I leave it to those who know Indian mythology better than I do, to interpret the meaningor rather the past meaning, for I suspect it means very little nowof all this trumpery and nonsense, on which the poor folk seem to spend much money.

After Gray had studied the Norse mythology, we find him using such strong expressions as "iron-sleet of arrowy shower."

abroad 21Apr25, AI-7001), A869118. R108630, 11Mar53, Patricia Wentworth Turnbull (A) WERNER, ALICE The mythology of all races.

He found such mythology as he required where many an honest fellow has found it before himin Lemprière's Dictionary.

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.

DURING the last three hundred years reason has been slowly but steadily destroying Christian mythology and exposing the pretensions of supernatural revelation.

Dictators from Adolph Hitler to Idi Amin owed a good part of their success to their ability to develop ethnically based mythologies that united their people under a single sense of identity.

For the first time the English world was given an easily accessible volume which disclosed the Norse mythology in all its strength and weirdness.

We have so far outgrown it, have so completely exchanged mythology for curiosity, and metaphor for science, that the necessary conditions for great art are wanting.

It remains his crowning merit to have first expressed the mythology of Christianity and the sentiment of the Middle Ages with the conscious aim of a real artist.

'It sounds better than Box and Cox, but I have forgotten my mythology.' 'Hera and Aphrodite agreed that each should keep Adonis one-third of the year, and that he should have the odd four months to himself.

In union with popular and unconscious imagination, it generates mythology; in union with imagination and reason, it gives birth to theology and cosmogony; in union with imagination, reason, and experience, it is the source of philosophy; in union with the same, together with the artistic sense and high degrees of imaginative sympathy, it creates epic poetry and art.

Both hymns illustrate the imagery and metaphor out of which grew the mythology of primeval Babylonia, and offer curious parallels to the Aryan hymns of the Rig-Veda.

These legends, in addition to illustrating the fairy mythology of bygone years, are additionally interesting from their connection with the plants and flowers, most of which are familiar to us from our childhood.

To read Homer with a view of understanding the fables of superstition, and of interpreting the mythology of the ancients, may have been needful for the later Greeks, who would preserve religion from the death that was stealing over it, in the divorce of the educated and the popular thought of the Grecian Bible.

This also was of immense influence, since it introduced to English readers a new and fascinating mythology, more rugged and primitive than that of the Greeks; and we are still, in music as in letters, under the spell of Thor and Odin, of Frea and the Valkyr maidens, and of that stupendous drama of passion and tragedy which ended in the "Twilight of the Gods."

In fact, throughout this century, there were not many victims, though afterwards the Christians invented a whole mythology of martyrdoms.

Why make ye so sorry a figure in my relation, who made up to meto my childish eyesthe mythology of the Temple?

Shakspeare, in his "Midsummer-Night's Dream," has mingled the mythologies of Hellas and Scandinavia, of the North and the South, making of them a sort of mythic olla podrida.

It is in the contemplation of these beauties that fancy recalls the mythology of rocky woods, peopled with Dryads and Fauns.

Rarely does there occur a more striking example of how the deteriorations of language affect mythology.

His presence grew to be more real to her than reality itself, and in her quiet moments she wove out the mythology of his existence, as Bhavadgheetas and Mahabraatus have been dreamed.

He attacked the popular mythology with open ridicule.

" Decidedly, Engineer Serko is fond of citing mythology!

But the point of interest in his attitude is that he did not care much whether a religion was true, but only whether it was morally useful; he was prepared to promote morality by edifying fables; and he condemned the popular mythology not because it was false, but because it did not make for righteousness.