The story is found in the Avadanas translated by Stanislas Julien: (Leveque, Mythes et Legendes de L'Inde et de la Perse, p.
Leveque quotes from the works of Empedocles (Les Mythes et les Legendes de l'Inde, p.
The story of Ruru is found in the Adiparva of the Mahabharata, see Leveque, Mythes et Legendes de l'Inde, pp.
He thinks that La Fontaine in his fable of L'Huitre et les Plaideurs is indebted to the story as told in Rabelais: (Les Mythes et les Legendes de l'Inde, pp.
We may mention also the works of van Gennep, Mythes et Légendes d'Australie, especially chaps.
It is probable that the Sophists often delivered illustrative mythes or fables as a more interesting way of handling social matters before an audience.
It has been shown by ample evidence from the Rig-veda how many mythes were suggested to the Aryan world by various names of the dawn, the day-spring of life.
This is one of the oldest mythes or sayings current among the Aryan nations.
But Dyaus had meant sky for too long a time to become entirely divested of all the old mythes or sayings which were true of Dyaus, the sky, but could only be retained as fables if transferred to Dyaus, God.
These two mythes have a still closer resemblance in their denouement, as will be seen by a reference to the Notes of the 29th Canto of this work.
The displeasure of the Gods is constantly appealed to, as a justification for the penalties which he proposed: sometimes even the current mythes are invoked as authority, though in other places Plato so greatly disparages them.
The law giver can obtain belief for any fiction which he pleases to circulate, as may be seen by the implicit belief obtained for the Theban mythe about the dragon's teeth, and a thousand other mythes equally difficult of credence.
Footnote 45: I have made some remarks to this effect upon the Platonic mythes in my notice of the Phaedon, see ch.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mythes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
