14 examples of mythologists in sentences

Anyhow the subject is one concerning which the comparative mythologist has, at different times, drawn opposite theories; but of this there can be no doubt, that plant-worship was a primitive faith of mankind, a fact in connection with which we may quote Sir John Lubbock's words, how, "By man in this stage of progress everything was regarded as having life, and being more or less a deity."

There are a variety of rose-legends of this kind in different countries, the universal popularity of this favourite blossom having from the earliest times made it justly in repute; and according to the Hindoo mythologists, Pagoda Sin, one of the wives of Vishnu, was discovered in a rosea not inappropriate locality.

The story of Endymion's being beloved by the moon, with comments upon it, may be met with in most of the Mythologists.

Depend upon it, his Majesty of Phrygia has been very much abused by the mythologists.

According to the mythologists, (authorities always quotable, and nobody knows why,) the Curetes or Corybantes, a people of Crete, who were produced from rain, first invented the dance to amuse the infant Jupiterwith what success he danced we know not, for when a year old he waged war against the Titans, and then his dancing days must have terminated.

Or, lastly, did he write only as a mythologist, and care for nothing but the exercise of his spleen and genius?

At the same time I have endeavored to be temperate in applying the interpretations of mythologists.

The professional mythologist thinks he has completed his task when he has traced a myth through its transformations in story and language back to the natural phenomena of which it was the expression.

So also in later legend we read of the wonderful slot or trail of the dragon Fafnir across the Glittering Heath, and many cognate instances, which mythologists now explain by the same reference.

Among the pagan mythologists, Mercury, or Hermes, was always represented by a cubical stone, because he was the type of truth, and the same form was adopted by the Israelites in the construction of the tabernacle, which was to be the dwelling-place of divine truth.

sc. i. P/ The distinguished German mythologist Müller defines a symbol to be "an eternal, visible sign, with which a spiritual feeling, emotion, or idea is connected."

[Footnote 7: From the 'Fables of Æsop and other eminent Mythologists, with 'Morals and Reflections.

Jupiter, says the Mythologist, to reward the Piety of a certain Country-man, promised to give him whatever he would ask.

COX, SIR GEORGE, an English mythologist, specially distinguished for resolving the several myths of Greece and the world into idealisations of solar phenomena; he has written on other subjects, all of interest, and is engaged with W. T. Brande on a "Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art"; b. 1827.

14 examples of  mythologists  in sentences