Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2)

Hesiod codified certain priestly and Delphian theories about their origin and genealogies. Homer minutely described their politics and society. His description, however, must in...

A new class of myths--Not explanatory--Popular tales--Heroic and romantic myths--(1) Savage tales--(2) European Contes-- (3) Heroic myths--Their origin--Diffusion--History of th...

Antiquity of Egypt--Guesses at origin of the people-- Chronological views of the religion--Permanence and changes-- Local and syncretic worship--Elements of pure belief and of t...

Savage religion mysterious--Why this is so--Australians in 1688--Sir John Lubbock--Roskoff--Evidence of religion--Mr. Manning--Mr. Howitt--Supreme beings--Mr. Tylor's theory of...

Novelty of the "New World "--Different stages of culture represented there--Question of American Monotheism-- Authorities and evidence cited--Myths examined: Eskimo, Ahts, Thlin...

Bushmen gods--Cagn, the grasshopper?--Hottentot gods--"Wounded knee," a dead sorcerer--Melanesian gods--Qat and the spider --Aht and Maori beasts-gods and men-gods--Samoan form...

Difficulties of the study--Development of clan-gods-- Departmental gods-Divine patronage of morality--Immorality mythically attributed to gods--Indra--His love of Soma-- Scandal...

European eye-witnesses of Mexican ritual--Diaz, his account of temples and Gods__Sahagun, his method--Theories of the god Huitzilopochtli--Totemistic and other elements in his i...

*** Rig-Veda, i. 32,14, tells of a flight as headlong as that of Apollo after killing the Python. Mr. Perry explains the flight as the rapid journey of the thunderstorm.

Gods in myth, and God in religion--The society of the gods like that of men in Homer--Borrowed elements in Greek belief--Zeus--His name--Development of his legend--His bestial s...