Still this "learned priest," though antecedently as competent a critic as Manetho, is so portentously mythical in his accounts, that "no historical value can be attached to them," which must be regretted, since he pushes history back a quarter of a million years prior to the Deluge, and the Deluge itself to about half a million years ago.

His hardest duty was supposed to be shinning up the ratlin to "reef," or "brail up," or "splice the mainbrace," or do some other of those mysterious things that caused him to look so mythical to the minds of land-lubbers and the simple-hearted kind of women that used to be, but now no longer are.

I think that they are about as mythical as the jewels in the toad's ugly skull, to which he likened them.

But there's nothing mythical about me; 'tis only in the family, so to speak, that I'm like a fog.

But the otheroh, the other is sheer imagery, more mythical than Jonah and the whale.