The comparative mythologist can perhaps tell us why this story crops up everywhere.
It has been suggested by an eminent comparative mythologist that it is natural Luc-ius should be said to have brought 'the Light of the Gospel' to men of Licht-enstein.
A similar fact for the comparativemythologist is recorded p.
As a rule the myth is no explanation of the origin of the ritual to any one who does not believe it to be a narrative of real occurrences, and the boldest mythologist will not believe that.
And "the etymology of names, moreover, is at once the guide and safeguard of the mythologist [p.
The mythologist is, like the poet, born not made, according to Creuzer.
It is necessary, however, that the mythologistshould distinguish between the anthropomorphic 'man of the sun' and the merely animistic concept of the sun-god.
At present the school is in the deepest discredit; indeed, it may be said to possess scarcely a single follower; but that its methods are applicable to certain classes of mythic phenomena no mythologist of experience would deny.
It is from such examples as these that folklore may assist the mythologist who gropes for the principles of ancient mythic ideas.
But a revolutionary mythologist is encouraged by finding that these scholars usually differ from each other.
Just as one modern mythologist sees the wind in Aeetes and the dawn in Medea, while another of the same school believes, on equally good evidence, that both Aeetes and Medea are the moon, so writers like Porphyry (270 A.
This question each ancient mythologist answered in accordance with his own taste and prejudices, and above all, and like all other and later speculators, in harmony with the general tendency of his own studies.
Consequently the presence of God or Nature seems to the mythologist not an ideal, but a real and mutual society, as if collateral beings, endowed with the conceived characters, actually existed as men exist.
The mythologistor poet, before science exists, is accordingly the man of truest and most adequate vision.
Here, as in the business of levitation, the interest of the anthropologist and mythologist lies in the uniformity and identity of narratives from all countries, climates, and ages.
The mythologist would be surprised if he encountered in Papua or Central Africa, or Sakhalin, a perfectly new myth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mythologist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
