The mythologists have considered this story to be based on grounds either historical or physical.
God of spring, or, as some mythologists say, of the seasons; the husband of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and orchards.
The most learned of mythologists differ in their analysis of the multitude of myths that have descended to us.
The Indian mythologists relate that the daughter of the Sun, persecuted by a wicked enchantress, plunged into a pool, where she was transformed into a golden Lotus.
Grecian mythologists relate that the club of Hercules, which was made of Olive-wood, took root, and became a tree.
One more text from the mythologists is to the same purpose,--Beauty rides on a lion.
I find the following sentence in the manuscripts which he has shown me: "The general impression of all the most distinguished mythologists of the present day is, that monotheism is at the foundation of all pagan mythology.
The laws of Greece were admittedly derived from Crete, and such was the reputation of King Minos that the mythologists made him the Judge of the Under-world.
In the province of Janina in Albania is the town of Berat, and the foundation of either this Berat or else the Beyrout of Canaan was ascribed by the Greek mythologists to a maiden named Berith or Beroe.
The mythologists also invented a story, that the Milky Way was a track left in the heavens by the milk of Juno flowing from the mouth of Hercules, when suckled by her.
This encouraged his brothers Vili and Ve, who by some mythologists are considered as other personifications of himself, to usurp his power and his throne, and even, we are told, to espouse his wife Frigga.
The comparative mythologists regard him as one of the forms of the cloud monster the sun.
Le Clerc, one of the ablest mythologists who ever wrote, has shown that the Teutates of the Gauls, the Hermes of the Greeks, the Mercury of the Romans, were all one and the same.
Mythologists in the west called the world, or Meru with his appendages, the temple of God, according to Macrobius.
Why, then, do distinguished scholars and mythologists reach such different goals?
What mythologists wish to discover is the origin of the countless disgusting, amazing, and incongruous legends which occur in the myths of all known peoples.
This book is sometimes appealed to as a crushing argument against the mythologists who adopt the method we have just explained.
The number of Valkyrs differs greatly according to the various mythologists and ranges from three to sixteen, the greater part of them, however, naming only nine.
To reconcile all the contradictions of the poets and mythologists is impossible.
Now the moment the mythologists made a movement in this direction, a hundred problems of a most difficult character must have demanded their solution before they could advance a single step.
Physical philosophers, however, work at a great advantage in developing an ape into a moral being, compared with the mythologists who developed a Jew of the year 30 into a Christ.
Connexion with the Jonah Legend Some mythologists see in the story of Jonah a hidden allusion to the circumstances of Babylonian cosmology.
In many cases this monster guards a treasure which mythologists of a generation ago almost invariably explained as that gold which is spread over the sky at the hour of sunset.
If Spencer had not included in his criticism the mythologists that have written on Vedic religion, there would be no occasion to take his opinion into consideration.
Some mythologists explain this fable by saying that Geryon was king of three islands, now called Majorca, Minorca, and Ivica, on which account he was fabled to be triple bodied and headed.
Some mythologists make the birth of Priāpus allude to that radical moisture which supports all vegetable productions, and which is produced by Bacchus and Venus, that is, the solar heat, and the fluid whence Venus is said to have sprung.
Mythologists have assigned to each of these tormentresses their proper department.
The solar mythologists were perplexed at its presence among the refined and cultured Greeks.
But if we go to the solarmythologists for their interpretation, we shall learn from Sir G.
Of course the solar mythologists see in Tell the sun or cloud deity; in his bow the storm-cloud or the iris; and in his arrows the sun-rays or lightning darts.
Enough has been said to show that the extreme and one-sided interpretations of the solar mythologists are due to a one-sided method.
The great majority of mythologists appear to agree in assigning a much earlier date to the Deluge, than that which has hitherto been generally accepted as the soundest interpretation of the chronological evidence afforded by the Bible.
Some mythologists have even subsequently concluded that the Fung Hwang of the Chinese, the phoenix of the Greeks, the Roc of the Arabs, and the Garuda of the Hindoos, are merely national modifications of the same myth.
To this question two answers have been given in modern times--that of the Comparative Mythologists and that of the Comparative Religionists.
The reason, and, indeed, the justification, of the view taken by the Comparative Mythologists is patent.
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