III-19] From fire let us turn for a moment to wind, whose phenomena, as might be expected, have not been allowed to pass wholly unnoticed by the mythologies with which we have to deal.
They insensibly lower to the level of animism and fetishism that religion which, as we have seen, bears comparison in its grander aspects with the most renowned mythologies of the ancient world.
Neither science nor art can be understood, unless we have a clear insight into the mythologies and religious conceptions of the ancient peoples.
Again—the iron hills of the Northern region helped to form the mythologies and superstitions originally so distinctive of the Scandinavian mind.
How different the cheerful and eminently human mythologies of Greece, born of the elements of the clime—autochthonous of that immortal ground!
Falconer shows it is quite possible that the frequent allusions to a gigantic tortoise in Hindoo and other mythologies are to be explained on the supposition that the creature was seen by the men of a prehistoric age.
The early Celtic mythologies and folk-records are full of these survivals.
Here a brief digression into the early mythologies may be made, although this question of the connection between mother-right and religious ideas is one on which I have already enlarged.
In the mythologies of European nations are contained the remnants of what the Initiates of these Mysteries were able to disclose to men.
It is true that these mythologies also contain the other kind of mystery, although in a more imperfect form than that possessed by the Southern and Eastern Mysteries.
In not a few mythologies we meet with the infant god in the arms of its mother or of some other woman.
The old heathen mythologies and the lore of the ruder races of our own day abound in tales of the strange and wonderful events that happened during the birth, passion, and death of their heroes and divinities.
In many other mythologies the stars, either as a whole, or in part, figure as children.
Four of the Aryan mythologies have preserved a clear and precise notion of this conception: they are those of Greece, of Italy, of ancient India, and of ancient Persia.
To sketch the picture of the original mythology, it is sufficient to separate from the various derivative mythologies the essential characteristics common to them.
At present we will disregard this point, and only refer to the mythologies of the Finnish-Ugrian nations—peoples whose languages do not indicate any distinction of gender in their nouns.
Those who say that mythologies have converted Samson to a deus solaris make a malicious perversion of the truth, merely because they set themselves against any mythological investigation on Semitic ground.
If it is now established that we are justified in speaking of a Hebrew Mythology, in the same sense as of the mythologies of Indians, Hellenes, Germans, &c.
The egg in many ancient mythologies was the supposed origin of life.
Thus it was that the Greek and Roman mythologies were to a great extent the same.
Philosophy had long tried and was still trying to find a spiritual synthesis, and to draw from old mythologies a support for life and conduct.
At Alexandria were blended and transformed all the philosophies and mythologies by the subtle dialectic of Greece.
Men seem to have adopted the mythologies of every race, and to have superadded a new mythology of positively boundless fecundity.
But Gray had not scrupled to mix mythologies in "The Bard," thereby incurring Dr.
It is noticeable in many mythologies that gods of fructification are those honoured by the circulation of their images throughout the region where they are worshipped, and it is a little difficult to see why this should be so.
In many mythologies a dog is the companion of the dead man to the otherworld.
In some mythologies this Elysium is the land whither men go after death.
In some mythologies a bridge or ladder connects heaven and earth.
Those learned in the mythologies of ancient Rome and Greece say that it bears no likeness to them: its peculiarities would rather tend to the idea that it was of Persian origin (British Encyclopaedia).
In endeavouring to trace the sources of foreign influences, we should not always expect to find clues in the mythologies of great civilizations like Babylonia, Assyria, or Egypt alone.
The growth of monotheistic thought is usually evinced in all mythologies by the tendency to invest a popular deity with the attributes of other gods.
All mythologieshave animistic bases; they were, to begin with, systematized folk beliefs which were carried hither and thither in various stages of development by migrating and trading peoples.
Indeed, sacred rivers appear in the very earliest mythologies which have been recovered, and lingered among the last vestiges of heathenism long after the advent of a purer creed.
In many mythologies the gods of light and warmth are, by a natural analogy, held to be also the deities which preside over plenty, fertility and reproduction.
Those languages might be taught on other subjects than wars, famines, and massacres, immoral mythologies and the history of base and vicious characters.
It has been said that the participations of this sort implied by the mythologies violate the principle of contradiction and that they are by that opposed to those implied by scientific explanations.
It even happens sometimes that mythologies intermingle, combine and make mutual borrowings.
Ever since the work of the Grimm brothers, who pointed out the interest that there is in comparing the different mythologies of the Indo-European peoples, scholars have been struck by the remarkable similarities which these present.
So there is an asceticism which, being inherent in all social life, is destined to survive all the mythologies and all the dogmas; it is an integral part of all human culture.
Let us even admit that there really are beings more or less analogous to those which the mythologies represent.
But if, in the midst of these mythologies and theologies we see reality clearly appearing, it is none the less true that it is found there only in an enlarged, transformed and idealized form.
The Sohar, which is the Key of the Holy Books, opens also all the depths and lights, all the obscurities of the Ancient Mythologies and of the Sciences originally concealed in the Sanctuaries.
Mankind outgrows the sacrifices and the mythologies of the childhood of the world.
Nature, the mythologies a leaf in the book of, 216-u.
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