le everything was new and strange to the people who then lived on the earth , men talked of the things which they saw and hear

hrough the sky. As they looked on the dark clouds which rested on the earth without giving any rain, they said that the terri

n had slain his enemy, and brought a stream of life for the thirsting earth . “Now, so long as men remained in the same place,

man speaks with his friend.” Ruskin . The Greek poets believed the earth to be flat and circular, their own country occupy

e gods, or Delphi, so famous for its oracle. The circular disk of the earth was crossed from west to east, and divided into t

called the Mediterranean, and its continuation the Euxine. Around the earth flowed the River Ocean, its course being from sou

cean, its course being from south to north on the western side of the earth , and in a contrary direction on the eastern side.

current, unvexed by storm or tempest. The sea, and all the rivers on earth , received their waters from it. The northern port

on earth, received their waters from it. The northern portion of the earth was supposed to be inhabited by a happy race name

d in sleep, Their conch-shells never blow.” On the south side of the earth , close to the stream of Ocean, dwelt a people hap

to share their sacrifices and banquets. On the western margin of the earth , by the stream of Ocean, lay a happy place named

monsters, and enchantresses; while they placed around the disk of the earth nations enjoying the peculiar favor of the gods,

n a winged boat, which conveyed him round by the northern part of the earth , back to his place of rising in the east. Milton

), unfolded its valves to permit the passage of the Celestials to the earth , and to receive them on their return. The gods ha

e palace of Zeus, as did also those deities whose usual abode was the earth , the waters, or the under-world. It was also in t

ovely goddess Hebe*. Here they conversed of the affairs of heaven and earth ; and, as they quaffed their nectar, Apollo, the g

l the seeds of nature. According to the same legend, Gæa*, or Ge (the earth ) first issued, in no very comprehensible manner,

ensible manner, from Chaos, whereupon Tartarus (the abyss beneath the earth ) immediately opened itself, and Eros* (the love t

rt that the ocean is produced by the combined influence of heaven and earth ; while, at the same time, their fervid and poetic

us espoused his sister Tethys. Their offspring were the rivers of the earth , and three thousand daughters named Oceanides*, o

Uranus was believed to have united himself in marriage with Gæa, the earth ; and reflection will show what a truly poetical,

nion actually does exist. The smiles of heaven produce the flowers of earth ; whereas his long-continued frowns exercise so de

od. * * * Gæa, as earth-goddess, was a personification of productive earth , whether through fertile soil or through moisture

Uranus was mutilated, and from the drops of blood which fell upon the earth sprung Gigantes* (Giants) and Meliæ* (Melian Nymp

he stars. 2. With starry veil floating in the air, coming towards the earth as if to extinguish a flaming torch which she car

s wept without ceasing for her darling son, and her tears fall to the earth as dew. Eos had her own chariot, which she drove

the toils of the day. When the shades of evening began to enfold the earth , the two milk-white steeds of Selene rose out of

e was the daughter of Perses* and Asteria, and her sway extended over earth , heaven, and the lower regions, for which reason

nvisible phases, and it was thought that when she was absent from the earth she was in the lower world. As operating in the h

he heavens, Hecate is identified with Selene; in her influence on the earth , with Artemis* (Diana*), and as having power in t

rsephone* (Proserpine*). She was believed to wander by night over the earth , seen only by the dogs, whose barking announced h

f Zeus and the other great gods of Olympus, like Gæa, personified the earth , and was regarded as the Great Mother, and unceas

e dominion of Zeus. A great battle took place, which shook heaven and earth . Zeus, by means of his never-failing thunderbolts

tes are said to have sprung from the drops of blood which fell on the earth from the mutilated Uranus. From the plains of Phl

above, but that he is concealed from the sight of the inhabitants of earth . At Lacedæmon*, or Sparta, he was represented wit

ferent prayers which were daily offered to him from every part of the earth . The Cretans* represented Zeus without ears, to s

. The three eyes were indicative of the dominion of Zeus over heaven, earth , and the underworld. As Jupiter Ammon*, he is rep

od of rain. He was invoked by that name among the Romans whenever the earth was parched by continual heat. Hera*.

e-tie. The marriage of Zeus and Hera typified the union of heaven and earth in the fertilizing showers. It was called “the sa

. The term Hades at a later time denoted the unseen world beneath the earth . When it was said that the dead had gone to Hades

gnifies wealth, because our wealth comes from the lowest parts of the earth . “The early Greeks regarded Aides as their great

not only as sending nourishment to plants from the deep bosom of the earth , but also as offering unbounded riches to mankind

ooding over the vicissitudes of fortune which they had experienced on earth , or in regretting the lost pleasures they had enj

er invisible. The Romans supposed that there was in the centre of the earth a vast, gloomy, and impenetrably dark cavity call

man. He took only those whose bodies had received funereal4 rites on earth , and who had brought with them the indispensable

ndless torture. Tartarus was supposed to be as far below Hades as the earth is distant from the skies. The waters of the Leth

* for a thousand years, they were destined to animate other bodies on earth , and before leaving Elysium they drank of the riv

one, Do the Danaids ply, ever vainly, the sieve. Tasks as futile does earth to its denizens give.” Lucille . Phlegyas, to

reconciled to the gods before descending to Hades. They appeared upon earth as the avenging deities who relentlessly pursued

murder of his father, Agamemnon*, wandered for a long time about the earth in a condition bordering on madness, owing to the

of agriculture, and represented that portion of Gæa (the whole solid earth ) which we call the earth’s crust, and which produ

hree great earth-goddesses Gæa, Rhea, and Demeter. Gæa represents the earth as a whole, with its mighty subterranean forces;

indled torches, and during many days and nights wandered over all the earth , not even resting for food or sleep. At length, H

rom the society of the other deities. Meanwhile all the fruits of the earth ceased, and a general famine threatened to exting

meter swore that she would neither return nor allow the fruits of the earth to grow until her daughter was restored to her. A

grain. The sorrow of Demeter typifies the gloom which falls upon the earth during the cheerless months of winter. It is beli

ul. The grain, which, as it were, remains dead for a time in the dark earth , only to rise one day dressed in a newer and love

When Demeter, after the loss of her daughter, was wandering over the earth in the guise of a poor old woman, she came to Ele

d barley. Swine were sacrificed because they injure the fruits of the earth . Demeter punished with severity those that incurr

ho pitilessly drags down all that lives into the hidden depths of the earth , whence the grave is called “the chamber of Perse

doubts and fears,     Those phantom-shapes that haunt and blight the earth , Had come ’twixt her, a child of sin and tears,  

emple of Apollo was at Delphi, which was considered the centre of the earth . The oracle was second only to that of Dodona. Th

riestess, or Pythoness*, was seated upon a tripod over a chasm in the earth , whence issued a cold vapor, by aid of which, ass

d forged it. For this offence he was banished from Olympus. Coming to earth , he for nine years served Admetus* as a shepherd,

his worship and the cultivation of the vine among the nations of the earth . He did not confine himself to mere vine-planting

was considered complete without their joy-inspiring presence; and on earth no social gathering was celebrated without libati

summit of Mount Helicon with such power and sweetness that heaven and earth stood still to listen, whilst the mountain raised

regarded the rainbow as a bridge of communication between heaven and earth ; and this is doubtless the reason why Iris, who r

rded, also, as the presiding deity over ah gates, entrances, etc., on earth . In this character he was the protecting deity of

ing. The Lemures were those Manes that haunted their former abodes on earth as evil spirits. Penates*. The Penates* wer

e most ancient are those which describe men as having sprung from the earth . Men saw the tender plants force their way throug

d so they naturally concluded that man must also have issued from the earth in a similar manner. Another tradition asserts th

e stole some sparks from the chariot of the sun, and conveyed them to earth hidden in a hollow tube. Furious at having been o

es. The Golden race of men lived free from care and sorrow, while the earth spontaneously furnished them with all that was ne

This race perished by each other’s hands. The Iron race was last. The earth now yielded her increase only after much labor. T

yrrha left the ark and offered a sacrifice to Zeus. When they saw the earth desolate and devoid of inhabitants, they were fil

eucalion that it must be stones, which may be called the bones of the earth , the great parent of all, that were meant by the

uages a large number of names for the sun, the sky, the dawn, and the earth . The sun (Œdipus) is the child of the darkness (L

illed each other in single combat; Amphiaraus was swallowed up by the earth , and Adrastus owed his life to the swiftness of t

horse, which became so restive that his rider was precipitated to the earth . The winged horse flew up to heaven and became be

uld rule over all his neighbors. Hera hated Alcmena, so, hastening to earth , she caused the birth of Eurystheus*, grandson of

tting Theseus free, but he was obliged to leave Pirithous because the earth quaked when he attempted to touch him. Aides cons

f Anchises, who showed him the souls which were destined to return to earth and become the future heroes of Rome. He told als

us, or Cœlum, personified the heavens. Gæa, or Terra, personified the earth , with its subterranean forces. Cyclopes personifi

he energies of the sky. Titans personified the forces that formed the earth in the early ages. Chronos, or Saturn, personifie

rsonified time. Rhea, or Ops, personified the productive power of the earth . Zeus, or Jupiter, personified the sky. Hera, or

fe, and progress. Demeter, or Ceres, personified the fertility of the earth in producing grain. Persephone, or Proserpine, pe

erpine, personified the absence of vegetation from the surface of the earth during winter, and its reappearance in summer; al

he lower world, and assisted vegetation by the internal warmth of the earth . Demeter, or Ceres, presided over agriculture. Pe

e, or Proserpine, presided over the life of the seed concealed in the earth . Poseidon, or Neptune, presided over the sea in i

ess, was the cool night sky tenderly brooding over the hot, exhausted earth ; the shrew-mouse was sacred to her. Typhon* was

and the hippopotamus. It was related that Osiris once went about the earth doing good, and that on his return he was slain b

g a blissful and eternal rest. The rejected soul was sent back to the earth in the form of a pig, or some other unclean anima

hriman* (Ahrimanes*) rebelled, and became the author of all evil upon earth . Ormuzd created man, and supplied him with all th

Varuna was meant the broad heaven which is spread over and veils the earth . Many of the hymns addressed to Varuna are addres

ra*, the enemy, who, by shutting up the rain, brings drought upon the earth . Vritra is described as a great dragon smitten b

s, or god of love, and the Latin Cupid. Arusha was said to awaken the earth with his rays. Brahma is called a son of Brahm,

peninsula. According to the Eddas, there was once no heaven above or earth beneath, but only a bottomless deep, and a world

i*, and Ve*. They slew the giant Ymir, and out of his body formed the earth — his blood became the seas; his bones, the mount

ng them their respective courses. When the sun shed its rays upon the earth , the plants and trees began to bud and sprout. Th

ence of Odin. When seated on his throne, he overlooked all heaven and earth . Upon his shoulders were the ravens Hugin* (Mind)

a malevolent deity described as the great serpent that encircles the earth , and as the father of Hela, the queen of the regi

earth, and as the father of Hela, the queen of the regions below the earth . Baldur was the most beautiful of all the dwelle

en all the visible creation, the gods of Valhalla, the inhabitants of earth , men, giants, and elves, will be destroyed. The E

l be no more. After this universal destruction a new heaven and a new earth will rise out of the abyss. This new earth will p

ion a new heaven and a new earth will rise out of the abyss. This new earth will produce its fruits without labor or care, pe

nquins, was at a period when boundless waters covered the face of the earth . On this infinite ocean floated a raft, upon whic

o an island, into a mountain, into a country, finally into this great earth that we dwell upon. As it grew, Michabo walked ro

d, and he continues his journey and labor, walking forever around the earth , and ever increasing it more and more. “The anima

t more and more. “The animals on the raft soon found homes on the new earth . Michabo, the Great Hare, formed the trees by sho

y were the ancestors of the various races of mankind which people the earth . “Having closely watched the spider spreading her

g power which daily comes forth from its home in the east, making the earth rejoice. The name Michabo is compounded of “michi

n Algonquin is ‘wajashk,’ and this is almost the word for mud, or wet earth , ‘ajishki.’ The one word was probably substituted

al statement was, that from wet mud, dried by the sunlight, the solid earth was formed; and again, that this damp soil was wa

pe, but are indeed the four winds, which keep the four corners of the earth .” We thus see that Wabun, the East, was distingui

ers and servants. Seated at the extreme east, ‘at the place where the earth is cut off,’ watching in his medicine-lodge, or p

of Ioskeha. The most ancient myth of the Iroquois represents this earth as covered with water, in which dwelt aquatic ani

aensic, threw herself through a rift in the sky, and fell towards the earth . There a turtle offered her his broad back as a r

hich signified the White One and the Dark One. Ioskeha went about the earth , which was arid, and called forth the springs and

created an immense frog, which swallowed all the water, and left the earth as dry as before. A partridge informed Ioskeha of

s, and he set out for his brother’s country, for they had divided the earth between them. He soon came to the gigantic frog,

ontest between the brothers ensued, and Tawiskara was driven from the earth and forced to reside in the far west, where he be

ther of mankind, and special guardian of the Iroquois.” He caused the earth to bring forth, stocked the woods with game, and

for a hundred years. Hence, it was deemed a religious duty to scatter earth over any corpse found uncovered by the wayside, a

cient of the gods, as Vesta Prisca, or Terra, different names for the earth , was of the goddesses. Their sons were called Tit

shiped. She was likewise called Ops and Tellus, as presiding over the earth ; and Rhea, from a Greek word, signifying to flow;

ying to flow; because all plants, trees, and animals proceed from the earth . The box and pine trees were esteemed sacred to h

bele is generally represented sitting, to denote the stability of the earth ; and bearing a drum or disk, emblematical of the

drum or disk, emblematical of the winds confined in the bowels of the earth . She wears a crown of towers, as before mentioned

ort of fruit. Her temples were round, in imitation of the form of the earth . The feasts of Cybele were called Megalesia, and

ir, the æther: and Juno his wife, the grosser air which surrounds the earth . Those who looked upon him as an animated God, as

after the deluge, as related in the book of Genesis. Noah divided the earth among his three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japhet. Ham

red right hand puts forth, And shakes, with burning bolts, the solid earth ; The nations shrink appall’d; the beasts are fled

aturn and Cybele, and was supposed to be the first who cultivated the earth . What was her history? Pluto, her brother, having

he was supposed to take in producing and preserving the fruits of the earth . She is said to have taught the art of tilling th

ruits of the earth. She is said to have taught the art of tilling the earth , and sowing corn, and making bread. What were the

d to this Goddess? Swine, because they destroy the productions of the earth ; and garlands, composed of ears of corn, were off

d Phlegon; Greek words, signifying red, luminous, hot, and loving the earth . The first denotes the rising of the Sun, whose r

the fourth, the time of his setting, when he appears to approach the earth . The palace of the Sun. The Sun’s bright palace

igh, (The work of Vulcan) a fictitious sky. A waving sea the inferior earth embrac’d, And Gods and Goddesses the water grac’d

inferior earth embrac’d, And Gods and Goddesses the water grac’d. On earth , a different landscape courts the eyes, Men, town

inexperience of the charioteer: quitted the usual track, and involved earth and heaven in one general conflagration. To save

oke; Here, the bright beam and axle torn away, And scatter’d o’er the earth , the shining fragments lay. The breathless Phaeto

s, and forced, for a time, to undergo many trials and difficulties on earth . During his banishment, he invented the harp. It

ut being unable to retain so great a prodigy, he digged a hole in the earth , and whispering into it this sentence, “Midas has

e has always a smiling countenance; and one foot lightly touching the earth , while the other sports in air. Erato. Her name i

nd of woods. In heaven, she was supposed to enlighten by her rays; on earth , to restrain the wild animals by her bow and dart

the name of the faithful companion of Moses. Bacchus, by striking the earth with his thyrsus, produced rivers of wine. Moses,

hour, While scarce the skies her horrid head can bound, She stalks on earth and shakes the world around. The nations bleed wh

e thund’ring field. Both armies start, and trembling gaze around, And earth and heav’n re-echo to the sound. As vapours blown

of death, Beneath the rage of burning Sirius rise, Choke the parch’d earth and blacken all the skies; In such a cloud the Go

ds, That high through fields of air his flight sustain, O’er the wide earth , and o’er the boundless main. He grasps the wand

vinity, as he represents the vast collection of waters which gird the earth . From him sprang Nereus and Doris, and from them

Who was Demogorgon? This allegorical Divinity was the genius of the earth . Such fear and veneration did his name inspire, t

and disfigured, covered with moss, and residing in the bowels of the earth . What did the poets feign concerning him? Weary a

ted himself upon it, and rising into the air, fixed the limits of the earth , and created the heavens. Passing over the Acroce

ich he made the sun; he then placed it in the heavens to illumine the earth . From him proceeded Tartarus and Nox. What were t

ded Tartarus and Nox. What were the various appellations given to the earth ? The names of Ops and Tellus were indifferently a

earth? The names of Ops and Tellus were indifferently applied to the earth ; and frequently also the appellations of the Godd

r Bountiful Goddess? It was celebrated by the Romans in honour of the earth , with the utmost magnificence and attention. The

sion, no victim was killed, and nothing offered but the fruits of the earth . The shepherds purified their flocks with the smo

ue from the hand of Praxiteles. Populonia protected the fruits of the earth from hail and lightning. Pilumnus presided over t

o speaks of Gnomes, Sylphs, and Salamanders, the first inhabiting the earth ; the second, the air; the third, the fire. Cha

after remaining a thousand years in that abode, the souls returned to earth , and animated other bodies, either of men or anim

d a crown composed of seven stars. Her distaff reached from heaven to earth . The robe of Lachesis was spangled with stars, an

ed over the punishment of guilt. She is represented as traversing the earth , with great diligence, in search of the wicked; f

terrible Deities no altars were ever raised. Trenches were cut in the earth , into which was poured the blood of black sheep,

heifers. During the prayers, the priest lowered his hands towards the earth , instead of raising them towards heaven. Being re

and Alcmena. He, being persecuted by the anger of Juno, traversed the earth , destroying monsters, giants, and oppressors of v

oul; That, changed through all, and yet in all the same; Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refre

h the deliverance of Noah and his children, and their re-peopling the earth ; the dispersion of men into various parts, at the

e solicitation of many of the deities, Buddha descended repeatedly to earth , and animated various human bodies; in which he e

thousand years. In process of time, another Buddha is to appear upon earth ; and, after an infinite number of ages, the unive

he book of Genesis “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth ; and the earth was void and waste; and darkness w

sis “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth; and the earth was void and waste; and darkness was on the face

to two equal parts; and from these halves, formed the heavens and the earth ; placing in the midst, the subtle ether; the eigh

nging; The parts all shifting, still unchang’d the whole. Even we, on earth , at intervals descry Gleams of the glory, streaks

n; or is driven down to Narac, the region of serpents; or assumes, on earth , the form of some animal; unless its offence had

ies do the Hindûs worship? Rama, an incarnate Deity; an appearance on earth of the preserving power, or Vishnu, in the person

ith the Creator, through the medium of the fairest productions of the earth . The elements were not the only immediate and sen

ed the world. After having dared to visit heaven, he descended to the earth , assumed the form of a serpent, and introduced a

This personage is spoken of as a star, or a sun, and as existing upon earth , under three forms. During this period, a conflic

caused rain to pour down in drops as large as the head of an ox. The earth was covered with water, and all the Kharfesters,

t length, the creating God drove back the waters from the face of the earth by a mighty wind. Another bull was then formed, w

ell. The Scythians also offered to their gods the first fruits of the earth , and portions of the spoils they gained in war. F

lity and abundance. Under the name of Hertha, she was regarded as the earth ; and she was worshiped by most of the German trib

g destined, at the last day, to vanquish the Gods, and to give up the earth to flames. Balder, a son of Odin. He was represen

estial fortress, at one end of the bridge Bifrost, which reached from earth to heaven, and was evidently an emblem of the rai

ht. Their chargers of ethereal birth. Paw’d, with impatient hoof, the earth , And snorting fiercel ’gan to neigh, As if they h

mythology. It speaks of the giants, as existing in chaos, before the earth . It describes the palace of Odin, the Valhalla in

Heimdal fall by mutual wounds. Surtur scatters his fires over all the earth , till it is consumed. Vidar, the god of silence,

f Odin,     Mute was thunderous ocean’s roar: Stillness o’er the huge earth brooding,     Strand was none, nor rocky shore.

th mists is clouded;     Shall the Powers of ill prevail? Say, shall earth with freshness teeming,     Once again from ocean

as being one of the precious stones of Paradise that fell down to the earth with Adam; and being taken up again, or, otherwis

he former was the God of heaven, so the latter was a delegated God on earth . Some have thought, that by their superior deity,

obscured. From a small, almost, unnoticed, spot on the surface of the earth , faintly gleamed for ages, the light of heavenly

im? What birds were sacred to Juno? Who taught the art of tilling the earth , raising corn, and making bread? In what city was

7 Bĭfōrmĭs, a name of Bacchus 47 Bĭfrōst, a bridge which reached from earth to heaven 202 Bŏnǎ Dĕǎ, the bountiful goddess 85

f Apollo 37 Dēlphōs, a famous oracle 40 Demogorgon, the genius of the earth 83 Deūcǎlĭon, a hero of antiquity 109 Dewtahs, ma

ŭs, a judge of the infernal regions 101 Echō, daughter of the air and earth 90 Edda, a sacred book of the Scandinavians 207 E

in, that thunders round. Pitt’s Virgil. 7. Alecto. This said, to earth th’ impetuous goddess flies Inflam’d with rage an

ther nations of antiquity, paid adoration to objects in the skies, on earth , in the water, and to fire, under different forms

sses was, Vesta, Prisca, Titæa, Telus, or Terra — names all denoting, earth . Questions. Into how many orders were the gods di

m his services. His reign was called the golden age; during which the earth afforded the inhabitants sustenance without cultu

Saturn was called Stercutius, because he was the first to fatten the earth with manure. He is represented under the figure o

called Ops, because she succours and cherishes every thing which the earth sustains; Rhea, because benefits incessantly proc

She is usually described as sitting, to intimate the stability of the earth , and as wearing a drum or a discus, an emblem of

of the winds. Her temples were round, in allusion to the form of the earth . — See Fig. 4. Fig. 4. Cybele. “High as the m

— The towers on her head, denote the towers and castles built on the earth ; her keys are emblematical of the treasures she l

earth; her keys are emblematical of the treasures she locks up in the earth in winter, and unlocks in summer; her chariot dra

in summer; her chariot drawn by the lions, denotes the motion of the earth ; and her garments of divers colours are descripti

the mother of the gods. The goddess Astergatis was the symbol of the earth ; and the Egyptians honored her as the moon, under

the older goddess. She is painted as sitting with a drum, because the earth is immovable, (according to the erroneous notion

er express, Or fires.” Obs. 1. — Vesta is taken for the elements of earth and fire, which is accounted for by two different

une and Pluto. For himself he reserved the jurisdiction of heaven and earth ; gave Neptune the sovereignty of the sea; and app

, his red hand he puts forth, And shakes with burning bolts the solid earth : The nations shrink appalled; the beasts are fled

o contain all the evils, which instantly escaped, and spread over the earth . But he shut the box again, and prevented Hope fr

waters subsided. They then inquired of the oracle of Themis, how the earth was to be repeopled, and were commanded to throw

ther. They rightly guessed that by their grandmother was intended the earth , and by her bones were meant the stones. The ston

s a punishment, Jupiter caused her to be suspended between heaven and earth . Vulcan having effected the rescue of his mother,

She is regarded as the first inventress of the art of cultivating the earth . She is said to have repented of the improper dem

ow was sacrificed, because that animal injures the productions of the earth . When harvest came on, the husbandmen carried a p

roserpine may stand for the seed, and Ceres, for the fertility of the earth . The seed remains concealed under ground in winte

ust, sign of Virgo (a virgin.) During the golden age, Astræa dwelt on earth ; but when that was over, being unable to bear the

eturned with the other gods to heaven. She was the last, who left the earth , and retired into that part of heaven which makes

egon, Greek names, meaning red, luminous, resplendent, and loving the earth . The first designates sunrise, as the rays are re

or; and the fourth represents sunset, when it is seen to approach the earth . Horæ or Seasons are supposed to be the daughters

o the task: the horses, running away, and setting the heavens and the earth on fire, Jupiter, with a stroke of thunder, preci

e, The fadeless blooms of youth are thine. Melodious insect! child of earth ! In wisdom mirthful, wise in mirth; Exempt from e

n, which the poets suppose to have been formed of the mud left on the earth by the waters of the deluge. Juno, pursuing her r

he harmony of our system; with a buckler, to denote his defending the earth ; and with arrows, to signify his power of life an

hich are fatal to mankind. He is called the sun in heaven, Bacchus on earth , and Apollo in the infernal regions. Obs. 7. — A

d to have been the inventor? Had Apollo any other adventures while on earth ? Did Apollo continue on earth? How was he honoure

ad Apollo any other adventures while on earth? Did Apollo continue on earth ? How was he honoured? Where was his favorite resi

. Her visage is ever smiling, and one of her feet lightly touches the earth . See Fig. 16. Fig. 16. Terpsichore. 6. Erato h

was worshipped in heaven, she was called Phœba, Luna, or the moon; on earth , Diana; in hell, Hecate or Proserpine. To designa

the city should give his name to it. No sooner had Neptune struck the earth with his trident, than a beautiful fiery courser,

, corrected their barbarous customs, and taught them to cultivate the earth , and especially the olive-tree. He introduced the

en she is seen to be carried by a globe, to denote that she rules the earth . In naval victories, she is seen on the prows of

hour; While scarce the skies her horrid head can bound; She stalks on earth , and shakes the world around; The nations bleed w

d by Zephyrus to the island of Cythera. Her delicate feet touched the earth , and flowers sprung up under her steps. She was r

h glittering brine each crystal limb, And beauty blazed to heaven and earth unveiled.” Botanic Garden. “The froth, born V

locks, and, fated from his birth To change eternal, mingled with the earth ; With darker horror shook the conscious wood, Gro

empts to paint by this allegorical personage, the moment at which the earth was peopled by men and animals. The poets represe

ds, That high through fields of air his flight sustain, O’er the wide earth , and o’er the boundless main: He grasps the wand

ing feet, and mounts the western winds, And, whether o’er the seas or earth he flies, With rapid force they bear him down the

bathing and drawing water from it. Almost all the inhabitants of the earth have libations to the ocean, seas, fountains, and

collection of water, and communicates it to the other seas and to the earth by that admirable circulation of rivers, fountain

e God. Strength, number, and address, secured him the dominion of the earth ; but he enjoyed it without gratitude, and thought

t on, continually increasing the number of the gods of heaven, of the earth , of the seas, and of hell. The earth itself becam

er of the gods of heaven, of the earth, of the seas, and of hell. The earth itself became a divinity. Woods, harvests, garden

and Bonus Eventus were the sixth. The first, because, without it, the earth is dry and produces nothing; and the second, whos

s, watched to procure good crops. Such were the principal gods of the earth . Their functions and names prove that they owed t

Demogorgon . Allegorically, Demogorgon represents the genius of the earth . No person, having great fear and veneration for

ed with moss, pale, and deformed, always inhabiting the bowels of the earth . He had Eternity and Chaos for his companions.

f dirt upon which he sat, and, rising into the air, he surrounded the earth and formed the heaven. Having passed on to the mo

and with which burning matter he formed the sun, which he gave to the earth for her husband. These produced Tartarus and Nox.

the sorrows which Chaos experienced, issued out of the bottom of the earth discord that she might dwell on its surface. She

hon, Nox, Tartarus, and so forth. The Arcadians originally considered earth to be animated by a genius, who received from the

s borne by Earth, the most ancient is Titæa, which signifies dirt, or earth , as Uranus does heaven. Chaos alone was more anci

, as Uranus does heaven. Chaos alone was more ancient than heaven and earth . He was arbitrarily called Ops, or Tellus; and th

the Earth and the sun? What nation was the first which considered the earth animated by a genius? What was the most ancient n

e office it is to preserve the seed whilst buried in the bosom of the earth . The husbandmen invoked Segetia to protect the co

the hail and the thunder-bolt from destroying the productions of the earth . Stercutius, Stercutus, or Sterculius, Sterquili

us, Sterquilinus, or Picumnus, first invented the art of manuring the earth . Proserpine caused the corn to sprout forth from

uring the earth. Proserpine caused the corn to sprout forth from the earth . Nodosus, or Nodotus, made it his business to kn

Eventus? What divinity was invoked to preserve the productions of the earth ? What god first invented the art of manuring the

uctions of the earth? What god first invented the art of manuring the earth ? What goddess produces the corn from the ground?

pearance of his legs, thighs, tail, and feet, of the fecundity of the earth , covered with shrubs, corn, and grass, and replet

ll gods.” Their statues were sometimes made of wax, ivory, silver, or earth , and sometimes covered with garlands, poppies, or

eaks of the Gnomes, Sylphes, and Salamanders. The first inhabited the earth ; the second, the air; and the third, the fire. So

y for nine years. When they swore by the Styx, they were to touch the earth with one hand, and the sea with the other. The Ph

se it, was turned into a fountain; and the god of Tartarus opened the earth with the stroke of his bident, disappeared from e

er, offered black victims, the blood of which was always spilt on the earth . Black sheep were the common victims. Pluto is ca

ere stern and inexorable, ever were busied in punishing the guilty on earth , as well as in hell. Their mode of chastisement o

he guilty on earth, as well as in hell. Their mode of chastisement on earth , was by wars, petilence, famine, terror, rage, di

own of seven stars, and held in her hand a distaff which reached from earth to heaven. Lachesis, in a robe strewed with stars

hurled, fell into the seas, and became islands; others fell upon the earth , and became mountains. They were, however, overco

e to avoid the fury of Juno, died in childbirth, and Jupiter rent the earth to give him a passage out of the cave. Tityus att

’d lay, who took his birth From heav’n, his nursing from the fruitful earth ; Here his gigantic limbs, with large embrace, In

ter, because she endeavoured to embroil the gods, and she came to the earth to exercise her furies. To this cruel goddess wer

hese two circumstances by saying, that Pegasus remained one moment on earth , and then directed his flight towards the abode o

le; and the fountain Hippocrene, which Pegasus opened by striking the earth with his hoof, designates that the productions of

alaxia. Lilies are said to have been created by the fall of it on the earth , and are therefore called the “roses of Juno.” Th

s the rock-roof d cavern o’er his head. Last with wide arms the solid earth he tears, Piles rock on rock, on mountain, mounta

, Hesperus. Jupiter, Neptune, and Mercury, making the tour of the earth , lodged at the house of Ænopeus, or Hyrieus. In o

spring from the skin of that very ox, which skin they had formed with earth diluted with water. Orion became a mighty hunter.

formation of the universe, says: “In the beginning the heaven and the earth had but one form, being mingled together by their

stars, their circular motion. Solid matter fell down, and formed the earth and the sea, whence sprang animals and fishes; al

nsects and of other animals in Egypt are still seen to issue from the earth , tempered by the waters of the Nile.” The Egypti

serpents. This tremendous monster was born of the evaporation of the earth . Osiris shut up in the primitive egg from which t

elve black pyramidal figures, the source of the evils spread over the earth . He enclosed Osiris in an ark, and drove Horus in

d Ahriman, or Arimanius, having ventured to visit heaven, appeared on earth in the shape of a serpent, and introduced other e

hich he poured down rain, in drops as large as the head of an ox. The earth was overflown with the water, and the evil Genii

Genii were destroyed. The supreme god drove the waters away from the earth at one blast. The author of abundance was another

ks Of Oromazes; turn’d to noxious heat, The solar beam, that foodfull earth might parch, That streams exhaling might forsake

me, he divided it into two equal parts, from which he made heaven and earth by breathing into it the breath of the subtle eth

go down to the region of the serpents, called Narse, or to assume on earth the shape of some animal, unless it commits such

ce more assume the form of a horse in order to destroy every thing on earth . The river Ganges is sacred; and they practise ab

her into two parts: one of these parts formed heaven, and the other, earth ; after which, monsters of irregular forms disappe

disappeared. Bel next divided darkness, separated the heaven from the earth , and arranged the universe. Having destroyed anim

ered one of the gods to cut his head, in order to mix with the blood, earth , and form men and animals, after which he formed

as two stadia wide and five long. It was no sooner finished, than the earth was overflown. Some time after, seeing the waters

me he sent them out, they returned no more, by which he knew that the earth began to be uncovered. Then he opened the vessel,

an to appear and shine. A violent degree of heat, communicated to the earth , produced winds and clouds, which distributed rai

the thunderclap awoke intelligent beings, which began to move on the earth and in the sea. The father of mankind was called

on rays of light and clouds, and that they occasionally revisited the earth to warble forth their celestial music, and inhale

gay feathers. From this fan the Mexicans fancied he saw all things on earth reflected. Sacred stones in the streets of Mexico

no information in relation to the life of Trophonius, except that the earth being half opened under his feet, he was swallowe

w. One came out of the cave as he had entered it, lying down upon the earth . Soon after he was asked what he had seen, but be

e world. These intelligences had the direction of its operations: the earth , water, fire, air, the moon, the stars, forests,

e heaven, air, and man, who is to live forever; and before heaven and earth were made, this god was already with the giants.

the gods is Asgard, a fortress whence the bridge Bifrost leads to the earth . Valaskialf was the silver palace of Odin. He sit

was founded the veneration they had for Earth. They called her mother earth , the mother of the gods. The Phœnicians adored th

n. Hiemdal, a son of nine gigantic sisters, born on the margin of the earth , was their door keeper. He appeared with a pensiv

n. The rainbow (Bifrost) was the bridge, communicating from heaven to earth . Hiemdal watched over its extremities to prevent

ht, Their chargers of ethereal birth, Paw’d, with impatient hoof, the earth , And snorting fiercely ‘gan to neigh, As if they

neither sea, river, nor refreshing zephyr. Neither heaven above, nor earth below, was seen; all was nothing but a vast, herb

ted the globe. With his blood they formed the sea and the rivers; the earth , with his flesh; large mountains, with his bones;

n. Days were distinguished, and years had their number. They made the earth round, and girded it with the deep Ocean, on the

la, (Alder,) that is descended the race of men, which now inhabit the earth . The giant Narfi (darkness) had a daughter named

a son, Andur, (matter;) by Anar, (the forming principle,) Jord, (the earth ;) by Dellinger, (twilight,) Dagur, (day.) Alfadur

and furnished them each with a horse and chariot, to drive round the earth daily. Nott was first drawn by her horse Hrimfaxi

wn by her horse Hrimfaxi, (blackmane,) which every morning bedews the earth with the foam from his mouth. The horse of Dagur,

n was calculated to add to the temerity of the most warlike people on earth . The inhabitants of the North joined to this doct

s the Edda, a barbarous age, a sword age, when crimes will infest the earth , when the brothers will wallow in the blood of th

f the world; the winds will blow furiously; the frost will harden the earth ; and three such winters will follow in succession

cape; the great dragon will roll in the ocean, and by his motions the earth will be overflown; the trees will be rooted up; t

Fenris, unchained, will open his enormous jaws which will reach from earth to heaven; fire will issue from his nostrils and

and meet again; the great oak will shake its branches; and heaven and earth will be full of fear. The gods will arm, and the

e fire will consume all, and the flame rise to heaven; but soon a new earth will emerge from the bosom of the waves, adorned

f Odin,     Mute was thunderous ocean’s roar; Stillness o’er the huge earth brooding,     Strand was none, nor rocky shore.

th mists is clouded,     Shall the powers of ill prevail? Say, shall earth with freshness teeming,     Once again from ocean

ford. The first fruits of crops, and the most beautiful fruits of the earth , covered the altars of the gods. But in process o

ch they sometimes cast a victim devoted to Frigga, the goddess of the earth . If it went quickly to the bottom she was pleased

ears by history, that this barbarous usage was once almost general on earth . The Gauls long offered men to their supreme god,

nce, though in a higher degree, were conferred the same honours as on earth . It was thought that departed souls commanded the

illed to be placed on the claybed, and covered with a piece of select earth , and four stones ranged on the four sides, which

lus beautifully observes, they may be compared to trees rooted in the earth ; for as these, by their roots, are united to the

rooted in the earth; for as these, by their roots, are united to the earth , and become earthly in an eminent degree without

d to the earth, and become earthly in an eminent degree without being earth , so the gods by their elevation are closely unite

ll the ground, so the Moon governs all those parts which surround the earth . “According to this theology, also, of the gods s

behold the spheres with which they are connected, viz. Vesta with the earth ; Neptune with water, Juno with air, and Vulcan wi

earthquakes proved that she could move, if she would. Down under the earth , where the sun never shines, the Greeks thought t

reat as he was, he would sometimes come down from the sky and walk on earth as a man. He wished to see and enjoy things himse

hus seen. All of the gods and goddesses showed themselves at times on earth , and they were very much like men and women, even

on Olympus. They ate, and drank, and were married, like people of the earth , and we are told that they often quarreled outrag

, but we are told that in early times this was not so. Ceres kept the earth fertile, and there was no winter. When one crop w

at upon a certain day there was strife between Jupiter and some great earth creatures called Titans. The noise of fighting wa

se of fighting was so loud that it disturbed even the world under the earth . When the strife was at an end, Pluto, the king o

rld, came up to see what damage had been done; for he feared that the earth might have been so harmed that the sun would shin

t the sun would shine through into his kingdom. As he drove along the earth in his black chariot, he passed the valley of Enn

ooked again. He had never seen anything so beautiful in heaven, or on earth , or under the earth. The grim, rough old god was

never seen anything so beautiful in heaven, or on earth, or under the earth . The grim, rough old god was in love with gentle

across rivers and lakes. The terrible black horses hardly touched the earth or the waters. At last, when they came near the f

last, when they came near the fountain of Arethusa, Pluto struck the earth with his spear. A great hole gaped before them, a

something like a cloudy sky arched over the whole region. It was the earth , through which they had come; for the sun never s

ven Elysium, the place where men lived who had been brave and good on earth , Proserpina thought was sad. All the jewels and r

they reached Pluto’s palace. It was rich beyond anything ever seen on earth . There were columns, all of gold, and statues of

another; still Ceres could not find her child. She traveled over the earth from end to end, in vain. Of Proserpina she found

untain of Arethusa. This fountain came up from the very bottom of the earth , and Arethusa, the nymph who lived in it, could g

of ice about the edge of the water, and Arethusa was far down in the earth below. But at the call of Ceres she came up quick

grim driver she had seen; and how the fierce, dark god had struck the earth with his spear, and how the earth had opened and

the fierce, dark god had struck the earth with his spear, and how the earth had opened and swallowed him up, chariot, black h

r may right the wrong.” Then Ceres said, “Nothing shall grow upon the earth — neither tree, nor flower, nor blade of grass —

he had said this, Ceres turned and left Olympus. She went back to the earth and sat silent and alone, with covered head, mour

order of Jupiter, he hurried out of Olympus and came swiftly down to earth . The earth opened at touch of the magic wand, and

upiter, he hurried out of Olympus and came swiftly down to earth. The earth opened at touch of the magic wand, and the messen

the meadows green. “Have I not said that nothing shall grow upon the earth ?” said Ceres, in wonder. “Who has done this?” The

in her arms. That day the reign of happiness began again over all the earth . Yet Proserpina could not stay with her mother al

rns until Proserpina returns. And she allows nothing to grow upon the earth until the fair young goddess comes back. The men

ow upon the earth until the fair young goddess comes back. The men of earth have given the evil season a name, and have calle

fruit falleth in her wake, And harvest fields beneath her eyes    To earth the grain unripened shake.    Arise, and set the

t is an unwise wish, O Epimetheus! And yet it may be done. Go back to earth . Tomorrow the gift shall be yours.” So Epimetheus

that Pandora, as she was called, was perfect beyond all women born on earth , though she was only an earthly woman after all.

e heed, for the joys of heaven will work evil if they are set free on earth .” So Mercury put on his winged sandals and his wi

pened the door. There stood Pandora, more beautiful than any woman of earth and in her arm rested the box, which shone and sp

to open the sacred box. “The gifts of heaven must not be set free on earth ,” he said, “for men are not strong enough to rece

me to get good of the divine gift, and men came from all parts of the earth . Some were young and some were old; but all those

Even Jupiter and the gods of heaven had more joy as they saw how the earth prospered and how their altars were smoking with

remained. After that Pandora never opened the box again, but life on earth was not simple or easy. The world was full of evi

l of evil and sickness and sorrow; yet men came from all parts of the earth , and when they heard the music of that imprisoned

ment Apollo, the god of light and song, came by. He was just from the earth , where he had done a great service to mankind. Fo

cried, “help me! Save me from him I hate. Change my form, or let the earth swallow me up. Quick, for he is here.” Apollo als

ollo tended the flocks of King Admetus had such music been heard upon earth . The birds would cease singing, for they preferre

ir wedding was soon celebrated, and the guests agreed that never upon earth had been seen a nobler or a happier pair, for Orp

out, in seeming rage, “let me go! Seek the giant Atlas, who holds the earth and sky apart. He will tell you where the gardens

giant Antæus, whose strength was invincible as long as he touched the earth . That was a hard fight, but Hercules finally came

solemn old giant was Atlas, for it was not a joyous task to hold the earth and sky apart for thousands and thousands of year

a mortal man for one year to atone for a fault, but now his time upon earth was ended. Thus Apollo departed, leaving his bles

r only son was named Phaëton. Helios could not come down often to the earth . Every morning he had to drive the sun-chariot ou

out at once for the far distant east, where the sky comes down to the earth . There the palace of the sun stands blazing with

it is so high that even I grow sick and dizzy if I look down upon the earth beneath me. In the afternoon the way is so steep

ild with fright. Then Phaëton looked down. Far beneath him he saw the earth spread out like a great map. The height made him

. The horses were now free to go whither they would. The people of earth had been gazing up with horror at the scene. Now

sert and the tribes that lived there became black from the glare. The earth grew hot and split open in great chasms so that t

hurled lifeless from the car, fell, bright as a shooting-star, to the earth . Then at last the horses, tired and trembling, we

light toward them, and there he set his tired foot once more upon the earth . He took off his helmet and prepared to lie down

and worse as he went on. Sometimes a hall led him deep down into the earth . Sometimes he had steep flights of stairs to clim

aling a fatal blow. With a great cry of pain, the monster fell to the earth and died. Ariadne, trembling outside the door, he

h of Patroclus, whom he loved above all men, he cast himself upon the earth and threw dust upon his head and tore his hair. A

who took it in haste down to the tent of Achilles, her son. Never on earth had such armor been seen. It shone like the sun,

arm the wondrous shield, wrought with carvings of the heavens and the earth , of men and of gods. Finally he took up his spear

giant, and seizing two of Ulysses’ companions, he dashed them to the earth with such force that he killed them instantly. Th

finished eating and drinking when he grew drowsy and sank back on the earth in a deep sleep. Then Ulysses brought forth from

s a smiling boy whose power is universally acknowledged by heaven and earth . Sweet illusions of the fancy! pleasing errors of

e world to view; No moon did yet her blunted horns renew; Nor yet was earth suspended in the sky; Nor poised, did on her own

foundations lie; Nor seas about their shores the arms had thrown; But earth , and air, and water were in one. Thus air was voi

arth, and air, and water were in one. Thus air was void of light, and earth unstable, And waters dark abyss unnavigable. No c

while they thus contend, To these intestine discords put an end: Then earth from air, and seas from earth were driven, And gr

ese intestine discords put an end: Then earth from air, and seas from earth were driven, And grosser air sunk from ethereal H

en air succeeds, in lightness next to fire; Whose atoms from unactive earth retire. Earth sinks beneath, and draws a numerous

the parts agree, That no unequal portions might be found, He moulded earth into a spacious round: Then, with a breath, he ga

ding lakes, And bounding banks for winding rivers makes. Some part in earth are swallowed up; the most In ample oceans disemb

as five zones the ethereal regions bind, Five, correspondent, are to earth assigned: The sun with rays, directly darting dow

important a position in the annals of Fable. Of these children of the earth the principal were Titan, Saturn, and Hyperion, o

us is represented with a double face. The time which Saturn passed on earth is known as the age of gold. “Ere Saturn’s rebel

f care or crime, The soft creation slept away their time; The teeming earth , yet guiltless of the plough, And unprovoked did

l spring maintained; In following years the bearded corn ensued, From earth unasked, nor was that earth renewed; From veins o

owing years the bearded corn ensued, From earth unasked, nor was that earth renewed; From veins of valleys, milk and nectar b

12 This fable is easy of explanation. Time is the child of heaven and earth ; he has wings because he flies rapidly, a scythe

her, is also called Cybele. But the Deity of whom we now write is the earth , and is easy to distinguish from her daughter. In

e were only a piece of stone, meant to represent the stability of the earth . This great Goddess saw and became enamoured of a

‌of an oak. She is also seen with many breasts, to intimate that the earth gives aliment to all living creatures. To her dau

ch of them as forgot their vow, were placed in a large hole under the earth , where a bed was placed, with a little bread, win

! mercy; tho’ my sin be great, Life is so beautiful I cannot die; And earth seems smiling with intenser light, And flowers gi

me other death: poison or steel, Or aught that sends me suddenly from earth ; But to be wrapt in clay, and yet not of it, To f

y from earth; But to be wrapt in clay, and yet not of it, To feel the earth crumbling around my brow, To scent its foul and n

ound the starry frame; And now the lightnings from Olympus flame. The earth wide blazes with the fires of Jove, Nor the flash

ed himself to him under the form of a battering-ram, and striking the earth , caused the grateful liquid to spring forth in ab

g; Jove gave the mandate, and the gods obeyed: First Vulcan formed of earth the blushing maid; Minerva next performed the tas

ng happiness, a thankful heart. Hope with uplifted foot set free from earth Pants for the place of her ethereal birth; Hope,

le who bears the thunderbolt. One frown from his eyes makes the whole earth tremble. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_

” Homer. Jupiter is often described by the ancients as visiting the earth in disguise, and distributing to its inhabitants

daughter of Saturn and Cybele, was goddess of the productions of the earth . She taught man the art of agriculture, and is re

d not remain unpunished, and Jupiter exiled him from Heaven. While on earth , he loved the nymph Daphne, and Mercury who had i

rns itself without ceasing, towards its deity, the sun. “On the bare earth she lies, her bosom bare, Loose her attire, dishe

d his round; On his bright face hung her desiring eyes, Till fixed to earth , she strove in vain to rise, Her looks their pale

ne of her intrigue with mighty Jove, The empress of Eleuther, fertile earth , Brought to Olympian Jove the Muses forth; Blesse

of Medusa, fixed his residence on Mount Helicon, and, by striking the earth with his foot, caused the spring of Hippocrene to

elf, sought a retired and lonely spot, where she threw herself on the earth , whispering “King Midas has the ears of an ass, K

omed track. Phaeton repented too late of his rashness, for heaven and earth seemed threatened with an universal conflagration

ds grew jealous of the homage shewn to Apollo, and recalling him from earth , replaced him in his seat at Olympus. The fable o

he bore another name, and conducted the chariot of the Moon, while on earth she presided over the chase, was the peculiar dei

een is dethroned — Endymion Hath vanished — ; and the worship of this earth Is vowed to golden gods of vulgar birth!” Barry

ost waste Thy loveliness in dismal elements. But finding in our green earth sweet contents, There livest blissfully.” Keats.

the hero who taught them the use of the Vine, the cultivation of the earth , and the manner of making honey; amidst his benev

rooms,     And cold mushrooms; For wine we follow Bacchus through the earth ; Great God of breathless cups and chirping mirth,

eems to have caught them in its whirlwinds, and to bear them over the earth , as the rapid volutions of a tempest have the eve

the sea near the island of Cyprus,     “Cytherea! whom the favoured earth Of Cyprus claims, exulting in thy birth Bright qu

re decked, And knots of flowers the crimson reins connect. And now on earth the silver axle rings, And the shell sinks upon i

, and serve to show how well established her worship was all over the earth . She was called Cypria, ‌because particularly wor

nd call’d, O Cyprus, Cypria from thee; Nor less by Philomeda known on earth , A name derived immediate from her birth: Her fir

erate days; and even then, so rare was her beauty, that the people of earth looked on her almost as a divinity, and in some i

ld have worshipped her in the belief that she was Venus, visiting the earth .     “In her bower she lay, like a snow-wreath f

egion full of beauty: here, when the shadows of night had visited the earth , Cupid sought the presence of his love. Insérer i

ing waters. The stream, fearing the power of the God, returned her to earth upon a bank of flowers. She then went through the

ng it, a deep slumber fell on the unwary mortal, and she lay upon the earth , until Cupid, luckily escaping from the confineme

    Nor avarice in the vaults of hell: Earthly these passions of the earth They perish where they have their birth;     But

ver burneth, From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.     Too oft on earth a troubled guest,     At times deceived, at times

rs, The boy who breathes and blushes flowers, To Love, for heaven and earth adore him, And gods and mortals bow before him!”

; and as his influence was extended over the heavens, the sea and the earth , and even the empire of the dead, his divinity wa

ed child! Who has another care when thou hast smiled? Unfortunates on earth , we see at last All death-shadows, and glooms tha

me, his power,     I heard them, and I smiled: How could they say the earth was ruled,     By but a sleeping child? “I went

   Into an early tomb. “I heard of every suffering,     That on this earth can be: How can they call a sleeping child,     A

r thy hands essayed, Olympus trembled at the martial maid. Affrighted earth sounds from her deepest caves, And swell of Ocean

oduce the most useful and necessary present to the inhabitants of the earth . Neptune, upon hearing this, struck the ground wi

sublime she sails Th’ aerial space, and mounts the winged gales; O’er earth and ocean wide, prepared to soar, Her dreaded arm

-plate, implements of war. Struck with her pointed lance, the teeming earth Seemed to produce a new surprising birth, When fr

a. This, however, did not seem equivalent to the empire of heaven and earth , which Jupiter had claimed; he therefore conspire

01 The worship of Neptune was established in almost every part of the earth , and the Libyans in particular, venerated him abo

s tempests. With this trident also, he shakes the world, and bids the earth to tremble. During the Consualia of the Romans, h

me of Pluto, as god of the kingdom of hell, and whatever is under the earth , where ————— “Cerberus, the cruel worm of death,

d was not sprinkled on the altars, but permitted to run down into the earth to penetrate the realms of the God. The Syracusan

sweet pipings. “I sang of the dancing stars,     I sang of the dædal earth , And of heaven, and giant wars,     And love, and

he Flings aside the spade and scythe, Glad to trip in nimble jig, The earth which he dislikes to dig.” Horace. They were th

and Satyrs, the guardian deities of the woods and wild places of the earth . Terminus was a somewhat curious divinity, presid

mountains with light and song! Ye may trace my step o’er the wakening earth , By the winds which tell of the violet’s birth, B

rest boughs, They are bursting fresh from their sparry caves, And the earth resounds with the joy of waves! Come forth, O ye

were steps that flew o’er the cowslip’s head, As if for a banquet all earth were spread; There were voices that rung thro’ th

d joys that throng, With a deep loveliness, o’er tree and flower, The earth is glad with beauty, the sky Smiles in calm grand

; There is enough of sorrowing, and quite Enough of bitter fruits the earth doth bear, Enough of chilly droppings for her bow

first the fiery mantled sun His heavenly race began to run; Round the earth , in ocean blue His children four the Seasons flew

housand. “Three thousand graceful Oceanides Long-stepping, tread the earth , or far and wide Dispersed, they haunt the glassy

s earliest vows.” West Wind.     “I’ve rolled o’er the regions     Of earth and sea, And laughed at the legions     That trem

ic and bound with the playful wave, Which the prison-like confines of earth doth lave; We are glad, we are glad, and in breez

seven stars. She holds a distaff in her hand, reaching from heaven to earth . The garment which Lacheses wore was variegated w

d as they turn, revolving Time is spun, Whose motions all things upon earth ordain, Whence revolutions date their fickle reig

nderful!” Shelley. ————— “The one glides gentle o’er the space Of earth , and broad expanse of ocean waves, Placid to man.

only to be found. Household Deities, There only shall be Happiness on earth When man shall feel your sacred power, and love Y

thereby indicating that the precious metals are in the bowels of the earth . He was brought up by the goddess of peace, and t

nd.” Moore. Themis, Astræa. Themis, daughter of heaven and of earth , was the goddess of Justice, She wears a bandage

are her children, the former of whom was worshipped as Justice on the earth during the golden age; but the wickedness of mank

passed in turn six months in the infernal regions, and six months on earth . This fraternal affection Jupiter rewarded by tur

in the field of Mars, he tamed the fury of the oxen, he ploughed the earth , and he sowed the teeth of the dragon. Immediatel

Makes the snakes’ teeth a human crop produce, And from the labouring earth , no single birth But a whole troop of lusty youth

And felt ingratitude, the keenest sting; “Nor Heaven” she cried, “nor earth , nor Hell can hold A heart abandoned to the thirs

nvolved in ills like these? Theseus. Thy vast misfortunes reach from earth to heaven. Hercules. I therefore am prepared, an

lie were allied to ills. And to this misery shall I come, I ween. The earth will cry aloud, forbidding me To touch her soil,

welfth and last, and most dangerous of his labours, was to bring upon earth the three-headed dog Cerberus. This was cheerfull

the rock-roofed cavern o’er his head! Last, with wide arms the solid earth he tears, Piles rock on rock, on mountain, mounta

e name of Greece only another word, For love and poetry: with a green earth , Groves of the graceful myrtle, summer skies, Who

, And more than all, the gift of woman’s beauty. What marvel that the earth , the sky, the sea, Were filled with all those fin

of weeping rise — ,     My heart is girt with power     Let the green earth and festal skies Laugh, as to grace a conqueror’s

t, Grasp’d him, and in less time than I relate it; Flung him upon the earth : in vain he strove; When to the contest he percei

To curse my friends, to blast with this dark breath The yet untainted earth and circling air? To raise new plagues and call n

spot, I wish you as my friends, And come not near me, lest the gaping earth Swallow you too.’” Sophocles. ‌In the depth of

mg219 As he spoke, he walked without a guide to the appointed spot of earth , which in token of approval, opened, and received

hen Alcmeon heard that his father’s chariot had been swallowed by the earth , which opened to receive its victim, he sacrifice

            All things are serene, Serene too be your spirit! none on earth ‌Ever was half so kindly in his house, And so co

n prayer? If, on the last, or any day before, ‌Of my brief course on earth , I did amiss, Say it at once, and let me be unble

retreat pursues: The lance arrests him with a mortal wound; He falls, earth shudders, and his arms resound. With him all Gree

es, dissensions, and quarrels, which fall upon the inhabitants of the earth . ‌ We have now enumerated the most remarkable of

But their intercourse was soon stopped, it seemed too beautiful ‌for earth ; Leander, however, thought not of this, but with

The nympholepsy of some fond despair; Or it might be, a beauty of the earth , Who found a more than common votary there Too mu

an insect which stung the horse, who threw his rider headlong to the earth ; and that for many years he remained melancholy,

of which, he was aided by the pure spirits who surrounded him. ‌ The earth , being yet uninhabited, he made the first man and

rld, which Brahma has created out of nothingness. He descended on the earth by a sacrifice of which he alone was capable, and

saint. 9. His predictions. 10. His victory over the six chiefs of the earth . 11. The end of his career. 12. His burial. The d

ous goddess, in her mirth,     On Seeva’s eyes, the light and life of earth .     Thereat the heart of the Universe stood stil

    But on the top of Meru mountain     Which rises o’er the hills of earth ,     In light and clouds, it hath its mortal birt

es to fairies of great and ‌exquisite beauty, who people the air, the earth , the rivers, and the woods, and are placed by the

mous serpent, whose vast folds embrace the whole circumference of the earth . Balder, another son of Odin and Frigga, is descr

erson was thrown in headlong, in honour of the deity representing the earth . If the body fell to the bottom, the goddess was

for a space of forty days; all that could tend to allure the mind to earth , or render life desirable, was showered upon the

such as sovereign of nature, and of the Sun and Moon, and king of the earth and sea; while on others, they pay deep reverence

he married his sister, who, when all the rest of her family came upon earth , remained by herself in the skies, and from their

by the fact, that when men first spread themselves over the habitable earth , they forgot and altered the revelation which God

errestrial, the Marine, and the Infernal Gods. The gods of heaven, of earth , of the sea, and of hell. The principal of the ce

t to reign over the dominions of his parents, that is over heaven and earth . Saturn, the same as Chronos, signifies Time. Sat

heaven, and in the other hand a sceptre to express his authority upon earth . The Roman king Numa instituted a festival in hon

piter was the supreme god of the heathens, the governor of heaven and earth , the father of gods and men, the lord of the elem

vided the empire of the universe among himself, as king of heaven and earth , Neptune, the lord of the ocean, and Pluto, the r

s red right hand puts forth, And shakes with burning bolts, the solid earth ; The nations shrink appelled; the beasts are fled

d expelled him from heaven as a punishment. When Apollo dwelt upon earth , he employed himself in tending the flocks of Adm

expel Apollo from heaven? With whom did Apollo dwell while he was on earth ? Did Apollo love Hyacinthus? What rash promise di

ds, That high through fields of air his flight sustain, O’er the wide earth , and o’er the boundless main. He grasps the wand

in a being who was neither just nor benevolent. Mars was dreaded upon earth , and detested in heaven. In the Iliad, Jupiter ad

what animals were sacred to him? How was he regarded in heaven and on earth ? What nation chiefly honoured Mars? What reverenc

ntly perceive that without the use of iron we could not cultivate the earth , prepare our food by the help of fire, possess an

the middle of their foreheads; lived on such fruits and herbs as the earth spontaneously affords, and had no laws. All this

and all the evils which Prometheus had endeavoured to banish from the earth . Prometheus, dreading some concealed evil, refuse

, and to examine the laws of nature, that the treasures hidden in the earth might be brought forth and made serviceable. Beca

r. Though a celestial goddess, the mythologists say she was born upon earth . It is disputed whether Juno’s birth-place was th

od of the gods was not supposed to be formed of the gross aliments of earth . For not the bread of man their life sustains, N

ount Ida. He was exquisitely beautiful, and an eagle carried him from earth to heaven, where he poured out nectar for Jupiter

f old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. “When there were no depths I was brought for

efore the hills was I brought forth: while as yet he had not made the earth nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust

ld not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth : Then I was by him, and I was daily his delight,

Ceres might have made some improvements in the art of cultivating the earth . The Egyptians worshipped a goddess, called by th

opened upon the occasion, the ebon coursers descended, and where the earth closed over the car of Pluto and Proserpine a fou

Jupiter that Proserpine by his supreme authority might be restored to earth . Jupiter, to comfort and appease Ceres, consented

uto, and was welcomed by Proserpine, who gladly prepared to return to earth with her mother. Pluto, however, was not to be de

iter, and he consented that Proserpine should divide the year between earth and hell. She was to spend six months with her mo

which lies during winter, in its seed state, below the surface of the earth , and then rises to the upper air and adorns the f

aughter? Of whom did Ceres entreat relief? Was Proserpine restored to earth ? Did Ceres offer a second petition to Jupiter, an

glittering brine each crystal limb. — And beauty blazed to heaven and earth unveiled. Botanic Garden. She is often represen

Proserpine herself. Proserpine spent half the year with her mother on earth , and the other half with Pluto in hell. These all

erred beneath the soil in winter, and rise to the light and adorn the earth in summer. The feasts of Adonis were celebrated i

locks, and, fated from his birth To change eternal, mingled with the earth ; With darker horror shook the conscious wood, Gro

uno, being offended at Latona, drove her from heaven, and forbade the earth to afford her an asylum. Old Ocean was more compa

as honoured under three different characters, as a goddess of heaven, earth , and hell, and was therefore called the triform g

nd of woods. In heaven, she was supposed to enlighten by her rays; on earth , to restrain the wild animals by her bow and dart

e has always a smiling countenance: and one foot lightly touching the earth , while the other sports in air. Erato. Her name i

eir horse had wings, and was called Pegasus — when Pegasus struck the earth forcibly with his foot the fountain Hippocrene sp

asion no victim was killed, and nothing offered but the fruits of the earth . The shepherds purified their flocks with the smo

to preserve it from the mildew. Populonia protected the fruits of the earth from hail and lightning. Pilumnus presided over t

, speaks of Gnomes, Sylphs, and Salamanders; the first inhabiting the earth ; the second, the air; the third, fire. Who were

he fadeless blooms of youth are thine.     Melodious insect! child of earth ! In wisdom mirthful, wise in mirth; Exempt from e

l Regions was the place of reception for souls who had lived upon the earth . Immediately upon death, according to the notions

The judges were reputed to have been men — kings, who ruled upon the earth with such integrity and wisdom, that it pleased t

ngeance of the gods, especially employed in punishing the wicked upon earth , and after death. The Furies were women, commonly

ed over the punishment of guilt. She is represented as traversing the earth with great diligence, in search of the wicked; fu

terrible deities no altars were ever raised. Trenches were cut in the earth , into which was poured the blood of black sheep o

heifers. During the prayers, the priest lowered his hands towards the earth , instead of raising them towards heaven. Being re

is head to the stream, some deity commanded it to be dry and the dark earth appeared at his feet. Around him lofty trees spre

itted to take him. From the foam of his mouth, which dropped upon the earth , sprung deadly poison, aconite. What was Cerberu

rection and ascension. He died, and lived again, and he departed from earth in the presence of multitudes, thereby assuring u

ormation concerning these apples, and took from him the burden of the earth which he bore upon his shoulders, while Atlas pro

he apples. The twelfth and last labour of Hercules was to bring up to earth the three-headed dog Cerberus, which guarded the

the rock-roofed cavern o’er his head. Last, with wide arms the solid earth he tears, Piles rock on rock, on mountain mountai

to see them always quarrelling, and that if they would cultivate the earth , take care of their flocks, make comfortable garm

g the affliction of Orpheus, consented that Eurydice should return to earth , if her husband would refrain from looking at her

on of day, and Eurydice followed; but before he had set his foot upon earth , Orpheus forgot the command of the god, and turne

ed three divine beings separately to preside over the heavens and the earth , the ocean, and the infernal regions; the Hindus

he book of Genesis. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth ; and the earth was without form and void, and dar

sis. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth; and the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon

en; or is driven down to Narac, the region of serpents; or assumes on earth , the form of some animal; unless its offence had

of Vishnu are called manifestations of Vishnu. When a god appears on earth in a human form, he is said to be incarnate, or c

f nineteen centuries; and where our Saviour himself spent his days on earth , that a universal corruption of religion should e

lity and abundance. Under the name of Hertha, she was regarded as the earth . She was worshipped by most of the German tribes.

estial fortress, at one end of the bridge Bifrost, which reached from earth to heaven, and was evidently an emblem of the rai

ht. Their chargers of ethereal birth, Pawed, with impatient hoof, the earth , And snorting fiercely ’gan to neigh, As if they

f Odin,     Mute was thunderous ocean’s roar. Stillness o’er the huge earth brooding.     Strand was none, nor rocky shore.

th mists is clouded;     Shall the powers of ill prevail? Say, shall earth with freshness teeming     Once again from ocean

cribes Imir, the supreme creator, sitting in “lonely sadness” because earth had no intelligent inhabitants. The ninth stanza

all wax old as a garment,” but there shall be “a new heaven and a new earth .” The Christian doctrine of retribution is clear

skulls of their enemies, and that those who had loved the chase upon earth , the shades of heroes, regaled themselves in hunt

llowing morning, Dagon was broken from his pedestal, and lay upon the earth . As soon as they saw it prostrate, his worshipper

orks Of Oromazes; turned to noxious heat The solar beam, that foodful earth might parch, That streams exhaling might forsake

upon the objects around them. They will admire the sun, and moon, the earth , and all that grows upon it; and they will inquir

eucalion and Pyrrha, survived, and that their descendants peopled the earth . The Greek Hercules was a man of irresistible str

h men of all countries resemble one another. Are there any people on earth without some religion? People of what character a

on light clouds, or that they were permitted to descend once more to earth , to warble heavenly music and inhale the perfume

fable, that all the elements which form the universe; that is, fire, earth , air, and water, once lay in a vast mass of confu

arkness. In this state, while some of the desolate inhabitants on the earth , were standing around a fire, one person suddenly

s the Mexican god of water. The Mexicans called him fertiliser of the earth . His abode was on the summit of high mountains, w

r any other god) behold me now;” and kissing his hand, he touched the earth with it. His declaration was believed. Who, thoug

There are,” says this authority, “thirty thousand gods inhabiting the earth , who are subjects of Jupiter and guardians of men

the state, and its allies, for the preservation of the fruits of the earth , for rain, and for deliverance from pestilence an

ot only talents and virtue, but also states and empires, and even the earth itself shall pass away.” The temple of Diana, at

ear not at all; neither by heaven, for it is God’s throne; nor by the earth , for it is his footstool,” etc. This injunction w

reign land, it was customary to take leave of the gods by kissing the earth ; and when they returned, they repeated the same a

in due time, should also descend, one in whom all the families of the earth should be blessed, namely, our Lord Jesus Christ.

as a thanksgiving for the divine mercy in bestowing the fruits of the earth . The Pentecost also celebrated the revelation of

l the world left their homes and came down to visit the people on the earth . Once in a great, great while they came in their

he king of the gods was Jupiter, who ruled not only the people of the earth , but the mightier people of the heavens. He it wa

d the winds and the waters, and, in a word, ruled over all heaven and earth . His wife was Juno, the queen of heaven, who help

ne, who was Jupiter’s brother, was the ruler of all the waters of the earth . The gods of the sea, and the mermaids and the ri

was the messenger of the gods on all their errands between heaven and earth . Away down in the center of the earth, there was

heir errands between heaven and earth. Away down in the center of the earth , there was a gloomy kingdom known as Hades or the

ely in his somber palace; and one time, as you shall hear, he came to earth and stole away the daughter of Ceres to live with

o live with him in his underground home. Ceres was the goddess of the earth , and the people looked to her for bountiful harve

tiful harvests, and for the growth of everything that sprang from the earth . Lastly there was Pan, the god of the shepherds a

he mills, And talks to itself on the tops of the hills. You friendly earth , how far do you go, With the wheat-fields that no

sea. And look at the broad-faced sun, how he smiles     On the dewy earth that smiles in his ray, On the leaping waters and

lived on this island a goddess named Ceres. She had power to make the earth yield plentiful crops of grain, or to leave it ba

he food, and therefore the life, of all the people on the great, wide earth . Ceres had one fair young daughter, whom she love

ging among the flowers, with her young companions. Way down under the earth , in the land of the dead, lived dark King Pluto;

light above and dwell in the land of shades. One day Pluto came up to earth and was driving along in his swift chariot, when,

mountains, with light and song. Ye may trace my step o’er the waking earth By the winds which tell of the violet’s birth, By

rest boughs, They are bursting fresh from their sparry caves, And the earth resounds with the joy of waves. Felicia Hemans.

wealth and plenty throughout the world. It seemed as though the great earth grieved with the mother for the loss of beautiful

e could think only of her child, and could not care for the neglected earth . So all the people cried aloud to Jupiter that he

y in need of great Ceres’ help. At last, after wandering over all the earth in her fruitless search, Ceres returned to Sicily

am the nymph of the fountain, and I come from the inmost parts of the earth , O Ceres, great mother! There I saw your daughter

d the place where my daughter is hidden. Give her back to me, and the earth shall once more be fruitful, and the people shall

oved, both by the mother’s sorrow and by the prayers of the people on earth ; and he said that Proserpine might return to her

aughter. At Proserpine’s coming, flowers bloom and birds sing and the earth everywhere smiles its welcome to its young queen.

pine really is the spring time, and that while she is with us all the earth seems fair and beautiful. But when the time comes

es through all the weary months until her daughter’s return. Then the earth , too, is somber and sad. The leaves fall to the g

rs hide underground, until the eager step of the maiden, returning to earth , awakens all nature from its winter sleep. ——— T

and hoped that Juno would never find her in this hidden corner of the earth . After a while one of the gods, who loved and pit

et how the time was passing. Many a time even Juno would come down to earth and listen by the hour to Echo’s delightful tales

urel Once upon a time there was a great, great flood over all the earth . Some wicked people had angered the gods, and Jup

d people had angered the gods, and Jupiter sent all the waters of the earth and sky to cover the world. He did not want the w

f rain. And Jupiter sent this messenger of his to wander over all the earth . A mighty figure of ruin he was, as he swept alon

ver gods all helped him in his work; till, in a short time, the whole earth was out of sight under a vast sea, and all the wi

all the wicked people were drowned. Then Jupiter was sorry to see the earth looking so empty and deserted, so he called home

north wind and the east wind and the gentle west wind swept over the earth until it was again dry and green. After that Jupi

as fleeing. “Oh father,” she cried, “help me! help me! Either let the earth open and swallow me, or change this form of mine

anted his prayer and gave him leave to lead Eurydice back with him to earth . He made one condition, however, — that Orpheus m

f any kind or sleeping for an instant, he sadly returned to the green earth . He went up on a high mountain, and there he live

ith trembling breath     Low calling, “Oh, sweet love! Come back, the earth is just as fair, The flowers, the open skies are

the world, Diana left her silvery chariot in the sky and came down to earth . Clad in her short hunting garments, her shining

the sisters could see what was going on in the farthest parts of the earth , and that was how they knew the way to Medusa’s h

ining in the heavens. But at the time of my story, she still lived on earth , and, as I said, she was very beautiful. She was

e side of her father’s stream. One day, when Jupiter had come down to earth , he met Io in the woods and began to talk to her.

from home for many hours, she suddenly made up her mind to go down to earth and see the maiden of whom he was so fond. Her he

r of the gods, and ordered him to kill Argus. Mercury flew swiftly to earth , and there put on the dress of a shepherd boy, us

o saw them passing overhead, thought they must be gods flying near to earth , and fell on their knees. Over sea and land they

away through the air what joy to go, And to look on the green, bright earth below! How pleasant the life of a bird must be,

——— The Arrow and the Song I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth , I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the si

follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth , I knew not where; For who has sight so keen and

th and to conquer all the armed men that will then spring up from the earth . And the third is to kill the fierce dragon which

ep. When hearts, whose truth was proven,     Like thine, are laid in earth , There should a wreath be woven     To tell the w

A Giant Who Loved a Sea Nymph Once upon a time there lived on earth a strange race of giants called Cyclops. They wer

nct bring back the old names; Spirits or gods that used to share this earth With man as with their friend; and at this day ’T

gh them, received their science and religion. The Greeks believed the earth to be flat and circular, their own country occupy

e gods, or Delphi, so famous for its oracle. The circular disk of the earth was crossed from west to east and divided into tw

the Euxine, the only seas with which they were acquainted. Around the earth flowed the River Ocean, its course being from sou

cean, its course being from south to north on the western side of the earth , and in a contrary direction on the eastern side.

current, unvexed by storm or tempest. The sea, and all the rivers on earth , received their waters from it. The northern port

on earth, received their waters from it. The northern portion of the earth was supposed to be inhabited by a happy race name

sleep,     Their conch shells never blow.” On the south side of the earth , close to the stream of Ocean, dwelt a people hap

to share their sacrifices and banquets. On the western margin of the earth , by the stream of Ocean, lay a happy place named

monsters, and enchantresses; while they placed around the disk of the earth , which they probably regarded as of no great widt

n a winged boat, which conveyed him round by the northern part of the earth , back to his place of rising in the east. Milton

named the Seasons, opened to permit the passage of the Celestials to earth , and to receive them on their return. The gods ha

alace of Jupiter, as did also those deities whose usual abode was the earth , the waters, or the underworld. It was also in th

lovely goddess Hebe. Here they conversed of the affairs of heaven and earth ; and as they quaffed their nectar, Apollo, the go

r Of cataracts, where nursing Nature smiled On infant Washington? Has earth no more Such seeds within her breast, or Europe n

had their own way of telling the story, which is as follows: — Before earth , and sea, and heaven were created, all things wor

eeds of things. Earth, sea, ad air were all mixed up together; so the earth was not solid, the sea was not fluid, and the air

Nature at last interposed, and put an end to this discord, separating earth from sea, and heaven from both. The fiery part, b

g up, and formed the skies; the air was next in weight and place. The earth , being heavier, sank below; and the water took th

r, sank below; and the water took the lowest place, and buoyed up the earth . Here some god — it is not known which — gave his

ot known which — gave his good offices in arranging and disposing the earth . He appointed rivers and bays their places, raise

n whether the Creator made him of divine materials, or whether in the earth , so lately separated from heaven, there lurked st

there lurked still some heavenly seeds. Prometheus took some of this earth , and kneading it up with water, made man in the i

at while all other animals turn their faces downward, and look to the earth , he raises his to heaven, and gazes on the stars.

Prometheus was one of the Titans, a gigantic race, who inhabited the earth before the creation of man. To him and his brothe

e weapons wherewith to subdue them; tools with which to cultivate the earth ; to warm his dwelling, so as to be comparatively

ury persuasion, Apollo music, etc. Thus equipped, she was conveyed to earth , and presented to Epimetheus, who gladly accepted

r towns. There were no such things as swords, spears, or helmets. The earth brought forth all things necessary for man, witho

mountains to serve for keels to ships, and vex the face of ocean. The earth , which till now had been cultivated in common, be

at they might come to the inheritance; family love lay prostrate. The earth was wet with slaughter, and the gods abandoned it

d the assembly. He set forth the frightful condition of things on the earth , and closed by announcing his intention to destro

d the north winds to drive away the clouds, and disclose the skies to earth , and earth to the skies. Neptune also directed Tr

winds to drive away the clouds, and disclose the skies to earth, and earth to the skies. Neptune also directed Triton to blo

hed the altar, where no fire burned. There they fell prostrate on the earth , and prayed the goddess to inform them how they m

y deceives me, or the command is one we may obey without impiety. The earth is the great parent of all; the stones are her bo

In the endurance and repulse     Of thine impenetrable spirit, Which earth and heaven could not convulse,     A mighty lesso

us and Thisbe — Cephalus and Procris. The slime with which the earth was covered by the waters of the flood produced a

she calls upon her father, the river god: “Help me, Peneus! open the earth to enclose me, or change my form, which has broug

tinged the white mulberries of the tree all red; and sinking into the earth reached the roots, so that the red color mounted

rom the wound the javelin, her own gift. Cephalus raised her from the earth , strove to stanch the blood, and called her to re

ter, to stop questions, replied that it was a fresh creation from the earth . Juno asked to have it as a gift. What could Jupi

sleep-producing wand, and leaped down from the heavenly towers to the earth . There he laid aside his wings, and kept only his

and to-morrow we can renew our labors. Now, while Phœbus parches the earth , let us put by our implements and indulge ourselv

Juno in her jealousy drove from land to land, denying her any spot of earth whereon to rear her twins. Bearing in her arms th

p surpassed the material; 4 for upon the walls Vulcan had represented earth , sea, and skies, with their inhabitants. In the s

all alike, nor yet unlike, — but such as sisters’ ought to be. 5 The earth had its towns and forests and rivers and rustic d

whence I myself can scarcely, without alarm, look down and behold the earth and sea stretched beneath me. The last part of th

continued, “look round the world and choose whatever you will of what earth or sea contains most precious — ask it and fear n

Daystar, which last of all retired also. The father, when he saw the earth beginning to glow, and the Moon preparing to reti

wheels, and they will serve to guide you. And, that the skies and the earth may each receive their due share of heat, go not

ou will burn the heavenly dwellings, nor too low, or you will set the earth on fire; the middle course is safest and best. 6

ce, stay where you are in safety, and suffer me to light and warm the earth .” The agile youth sprang into the chariot, stood

all unused to rapid motion. When hapless Phaëton looked down upon the earth , now spreading in vast extent beneath him, he gre

t over pathless places, now up in high heaven, now down almost to the earth . The moon saw with astonishment her brother’s cha

ven mouths into the sea, there seven dry channels alone remained. The earth cracked open, and through the chinks light broke

y be destroyed. Atlas faints, and scarce holds up his burden. If sea, earth , and heaven perish, we fall into ancient Chaos. S

lied, mounted the lofty tower from whence he diffuses clouds over the earth , and hurls the forked lightnings. But at that tim

at that time not a cloud was to be found to interpose for a screen to earth , nor was a shower remaining unexhausted. He thund

all the eruption of the volcano. The fall of these monsters shook the earth , so that Pluto was alarmed, and feared that his k

posed his passage, he struck the river-bank with his trident, and the earth opened and gave him a passage to Tartarus. Ceres

to escape him, plunged into the cavern, and through the bowels of the earth came out here in Sicily. While I passed through t

ame out here in Sicily. While I passed through the lower parts of the earth , I saw your Proserpine. She was sad, but no longe

llowed herself to be pacified with this arrangement, and restored the earth to her favor. Now she remembered Celeus and his f

er chariot, drawn by winged dragons, through all the countries of the earth , imparting to mankind valuable grains, and the kn

called a Dance of Loves: — “’Tis for the theft of Enna’s flower from earth These urchins celebrate their dance of mirth,    

e water. He could no longer restrain himself, but bidding farewell to earth , he plunged into the stream. The gods of the wate

e groans of her beloved, and turned her white-winged coursers back to earth . As she drew near and saw from on high his lifele

to seize it, eager to make his throw, when the quoit bounded from the earth and struck him in the forehead. He fainted and fe

f a lily in the garden it hangs its head and turns its flowers to the earth , so the head of the dying boy, as if too heavy fo

juices Night collects slumbers, which she scatters over the darkened earth . There is no gate to the mansion, to creak on its

the night Wherein the Prince of light     His reign of peace upon the earth began; The winds with wonder whist Smoothly the w

ar and with eyes full of tears, the gentle Zephyr raised her from the earth and bore her with an easy motion into a flowery d

That led her through the world, — Love’s worshipper, —     To seek on earth for him whose home was heaven! “In the full city

doubts and fears,     Those phantom-shapes that haunt and blight the earth , Had come ’twixt her, a child of sin and tears,  

ght Hath our young heroine veiled her light; — For see, she walks the earth , Love’s own.     His wedded bride, by holiest vow

inctly) commanding him to take the dragon’s teeth and sow them in the earth . He obeyed. He made a furrow in the ground, and p

d we yielded. At the beginning the sky seemed to settle down upon the earth , and thick clouds shut in the heated air. For fou

along the road, as long as they could stand, while others sank on the earth , and turned their dying eyes around to take a las

ugh no wind agitated them. I trembled in every limb, yet I kissed the earth and the tree. I would not confess to myself that

ee, infamous woman,” he exclaimed; “disgrace of our time! May neither earth nor sea yield thee a resting-place! Surely, my Cr

r of the sea, holds his trident, and appears to have just smitten the earth , from which a horse has leaped forth. Minerva dep

.” In his Princess there is this allusion to Danaë: — “Now lies the earth all Danaë to the stars, And all thy heart lies op

onsole her mother, suddenly ceased to speak, and sank lifeless to the earth . A third tried to escape by flight, a fourth by c

r land and sea. As night came on, he reached the western limit of the earth , where the sun goes down. Here he would gladly ha

ra. When Perseus cut off Medusa’s head, the blood sinking into the earth produced the winged horse Pegasus. Minerva caught

s he sees,) while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course; they on their mirth and d

te,11 the goddess of the underworld, and to Tellus the goddess of the earth , by whose power plants potent for enchantment are

rose with renewed strength from every fall, he lifted him up from the earth and strangled him in the air. Cacus was a huge gi

ea.” The gods themselves felt troubled at seeing the champion of the earth so brought to his end. But Jupiter with cheerful

erish; what he derived from me is immortal. I shall take him, dead to earth , to the heavenly shores, and I require of you all

ng, in the skiff that bears the dead. All the torments, every toil of earth Juno’s hatred on him could impose, Well he bore t

hers to enjoy the boon of life alternately, passing one day under the earth and the next in the heavenly abodes. According to

madness, and drove him forth a wanderer through various parts of the earth . In Phrygia the goddess Rhea cured him and taught

cy of deity. The imagination of the Greeks peopled all the regions of earth and sea with divinities, to whose agency it attri

heroic guesses Through your falsehood at the True, We will weep not! earth shall roll Heir to each god’s aureole,           

a moment’s delay he would have food set before him, of whatever kind earth sea, or air produces; and complained of hunger ev

e me no chance to recover, but seized my throat. My knees were on the earth and my mouth in the dust. “Finding that I was no

ly grew beloved When he was with me. O my dearest father, Beneath the earth now in deep darkness hid, Worn as thou wert with

ve has led me here, Love, a god all powerful with us who dwell on the earth , and, if old traditions say true, not less so her

eyed them hurrying off in various directions to water the face of the earth . Arriving at his mother’s apartment, he was hospi

g, Minerva threw the instrument indignantly away, and it fell down to earth , and was found by Marsyas. He blew upon it, and d

tlaws, and see none to avenge my cause.” Sore wounded, he sank to the earth , when hoarse screamed the cranes overhead. “Take

m to the war. The poet represents Protesilaus, on his brief return to earth , as relating to Laodamia the story of his fate: —

aimed in those famous lines so often quoted, — “Father of heaven and earth ! deliver thou Achaia’s host from darkness; clear

” —  Cowper. Or, as rendered by Pope, —                    “Lord of earth and air! O king! O father! hear my humble prayer!

all done in one night, and Thetis, receiving it, descended with it to earth , and laid it down at Achilles’ feet at the dawn o

d with pity of Priam’s silver locks and beard, he raised him from the earth , and thus spake: “Priam, I know that thou hast re

d the bones and placed them in a golden urn, which they buried in the earth , and reared a pile of stones over the spot. “Suc

hereupon Ajax slew himself. On the spot where his blood sank into the earth a flower sprang up, called the hyacinth, bearing

ite ideas of the terrific and preternatural of any on the face of the earth . It is the volcanic region near Vesuvius, where t

th pent-up vapors, and mysterious sounds issue from the bowels of the earth . The lake Avernus is supposed to fill the crater

, Proserpine, Hecate, and the Furies. Then a roaring was heard in the earth , the woods on the hill-tops were shaken, and the

material of which souls are composed of the four elements, fire, air, earth , and water, all which when united took the form o

ed man and all other animals, mingling it with various proportions of earth , by which its purity was alloyed and reduced. Thu

of earth, by which its purity was alloyed and reduced. Thus, the more earth predominates in the composition the less pure is

ce to Elysium, there to remain. But the rest, after the impurities of earth are purged away, are sent back to life endowed wi

d. Elysium. Virgil, we have seen, places his Elysium under the earth , and assigns it for a residence to the spirits of

ms no part of the realms of the dead. He places it on the west of the earth , near Ocean, and describes it as a happy land, wh

.” The Sibyl. As Æneas and the Sibyl pursued their way back to earth , he said to her, “Whether thou be a goddess or a

l fire, the principle of life. The central fire was surrounded by the earth , the moon, the sun, and the five planets. The dis

d Isis. Osiris and Isis were at one time induced to descend to the earth to bestow gifts and blessings on its inhabitants.

s himself is said to have been shortly afterwards swallowed up by the earth . The oracle of Trophonius was at Lebadea in Bœoti

er, happening to see a swarm of bees, followed them to a chasm in the earth , which proved to be the place sought. Peculiar ce

of the weather and the winds. Cadmus, who, the legend says, sowed the earth with dragon’s teeth, from which sprang a crop of

, in Paradise Lost, Book V., compares the angel Raphael descending to earth to a Phœnix: —               “Down thither, pron

riman (Arimanes) rebelled, and became the author of all evil upon the earth . Ormuzd created man and supplied him with all the

d idol-dwellings, Goth or Greek,     With Nature’s realms of worship, earth and air, Nor fix on fond abodes to circumscribe t

rotect the world in various epochs of danger, Vishnu descended to the earth in different incarnations, or bodily forms, which

r was in the form of a Tortoise, which form he assumed to support the earth when the gods were churning the sea for the bever

m of Krishna, an invincible warrior, who by his exploits relieved the earth from the tyrants who oppressed it. Buddha is by t

in of the various castes: At the creation Brahma resolved to give the earth inhabitants who should be direct emanations from

tences. But they hold that some few individuals have appeared on this earth from time to time, not under the necessity of ter

essity of terrestrial existence, but who voluntarily descended to the earth to promote the welfare of mankind. These individu

s in their various nations and cities, scattered over the face of the earth , he says, —              “—— Nor did his eyes no

te of 1640. According to the Eddas there was once no heaven above nor earth beneath, but only a bottomless deep, and a world

ili, and Ve. They slew the giant Ymir, and out of his body formed the earth , of his blood the seas, of his bones the mountain

with hail and snow. Of Ymir’s eyebrows the gods formed Midgard, (mid earth ,) destined to become the abode of man. Odin then

espective courses. As soon as the sun began to shed its rays upon the earth , it caused the vegetable world to bud and sprout.

der the tree lies Ymir, and when he tries to shake off its weight the earth quakes. Asgard is the name of the abode of the go

idence of Odin. When seated on his throne he overlooks all heaven and earth . Upon his shoulders are the ravens Hugin and Muni

he gods. He presides over rain and sunshine and all the fruits of the earth . His sister Freya is the most propitious of the g

When they came he threw the serpent into that deep ocean by which the earth is surrounded. But the monster has grown to such

ormous size that holding his tail in his mouth he encircles the whole earth . Hela he cast into Niffleheim, and gave her power

st for a cat was in reality the Midgard serpent that encompasseth the earth , and he was so stretched by thee that he was bare

owl with horror, and twist his body about so violently that the whole earth shakes, and this produces what men call earthquak

llow, during which war and discord will spread over the universe. The earth itself will be frightened and begin to tremble, t

world, and the whole universe is burned up. The sun becomes dim, the earth sinks into the ocean, the stars fall from heaven,

. After this Alfadur (the Almighty) will cause a new heaven and a new earth to arise out of the sea. The new earth filled wit

l cause a new heaven and a new earth to arise out of the sea. The new earth filled with abundant supplies will spontaneously

t control.” 3. The goddess of innocence and purity. After leaving earth , she was placed among the stars, where she became

sorcery and witchcraft, and was believed to wander by night along the earth , seen only by the dogs, whose barking told her ap

g of all things. Among all the nations scattered over the face of the earth , the Hebrews alone were instructed by God, who ga

ll all these wonders into life, could also have created the beautiful earth whereon they dwelt. These thoughts gave rise to o

tion. At first, when all things lay in a great confused mass, — “Ere earth and sea, and covering heavens, were known, The fa

did not exist. Land, sea, and air were mixed up together; so that the earth was not solid, the sea was not fluid, nor the air

m yon cerulean height; No orbing moon repair’d her horns of light; No earth , self-poised, on liquid ether hung; No sea its wo

sping waters flung; Earth was half air, half sea, an embryo heap; Nor earth was fix’d, nor fluid was the deep; Dark was the v

s, and there chained them fast. This chasm was situated far under the earth ; and Uranus knew that his six sons (Oceanus, Cœus

s, for example, he gave charge over the ocean and all the rivers upon earth ; while to Hyperion and Phœbe he entrusted the dir

n our golden everlasting chain, Whose strong embrace holds heaven and earth and main: Strive all, of mortal and immortal birt

of mortal and immortal birth, To drag, by this, the Thunderer down to earth Ye strive in vain! if I but stretch this hand, I

asional change of position, which, owing to his huge size, causes the earth to tremble over a space of many miles, producing

ut he knew that it would be no small undertaking to rule well heaven, earth , and sea, and resolved to divide the power with h

o bestow upon him some great power, unshared by any other creature of earth , which would raise him far above all other living

arted unseen, exulting in the success of his enterprise. Arrived upon earth once more, he consigned the stolen treasure to th

he topmost peak of Mount Olympus Jupiter beheld an unusual light upon earth . Anxious to ascertain its exact nature, he watche

m pitiful complaints; but generation after generation of men lived on earth , and died, blessing him for the gift he had obtai

nd.” Byron. Epimetheus and Pandora The first mortals lived on earth in a state of perfect innocence and bliss. The ai

The air was pure and balmy; the sun shone brightly all the year; the earth brought forth delicious fruit in abundance; and b

le the world was peopled; and the first years of man’s existence upon earth were, as we have seen, years of unalloyed happine

ars of unalloyed happiness. There was no occasion for labour, for the earth brought forth spontaneously all that was necessar

efuse all homage to the immortal gods. War was waged incessantly; the earth was saturated with blood; the rights of hospitali

discussion, the immortals agreed to wash mankind off the face of the earth by a mighty deluge. The winds were instructed to

The winds were instructed to gather together the rain clouds over the earth . Neptune let loose the waves of the sea, bidding

all, until, after many days, the waves covered all the surface of the earth except the summit of Mount Parnassus, the highest

en’s tr.). As they talked upon how they should repeople the desolate earth , they came to the shrine of Delphi, which alone h

y changed into men, while those cast by Pyrrha became women. Thus the earth was peopled for the second time with a blameless

arch, he assumed the form of an eagle, and winged his flight over the earth . He had not flown far, before he beheld a youth o

s Solicitous for the welfare of mankind, Jupiter often visited the earth , taking great care to assume some disguise which

s out love, and light, and life; Thou, at whose glance, all things of earth are rife With happiness; to whom, in early spring

e, or in the vale Are nestled calmly. Thou at whom the pale And weary earth looks up, when winter flees, With patient gaze: t

s preference for her rival. To avenge herself, she banished Latona to earth , and declared that if any one, mortal or immortal

would incur her lasting resentment. After long, painful wanderings on earth , poor Latona, weary and parched with thirst, drew

his purpose, Jupiter interfered, and, to punish him, banished him to earth , where he entered the service of Admetus, King of

ter of the tomb Alcestis, a reanimated Corse, Given back to dwell on earth in vernal bloom?” Wordsworth. Apollo, after end

is service, and went to assist Neptune, who had also been banished to earth , to build the walls of Troy. Scorning to perform

the slime and stagnant waters which remained upon the surface of the earth after the Deluge. None had dared approach the mon

lo was very unfortunate indeed in friendship. One day he came down to earth to enjoy the society of a youth of mortal birth,

aves Are filled with my bright presence, and the air Leaves the green earth to my embraces bare.” Shelley. Apollo and D

-nigh passed, and the sun was darting its perpendicular rays upon the earth , when Cephalus came to his usual resort, near whi

into a field, dug a deep hole, and shouted down into the bosom of the earth , —                         “‘King Midas wears (T

pon her loved features induced him to turn just before he reached the earth ; and as he did so the form of the wife he had so

select some other, less fatal boon. “Choose out a gift from seas, or earth , or skies, For open to your wish all nature lies;

, and soon lost his way. In finding it again he drove so close to the earth , that all the plants shrivelled up, the fountains

ir mossy beds, the smoke began to rise from the parched and blackened earth , and even the people of the land over which he wa

n. One glance of his all-seeing eye sufficed to reveal the devastated earth and the youthful charioteer. How had a beardless

on her way; and as she drove she often bent down to view the sleeping earth , so shadowy and dreamlike, and to breathe the int

d deep as the blue heaven is high. The Beautiful is born; and sea and earth May well revere the hour of that mysterious birth

donis bled, So many tears the sorrowing Venus shed: For every drop on earth a flower there grows: Anemones for tears; for blo

or allow her to share his lot in Hades. To allow Beauty to desert the earth was not possible, nor could he resist her pleadin

y virtue of which Adonis was allowed to spend one-half of the year on earth , providing he spent the remaining six months in t

f vegetation, which rises from the ground in early spring to deck the earth with beautiful foliage and flowers, and cause the

olly die; and year by year, When the bright springtime comes, and the earth lives, Love opens these dread gates, and calls me

ted. Venus. Capitol, Rome. Night came on; darkness stole over the earth ; and Leander impatiently paced the sandy shore, a

and waited upon her. When night came, and darkness again covered the earth , Cupid appeared in search of his beloved Psyche.

afternoon, all conditions being favourable, Jupiter hastened down to earth to see Io, and began to stroll with her up and do

r attention was soon attracted by an opaque, immovable cloud near the earth , — a cloud which had no business there, for had s

she sought her husband in Olympus, and, not finding him, flew down to earth , brushing the cloud aside in her haste. Jupiter,

s, hurled him out of heaven. The intervening space between heaven and earth was so great, that Vulcan’s fall lasted during on

en made the slightest attempt to ascertain whether he had reached the earth in safety. Hurt by her indifference and ingratitu

objects from the metals found in great profusion in the bosom of the earth . Among these ingenious contrivances were two gold

ptune, or Poseidon, should govern all the waters upon the face of the earth , and be sole monarch of the ocean. “Neptune, the

er. Hail, O Saturn’s birth! Whose graceful green hair circles all the earth . Bear a benign mind; and thy helpful hand Lend al

execution, and Jupiter, in punishment for his temerity, exiled him to earth . There he was condemned to build the walls of Tro

trident, — summoned all the hurricanes Of all the winds, and covered earth and sky At once with mists, while from above the

when suddenly out of a clear sky a thunderbolt came crashing down to earth , and an imperious voice was heard to declare that

en trident bear; Thou that, with either arm outspread, Embosomest the earth we tread: Thine are the beasts with fin and scale

e world the supervision of the Infernal Regions, situated beneath the earth , and was also appointed god of the dead and of ri

f riches, for all precious metals are buried deep in the bosom of the earth . This god inspired all men with a great fear. The

might never see his face; for, when he appeared on the surface of the earth , it was only in search of some victim to drag dow

Story of Ibycus The Furies also had an important part to play upon earth , as the avengers of unfilial deeds, irreverence t

Pope. The Story of the Danaides Many victims renowned while on earth for their cruelty found here the just punishment

tals a cruel king named Tantalus (the father of Niobe), who, while on earth , had starved and ill-treated his subjects, insult

to see, who took his birth From heav’n, his nursing from the foodful earth . Here his gigantic limbs, with large embrace, Inf

nt eternity, in pleasant communion with the friends they had loved on earth . “Patriots who perished for their country’s righ

o other means, and, seizing his terrible two-pronged fork, struck the earth such a mighty blow that a crevice opened under hi

erpina turned her weeping eyes to catch a parting glimpse of the fair earth she was leaving, and then, with a fond thought of

grief, she paid no heed to their distress, and vowed that nothing on earth should grow, with her permission, as long as her

join her supplications to the cries “which rose from all parts of the earth ; until Jupiter, wearied by these importunities, c

d to spend one half the year in Hades, and could linger on the bright earth only for six months at a time. Mercury was chosen

when, in springtime, with sweet-smelling flowers Of various kinds the earth doth bloom, thou’lt come From gloomy darkness bac

cheerfully and diligently attended to all her duties, and blessed the earth with plenty; but when the six months were over, a

nt lurked the hideous Nightmares. The Dreams were often despatched to earth under Mercury’s charge, to visit mortals. Two gat

turn. But, alas! the gods had decreed they should never meet again on earth ; and, even while Halcyone prayed, a tempest arose

ay from the quiet realm of Somnus and Mors, but on the surface of the earth , were the Æolian Islands, now known as the Lipari

n fierceness, on each other turn’d Tumultuous battle. On their mother earth By their own spears they sank; like pines, or oak

of Corinth, whom he loved, he would wander away over the face of the earth , and never see city or parents again. “Lest I sh

or die; Her blood rests not on us: but she no longer Shall breathe on earth .” Sophocles ( Francklin’s tr.). Hæmon pleaded p

ad back; and Bellerophon knew that from time to time he came, down to earth to drink of the cool waters of the Hippocrene (a

(a fountain which had bubbled forth where his hoofs first touched the earth ), or to visit the equally limpid spring of Pirene

he shied viciously, and flung his too confident rider far down to the earth below.              “Bold Bellerophon (so Jove d

days when he rode along the paths of air and gazed upon the beautiful earth at his feet. Bellerophon, mounted upon Pegasus, w

r care. “When the Fate of Death is drawing near, First wither on the earth the beauteous trees, The bark around them wastes,

daily rejoiced in their happiness, which seemed almost too great for earth when they became the parents of a charming little

uty was all around him and delight, But from that eve he was alone on earth .” Lowell. This modern rendering of the story is

fuse to hear it, and bade Mercury conduct her husband’s shade back to earth , to tarry with her for three hours’ time.       

e Trojans and the Greeks lay down Their shining arms upon the teeming earth , And he and Menelaus, loved of Mars, Will strive

thy life. A happier lot were mine, If I must lose thee, to go down to earth , For I shall have no hope when thou art gone, — N

nd set aside for future use. When the darkness began to fall over the earth , Polyphemus again rolled the stone away to admit

O Sun! among the deathless gods And mortal men, upon the nourishing earth . Soon will I cleave, with a white thunderbolt, Th

abides: and tho’ We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are; One equal

of their race, and settle there. “‘Stout Dardan hearts, the realm of earth Where first your nation sprang to birth, That rea

rse should now prove too smooth, she sent Alecto, the Fury, down upon earth to stir up war and goad Amata to madness. The Fur

ndred and fifty thousand years, which they allot to the human race on earth , the myths may have spread from a single centre,

n.” By countless examples taken from the folklore of all parts of the earth , they prove that the savage considers himself aki

gists explain them as “allegories of the fruitful union of heaven and earth , of rain and grain.” The former school also decla

he remote epoch when many nations, now scattered over the face of the earth , occupied the same country, spoke the same langua

with the gradual diffusion of this one people to various parts of the earth , the original meaning of these words was entirely

nowball, which, rolling down a mountain-side, gathers to itself snow, earth , rocks, &c., until, in the vast agglomeration

h include the myths of the sky, the sun, dawn, daylight, night, moon, earth , sea, clouds, fire, wind, and finally those of th

n of the heavens, which are spread out like a veil, and cover all the earth ; and we are further told that he hurled the thund

also belongs to this category of myths. Danae, his mother, either the earth (dano means “burnt earth”) or the dawn, a daughte

gory of myths. Danae, his mother, either the earth (dano means “burnt earth ”) or the dawn, a daughter of Acrisius (darkness),

at into the sea, where she is lost. The ship Argo “is a symbol of the earth as a parent, which contains in itself the germs o

rings represent its journeys across the sky. Earth Myths In the earth myths, beside those already mentioned in connecti

ge at the command of Jupiter. During the time of Ceres’ mourning, the earth remained barren, and it seemed as though all mort

m her sojourn under the ground, people said “that the daughter of the earth was returning in all her beauty; and when summer

y from her mother by dark beings, who kept her imprisoned beneath the earth .” The sorrow of Ceres was therefore merely a poet

ore merely a poetical way of expressing “the gloom which falls on the earth during the cheerless months of winter.” Danae, a

the cheerless months of winter.” Danae, as a personification of the earth , was quickened by the golden shower, the light of

on the darkness of the night. Semele has also been interpreted as the earth , the chosen bride of the sky, who brings forth he

The myths of the sea comprise, of course, Oceanus and Neptune (the earth shaker), whose name is connected with such words

words as “potent” and “despot,” and whose “green hair circles all the earth .” We are further informed that he loves the earth

air circles all the earth.” We are further informed that he loves the earth (Ceres), whom he embraces, and that he marries th

iment of deafening roars, while their ponderous tread causes the very earth beneath them to tremble. In this group we also fi

households and cities, for it was supposed “that in the centre of the earth there was a hearth which answered to the hearth p

“crusher.” It was first applied “to the storms which throw heaven and earth into confusion, and hence the idea of Ares is con

n he abducted Proserpina, 160 Cyb′e-le. Same as Rhea, goddess of the earth , 8; chariot of, 243 Cy-clo′pes. Three children o

14, 82, 269; significance, 362 O-ce′a-nus. 1. River surrounding the earth , according to ancients, 4, 5, 200. 2. One of the

des, 59, 73, 143; significance, 353. 354 Tar′ta-rus. Abyss under the earth , where the Titans, &c, were confined, 6, 7, 8

ter of Jupiter and Mnemosyne, 69 Ter′ra. Same as Gæa, goddess of the earth , 3 Teu′cer. Ancient king of the Trojans, 326 Th

e Isthmian games. Page 339. — The notion of regarding the sun and the earth under a conjugal relation, by which we have expla

dney's Arcadia, which commences thus : — «It was in the time that the earth begins to put on her new appareil against the app

iped a triad of deities presiding over the fruits and products of the earth  ? From the employment of the plural (ναών, ναοὺѕ)

ts of man to account for the various phænomena of the heavens and the earth , and the changes which appear to have taken place

rawn by horses or other animals of celestial breed conveyed them over earth , sea, and air ; their clothing and arms were usua

 : this word, which evidently signifies a place abounding in potter's earth (argilla)21, may be divided into two words (Argi

n of the way ; a warrior, a son of battle ; springs, daughters of the earth  ; mist, daughter of the sea ; tears, daughters of

mode of thinking prevalent in those distant ages. As knowledge of the earth , of nature, her laws and powers, advanced, the fa

somewhat later, for he displays a much more extended knowledge of the earth than Homer appears to have possessed. As navigati

the abode of the gods. In after times Delphi became the navel of the earth 95. The Sea divided the terrestrial disk into two

beings of fable. The only inhabitants of the northern portion of the earth mentioned by Homer are the Hellenes and some of t

equally ignorant of the interior of Asia. On the eastern side of the earth , close to the stream of Ocean, dwelt a people hap

western margin of the earth108. In later ages, when knowledge of the earth had increased, the Æthiopians or sun-burnt men we

-fields against the rapacious strangers. On the western margin of the earth , by the stream of Ocean, lay a happy place named

r-living gods will send Unto the Elysian Plain, and distant bounds Of earth , where dwelleth fair-haired Rhadamanthys : There

d enchantresses ; while theyplaced around the edge of the disk of the earth , which they probably regarded as of no great widt

ent116. Its course was from south to north up the western side of the earth . It flowed calmly and equably, unvexed by tempest

were sweet, and it was the parent of all fountains and rivers on the earth . As it was a stream, it must have been conceived

the heaven as resting on pillars kept by Atlas, and which were on the earth , and Hesiod120 describes the extremities of heave

were on the earth, and Hesiod120 describes the extremities of heaven, earth , sea (πόυτος), and Tartaros as meeting, it would

idea of the Homeric world. The portion of the hollow sphere above the earth contained Olympos, the abode of the gods ; but th

As it is always represented as a mountain, it must have rested on the earth , and yet one passage of the Ilias121 would seem p

f the Ilias121 would seem plainly to speak of it as distinct from the earth  ; and the language of the Odyssey respecting it i

ence Moses says, that Jehovah would make their heaven brass and their earth iron)122, and its upper surface as the abode of J

to permit the greater gods to pass to and fro on their visits to the earth .126 It is an utterly unfounded supposition of th

hus opened with the interior of Asia, led to the supposition that the earth was oval rather than round, its greater diameter

roduced plants and flowers, and contained minerals in its bowels like earth  ; like which also it had the vicissitudes of nigh

ss as a star Of smallest magnitude close by the moon136. The globous earth ‘self-balanced on her centre hung’ in the midst o

the other heavenly bodies were set in the firmament to illuminate the earth . The firmament itself was not solid ; it was an

nce among these systems lies in the circumstance that some viewed the earth , others the water, as the immediate origin of org

med him, mutilated his unsuspecting sire. The drops which fell on the earth from the wound gave birth to the Erinnyes, the Gi

ous. Oceanos had by his sister Tethys all the rivers that flow on the earth , and the Ocean-nymphs, three thousand in number.

bos and Night, the one the darkness beneath, the other that above the earth , succeed, and from them spring Day the lower, and

from them spring Day the lower, and Æther the higher light above the earth . Without the intervention of Love, Earth now prod

afterwards to be formed lie in them, but they are inclosed within the earth , and cannot act till Uranos is deprived of his pr

itans Oceanos and Tethys give origin to the rivers and streams of the earth  ; from Coios, Crios, Hyperiôn, Theia, and Phœbe s

ecomes the father of men154. Their task being thus completed, and the earth replenished with its fitting inhabitants, the Tit

ing of this war ; he merely says that Zeus placed Kronos beneath ‘the earth and barren sea155,’ and in him the opposition bet

onos as Kronos did Uranos160. The latter hides his children under the earth , the former swallows his. Kronos is the youngest

the earth164, it would seem to have been one of the systems in which earth and water were regarded as the origin of all bein

as the origin of all beings. It reverses however the usual order, the earth being generally looked on as the female principle

t in the North, whilst Apollonius176 appears to place them within the earth . It was, as we shall see, the custom of the poets

s, espoused his sister Tethys. Their offspring were the rivers of the earth , and three thousand daughters, named Oceanides, o

opular belief that a lofty mountainous ring ran round the edge of the earth , it was easy for the poets to feign that on reach

current, conveyed him during the night round the northern part of the earth , where his light was only enjoyed by the happy Hy

lines of Mimnermus the god, as described above, is carried round the earth during the night ; and in the following passage o

end said240 that, when Zeus and the other Immortals were dividing the earth among them by lot, the Sun happening to be absent

liasts inform us that, when this horse had thrown Bellerophôn down to earth , Eôs asked and obtained him from Zeus272. Eôs was

d as the triple goddess301, and believed to wander by night along the earth , seen only by the dogs, whose baying announced he

says that Kronos ruled over the Isles of the Blest at the end of the earth by the ‘deep-eddying’ ocean ; and Pindar315 gives

f O'ercome with sleep, and all good things were theirs. The bounteous earth did of herself bring forth Fruit much and plenteo

ief it bore. When in the battle of the gods335 Ares is struck to the earth by Athena, he is described as covering seven plet

at the approach of evening, and converse of the affairs of heaven and earth  ; the nectar is handed round by Hebe (Youth), Apo

the air and the waters, or strode from mountain to mountain upon the earth , which trembled beneath their weight362, with the

estial breed366, which could whirl them to and fro between heaven and earth through the yielding air, or skim with them along

ourney, as when Hera367 professes that she is going to the end of the earth to make up the quarrel between Oceanos and Tethys

ave been born in some definite places, he never indicates any spot of earth as the natal place of any of his gods386. A very

ausanias as indicative of the dominion of Zeus (the God) over heaven, earth , (land and water,) and the under-world412. A very

s of the sea. The legends respecting him (his amour with Demeter, the earth , for instance,) are on this supposition easy of e

period he received the appellation of Plutôn460, as mines within the earth are the producers of the precious metals. This no

s represented in the Ilias and in the Theogony467 as being within the earth  : in the Odyssey468 it is placed in the dark regi

age or rank, wander about there, conversing of their former state on earth  : they are unhappy, and they feel their wretched

s that he would rather be a day-labourer to the poorest cultivator on earth than a king in those regions. They have no streng

kind agreeing to place the abode of departed souls either beneath the earth , or in the remote regions of the West. The former

al remains of man being deposited by most nations in the bosom of the earth  ; and the habits of thinking and speaking which t

ed to the notion of the soul also being placed in a region within the earth . The calmness and stillness of evening succeeding

d ; and in his arms Kroniôn seized His spouse. Beneath them bounteous earth sent up Fresh-growing grass : there dewy lotus ro

f an ancient physical mythe of the union of Zeus and Hera (heaven and earth , as we shall presently show) in spring-time produ

to the opinion of those who view in Zeus the heaven, and in Hera the earth , and regard this holy marriage so continually ren

which the memory was kept up in so many places, as that of heaven and earth in the spring of each returning year, when the sh

and foliage, herbage, and flowers cover the face of nature534. As the earth exhibits no symptoms of becoming effete, but brin

e perpetually renewed virginity of the goddess. The physical union of earth and heaven is, we think, plainly discernible in t

Hera is also to be considered as a proof of her being regarded as the earth  ; for in the religion of the ancient Germans (whi

s the goddess presiding over the nuptial union. As the goddess of the earth in the religion of Argos, her name would seem to

religion of Argos, her name would seem to come very simply from ἔρα, earth  ; yet there is great plausibility in the theory o

the conflict of the gods548, this goddess herself strikes him to the earth with a stone. To give an idea of his huge size an

aracter of the god. But some late critics seem rather to look to ἔρα, earth , for its origin, and to regard him as having been

in which the Sun-god and his horses and chariot are carried round the earth every night was also the work of this god575. The

metal are in Hesiod, where at the command of Zeus he forms Pandora of earth and water576, and where he uses gypsum and ivory

Attica, to this circumstance581. The favourite haunt of Hephæstos on earth was the isle of Lemnos. It was here he fell when

nded in the air with anvils fastened to her feet. As knowledge of the earth advanced, Ætna582, Hiera (one of the Liparæan isl

the exulting victor cried, “Now rot (πύθευ) there on the man-feeding earth  ;” and hence the place and oracle received the ap

, contradicts the fact of the Homeric gods not having birth-places on earth . Two other epithets of Apollo, λύκιος and λύκϵιος

s ; The shady wood rebelloweth aloud Unto the bowstring’s twang ; the earth itself And fishy sea then shudder : but she still

orm, and sought to mingle his waters with hers. She fled on under the earth and through the sea, till she rose in the isle of

he three-formed goddess699 ruling as Selene in the sky, as Artemis on earth , as Persephone in Erebos. This will also give a v

, the former is more likely to be the true supposition705. No spot on earth is assigned as the birth-place of Artemis by Home

of whom the youngest named Psyche was one of the loveliest creatures earth ever beheld. People crowded from all parts to gaz

whence she would be carried away by a monster, the terror of heaven, earth , and hell. The oracle was obeyed, and Psyche amid

r. According to the Homerid788 Olympos shook at the divine birth, the earth resounded, the sea was moved, and Helios checked

obably one of the powers engaged in causing the productiveness of the earth . Her being represented in the poetic creed as the

as we have already observed, the practice of assigning birthplaces on earth to the gods does not seem to have prevailed in hi

ortal golden sandals, which bear him over the water and the extensive earth like the blasts of the wind,’ and takes ‘his rod,

telluric power. The simplest derivation of his name is from ἔρα, the earth  ; and he is, we may observe, the son of Zeus and

rer863. As a being whose operations extended into the interior of the earth , Hermes would seem to have been in some points of

and by Zeus mother of Persephone877, was evidently the goddess of the earth , Mother-Earth (γῆ μήτηρ), whom some ancient syste

one root884 ; And with its fragrant smell wide heaven above And all earth laughed, and the sea’s briny flood. Unconscious

d forth her hand to seize the wondrous flower, when suddenly the wide earth gaped, Aïdoneus in his golden chariot rose, and c

her as she sat in her cave, and by king Helios, whose eye nothing on earth escapes. So long as the goddess beheld the earth

whose eye nothing on earth escapes. So long as the goddess beheld the earth and starry heaven, the fishy sea and beams of the

or birds could give her intelligence. Nine days she wandered over the earth , with flaming torches in her hands, she tasted no

ss took up her abode in it, but a dismal year came upon mankind ; the earth yielded no produce, in vain the oxen drew the cur

are proffered in vain ; she will not ascend to Olympos, or suffer the earth to bring forth, till she shall have seen her daug

ht. Hermes did not disobey : he quickly reached the ‘secret places of earth ,’ and found the king at home seated on a couch wi

when in spring-time, with sweet-smelling flowers Of various kinds the earth doth bloom, thou ‘It come From gloomy darkness ba

led cornfields fruit Sent up : with leaves and flowers the whole wide earth Was laden : and she taught ‘Triptolemos, horse-l

er is regarded as one of the many forms in which the physical fact of earth and water being the causes of growth and increase

they are only a form of Demeter and Kora, the great goddesses of the earth . For everything in nature having injurious as wel

nature having injurious as well as beneficial effects, the bounteous earth itself becomes at times grim, as it were, and dis

from εἴρω to knit or unite, as the rainbow seems to unite heaven and earth . Παιήων, Παιὼν, Παιάν. Pœeon, Pœon. Pæeon

Hera to deceive her father, he took her by the hair and flung her to earth , with an oath that she should never return to Oly

e image (εἴδωλογ) of Heracles, pursuing his usual occupations when on earth  ; but himself we are told ‘enjoys banquets among

gend of his Theban birth — as roaming through the greater part of the earth . In the Bacchæ of Euripides the god describes him

daughters of Aristæos ; while Athena, who had lately sprung from the earth on the banks of the Tritôn, was appointed to keep

nsive sphere of action, as gods of the sun, the moon, the heaven, the earth , and other parts of nature. Dionysos was therefor

d by the Phrygians and Lydians1137 as the goddess of nature or of the earth . Her temples stood on the summits of hills ; such

e drums and pipes which she had invented, over various regions of the earth , even as far as the country of the Hyperboreans,

f animals, and stands an image either of the natural fecundity of the earth , or of that supposed to be induced by the influen

f those personifications of nature, or of the productive power of the earth , which we find among most ancient nations. Egypt

and wild-beasts : he has goat’s feet, to denote the stability of the earth  : he has a pipe of seven reeds, on account of the

Nymphs. The imagination of the Greeks peopled all the regions of earth and water with beautiful female forms called Nymp

in love. Straight pines Or oaks high-headed spring with them upon The earth man-feeding, soon as they are born ; Trees fair a

cut. But when the Fate of death is drawing near, First wither on the earth the beauteous trees, The bark around them wastes,

he four elements whose form he took : the lion was æther, the serpent earth , the tree air, and the water itself1264. Γλαῦκ

romance, the other confining itself to the sober realms of the actual earth . We shall first direct our attention to the latte

ich may have engendered a belief that at the western extremity of the earth the night was of extremely short continuance1358.

n and First State of Man. The origin of mankind, like that of the earth their abode, is a subject which will be found to

care, and death was to them a sinking into gentle slumber ; and when earth had covered this race, they became good terrestri

mortal men, to mark their just and unjust deeds. They move along the earth shrouded in darkness, and are the bestowers of we

no fame behind them. A fourth and better race was next placed on the earth by Zeus, namely the divine race of heroes, in for

-haired Helena.’ When they died, Zeus removed them to the ends of the earth , where they dwell, away from man, in the Islands

dwell, away from man, in the Islands of the Blest, and live in bliss, earth producing for them ‘honey-sweet fruit’ thrice in

since his time redrawn by moralists and poets in every region of the earth , for this is the race who still possess it. This

, silver, brazen, and iron. The first enjoyed a perpetual spring, the earth producing everything spontaneously for them : in

e fourth gave way to every species of vice and crime, Astræa left the earth , and Zeus destroyed them by a deluge of water. In

e depths of the sea, and keeps the long pillars which hold heaven and earth asunder.’ In the Theogony1454 he is said to suppo

w staff1464, brought it and gave it to man. Zeus then sent Pandora on earth to deceive man to his ruin, and he bound Promethe

irst men lived in a state of bliss on the abundant productions of the earth . The spring was perpetual1466 and cold was unfelt

the gods formed man and the other animals of clay and fire within the earth , and then committed to Prometheus and his brother

n was left naked and helpless. As the day for their emerging from the earth was at hand, Prometheus was at a loss what to do 

ived, and that it should be called Man (Homo), because it was made of earth (humus)1475. On the story of Prometheus has been

to have deprived men, and which Prometheus stole and brought back to earth . Zeus then, the mythe goes on to relate, was ince

ed to punish the men for it. He therefore directed Hephæstos to knead earth and water, to give it human voice and strength, a

all the evils hitherto unknown to man poured out and spread over the earth . In terror at the sight of these monsters, she cl

all the blessings flew away to heaven, where they abide shunning the earth . Hope alone remained, as he let down the lid befo

mained among men, — Temperance, Faith, and the others having left the earth and gone to Olympos, — which may be founded on th

Hermes desiring him to ask what he would. His request was to have the earth replenished with men. By the direction of Zeus he

nobler view of the Deluge. According to them, it overspread the whole earth , and all animal life perished except Deucaliôn an

ossible to wound Cæneus kept striking him with ‘green pines,’ and the earth finally opened and swallowed him1593. It is also

irected that whatever was remaining of Actæôn should be hidden in the earth , and a brazen figure of that image be made, and b

us of the moon, which at the full sits so calmly looking down on the earth  ; her husband’s name Epopeus is of similar import

n-one (Chloris). In her then we may view the young, verdant, fruitful earth , ‘the bride of the sun1678’ (Amphiôn), beneath th

st of winter) ; Chloris the Green-one remains, and spring clothes the earth anew with verdure1679. Some however think that in

old uses a staff, a third foot. The Sphinx flung herself down to the earth and perished ; and Œdipûs now unknowingly accompl

appening to see a swarm of bees, they followed them to a chasm in the earth , which proved to be the place sought1716. Trophon

deity from the Pelasgian times, a giver of food from the bosom of the earth , and hence worshiped in a cavern. Agamedes (the T

Poseidôn, and she bore two sons Otos and Ephialtes, the tallest whom earth reared, and the handsomest next to Oriôn. At nine

raised him up1767 ; but when he would do the same for Peirithoös, the earth quaked, and he left him. He then rolled off Ascal

y feats of strength and courage, for his future task of purifying the earth of violence. The beautiful tale of Prodicus, on t

in obedience to the great goddess of the country (the goddess of the earth ), cleared it of the noxious animals that infested

as the origin of metallurgy ; Hermes the deity who wrought within the earth , giving increase to fruits and cattle ; and Posei

ss, sent an insect to sting the steed ; and he flung his rider to the earth , where he wandered in solitude and melancholy til

earer or Feeder 1893, the introducer of the worship of the productive earth [Hera], and of agriculture and social institution

dess Hera, with whom she is so closely connected ; and as Hera is the earth , Io cannot well be the moon1906. Io and Hera in t

their name is a hero, Danaos1920. Again, springs are daughters of the earth , as they are called by the Arabs ; the nymphs of

the under-world itself, and restrains its power in the depths of the earth . The beneficent deity, the rearer of trees and co

give goddess in the Athena who appears in it. As this goddess was the earth , the mythe in this view forms a parallel to that

other, and for them to live day and day about in heaven and under the earth . Polydeukes chose the latter, and divided his imm

drink intent The water shrank absorbed, and round his feet The sable earth appeared ; God dried it up. Above his head tall l

 ; but he stole some of the divine food and gave it to his friends on earth . For this Zeus hung a stone over his head, which

punishment, but Euripides says that it was the air between heaven and earth , and that the rock was suspended over him by gold

f Tantalos the flourishing, and the brother of Niobe, the young green earth . The legend of his being cut up and eaten raw by

seidôn, and Hermes were one time, says the legend, taking a ramble on earth , they came late in the evening to the house of a

y ox, which he had sacrificed in their honour ; they buried it in the earth  ; and ten months afterwards a boy came to light,

nd Artemis that he was able to kill anything that would come from the earth . Indignant at his boast they sent a huge scorpion

named long before they were converted into a hunter and nymphs on the earth . It has been clearly shown that it was the union

ching him. Thus there would be a chase in the sky similar to those on earth , and legends would naturally arise which would be

f which the first portion was the Cypria of Stasinos. Zeus seeing the earth overstocked with people, consulted with Themis ho

’s deep- Eddying stream, the heroes fortunate, For whom the bounteous earth thrice every year Yieldeth fair blooming fruit as

only from the remains of their operations on the solid surface of the earth  — their gigantic buildings, lakes, and canals — t

ήλϵϕοѕ. The habit of regarding their own country as the centre of the earth prevails at the present day among the Chinese and

n, With wheels yet hovering o'er the ocean-brim, Shot parallel to the earth his dewy ray ; and Tasso, Ger. Lib. i. 15. Sorg

es. Th. 717-721. 129. II. viii. 13. 130. Strabo (iii. 5.) makes the earth the shape of a chlamys. 131. Pyth. iv. 447. 13

as Rossetti has shown, only a figurative representation of things on earth , while Milton gave utterance to his genuine conce

ind would wish to keep summer always for their agriculture (Hera, the earth ), their navigation, and their civil institutions

judged there as Oriôn hunted, i. e. pursued his occupation as when on earth . According to the fine mythe in Plato (Gorgias, 5

geny of Phoreys and Keto the ‘dread serpent which in a cavern of dark earth at its great extremity watches the golden apples,

onsistent with analogy to conceive it on the eastern extremity of the earth . 1763. Pherecydes ut sup. Others said Heracles k

. Paus. ut sup. 1851. Ερεχθοχθόνιοs, from ὲρέχθω to shake, and χθὼν earth , softened on account of the aspirates to ̛ Εριχθό

power of Jupiter was worshipped in the rolling thunder; but when the earth trembled or fiery torrents burst from the mountai

re unknown; men had not learned to slay animals for food, nor had the earth been disturbed by the plough. Neither the labors

ilver Age was far inferior to that of gold; but virtue still dwelt on earth , and the Immortals had not altogether departed fr

rice and violence reigned supreme; men were not satisfied to till the earth , but dug into its hidden mines, and drew thence g

opened to permit the passage of the Celestials when they descended to earth . Each god had his own dwelling, but all were obli

he palace of Jupiter. Even those deities whose usual abode was on the earth , in the waters, or in the lower shades, were comp

ted on ambrosia and nectar, discoursed upon the affairs of heaven and earth , and were delighted at intervals by the music of

uth of the reports that reached him. For this purpose he descended to earth , and assuming the disguise of a poor traveller, s

n relief, he dug a little hole in the ground, and whispered it to the earth . What was his dismay at hearing the hollow reeds

rses of the Sun; they departed from their usual track, and heaven and earth were threatened with one universal conflagration.

n her peacock’s tail. Io, still persecuted by Juno, wandered over the earth , and at length arrived, faint and weary, on the b

nd a horse appeared; but Minerva caused an olive to spring out of the earth . The latter was judged the more useful gift; and

to Mount Helicon, the residence of the Muses, where, by striking the earth with his foot, he produced the fountain Hippocren

island of Delos, where she gave birth to Apollo and Diana. Terra (the earth ) had promised Juno to give no shelter to her riva

e mother of Apollo and Diana, (the sun and moon) and the nurse of the earth and stars. The Egyptians had the same allegory, w

hen lived on a perfect equality, property was held in common, and the earth brought forth its fruits without labor. Ques. Wh

were a race of miners, who, descending into the deep recesses of the earth , and coming forth again, had a lamp attached to t

and by the Latins, Ops, is considered to be a personification of the earth . She is goddess, not of cities only, but of all t

arth. She is goddess, not of cities only, but of all things which the earth contains. She was the daughter of Cœlum, and the

e, and in her left, a key. This last emblem seems to signify that the earth locks up her treasures in the winter season. Cybe

is supposed that she first invented and taught the art of tilling the earth , and sowing wheat and other grains, so that men a

Proserpine to divide the year, spending six months with her mother on earth , the other six with Pluto in the infernal regions

is. When the Titans took up arms against Jupiter, Astræa descended to earth , and mingled with the human race. This intercours

rom the human race, being the last among the Immortals to abandon the earth . Jupiter then changed her into the constellation

tona, and the twin-sister of Apollo. This goddess had three names. On earth she was called Diana, and was honored as the godd

, because this god is supposed to control the hidden treasures of the earth . The thunder that happens in the night time is at

e dead drank of its waters, they forgot all that had passed upon this earth . Ques. What monster kept the gate of Pluto’s pal

hen they had passed many ages in this blissful abode they returned to earth , but before doing so, they drank of the river Let

ng boasted that he could subdue the wildest and fiercest animals, the earth was displeased at his presumption, and sent a sco

eus. During his reign, there occurred so great a flood that the whole earth was covered with the waters. Of the entire human

s, and they consulted the oracle of Themis, to know by what means the earth might again be peopled. The oracle directed that

the bones of their Great Mother. Understanding by this expression the earth , which is the common mother of all, they gathered

ices. She succeeded in approaching the corpse, which she covered with earth , making the usual libations. While thus engaged,

ves me. Had I left my brother, From my own mother sprung, on the bare earth To lie unburied, that, indeed, might grieve me; B

f Anchises, who showed him the souls which were destined to return to earth , and become the future heroes of Rome. Anchises a

rved that his sheep and goats, on approaching a certain cavity in the earth , began to skip and dance about in an extraordinar

o examine the cause of this phenomenon, the vapors, exhaling from the earth , affected him in the same way; his body was convu

ey proceeded thither, and seeing a swarm of bees enter a chasm in the earth , they followed and discovered a deep cavern. Here

with the sun, while Isis was supposed, like Cybele, to personify the earth . Ques. How was this goddess represented? Ans. A

n? Ans. They say that in the beginning, there was neither heaven nor earth , but a world of mist, in which flowed a mysteriou

ili and Ve. These slew the giant Ymir, and out of his body formed the earth on which we live. His bones were changed into mou

m their respective courses. As soon as the sun shed its rays upon the earth , the plants and trees began to bud and sprout. Th

ce. Ques. What idea had the ancient Scandinavians of the form of the earth ? Ans. Their notions on the subject were childish

d is represented as seated on a throne which overlooks all heaven and earth . On his shoulders sit the ravens, Hugin and Munin

t of the gods. He presided over rain, sunshine, and the fruits of the earth . From his name comes our word Friday. Ques. Who

When they came, he threw the serpent into the deep ocean by which the earth is surrounded. The monster soon grew to such an e

fire, air, water, and from everything animate and inanimate upon the earth — stones, plants, rocks and animals — that they w

nsom she might name for Baldur’s return, assuring her that heaven and earth resounded with lamentations for the hero. Hela wo

him howl with horror, and twist his body so violently that the whole earth shakes. The Elves. Ques. Who were the Elve

the secret stores of gold and silver which the gods had hidden in the earth . Many stories are related of their malicious pran

en all the visible creation, the gods of Valhalla, the inhabitants of earth , men, giants and elves, would be destroyed, toget

s from the four quarters of the heavens, will fall unceasingly on the earth ; tempests will sweep the sea, and the sun will im

w, during which war and discord will convulse the universe. The solid earth will tremble, the sea will leave its bed, and the

l destruction, Alfâdur (All-Father) will cause a new heaven and a new earth to rise out of the abyss. This new earth will pro

cause a new heaven and a new earth to rise out of the abyss. This new earth will produce its fruits without labor or care; pe

ts? Ans. They studied the hidden laws of nature and the mysteries of earth and heaven. They offered public and private sacri

. During this blissful period, Quetzalcoatl, god of the air, dwelt on earth , and instructed men in the use of metals, in agri

, in agriculture and every useful art. Under his beneficent rule, the earth brought forth its fruits without care or labor: a

f the Mexican temples? Ans. They were solid pyramids, constructed of earth , but completely cased in brick or stone. They wer

o take up their abode wherever the sacred emblem should sink into the earth of its own accord. This prodigy took place in the

ey were preserved from the universal destruction; and from these, the earth was re-peopled. The Peruvians maintained that whi

had visited. Little was known at that time of the extent and form of earth . Strabo imagined that the entire habitable portio

eas’d; Whether in Heav’n ye wander fair, Or the green corners of the earth , Or the blue regions of the air, Where the melodi

, pursues the chase across the azure of the heavens, or descending to earth cherishes the youth Endymion,— these myths, germi

ed son, would take the reins and drive the solar chariot too near the earth , causing the fruits to perish, and the grass to w

his course, whose voice, calling to life and to labor, rang round the earth , and whose going forth was to the ends of heaven.

ease of language. In ancient languages every such word as day, night, earth , sun, spring, dawn, had an ending expressive of g

ts and passions of persons like themselves. “The sky, sun, wind, sea, earth , mountains, trees, regarded as persons, are mixed

ultitudinous waves, its roar, and its breakers that seem to shake the earth . These lightning-eyed, these hundred-handed monst

o destroy, by thrusting them into Tartarus, the profound abysm of the earth . Whereupon Mother Earth, or Gæa, indignant, calle

th the shock of the earthquake. Provided with such artillery, shaking earth and sea, Jupiter issued to the onslaught. With th

. But Prometheus himself made a nobler animal than these. Taking some earth and kneading it with water, he made man in the im

ight stature, so that while other animals turn their faces toward the earth , man gazes on the stars. Then since Epimetheus, a

ld be able, when necessary, to win her secrets and treasures from the earth , to develop commerce, science, and the arts. § 23

r towns. There were no such things as swords, spears, or helmets. The earth brought forth all things necessary for man, witho

ndora, “the gift of all the gods.” Thus equipped, she was conveyed to earth , and presented to Epimetheus, who, without hesita

rgy, In the endurance and repulse Of thine impenetrable spirit, Which earth and heaven could not convulse, A mighty lesson we

rst in like a flood; modesty, truth, and honor fled. The gifts of the earth were put only to nefarious uses. Fraud, violence,

ere, Jupiter set forth to the assembly the frightful condition of the earth , and announced his intention of destroying its in

wit fails me, or the command is one we may obey without impiety. The earth is the great parent of all; the stones are her bo

e Hours or Seasons, opened to permit the passage of the Celestials to earth , and to receive them on their return. The gods ha

o the palace of Jupiter, — even the deities whose usual abode was the earth , the waters, or the underworld. In the great hall

ambrosia and nectar. Here they conversed of the affairs of heaven and earth ; and as they quaffed the nectar that Hebe poured,

the other sister of Jupiter, Ceres (Demeter), properly a divinity of earth , and Neptune (Posidon), ruler of the sea. § 33. J

h would not budge him: that, on the contrary, he could draw them, and earth , and the seas to himself, and suspend all from Ol

peculiar consequence, Bacchus (Dionysus), the god of wine, a deity of earth , — Proserpine, the wife of Pluto and queen of the

according to others, the Lady. Some think it approves her goddess of earth ; others, goddess of the air; still others, for re

g a spear, and with her battle-cry awakening the echoes of heaven and earth . She is goddess of the lightning that leaps like

diary flame, the glow of the forge or the hearth. But as the fires of earth are derived from that of heaven, perhaps the name

aves Are filled with my bright presence, and the air Leaves the green earth to my embraces bare. “The sunbeams are my shafts

e choicest morsels of the feast, — and, in the temples of the gods on earth , reverence as the oldest and worthiest of Olympia

.90 § 44. Conception of the World. — The Greek poets believed the earth to be flat and circular. In their opinion, their

the gods, or Delphi, famous for its oracle. The circular disk of the earth was crossed from west to east, and divided into t

the Euxine, the only seas with which they were acquainted. Around the earth flowed River Ocean, from south to north on the we

current, unvexed by storm or tempest. The sea, and all the rivers on earth , received their waters from it. The northern port

on earth, received their waters from it. The northern portion of the earth was inhabited by the Hyperboreans, dwelling in bl

d in sleep, Their conch-shells never blow.” On the south side of the earth , close to the stream of Ocean, dwelt the Æthiopia

f the Æthiopian sacrifices and banquets. On the western margin of the earth , by the stream of Ocean, lay the Elysian Plain, w

rked in a winged boat, which conveyed him by the northern part of the earth back to his place of rising in the east. § 45. Ce

, belongs to the older order of gods; so also, another goddess of the earth , Rhea, the wife of Cronus and mother of Jupiter.

She waits for each and other, She waits for all men born; Forgets the earth her mother, The life of fruits and corn; And spri

river Lethe, from which the souls of those that were to return to the earth in other bodies drank oblivion of their former li

was, however, lord not only of all that descends to the bowels of the earth , but of all that proceeds from the earth; and in

escends to the bowels of the earth, but of all that proceeds from the earth ; and in the latter aspect he was revered as Pluto

serpina bears a cornucopia overflowing with flowers, and revisits the earth in duly recurring season. But when she is goddess

umbered. The palace of Oceanus was beyond the limits of the bountiful earth ,106 surrounded by gardens and all things fair. Fr

d shatter rocks, call forth or subdue storms, and shake the shores of earth . He created the horse, and was the patron of hors

ter, to stop questions, replied that it was a fresh creation from the earth . Juno begged it as a gift. What could the king of

rgus. Mercury took his sleep-producing wand, and presented himself on earth as a shepherd driving his flock. As he strolled,

sland:119 — “At the beginning the sky seemed to settle down upon the earth , and thick clouds shut in the heated air. For fou

erva’s) commanding him to take the dragon’s teeth and sow them in the earth . Scarce had he done so when the clods began to mo

and drought of midsummer, the miasma of autumn; fifthly, his life on earth , as friend and counsellor, of mankind, — healer,

his throw, ran forward to seize the missile; but it bounded from the earth , and struck him in the forehead. He fainted and f

f a lily in the garden it hangs its head and turns its flowers to the earth , so the head of the dying boy, as if too heavy fo

whence I myself can scarcely, without alarm, look down and behold the earth and sea stretched beneath me. The last part of th

Daystar, which last of all retired also. The father, when he saw the earth beginning to glow, and the Moon preparing to reti

and unused to rapid motion. When hapless Phaëton looked down upon the earth , now spreading in vast extent beneath him, he gre

t over pathless places, now up in high heaven, now down almost to the earth . The moon saw with astonishment her brother’s cha

ugh seven mouths into the sea, seven dry channels alone remained. The earth cracked open, and through the chinks light broke

ses: — The Shepherd of King Admetus.151 There came a youth upon the earth , Some thousand years ago, Whose slender hands wer

ike seed After the blossom, ultimate of all. Say, does the seed scorn earth and seek the sun? Surely it has no other end and

she calls upon her father, the river-god: “Help me, Peneüs! open the earth to enclose me, or change my form, which has broug

escape, plunged into the abyss, and passing through the bowels of the earth , came out in Sicily, still followed by the passio

phian sheds for each blood-drop of Adonis, and tears and blood on the earth are turned to flowers. The blood brings forth the

lew out of window. Psyche, in vain endeavoring to follow, fell to the earth . For but an instant Cupid, staying, reproached he

en, That led her through the world, — Love’s worshipper, — To seek on earth for him whose home was heaven! In the full city,

ince doubts and fears, Those phantom-shapes that haunt and blight the earth , Had come ‘twixt her, a child of sin and tears, A

inged the white mulberries of the tree all red, and, sinking into the earth , reached the roots, so that the sanguine hue moun

§ 102. Since the adventures of Ceres, although she was a goddess of earth , are intimately connected with the life of the un

madness, and drove him forth a wanderer through various parts of the earth . In Phrygia the goddess Rhea cured him and taught

d his passage, whereupon he struck the bank with his trident, and the earth opened and gave him a passage to Tartarus. The W

eet of the mother. Ceres, seeing this, laid her curse on the innocent earth in which her daughter had disappeared. Then succe

had also, in her flight from Alpheus through the lower regions of the earth , beheld the missing Proserpine. She said that the

nian Mysteries. — Ceres, pacified with this arrangement, restored the earth to her favor. Now she remembered, also, Celeus an

er chariot, drawn by winged dragons, through all the countries of the earth ; and under her guidance he imparted to mankind va

r help, despatched the satyr, made love to the maiden, and boring the earth with his trident called forth the spring that sti

mark. He rushed to the place, and raised his wounded Procris from the earth . She, at last, opened her feeble eyes, and forced

e juices Night distils slumbers, which she scatters over the darkened earth . There is no gate to creak on its hinges, nor any

make me tremble lest a saying learnt In days far-off, on that dark earth , be true? ‘The gods themselves cannot recall th

hou wilt see my grave: Thou wilt renew thy beauty morn by morn; I earth in earth forget these empty courts, And thee re

see my grave: Thou wilt renew thy beauty morn by morn; I earth in earth forget these empty courts, And thee returning o

agency of deity. The imagination of the Greeks peopled the regions of earth and sea with divinities, to whose agency it attri

heroic guesses Through your falsehood at the True, We will weep not! earth shall roll Heir to each god’s aureole, And Pan i

ounded from the steeple. § 117. Of the company of the lesser gods of earth , beside Pan, were the Sileni, the Sylvans, the Fa

ough they dwelt in the streams, their association with the deities of earth was intimate. Of the nymphs, the Oreads and the N

dew at Dian’s call, Among my sister-clouds to move Over the darkness, earth bedimming, Milky-robed thro’ heaven swimming, Flo

uty was all around him and delight, But from that eve he was alone on earth . According to the older tradition, the nymph dep

d finally, by way of euphemism, Eumenides (the well-meaning), visited earth to punish filial disobedience, irreverence to old

hey avenged the ghosts of such as, dying violent deaths, possessed on earth no representatives either by law or by kindred to

r land and sea. As night came on, he reached the western limit of the earth , and would gladly have rested till morning. Here

rose with renewed strength from every fall, — lifted him up from the earth , and strangled him in the air. Later writers tell

hole mass.295 The gods themselves grieved to see the champion of the earth so brought to his end. But Jupiter took care that

ng, in the skiff that bears the dead. All the torments, every toil of earth , Juno’s hatred on him could impose, Well he bore

incantations, to the stars, to Hecate, to Tellus, the goddess of the earth . In a chariot borne aloft by dragons, she travers

olent words, Fruitless; for him, too, stricken through both sides The earth felt falling, … … And these being slain, None mov

his bark, that, riven to heart by the whirlwind, Wholly uprooted from earth , falls prone with extravagant ruin, Perishes, dea

ause of their kinship with Helen. They had, however, disappeared from earth before the Siege of Troy was undertaken. They are

o enjoy the boon of life alternately, each spending one day under the earth and the next in the heavenly abodes. According to

the war. The poet represents the Protesilaüs, on his brief return to earth , relating to Laodamia the story of his fate: — “

ble messenger. In desperation, he exclaimed: — “Father of heaven and earth ! deliver thou Achaia’s host from darkness; clear

he suit was made in one night; and Thetis, receiving it, descended to earth and laid it at Achilles’ feet at the dawn of day.

d with pity of Priam’s silver locks and beard, he raised him from the earth and spake: “Priam, I know that thou hast reached

ting the bones, placed them in a golden urn, which they buried in the earth . Over the spot they reared a pile of stones. “Su

efore Ajax slew himself.359 On the spot where his blood sank into the earth a hyacinth sprang up, bearing on its leaves the f

eep; — Better, — yea better far all these than bow Foul faces to foul earth , and yearn — as we do now!” So they in speech un

abides: and tho’ We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are One equal t

ite ideas of the terrific and preternatural of any on the face of the earth . It is the volcanic region near Vesuvius, where t

th pent-up vapors, and mysterious sounds issue from the bowels of the earth . The lake Avernus is supposed to fill the crater

, Proserpine, Hecate, and the Furies. Then a roaring was heard in the earth , the woods on the hill-tops were shaken, and the

aterial of which souls are composed, of the four elements, fire, air, earth , and water, all which when united took the form o

ed man and all other animals, mingling it with various proportions of earth , by which its purity was alloyed and reduced. Thu

of earth, by which its purity was alloyed and reduced. Thus the more earth predominates in the composition, the less pure is

ce to Elysium, there to remain. But the rest, after the impurities of earth are purged away, are sent back to life endowed wi

ereign of the world. As Æneas and the Sibyl pursued their way back to earth , he said to her, “Whether thou be a goddess or a

Creation. — According to the Eddas there was once no heaven above nor earth beneath, but only a bottomless deep, Ginungagap,

ili, and Ve. They slew the giant Ymir, and out of his body formed the earth , of his blood the seas, of his bones the mountain

espective courses. As soon as the sun began to shed its rays upon the earth , it caused the vegetable world to bud and sprout.

o support the whole universe. It sprang from the body of Ymir, — this earth , — and had three immense roots, extending one int

der the tree lies Ymir, and when he tries to shake off its weight the earth quakes. § 178. Odin and his Valhalla. — To Asgard

great hall of Odin. When seated on his throne he overlooks heaven and earth . Beside him sits Frigga, his wife, who knows all

hor. Freyr presides over rain and sunshine and all the fruits of the earth . His sister Freya is the most propitious of the g

. When they came he threw the serpent in that deep ocean by which the earth is surrounded. But the monster has grown to such

ormous size that holding his tail in his mouth he encircles the whole earth . Hela he cast into Niflheim, and gave her power o

st for a cat was in reality the Midgard serpent that encompasseth the earth , and he was so stretched by thee, that he was bar

Loki, which makes him howl with horror, and writhe so that the whole earth shakes. § 183. The Elves. — The Edda mentions ano

llow, during which war and discord will spread over the universe. The earth itself will be afraid and begin to tremble, the s

over the world, and the universe is consumed. The sun grows dim, the earth sinks into the ocean, the stars fall from heaven,

. After this Alfadur (the Almighty) will cause a new heaven and a new earth to arise out of the sea. The new earth, filled wi

l cause a new heaven and a new earth to arise out of the sea. The new earth , filled with abundant supplies, will produce its

“Mourn not for me! Mourn, Hermod, for the gods; Mourn for the men on earth , the gods in heaven, Who live, and with their eye

The second Asgard, with another name. Thither, when o’er this present earth and heavens The tempest of the latter days hath s

e-assembling we shall see emerge From the bright ocean at our feet an earth More fresh, more verdant than the last, with frui

he spake and said: “Earls of the Goths, and Volsungs, abiders on the earth , Lo there amid the Branstock a blade of plenteous

he side of Hindfell enwrapped by the fervent blaze, And naught ‘twixt earth and heaven save a world of flickering flame, And

runas, root var, to cover. Uranus is the starry vault that covers the earth ; Varunas became the rain-giving sky. Titan: the h

ich the Hellenes, as earth-born, claimed descent from Pyrrha (the red earth ); the other and older, by which Deucalion was rep

-579.) But Overbeck insists that the loves of Zeus are deities of the earth : “The rains of heaven (Zeus) do not fall upon the

belief of the Indo-Germanic race was that the fire-god, descending to earth , became the first man; and that, therefore, the s

on: “Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth , Wandering companionless Among the stars that hav

dark, or obscured one.” But she has undoubtedly a connection with the earth , perhaps as wife of Jupiter (the Heaven). H. D. M

s), and considers Demeter to be a goddess both of the moon and of the earth ( Helbig, in Roscher). Cox, after his usual metho

thigh for safe keeping. Preller finds here “the wedlock of heaven and earth , the first day that it thunders in March.” Exactl

licts arise between the clouds that have sprung up from the moistened earth (the harvest of armed men!). This kind of explana

and at last her death or disappearance in the lap of her mother, the earth .” The word Daphne also means, in Greek, a laurel;

er regions. With their departure, all birth and fruitage cease on the earth ; but when he has been revived by sprinkling of wa

n revived by sprinkling of water, and restored to his mistress and to earth , all nature again rejoices. The myth is akin to t

us clime; — but wandering, like the spring-tide, over the face of the earth , Bacchus conquered each nation in turn. The influ

d love. Danaë, the daughter of Acrisius, has been regarded as the dry earth , which under the rains of the golden spring-time

ring-time bursts into verdure and bloom; or as the dark depths of the earth ; or as the dawn, from which, shot through with th

he would here behold the giant Atlas, who, stationed where heaven and earth meet, sustains upon his shoulders the celestial v

d, to teach her humility. Danaë. — Tennyson, Princess, “Now lies the earth all Danaë to the stars, And all thy heart lies op

eavenly knight-errant who slays the powers of storm and darkness. The earth , struck by his horse’s hoof, bubbles into springs

the Augean stables, clouds that refusing to burst in rain, resign the earth to drought and filth. The Erymanthian boar and th

me, the Man, par excellence), the thinker and measurer. A lawgiver on earth , the Homeric Minos readily becomes a judge in Had

l fire, the principle of life. The central fire was surrounded by the earth , the moon, the sun, and the five planets. The dis

en was first the god of the heaven, or heaven itself, then husband of earth , god of war and of wisdom, lord of the ravens, lo

s and all oppressors of man. He is dear to man, always connected with earth , — the husband of Sif (the Norse Ceres). His goat

d with Niflheim, the kingdom of Hela, the shadowy realm of death. The earth , that gathers to her bosom the dead, cherishes al

he underworld. Seb: the father of the Osirian gods. He is the god of earth and its vegetation; represented as a man with the

orus the child, Horus the elder (as taking the place of his father on earth ), or sometimes Horus Harpocrates, the god of sile

lympus, 51-73; lesser divinities of Olympus, 70-73; Greek gods of the earth , 74-77; Greek gods of the underworld, 78-84; less

m Etruscan, 90; myths of great Greek divinities of heaven, 91-173; of earth , 174-180; of earth and underworld, 181-188; of wa

hs of great Greek divinities of heaven, 91-173; of earth, 174-180; of earth and underworld, 181-188; of waters, 189-191; of l

191; of lesser divinities of heaven, 192-199; of lesser divinities of earth and underworld, 200-214; of lesser divinities of

ritra, gatherer of clouds, dispenser of rain; adored in heaven and on earth . Varuna: god of the vault of heaven (root var, t

rity to men, their guardian and companion, passing between heaven and earth “like a messenger between two hamlets” (Lat. igni

k Myths of great divinities of heaven, 91-173; of great divinities of earth , 174-180; of earth and underworld, 181-188; of wa

vinities of heaven, 91-173; of great divinities of earth, 174-180; of earth and underworld, 181-188; of waters, 189-191; of l

191; of lesser divinities of heaven, 192-199; of lesser divinities of earth and underworld, 200-214; of lesser divinities of

general, corresponding sections of the Commentary. 66. Symbolized on earth by Mt. Olympus in Thessaly. 67. Cowper’s transl

ws, they alone being selected from the nations then existing upon the earth to receive the wonderful revelation. Every people

s any account of, when there was neither land nor water, and when the earth and all things within and upon it were “without f

d when most of the nations, now spread to the remotest corners of the earth , dwelt together and used a common language. Follo

ich a sacrifice was offered. The earliest altars were merely heaps of earth or turf or rough unhewn stone; but as the mode of

Hercules threw him the giant gained fresh strength from touching the earth , so Hercules lifted him off the ground and squeez

ken of food in the infernal regions, and thus prevented her return to earth . Asca′nius [Ascanius], the son of Æneas and Creu

Nemesis, was the goddess of justice; she returned to heaven when the earth became corrupt.     “… Chaste Astrea fled, And s

ghter of Saturn, the goddess of agriculture, and of the fruits of the earth . She taught Triptolemus how to grow corn, and sen

olemus how to grow corn, and sent him to teach the inhabitants of the earth . She was known by the names of Magna Dea, Bona De

rs, see Charybdis, also Scylla. Daph′ne [Daphne]. The goddess of the earth . Apollo courted her, but she fled from him, and w

iter. De′mogor′gon [Demogorgon] was the tyrant genius of the soil or earth , the life and support of plants. He was depicted

wife, by making a ship, survived the deluge which Jupiter sent on the earth , circa 1503 b.c. Devil, see Dahak, Daityas, and

   “... Time will run On smoother, till Favonius reinspire The frozen earth , and clothe in fresh attire The lily and the rose

en by Plato to the invisible deities who were supposed to inhabit the earth . Gnos′sis [Gnossis], a name given to Ariadne, fr

ecame queen of all the gods and goddesses, and mistress of heaven and earth . Juno was the mother of Mars, Vulcan, Hebe, and L

fterward, with the help of Hercules, defeated the giants, the sons of earth , when they made war against heaven. Jupiter was w

on or forgetfulness of everything they did or knew while alive on the earth .         “A slow and silent stream, Lethe, the r

ail The moon takes up her wondrous tale, And nightly to the list’ning earth Repeats the story of her birth.” Addison. Mor′

mother was Nox. She was supposed to be constantly traveling about the earth in search of wickedness, which she punished with

t the dominion of the sea was equal to Jupiter’s empire of heaven and earth ; and he was banished from the celestial regions,

to personify the immense stream which it was supposed surrounded the earth , and into which the sun and moon and other heaven

seasons to invoke fair weather for the ripening of the fruits of the earth . Orbo′na [Orbona]. Roman goddess of children, in

so sweetly with his lute that Pluto allowed Eurydice to return to the earth with Orpheus, but on condition that he did not lo

turned the chariot. There was such great fear of injury to heaven and earth , that Jove, to stop the destruction, killed Phaet

etheus, not so cautious, opened it, and the evils spread over all the earth . Jupiter then punished Prometheus by commanding M

n of their father’s kingdom, which ended in Jupiter having heaven and earth , Neptune the sea, and Pluto the infernal regions.

s head to the stream, some deity commanded it to be dry, and the dark earth appeared at his feet. Around him lofty trees spre

name of Diana, alluding to her triform divinity as goddess of heaven, earth , and hell. Ter′minus [Terminus]. The Roman god o

dragons, in which he carried seed-corn to all the inhabitants of the earth , and communicated the knowledge given to him by C

he world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth , dwelleth not in temples made with hands; neither

e of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth , and hath determined the times before appointed,

, and said, “I have a commission for you, my son. You must descend to earth , to the palace of a certain king,” whose name she

the bow and arrows, and flew away unseen.” But now he thought more of earth than of heaven, and checking his flight, he again

nding his large shadowy pinions, which seemed to extend over half the earth , replied, “Lead the way, winged messenger of Cupi

with shame and remorse, burst into tears, and wept bitterly. The cold earth on which she lay, and the chill air, caused her t

s to look at her. As soon as Venus saw her son, after his return from earth , she perceived that an accident had happened to h

ntless Venus could think of inflicting upon her. “Behold me, child of earth ,” said the goddess to Psyche, “seest thou not the

not Psyche committed a slight fault. As she was rapidly returning to earth , thinking of all the strange and wonderful things

tarus. They placed both Elysium and Tartarus below the surface of the earth . Ann. Psyche went to Pluto’s kingdom; where was

— to make thee my queen. Thou art lovelier than all the daughters of earth , than the blue-haired sea-nymphs, or those that h

p in his arms, seated her beside him in the chariot, and striking the earth with his trident, they disappeared together. “Th

. Proserpine received her mother tenderly, and consented to return to earth . It happened that as Proserpine was walking in th

she soon counselled him how to proceed. She commanded him to sow the earth with the teeth of the dragon; and she informed hi

grees, entire bodies of armed men arose before him. These children of earth , as soon as they had takes breath, began to fight

atal head, and Atlas stood, not a man, but a rock. An accumulation of earth , says the fable, grew to this rock, extended its

its sides. Images of Atlas are made in the form of a man bearing the earth upon his shoulders. ——— Æolus had shut up the win

en, never more to enter into competition with any but the children of earth . “And did they not heed your counsel?” asked Mine

s, from the bosom of the Egean, on purpose to receive her. Terra (the earth ) had refused to protect Latona, but Neptune metam

e pursues me. Rather than be his, I would be swallowed up by the cold earth : suffer me to be hidden in her dark bosom, so tha

ul white heifer. The cloud gradually dispersed as Juno came nearer to earth , and when she found herself by the side of Jupite

wing west, after having dispensed thy glory to all the nations of the earth .” Apollo, knowing that the obstinate and presumpt

s, but it was too late; already the burning axles had set fire to the earth ; the forests on the mountain tops flamed; Etna bu

ppear on the surface of the ocean. In this dreadful extremity, Terra ( earth ) prayed to Jupiter for protection; and he, propit

the gods assembling around him, entreated that he would not leave the earth in darkness. But Apollo only answered, that Jupit

that Jupiter ought himself to undertake the task of enlightening the earth , that he might know how difficult was the task, a

, persuaded Apollo that it was necessary, few the preservation of the earth , that the presumptuous charioteer should die; and

terward induced Apollo to reascend his glorious car, and to cheer the earth mice mere with the smiles of the blessed sun. ———

he maiden Arethusa was transformed to a rivulet, and pouring into the earth in Greece, reappeared, after a submarine passage,