A Study of the Temple Worship and Mythology of the Ancient Egyptians.

Dorothea (albeit she had often glanced into the copy of M. Lempriere's Classical Dictionary in her brother's library, and, besides, had picked up something of Greek and Roman mythology in helping Narcissus) did not at once discriminate the subjects of these panels, but her eyes rested on them with a pleasant sense of recognition, and were still resting on them when she heard General Rochambeau say: "Ah, there is my genius!

Urania is credited in mythology with the motherhood of two sonsLinus, her offspring by Amphimacus, who was a son of Poseidon, and Hymenaeus, her offspring by Apollo.

At any rate the tree of the world, and the greatest of all trees, has long been identified in the northern mythology as the ash tree, a fact which accounts for the weird character assigned to it amongst all the Teutonic and Scandinavian nations, frequent illustrations of which will occur in the present volume.

Modifications of what was originally a statement of a simple occurrence of daily routine, they became transmitted in the limbeck of mythology to the story of the beneficent god of the past, and the promise of golden days when again he should return to the people whom erstwhile he ruled and taught.

What authority we have in history or mythology for placing the head-quarters and metropolis of God Cupid in this anatomical seat rather than in any other, is not very clear; but we have got it, and it will serve as well as any other.

There is a truer account of it in mythology than in any history of America, so called, that I have seen.

That was the reason for this mad joy-ride from end to end of the German Empire, and that is the only apology which the author has to make for introducing the latest contributions to Germanic mythology into an otherwise serious work.

Goldziher's "Mythology Among the Hebrews," shows the mythic character of many of these revolting Jewish stories, though his theory carries him off his feet.

If such a phenomenon occurred but once, it would be handed down by tradition to posterity, and get into the mythology at last.

What is there like it, or to be at all compared with it, in any mythology on earth?

He canwhat the lower animals, happily for them, cannotorganise his folly; erect his superstitions into a science; and create a whole mythology out of his blind fear of the unknown.