The mythical material in the stories is largely that with which the student of Aryan folk-lore is familiar.
The former is essentially a speculative ideal pantheism; the latter is for the most part a mythical and ceremonial polytheism.
Geschichte Jesu,” treats the fourth gospel as non-Johnannine in authorship and mythical in its contents, and explains the resurrection by the theory of a swoon or a vision.
Our desire, in engaging in this argument, is to turn the thought and love of the world from a mythical being, to humanity, which is both real and present.
And think of countenancing the craze of the crusades, which cost a million lives to possess the empty sepulchre of a mythical Savior!
We reject as mythical the birth-stories about Mithra, and Apollo.
The immediate companions of Jesus appear to be, on the other hand, as mythical as he is himself.
Only a mythical Jesus could virtually hand over the government of the universe to courtiers who have petitions to press upon his attention.
I am giving the story of what is called the "plan of salvation," in order to show its mythical nature.
A good illustration of the mythical or unhistorical character of the New Testament is furnished by the story of John the Baptist.
A mythical Savior, a mythical Bible, a mythical plan of salvation!
It would hardly be necessary, were we all unbiased, to look for any further proofs of the mythical and fanciful nature of the Gospel narratives than this expedient to which the writers resorted.
The resemblance of the peaked cap and of the beard to those of the little figures carved by Black Forest peasants and intended to represent the mythical "gnomes" or dwarf mining-elves is noteworthy.
It must be remembered that on this journey thitherward Gilgamesh, in his mythical character of sun-god, is travelling downward from the zenith.
Xenophanes did not accept themythical idea of man-like deities then current.
Finally he prays to the Great Deer, the mythical or magnified ancestor of the animal killed, not to seek vengeance against him for having taken the life of one of his children.
Moon and water are both mythical mothers of the human race.
A primitive tale (a) of mythical origin; (b) of purely narrative or aesthetic value.
But I could see that they accepted the explanation with doubt, and obviously disbelieved in my mythical foe.
Two possibilities suggest themselves: either this Wineland with its Skrælings was nothing but the well-known mythical land with its mythical people, which required no further description.
The mythicalriver Eridanus, which no doubt was originally in the north (cf.
This may be derived from the same mythical country.
This mythical country has in Norway become "Fyldeholmen" (i.
Through oral narratives themythical features which are included in this legend have evidently helped to form the tradition of the Wineland voyages.
Paulus Warnefridi gives a mythical account of the cause of the war and of the battle and death of king Rodulf [Bethmann and Waitz, 1878, pp.
The Chinese have books that purport to give the history of the different dynasties that have ruled in the land from a vast antiquity; but these records are largely mythical and legendary.
This consists of laws, incantations, and mythical tales.
We are told by tradition that it was originally formed by the mythical Indian giant, Manshope, who, when he was tired of smoking, emptied here into the sea the ashes from his pipe.
Thus the mythical land is ever elusive, and finally gets away off among the "Blue Noses" of the Canadian maritime provinces.
In the Victoria and Albert Museum is a similar fragment, but smaller, carved with compartments of animals, mythical beasts, monsters, etc.
But he ridicules the idea of the miracles; says he does not believe them any more than he believes in the mythical legends of Greek and Roman literature.
Putois' generation is the generation of a myth, and he exerts the influence whichmythical characters do.
No one can deny the rule of mythical beings over the minds of men, their influence on human souls.
It results in narrative, legendary, mythical in nature, illustrative often of spiritual truth in a manner more perfect than any hard, prosaic statement could achieve.
By this learned substitution for God, it was once confidently assumed that the race was to emerge frommythical dawn and metaphysical shadows into the noon-day of positive knowledge.
The custom of castration must surely have been designed to meet a constantly recurring need, not merely to reflect a mythical event which happened at the creation of the world.
Thus contrary to the usual mythical conception the Egyptians regarded the earth as male and the sky as female.
The conclusion to which these analogies appear to point is that under the mythical pall of the glorified Osiris, the god who died and rose again from the dead, there once lay the body of a dead man.
The death and resurrection of Adonis a mythical expression for the annual decay and revival of plant life.
But to this view it has been rightly objected that the attributes of the principal figures prove them to be divine or priestly, and that the scene is therefore religious or mythical rather than historical.
M225) Another mythical being who has been supposed to belong to the class of gods here discussed is Hyacinth.
The Katori shrine is said to have been founded some twenty-five hundred years ago during the reign of the mythical first emperor, Jimmu Tenno.
We come now to the vexed question as to whether the Nibelungenlied is mythical or historical in origin.
Abeling admits that it contains mythical elements, but identifies Siegfried with Segeric, son of the Burgundian king Sigismund, Brunhild with the historical Brunichildis, and Hagan with a certain Hagnerius.
Again, a number of these tales undoubtedly consist of older materials not necessarily mythical in origin, over which a later medieval colour has been cast.
This became grafted on the Siegfried legend according to some authorities, but Boer will not admit this, and presents a number of arguments to disprove the mythical character of the Siegfried story.
So closely is the bare mythical construction enwound with the symbolic or doctrinal passages which are meant to give it such vitality and such coherence as they may.
The existence of some mythical or symbolic island of Atalantis, where the arts were to be preserved as in paradise, now walled round or washed over by the blind and bitter waters of time, was a favourite vision with Blake.
The mythical John Jacob Astor was a creation of those who came after him; the real one appeared quite different to his contemporaries.
He is mentioned as one of the "nine gems" at the court of the mythical Vikramaditya in the verse already mentioned.
The system, however, seems never to have had more than one text-book, the lost Sutras of Brihaspati, its mythical founder.
Besides the higher gods the Rigveda knows a number of mythical beings not regarded as possessing the divine nature to the full extent and from the beginning.
Another demon mentioned with some frequency is Vala, the personification of the mythicalcave in which the celestial cows are confined.
Another ancient race of mythical priests are the Bhrigus, to whom the Indian Prometheus, Mataricvan, brought the hidden Agni from heaven, and whose function was the establishment and diffusion of the sacrificial fire on earth.
In illustration, he throws into the text the tragic history of a mythical hero.
Ralph was greatly interested in mythical tales, especially in wonderful occurrences in nature, and he records these at length as he heard of them, but this habit does not affect the character of his historical record proper.
It rested on a throne with four massive legs, carved, the doctor saw, with serpents, dragons, andmythical monsters generally.
Volume VII, "The Mythical Interpretation of the Gospels," by the Reverend Thomas James Thorburn, D.
Hastings, England, for his book entitled "The Mythical Interpretation of the Gospels," which has been published as Volume VII of the Bross Library.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mythical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
