The mythology of Semitic nations appears to have contained no god to correspond with Neptune.
Under the name of Melicertes he appears in Greek mythology as a Sea-god, and bears the synonym of “the wrestler,” an epithet of Hercules.
In proportion, however, as the mythology at the command of the sculptor were limited, so his circle of observation, as applied to real nature, was extensive.
Esau is really the name of a god, and we meet with it again in Phœnician mythology in its Hellenised form of Usoos.
Bishop Horsley believed that the fables of the Greek mythology could be traced back to the prophecies of the Messiah, of which they were a perversion from ignorance or design.
The Greek Mythology is an interpretation of (only some of) the signs and constellations after their true meaning had been forgotten.
That his mind derived its impetus more directly from books than from life; that his pages swarm with the figures of mythology and the imagery of the ancient poets is true.
Thus everywhere was the storehouse of mythology open; and of the Roman fabulist the Emblem writers, as far as they could, made a Book of Emblems, and often into their own works transported freely what they had found in his.
The river Achelous was intimately connected with the religion and mythology of the Greeks.
Schelling is no more than consistent when he accordingly apprehends the symbols of mythology which we meet with at the beginning of history, as disclosures of the highest wisdom.
This faded mythology and formalised worship, these speculative attempts and casuistry of law, are accompanied by a completely-arranged scheme of certain abstract categories already established.
As regards, again, the failure of the early Latin pantheon to stimulate sculpture and poetry, it has to be noticed that sculpture and poetry tended to make as well as to be made by mythology in Greece.
Men themselves too often vowed to the defence and service of a mythology are slow to see that it was not for nothing that the Athenian people bottomed its culture to the last on myth and superstition.
What is preserved is mainly fragments of the mythology of one set of tribes, and that in only a slightly developed form.
It is a matter of deep regret that the data concerning the demotic characters of the tribe are too meager to afford more than a mere outline of their activities, and that their suggestive mythology must be passed over for the present.
The Egyptian mythology was, doubtless, an older off-shoot from the same stem.
Latin mythologywas but the corruption of the older types.
The mythology of Hawaii, one may note, tells of goddesses who were impregnated by bananas they had placed beneath their garments.
In Polynesian mythology the lizard is a very sacred animal, and legends represent women as often giving birth to lizards.
Toast after toast was drunk to the king: he was compared to Apollo for his beauty, and Elgiva to Venus, while the old northern mythology was ransacked also for appellations in honour of the youthful pair.
How much more fertile a Nature, at least, has Grecian mythologyits root in than English literature!
Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted, before the fancy and imagination were affected with blight; and which it still bears, wherever its pristine vigor is unabated.
There is a truer amount of it in mythology than in any history of America, so called, that I have seen.
The Almond tree here fared especially well, for two stories have come down to us in mythology relating its connection with that wonderful event.
The Almond tree figures in history, mythology and poetry.
Of the views of the sturdy Norsemen, on the contrary, there can be no two opinions; in their mythology the idea of a middle state is expressed in the clearest language.
Hours, in Greek mythology [Greek: Horai], originally the personification of a series of natural phenomena.
His introduction into some of his Odes of the gods of mythology must be regarded as merely artistic or symbolical.
Homeric mythology with the morality and speculative ideas of the 6th century B.
We find such an individual not unusually introduced in the early romances and in the mythology of nations, and he sometimes unites the character of court orator with the other.
Much of this work strongly reminds the reader of the Grecian Mythology and the Arabian Nights Entertainments.
Monedo is strictly a term belonging to the Indian mythologyand necromancy, and is constantly used to indicate a spirit.
He produced a great sensation among them, and overthrew the loose fabric of their theology and mythology with a strong hand.
By their conversation and familiar remarks, I observed that they were habitually under the influence of their peculiar mythology and religion.
Here is an example where the poetry of Greek mythology is finely woven into the rhetoric of love:-- "Leave thee alone!
Critics, even intelligent critics, sometimes complain that Keats should have taken this and other subjects of his art from what they call the 'dead' mythology of ancient Greece.
Thirlwall hazards the conjecture "that they were the remains of a worship which preceded the rise of the Hellenic mythology .
Most of the church references to mythology have more connection with the earlier symbolic meanings than with the later narrative histories into which the cults degenerated.
While tendering my acknowledgments for much assistance obtained from that lady's book, I would add that the 'second series' suggested cannot but equal the first as a service to the cause of comparative mythology and folk-lore.
The necessity of a Belief in the Heathen Mythology to a Christian If two facts are related not contradictory of equal probability & with equal evidence, if we believe one we must believe the other.
The interpretation of the mythology of Vergil & the interpretation of the Bible by Milton compared--whether one is more inconsistent than the other--In what they are contradictory.
There is as good proof of the Heathen Mythology as of the Christian Religion.
The treatment of mythology is particularly conclusive on this point.
Of the other powers of the Italian mythology Faunus is introduced(570) in accordance with the national conception of an undefined invisible agency guiding the conduct of men by means of omens and oracles.
Horace, in his Odes, accepts the beings of the Greek mythologyas materials for his art, while, by his silence on the subject in his Satires and Epistles, he clearly implies that this acceptance formed no part of his real convictions.
The Italian mythology contributes some of the few beings endowed with human personality which it produced.
To Virgil, on the other hand, the gods of mythology appear to have a real existence, as manifestations of the divine energy, revealed in the religious traditions which connect the actual world of experience with a supernatural origin.
The power of the old mythology over the fancy and the weakness of scientific thought in ancient times to overthrow that power is nowhere more visible than in his poetry.
But side by side with these appear the fictions of Greek mythology and the personified abstractions of fashionable allegory.
Their God was the Hebrew Jehovah, whose single divinity the Catholic mythology had overlaid with the figures of the Son, the Virgin Mary, and the saints.
He was also promised complete instruction in the mythology and symbolism of these rites.
