind of 'luck' attached to this or that object, was evolved by dint of meditating on a mere series of lucky accidents. Such or such ...
... power. If he touches an article, no one else dares to appropriate it, for fear of terrible supernatural consequences. A head chief is 'tapued an ...
... and nieces, they prohibited marriage within the limit of the name of the kin. This is still the Hindoo rule, and, if the Romans really might not ...
... without regular teaching, learn to draw with some spirit and skill. In the Australian stele, or grave-pillar, which we have engraved (Fig. 4), the ...
... one early motif, while classical art went on a severer line, it is, perhaps, impossible at present to ascertain. But it is plain enough that later art ...
... Spanheim, ad Fl. Joseph., vi. I, p. 312. {111b} Della Rel., p. 174. {111c} Herodotus, ii. 141. {112a} Liebrecht (Zur Volkskunde, p. ...