From his frequent introduction of historical and mythological subjects into his poems, he received the appellation of "the learned.
Aske or Ashe represents an ancient stem in Teutonic names, perhaps derived from a mythological origin, man being feigned to have been created out of an ash-tree, perhaps from being the wood out of which spears were made (Cf.
And it seems to me hardly necessary to assume, with Mone (Heldensage), any connection with the mythological smith, Weland.
From the mythologicalkettle of the gods, which enters into many Old Norse men's names.
Probably from the mythological kettle of the AEsir.
It is not in these families that our interest centres, but in the numerous mythological allusions which enrich the work.
Again, we would remind the reader that we are not dealing with religious science, but with such mythological notions as have come down to us from early times to the present.
The theory suffered from the philological school with which it was unfortunately bound up, and neither critics nor readers seem to be able to judge it on its mythological merits alone.
This custom was nowhere more powerful than in France, whence it was borrowed by English authors, who began to make large use of classical and mythological allusions in the wondrous era of letters known as the Elizabethan.
WIND-GODS Although gods of the winds appear in nearly all mythological systems, in many instances they are neither more nor less than representatives of tempest or gentle breeze.
The mythological school represented by the writings of De Gubernatis, Cox, Max Mueller, and others, have found the origin of folk-tales in the myths of the Aryan race.
He is by no means an intricate mythological figure, and it is plain that he is neither more nor less than a personification of the sun.
This resume is added here merely for completeness, because exhaustive works dealing with the several mythological systems alluded to in these pages are included in this series, and to these the student can refer.
The greatest mythological studies are comparative in character.
LUNAR GODS The deity who presides over the moon is in most pantheons full of mythological interest.
And of all proper names mythological names are the most difficult to interpret.
The smallest grain of ingenuity will always suffice as the essential element in this mythological alchemy, this "transmutation" of the facts of legend into so many presumed statements about any given natural force or phenomenon.
Like Cronus, and many other mythological persons, the All-devourer has the knack of swallowing all and sundry, and disgorging them alive.
On the whole, the accounts of the gods and of their nature present in Aryan mythology the inconsistent anthropomorphism, and the mixture of incongruous and often magical and childish ideas, which mark all othermythological systems.
He himself says that "a power without a name or any mythological characteristic is constantly referred to in the singular number, and can only be regarded as the object of that sensus numinis, or immediate perception of the Infinite.
The most prominent of the mythological figures," says Dr.
These extracts are obviously speculative rather than in any sense mythological The element of myth just shows itself when we are told that the sky dwelt with the earth and produced certain islands.
This insect is the chief mythological personage of the Bushmen of the western province.
He adds that this "seems sufficiently to show that such mythological speculations have been, in respect to other nations, also the product of a later stage of culture".
Seb is also the Egyptian name for a certain species of goose, and, in accordance with the homonymous tendency of the mythological period of all nations, the god and the bird were identified.
These coupled with neglect and disdain of the heroes of antiquity, mythological and actual, caused a romantic literature which moved over Europe like an avalanche.
Morselli does not follow either the mythological stories or their recent reconstruction very closely.
It is about ten inches high, and sixteen inches round at the largest part, and is divided lengthwise into eight compartments, having each a mythological subject in high relief.
Some of these cases were plain, and others highly ornamented with figures of sacred animals, or with paintings representing mythological subjects.
On entering we find ourselves confronted by monster figures, mythological giants carved in relief on the wall, and in the recesses of the cave.
The origin of the curious mythological sign of the three fingers which is found on all the carved wooden images in the temples is unknown.
Sita-Rama belongs to the category of mythological dramas, something like the tragedies of Aeschylus.
Out of nearly two thousand Pompeian pictures, it is calculated that some fourteen hundred (roughly speaking) are mythological in subject.
Possibly Philetas may have imparted technical rules then in vogue, and the fashionable knack of introducing obscure mythological allusions.
Over the roof was placed a scarlet awning, with a fringe of white, and there were many other awnings, richly embroidered with mythological designs.
The loves of the gods are repeated in scores of designs, and these designs closely correspond to the mythological poems of Theocritus and his younger contemporaries Bion and Moschus.
They still form part of the faith of these simple people--not at all, we need hardly say, in the use of mythological or atmospheric allegory, but as narratives of veritable fact.
A pious Quaker went so far as to sacrifice his whole fortune in buying up and burning Giulo Romano's most beautiful mythological paintings; truly he deserves for his pains to reach heaven, and there to be flogged daily.
We have, in truth, lived to see good Christians, who condemn the flesh as of Satan, experience a feeling of anger at sight of the Greek mythological statues.
Notwithstanding this clever disguise, I have ventured to guess who the important mythological personage is that figures in this tradition.
Of all the beings in the Irish mythological world the Sidhe are, however, apparently the oldest and the most distinctive.
The fourth theory, the Mythological Theory, is of very great importance.
Besides his religious pictures and portraits, however, Titian succeeded in painting some of the greatest representations of ancient mythological lore that have ever been done.
This nocturnal animal, already sacred to Freyja, the Teutonic Venus, whose chariot it drew, gained a new mythological career in the North by the large number of Southern and Oriental stones which related it to the lunar and amorous demonesses.
Such was necessarily the case where the excessive mythological and fanciful elements introduced at one period fall upon another period when they hide the meaning.
It may appear as if in this personification of a fallen star we have entered a different mythological region from that represented by the Assyrian tablets; but it is not so.
But now we may remark the steady progress of these monsters to the bounds of their mythological habitat.
The animal demons--those whose evil repute is the result of something in their nature which may be inimical to man--should be distinguished from the forms which have been diabolised by association with mythological personages or ideas.
The separate functions must not be lost sight of because sometimes traceable to a single form, nor their practical character suffer disguise through their fair euphemistic or mythological names.
Perhaps we may find the mythological descendants of these Titans, and also of the Druids, in the so-called 'Great Men' once dreaded by Highlanders.
While the early mythological forms of the Fates diminish and pass away as curious superstitions, they return in metaphysical disguises.
It was bone of his bone; but after so many mythological vicissitudes Wodan and his Horsel could hardly be expected to recognise each other at this chance meeting in Cologne.
The esoteric element seems to have been the so-called “systems” in which the fanciful and mythological element in Gnosticism appears.
In their “systems” of vast theogonies and cosmologies, in their wild mythological treatment of the most abstract conceptions and their dualism, the Church writers naturally saw at once their most vulnerable and most dangerous element.
But it is hoped that enough is given to show the mythologicalcharacter of his speculation.
Both goddess and serpent can be identified with ancient Indian mythological beings, and Buddhism first introduced both into Japan.
They have long green or grey eyes of crystal quartz or some other diaphanous substance; and they create a strong impression as mythological conceptions.
The tabi, the white digitated stocking, gives to a small light foot a mythological aspect-- the white cleft grace of the foot of a fauness.
And, finally, in one place I perceive a pair of sitting animals, of some mythological species, supple of figure as greyhounds.
As to his mythological existence, his great and wealthy temple at Kyoto is impressive testimony.
In the age of savagery the sanction of moral maxims was offered us in a mythological dress.
This is one of the most common and most important mythological animals, and is closely related to different deities, as has already been more fully discussed in connection with the individual cases.
This bird is distinctly pictured as a mythological figure in Dr.
See plate for representations of the Mythological Animals, 1-6.
The jaguar is likewise an animal with mythological significance.
Mythologic combinations of this kind occur among the following deities and mythological animals: 1.
For here we have the entire ritual year, the whole chronology with its mythological relations and all accessories.
The bat which is found as a mythological figure on pottery vessels and inscriptions from the Maya region (compare Seler, Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 1894, p.
The mythological allusions have been justly censured, as not being always used with notice of their vanity; but they contribute variety to the narration, and produce an alternate exercise of the memory and the fancy.
Within a moral interlude of classical andmythological origin we discover a romantic comedy.
But Greene's employment of the mythological is never unattractive; it is sui generis.
Nor, unless it be the passage describing Oberon's vision of Cupid aiming his shaft at the fair vestal throned in the West, does he follow Lyly in mythological allegory, which conceals and betrays contemporary persons and events.
The copious crude employment of mythological lore, the creaking mechanism of the plot, the subordination of vital to spectacular qualities, betray an inexperience not manifest in Greene's other dramatic output.
What would cause in the Roman mind still greater jealousy of Christianity was the general infidelity which prevailed among all classes as regards the mythological fables of Charon, Cerberus, and the realms of punishment.
It is thus simply, and by no mythological suggestion of Aphrodite's influence, that Homer describes the spirit of beauty which protected Helen among the people she had brought to sore straits.
Their polemic was directed against Homer, in whom, like Herodotus, they recognized the founder of the currentmythological theology.
The problem which lay before the earliest philosophers of Greece was how to emerge from mythological conceptions concerning the origin and nature of the world into a region of more exact and abstract thought.
The Vedic literature exhibits the mythological material in rudiment, and its style approximates to that of poetry.
Yet it was not a retrogression, but an advance from that first perception to the mythological fulness and variety which gave concreteness to the notion of the deity.
