" MUSEUM OF NAVAHO CEREMONIAL ART, INC., SANTA FE, N.M. Atsah or eagle catching myth and Yohe or bead myth.

Without assuming a personal God who can be appeased, eternal damnation and the proposition that you can win eternal life by believing a myth, there is no sane reason for the absurd hypnotic formulas.

Vergil's strange comparison of Messalla to the superbus Eryx in Catalepton IX, written in 42 B.C., is also readily explained if we may assume that he has recently studied the Eryx myth in preparation for the contest of Book V (11. 392-420).

Viracocha as the First CauseHis name Illa TicciQquichua PrayersOther Names and Titles of ViracochaHis Worship a True MonotheismThe Myth of the Four BrothersMyth of the Twin Brothers.

He also employs them in a Euhemeristic fashion, explaining them as popular allegories of actual human experiences, citing the myths of Tantalus and Sisyphus, for example, as expressions of the ever-present dread of punishment for crimes.

The myth may be engaged in the transmission of a narrative of early deeds and events, having a foundation in truth, which truth, however, has been greatly distorted and perverted by the omission or introduction of circumstances and personages, and then it constitutes the historical myth.

He embodies myths in physical forms, adequate to their intellectual meaning.

Or we can find another familiar myth, partly Aryan, partly Semitic, where many of the same outlines present themselves.

They have somewhat indulgently regarded it as one more historic institution for preserving myth and legend.

There was a mythical wild turkey in the woods around, and the hope of a shot at him carried me many a mile, though he proved only a myth; but of rattlesnakes and copperheads there was no lack.

However, since the white race began to gather up and record these Indian myths he has been known as Misha-wabus, Manabush, Jous-ke-ha, Messou, Manabozho, Nanahboozhoo, Hiawatha, Chiabo, Singua-sewand even some other names have been heard.

Hence the teacher of literature at Rome must waste much time upon elucidating the text, telling the myths in full, and giving convenient compendia of metamorphoses, of Homeric heroes, of "trees and flowers of the poets," and the like.

Hiram of Tyre can only be considered, historically, as being necessary to complete the myth and symbolism of Hiram Abif.

The human longing for the Infinite is as strong now as it was when the first ology, aiming to grasp it, conceived its first myth, and comprehended something so far below what humanity itself now is or knows, that we use it, along with the more recent productions of Mrs. Goose, to amuse children.

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.

It is probable that more extended research would disclose a complete cosmogonic myth to replace the somewhat fragmentary material here offered.

It is entitled Gripus and Hegio, or the Passionate Lovers, and relates the loves of these characters for Mira and Daris; while we also find the familiar roguish boy, less amusing and of stricter propriety than usual; a chorus of fairies who discourse classical myth; Venus, Cupid, Hymen, and Echo; and the habitual concomitants of pastoral commonplace.

All through Aztec mythology, traditions and customs, we can discover this ancient myth of the four brothers, the four ancestors of their race, or the four chieftains who led their progenitors to their respective habitations.

Is it more than the puerile fable of savages? Let us see whether some of those unconscious tricks of speech to which I referred in the introductory chapter have not disfigured a true nature myth.

For the artist, it must be noted, does not attempt to illustrate a passage of an ancient writer; very probably, nay, almost certainly, he had never read the Thebaid of Statius, whence comes the story of Adrastus and Hypsipyle; the subject would have been suggested to him by some friend, a student of the Classics, and Giorgione thereupon dressed the old Greek myth in Venetian garb, just as Statius had done in the Latin.

Bah!change is a thing of the past, and tragedy a myth of our forefathers; war a bad habit of old barbarians, eradicated by the spread of an enlightened philanthropy.

And so ends my true myth of the wasp-tree.

But this task of turning the myths into irony was innocent and poetical, as compared with that of the ordinary comedy depicting the Attic life of the period.

Blake founds his great myth on his perception of unity at the heart of things expressing itself in endless diversity.

Any one who has sat from two till six at that engaging occupation, will understand precisely how her back ached and her temples throbbed, and her fingers stung, and her neck stiffened; why her eyes swam, her cheeks burned, her brain was deadened, the children's voices were insufferable, the slamming of a door an agony, the past a blot, the future unendurable, life a burden, friendship a myth, her hair down, and her collar unpinned.