iginals of literature. The Greek accounts of the early history of the world , like the Roman ones, are incomplete and contradi

o there lived in that land the happiest and brightest nation that the world has known. In those days men did not think of thi

where the sun never shines, the Greeks thought that there was another world . It, too, had its gods and its spirits. Dreams li

n leave Olympus for days together, to make a visit somewhere, and the world would move on without them, just as usual. Happy,

h her hands and arms full of violets and lilies. Of all places in the world , Proserpina loved most the valley of Enna. Here t

ng; and above the meadows soared the lark. While Ceres went about the world from end to end, looking after the fields of whea

Titans. The noise of fighting was so loud that it disturbed even the world under the earth. When the strife was at an end, P

to the dark. When they reached solid ground again, they were in a new world . The air was cool and close, and all the light th

n earth, Proserpina thought was sad. All the jewels and riches of the world could not make this little goddess happy without

hands of the poor frightened goddess and which was already faded. The world soon grew dark, but Ceres would not rest. She too

unripened shake.    Arise, and set the maiden free;    Why should the world such sorrow dree    By reason of Persephone?” He

en, in her destined course, the moon    Meets the deep shadow of this world , And laboring on doth seem to swoon    Through aw

rk hour of destiny,    Still silvery sweet — Persephone. The greater world may near the less,    And draw it through her wel

Epimetheus. From the time when Proserpina was carried off, the world began to be less happy than it had been. In the w

es for the winter which was to come. In those days there lived in the world a race of great creatures called Titans. They wer

iance. When Jupiter saw the smoke rising from cozy homes all over the world , and heard men singing rough chants in honor of P

before, for after that day when Prometheus brought down the fire, the world was never again quite at peace. All this Epimethe

appiness is for the gods. The gifts of Olympus will harm men. Let the world alone.” Epimetheus said no more, but his mind was

red and how their altars were smoking with sacrifices. And of all the world , the spot most blessed was the home of Epimetheus

arvelous box!” she would say to herself. “What joy it has brought the world ! I wonder — I wonder what it is that the gods put

k. “What evil can there be in so blessed a box? It has made the whole world happy. It must be good.” Then she would think tha

r opened the box again, but life on earth was not simple or easy. The world was full of evil and sickness and sorrow; yet men

harmony    Come to our ears, like dreams. The Moon, too, brings her world so nigh,    That when the night-seer looks To tha

Apollo, the god of beauty and sonar, and I love you, Daphne. All the world worships me, and you shall have all that the worl

u, Daphne. All the world worships me, and you shall have all that the world can give. Do but stop and hear me.” But Daphne wo

” Then he turned sadly away, but for a long, long time afterward, the world was for him a very lonely place. And as for Cupid

ever returned along that road, but he went in, leaving behind him the world of light and life. Down and down it led him, but

his side. All about the hall stood the lesser gods and spirits of the world of shadows. The time had come for Orpheus to plea

ave deserved her well; but have a care. If before you reach the upper world you look back to see her, you must lose her. Foll

s boat, and up the other shore to the foot of the road leading to the world above. All the way Orpheus was thinking, “Is she

could lead her out. Then began the upward climb. The descent into the world of death is easy, but the return — this is the wo

r it with so light a heart that they never seem to have a care in the world . This was the case with Hercules. His troubles be

ufferer and a great hero, for he will pass his whole life ridding the world of plagues and monsters. Yes, and he will be more

rystheus. Eurystheus was said to be the most ignoble ruler in all the world . From this time, he spent his days and nights inv

Titan. But the hero only laughed and walked away, for his work in the world was to perform the labors commanded by Eurystheus

y, and then began such a struggle as was never before seen in all the world . Death had to put Alcestis down. Then the two fou

e whether he is ashamed of you. He will prove to you before the whole world that he is not.” Phaëton heard these words with j

went to their stables in the west. Next day there was no light in the world , for Helios spent the time with Clymene, mourning

d while strangers told of the deeds Hercules was doing throughout the world . Thus the mind of the youth was filled with heroi

s was famous at my age,” said Theseus, “and I wish to go out into the world .” Æthra walked on without a word until they came

d. “Give it to me, and you shall have the most beautiful woman in the world . She lives now far across the waters, but she sha

aris knew that she and none other was the most beautiful woman in the world . That night the sky was full of a rosy light. It

nd harmless to my enemies. Would that there were no such thing in the world as wrath, for at first it is sweeter than honey,

to Venus. But now Paris was dead. And the most beautiful woman in the world , Queen Helen, stepped aboard the ships of royal M

asure and love and jubilee: Who can light on as happy a shore All the world o’er, all the world o’er? Whither away? listen an

ubilee: Who can light on as happy a shore All the world o’er, all the world o’er? Whither away? listen and stay: mariner, mar

illes, 198. Hel΄en. Queen of Sparta; the most beautiful woman in the world ; carried off by Paris to Troy, 177. To avenge thi

ece, ruled by Menelaus; home of Helen, 176. Styx. River of the lower world , 20. It flowed seven times round Hades. All spiri

mankind through impressions produced by the phenomena of the outside world .” In this little work advantage has been taken o

g but little about themselves and of the things which they saw in the world around them, they fancied that everything had the

ribes in speaking of the things which they saw, heard, or felt in the world around them.” Cox. “The study of mythology is

By Cosmogony is meant the legends relating to the creation of the world ; by Theogony, the legends relating to the origin

ing to the origin of the gods. An ancient Greek legend represents the world as having been formed from Chaos, which was regar

this abode, and she and Nyx rode forth alternately to minister to the world . Representations. 1. A female form, with or

osely by his sister Selene, who is now prepared to take charge of the world and illumine the dusky night. Homer and Hesiod g

f the feeble hand that guided them, they ran out of their course, the world was set on fire, and a total conflagration would

thought that when she was absent from the earth she was in the lower world . As operating in the heavens, Hecate is identifie

n the earth, with Artemis* (Diana*), and as having power in the lower world , with Persephone* (Proserpine*). She was believed

spectres, to possess unlimited influence over the powers of the lower world , and to be able to lay to rest unearthly appariti

overthrown, his brothers despatched to the gloomy depths of the lower world , and Chronos himself was banished from his kingdo

s the Great Mother, more especially as the sustainer of the vegetable world . Seeing, however, that year by year, as winter ap

hadamanthus*, and Sarpedon*. The first two became judges in the lower world after death. “Europa is the morning with its bro

owned for his justice that he was made one of the judges in the lower world . Io*, daughter of the river-god Inachus, was a pr

sented Zeus without ears, to signify that the sovereign master of the world ought not to give partial ear to any particular p

oly, and invisible. The term Hades at a later time denoted the unseen world beneath the earth. When it was said that the dead

a pair of scissors. That is, Clotho gives life or brings us into the world , Lachesis determines the fortunes that shall befa

but kindly aspect. When represented at the feet of Aides in the lower world , they are clad in dark robes; but when they appea

on the head of his rebellious son. Their place of abode was the lower world , where they were employed by Aides and Persephone

d, giving him some grains of corn, desired him to journey through the world , teaching mankind the arts of agriculture and hus

t the souls of men after death led a dull, miserable existence in the world of shadows. Those initiated in the Mysteries, how

Persephone, the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, was queen of the lower world . The Athenians preferred to call her by her mysti

On the one hand, she appears as the wife of the dark god of the lower world , like him, a gloomy, awe-inspiring deity, who pit

resented as a fair young maiden, or as the grave, severe queen of the world of shadows. In the latter character she may gener

ile a great commotion both on sea and land announced the event to the world . She is also the goddess of wisdom, and as such i

son alludes in his “Summer.” “So stands the statue that enchants the world ; So bending tries to veil the matchless boast, Th

length consented that Adonis should spend one-half of the year in the world of shadows, and the other in the upper world. Cle

-half of the year in the world of shadows, and the other in the upper world . Clearly, the monster that deprived Adonis of lif

f the principle of attraction, on which the coherence of the physical world depends. Eros, the divine spirit of Love, was sai

nces. He represented, first, the great orb of day which illumines the world , and, secondly, the heavenly light which animates

god of prophecy. His oracle of Delphi was in high repute all over the world . That which raised the whole moral tone of the Gr

Her disconsolate husband determined to brave the horrors of the lower world to entreat Aides to restore her to him. He struck

on that he should not look back upon her until they reached the upper world . They journeyed on through the gloomy regions of

ivinity at Ephesus. It was considered one of the seven wonders of the world . Artemis Orthia* was a dark and cruel deity to wh

od of letters and wisdom), Anubis (as conductor of souls to the lower world ). Hermes was the son of Zeus and Maia* (one of th

elligence of the mind, Hermes represents the practical wisdom of this world .” Seemann . The sacrifices to Hermes were ince

of Theseus*. The latter is the best preserved ancient edifice in the world . On the island of Delos are to be seen the ruins

f cities. No altars were used in the service of the gods of the lower world , ditches or trenches being dug for the reception

ffering was made without stint. Libations to the deities of the lower world were of blood. The animals offered to the Olympia

ed to the Olympian deities were white, those to the gods of the lower world were black. When a man offered a special sacrific

ber of phrases which described originally some phenomena of the outer world . There must have existed in ancient languages a l

. — The twelfth and last task was to bring up Cerberus from the lower world . In this undertaking he was assisted by Hermes an

in the Eleusinian Mysteries, Heracles made his descent into the lower world at Cape Tænarum. Close to the gates of Hades he f

furious beast, and, having chained him, he conducted him to the upper world . After Eurystheus had seen Cerberus, Heracles ret

us had seen Cerberus, Heracles returned him to his place in the lower world . With the completion of this task the servitude o

seus to assist him in his ambitious scheme of descending to the lower world and carrying off Persephone, the queen of Aides.

the rivers Acheron* and Cocytus* mingled at the entrance to the lower world , Odysseus landed unattended by his companions. Ha

which should rise the Roman power to be in time the sovereign of the world . Æneas and the Sibyl then took leave of Anchises

s and the Sibyl then took leave of Anchises and returned to the upper world . Having parted from the Sibyl and rejoined his fl

afar, and that his daughter’s descendants were destined to subdue the world . The Trojans landed, and while eating their first

osphere; also over marriage. Aides, or Pluto, presided over the lower world , and assisted vegetation by the internal warmth o

dation in phrases which described the sights and objects of the outer world . The Egyptian and the Greek systems of mythology

iness; but Ahriman marred this happiness by introducing evil into the world , and creating savage beasts and poisonous reptile

of this, evil and good are now mingled together in every part of the world , and the followers of good and evil — the adheren

ly described some incident or phenomenon in the course of the outward world .” Cox . In the Veda, Arjuni*, Brisaya*, Dahana

tar, in which Vishnu will appear at the end of the present age of the world to destroy all vice and wickedness, and to restor

germ in phrases which described the sights and sounds of the material world . The Scandinavian mythology has none of the grace

e no heaven above or earth beneath, but only a bottomless deep, and a world of mist in which flowed a fountain. Twelve rivers

lating over another, the great deep was filled up. Southward from the world of mist was the world of light. From this flowed

he great deep was filled up. Southward from the world of mist was the world of light. From this flowed a warm wind and melted

Hugin* (Mind) and Munin* (Memory), who flew every day over the whole world and reported all they had seen and heard. At his

ntend, and on which all are doomed to perish. When all are slain, the world will be wrapped in flames, the sun will become di

e many things concerning the stars and their motions, the size of the world and the lands, and concerning the might and power

d Gijigouai, which means ‘those who make the day,’ and they light the world . He is never identified with the sun, nor was he

e, a handful of dust being sufficient to appease the god of the lower world . If the body of a friend could not be found, as i

nally the dark one, — the dog of night watching the path to the lower world . 6. The “Elgin* Marbles,” now in the British Mus

I cannot but believe that the holiness and happiness of the Christian world will be rendered more evident by comparison with

Mythology Those young persons who live in the present age of the world , and who are educated as Christians, often hear o

nation, to whom, in order to preserve the knowledge of himself in the world , he revealed himself in a particular manner. The

worshipped by heathen nations in different countries and ages of the world . Heathens, or pagans, are people who are not acqu

to me.” This prophet was our Saviour Jesus Christ, who came into the world as Moses had predicted. Moses was succeeded by ot

ion, and to teach it to the rest of mankind. The other nations of the world were partially taught the character of the Suprem

in that family. By tradition the knowledge of God was preserved n the world till the time of Moses; then the commandments wer

e as Chronos, signifies Time. Saturn, when he took the kingdom of the world , agreed always to devour his male children; as th

d the founder of a moral kingdom which shall extend to the end of the world — his coming into the world, the prince of peace,

gdom which shall extend to the end of the world — his coming into the world , the prince of peace, while mankind enjoyed a mem

ttributes. Homer describes him thus: He whose all-conscious eyes the world behold, The eternal Thunderer, sits enthroned in

supposes Olympus to be a name common to high mountains in the ancient world . Fate signifies a fixed purpose of the gods, — a

rried the king of Crete, and her name was given to one quarter of the world . The following is a fine description in verse of

hat the god promised, whenever the former should be summoned from the world by death, that his life should be spared, provide

tial coursers, suffered them to run wild, and they would have set the world on fire, had not Jupiter struck Phaeton into the

inventor of weights and measures, and conducted departed souls to the world of spirits. Mercury is represented as a young man

serve it, and that they should overcome their enemies and conquer the world ; that is, all the civilized world, which then inc

rcome their enemies and conquer the world; that is, all the civilized world , which then included the countries round the Medi

en’s almighty lord are hurled. All charged with vengeance on a guilty world . Beneath their hands, tremendous to survey! Half

y appears to be, that the most beautiful and estimable things in this world , are sometimes connected with the most grievous m

tures the rainbow is the symbol of peace, God’s peace with the guilty world , which was punished and pardoned. When the first

, and represented her as the counsellor of God in the creation of the world . “The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his

ade the earth nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world . “When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when

a statue of Jupiter, that was reckoned among the seven wonders of the world . What was the Palladium? Who carried the Palladi

pped under those different names, in different countries in the pagan world . The image of Ceres was that of a tall female, ha

evil doth he roam From his red and gloomy home, In the centre of the world , Where the sinful dead are hurled? Mark him as he

er morning flight.      Now the chariot stops: the god On our grassy world has trod; Like a Titan steppeth he, Yet full of h

rrying it in her hand, to light her in all dark places, went over the world in search of her lost child. Ceres, after a wh

she was without it. The temples of Venus were numerous in the heathen world ; those of Paphos, Cythera, and Idalia were the mo

story. The first was that of Ephesus, one of the seven wonders of the world . This was burnt to the ground the very day on whi

ised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.” The citizens of Ephesus then raise

Christianity, and the religion of Paul has been diffused all over the world , while that of the heathens has passed away like

Ephesus? How were the Ephesians appeased? What has taken place in the world in regard to Paganism? Where was another temple o

und,” we naturally ask, is this the last of them — is there no better world to which they are removed — is the mind lost? All

believe that the good and the bad could associate together in another world , so they conceived that the gods would appoint th

ishments, these truths were not established till Christ came into the world . Christ declared that men should live after the p

efined; With those, who leave a deathless name behind, Friends of the world , and fathers of mankind. Elysium was represented

Nemesis show, that the ancients admitted the moral government of the world by a superior power. Who was Astrea? What do the

. Fortune. Wealth and poverty are variously distributed in the world . Some men abound with superfluities, others suffe

n he should engage in war; and Venus, the most beautiful woman in the world for his wife. Venus obtained the apple, and the b

ne, is the apotheosis of that man. This folly no longer exists in the world ; men are now better instructed in the nature of G

uments of art, now perished. The latter were the Seven Wonders of the world . The common account of the celebrated men, and of

he deep, and the Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters.” The world being created, was divided into ten parts, each o

resent Brahma? What is the Hindu account of the creation? How was the world divided? Who is Casgapa? Who is Ganesa, and how i

eneficent deity, are sometimes called the Avatars. They came into the world to abolish human sacrifices, and to appoint in th

uspa begins with a description of Chaos; relates the formation of the world ; the creation of its various inhabitants, giants,

goddess. It concludes with a representation of the final ruin of the world by a general conflagration. The chief deities of

tanza supposes Imir to perish, and his substance to form the material world . The Scripture says, at creation, “the morning st

that evil spirits, foes of nature, begin to disturb the peace of the world , as the serpent entered the garden of Eden. The p

etimes regarded as some illustrious prince in a very early age of the world . He was the supposed author of all good; in const

historians, was more rational than that of most other nations of the world . It consisted in the belief of one supreme God, w

succession of the seasons, and the various operations of the natural world . It was believed that the good gods, Orosmades an

t grows upon it; and they will inquire who made and takes care of the world they inhabit — who gave them every comfort — who

the sacrifice of Jephthah’s daughter. The Greeks had a fable that the world had been drowned; that a good man and woman, Deuc

per of the god fancied that he saw reflected all that happened in the world . Had the ancient Mexicans letters, and did their

The Mexicans held a tradition not unlike this; it was, that the whole world was once involved in night, though men existed in

in the open air, conceiving that God’s house and temple was the whole world . All the ancient nations held high mountains in r

riests are the ministers of religion in all countries and ages of the world . It is the business of Christian ministers, to te

ntages? Who was the person appointed to preserve true religion in the world ? At what period of the world did God impart the M

pointed to preserve true religion in the world? At what period of the world did God impart the Mosaic dispensation? What was

s they were born. Cybele, his wife, having, however, brought into the world Jupiter and Juno at one birth, found means to hid

ins; High on a trophy rais’d of useless arms He sits, and threats the world with vain alarms.” Virgil. Questions. Who was J

l creatures; Fatua, because infants never cry till they come into the world ; Pessinuntia, because an image of hers fell from

ator, because he was the helper; Stabilitor, because he supported the world ; Almus, because he cherished all things; Olympius

win’s Botanic Garden —  Canto II. “He, whose all conscious eyes the world behold, Th’ eternal thunderer, sat enthron’d in g

eeks, countries in the east were considered the highest places in the world , and were thence designated by the name of Heaven

herself in such privacy, that a famine would have afflicted the whole world , had not Pan discovered her. She taught Triptolem

e witness of this rape; of which she informed Ceres, who ran over the world with two flambeaux in her hand in quest of her da

’d; Ceres first tam’d us with her gentle laws; From her kind hand the world subsistence draws.” Virgil. “Ceres with the bl

d him to heaven, and entrusted to him the duty of giving light to the world ; and from this circumstance, he has often been co

ted for the victory which rendered Augustus master of Rome and of the world ; Palatinus, because Augustus built him on Mount P

emple at Ephesus was justly accounted one of the seven wonders of the world . It was 227 years in building, and was supported

to say that she was the goddess of hunting. The moon smiles upon the world , for which we allegorically take Pan. Diana is sa

s not invented by man, but has a celestial origin. She comes into the world , completely armed, because the wise man, strength

skies her horrid head can bound; She stalks on earth, and shakes the world around; The nations bleed where’er her steps she

ho, in return, rewarded him with the hand of the fairest woman in the world . He carried off Helen from her husband Menelaus,

ally: she then becomes the source of life and activity throughout the world . Obs. 2. — The marriage of Venus with Vulcan, th

en’s almighty lord are hurl’d, All charged with vengeance on a guilty world . Beneath their hands, tremendous to survey! Half

ferried across the Styx. After they had spent some time in the nether world , he led them back to revisit the realms of day, a

in a vast rocky cavern, and occasionally letting them loose over the world . When Ulysses was returning home from Troy, Æolus

age commands; Which did he not, their unresisted sway Would sweep the world before them in their way: Earth, air and seas, th

s bowels ignited dirt, which he sent into heaven to give light to the world , and with which burning matter he formed the sun,

of cherubim Uplifted, in paternal glory rode Far into Chaos, and the world unborn; For Chaos heard his voice: him all his tr

ccount leaves a glimpse of the genuine history of the creation of the world . Chaos is an allegorical divinity, representing t

or Jupiter and Calisto. He made the most eminent figure in the rural world , presiding over the fields, valleys, mountains, w

ue origin of Pan was very ancient. The Egyptians worshipped the whole world under the name of Pan, which means all. His image

d of the hearths, was Lateranus. The ancients believed that the whole world was filled with spirits, who ruled its motions. P

of a God, who punishes crime and rewards virtue, is as ancient as the world itself. The first man received it from God himsel

evil doth he roam From his red and gloomy home, In the centre of the world , Where the sinful dead are hurled? Mark him as he

akes her morning flight. Now the chariot stops: the god On our grassy world hath rod. Like a Titan steppeth he, Yet full of h

iferous herbs. — See Fig. 43. Fig. 43. Somnus. “Thou rest o’ th’ world , sleep, the most peaceful god, Who driv’st care f

was the son and minister of Somnus. He sends dreams to people in this world , and watches diligently to prevent any noise from

efined; With those, who leave a deathless name behind, Friends of the world , and fathers of mankind.” “There, rage no storms

men after death, became inhabitants of Hades, a region in the nether world , in a pleasurable or playful state, in proportion

as in Pluto’s kingdom, however, he was permitted to come back to this world in order to punish his wife for this apparent neg

nd the family. They became the gods Penates, although the rest of the world remained ignorant of the existence of such obscur

take from Hippolyte, the queen of the Amazons, the finest belt in the world . After a close engagement, he slew all the Amazon

was a great observer of the stars, and the first who represented the world by a sphere; which gave rise to the fable in whic

ted to have requested Hercules to load himself with the burden of the world . Mount Atlas is so lofty, that it seems to touch

with the prince whose name it bears, painted him as the pillar of the world . They also held that Perseus had metamorphosed hi

d together by their nature; but afterwards having been separated, the world began to take its present form. By the motion of

y believed that there was a supreme intelligence that had created the world ; and that there was also in man an intelligence s

tion of the earth. Osiris shut up in the primitive egg from which the world was drawn, twelve white pyramidal figures, to sho

ulture had changed that vast tract into the most fertile plain in the world , the Egyptians consecrated the remembrance of its

elebrated as the common mother, from whom all animals sprang when the world was renewed. Ormuzd, Oromazes, or Oromasdes, was

succession of the seasons, and the various operations of the natural world . His symbols were the man-bull, the serpent, a gl

ogy of the ancient Egyptians, Persians, and Scythians. It divides the world into ten parts, each of which is committed to the

, which could not sustain the brightness of the light, and seeing the world a desert, he ordered one of the gods to cut his h

of Diana at Ephesus. This temple, one of the seven wonders of the world , was several centuries in attaining its last degr

aul’s Church in London, is one of the most beautiful monuments in the world , next to St. Peter’s at Rome. Such are the most c

he wished no other oracle; and he then marched to the conquest of the world . Before people consulted the oracle, they made nu

miracles of the Saviour, his passion, his death, the creation of the world , and the terrestrial paradise. In it the Sibyl, a

was at its acme of power, and found nothing in the known parts of the world which did not acknowledge her laws, when an event

subaltern genii, whose seat and temple was every thing in the visible world . These intelligences had the direction of its ope

d as the largest of all trees Its branches covered the surface of the world , and its top reached to the heavens. It was suppo

pported by three large roots, one of which extended even to the ninth world , or to hell. On its branches sat an eagle, whose

w her power. Then there appeared a luminous, burning, and an inflamed world on the side of the south (Musspellheim;) and from

world on the side of the south (Musspellheim;) and from this burning world , there incessantly slide away into the abyss, (wh

g saved by means of a boat, escaped with his whole family. Then a new world was formed. The sons of Bor, or the gods, hurried

mouth. The horse of Dagur, Skinfaxi, (shining mane,) illuminates the world with his manes. Mundelfari (the mover of the axis

one man alone escaped with his family in a boat; that renewing of the world which followed the deluge; that first man, that f

s in reference to the future state, and to the last destinies of this world . There will come a time, says the Edda, a bar

s winter will happen; the snow will fall from the four corners of the world ; the winds will blow furiously; the frost will ha

god received all who died a violent death, from the beginning of the world down to that general downfall of nature, which wa

One of which, called Nislheim, was to last only until the end of the world ; and the other, called Nastroud, was to be eterna

airer than gods, and wiser, she Held the strange keys of destiny, Ere world there was, or gods, or man; No mortal tongue has

e whence the arts and sciences irradiated spread over the rest of the world . It would be difficult, perhaps even impossible,

eous enough, to resist the Romans, who were then masters of the known world . Their government was at that time a mixture of m

mes, the inhabitants of Great Britain have astonished the rest of the world by their wisdom, their knowledge, and their brave

ample proof, that in very remote times, those first navigators of the world , brought their goods into Great Britain, and exch

ad for those of England, whom they considered as their superiors. The world , continues the Abbé, at first formed but one comm

r bodies after the death of those which they have animated. 9. If the world perish, it will be by water or by fire. 10. On ex

. Money lent in this life, will be rendered to creditors in the other world . 16. There is another world, and those who kill t

ill be rendered to creditors in the other world. 16. There is another world , and those who kill themselves to accompany their

ying hour, or cast into funeral piles, are faithfully returned to the world . 18. Let the disobedient be driven away; let them

so judicious answers, that their reputation was spread over the whole world . People came from every quarter to consult them;

n. But it is impossible that such a nature could produce this visible world without media; since, if this had been the case,

ne, but others, supermundane. The mundane are those who fabricate the world ; and the supermundane are those who produce essen

e mundane gods, likewise, some are the causes of the existence of the world ; others animate it; others again harmonise it, th

e should be twelve. Hence Jupiter, Neptune, and Vulcan, fabricate the world ; Ceres, Juno, and Diana, animate it; Mercury, Ven

of sensible inspection. As these gods likewise primarily possess the world , it is necessary to consider the other mundane go

tinct existence. Hence, Jupiter, who is the Dimiurgus or maker of the world , is not, according to this theology, the First Ca

e animals, co-operating with the First Cause in the government of the world .” 1. “Toise, n. tois (fr.) A fathom or long

ur of truth beamed forth from the Gospel of Christ, upon the darkened world , the pollutions of licentiousness were intermingl

m of fables, or the fabulous history of the false gods of the heathen world . What is the meaning of the word Idolatry? The te

l agree in regarding it as a confused tradition of the repeopling the world after the deluge, as related in the book of Genes

lightning, terror, noise, and wrath. He whose all conscious eyes the world behold, Th’ eternal Thunderer sits enthron’d in g

riches, and her worship was very solemn and universal in the heathen world . Young geese, and the hawk, as well as the peacoc

d involved earth and heaven in one general conflagration. To save the world from absolute destruction, Jupiter hurled his dre

Po his blasted corpse was hurl’d, Far from his country in the western world . Ovid’s Met. What was the history of Circe? Ci

story. The first was that of Ephesus, one of the seven wonders of the world . This was burnt to the ground the very day on whi

heaven. The oracle was consulted, and declared that the empire of the world was destined for that city which should preserve

e skies her horrid head can bound, She stalks on earth and shakes the world around. The nations bleed where’er her steps she

n’s almighty lord are hurl’d, All charg’d with vengeance, on a guilty world . Beneath their hands, tremendous to survey! Half

orary with Osiris. We meet with scarcely any personage in the ancient world more celebrated for great knowledge and admirable

efin’d; With those, who leave a deathless name behind, Friends of the world , and fathers of mankind. Chap. XXV. [Pluto, P

here not other heroes highly respected, if not worshiped by the Pagan world ? Yes, many. The heroes of the Theban war, Eteocle

he seven Wonders of the World.] What were the seven wonders of the world ? First. The Colossus of Rhodes, a statue of Apoll

erb of the field, was imagined to be wandering towards its doom, in a world always tending to decay and ruin. The reunion of

great whole. But though the oldest Hindû scriptures seem to make the world one with the Deity, yet they also explicitly conv

lcating the doctrine of a multiplicity of aerial beings; dividing the world into ten parts; and setting over each, a presidin

of the Hindû Mythology concerning the primitive element, of which the world was formed? It teaches that water is the primitiv

rs.” What is the Hindû account of the creation? It asserts that this world was all darkness, till the self-existent, invisib

arth; placing in the midst, the subtle ether; the eight points of the world , and the permanent receptacle of the waters. What

tes all nature; not extrinsic, or external to, and separate from, the world , but embodied in it, as the human soul is suppose

s a deification of some illustrious prince in a very early age of the world ; but was generally considered to be a personifica

a malignant nature, either in the vegetable, animal, or intellectual world , was regarded in the Egyptian mythology as the op

d by some as inculcating “a firm belief that one Supreme God made the world by his power, and continually governed it by his

hat name destined to appear in human shape, for the government of the world , was supposed to have received from the Supreme a

m. At last, an evil being, named Ahriman, or Arimanius, corrupted the world . After having dared to visit heaven, he descended

moon is declared to have caused every thing to be produced, when the world was renewed after the general deluge. She is cele

succession of the seasons, and the various operations of the natural world . His symbols were, the bull, or the Man-Bull; the

ins of Persia. The Mithratic caves were supposed to be emblems of the world , and sometimes of the ark of safety. The worship

to idolatry, Teutates was degraded into the sovereign of the infernal world , and worshiped with the most abominable and cruel

ern divinities, and genii, who directed all operations in the natural world , and who severally presided over the celestial bo

d a name. The sons of Borus, afterwards, erected in the centre of the world the fortress of Asgard, which was the dwelling pl

rince of the Genii of fire. He was described as inhabiting a luminous world , situated towards the south; and as being destine

the strange keys of destiny, She knew what chanc’d ere time began Ere world there was, or Gods, or man; No mortal tongue has

, It begins with a description of Chaos; relates the formation of the world ; the creation of its various inhabitants, giants,

Scandinavian mythology is the description they give of the end of the world ; which is called the twilight of the Gods. Three

the children of men. The snow will fall from the four corners of the world . The wolf Fenris will devour the sun; another mon

intelligences which the Arabians to reside in them, and to govern the world under the Supreme Deity. These they reverenced as

ppeared. The Sun of Righteousness, the glorious luminary of the moral world arose, and the dark shades of intellectual night

d Andate? What was the representation given of the destruction of the world by the Scandinavian Mythology? What did the ancie

foolish fondness. They thought her the most beautiful creature in the world . They would say she is fairer than Venus herself.

g princess, and she said, “I will give her the ugliest husband in the world , and she shall dislike him, and he shall make her

, “Now I will prepare myself to see the most frightful monster in the world ; but that which is ugly may be good. I will endea

her enjoyment in it. They told her it was the strangest thing in the world , that her husband should absent himself from her

em learned to be Christiana while Christ and his apostles were in the world , and all of them left off worshipping heathen god

that they were gods, and were in beaten, or in different parts of our world , doing good, unseen by men. Ann. Who think you w

o Pluto’s kingdom; where was that? Mother. Pluto was the king of the world of ghosts, that is, the souls of dead men. Ann.

s fabled that a river, called the Styx, separated the borders of this world from that of the dead, and that Mercury conveyed

his magnificent appearance, it could be no other than the lord of the world below. She shrieked out in her alarm, “’Tis he,

e: he comes to us From the depths of Tartarus, From the centre of the world , Where the sinful dead are hurled, —  Mark him as

aters.” “Hear me, Proserpina;” interrupted the god; “one third of the world shall be yours. None hut the queen of heaven, the

s and the pure alone forever dwell. Why would you bring her back to a world , where the violent and the wicked are mingled wit

her to be happy with Pluto, and with Jupiter’s leave descended to the world of ghosts. Proserpine received her mother tenderl

other. No; it shows you the hospitality of poor peasants all over the world . Such people will give of their small pittance to

is human nature, and their conduct is human manners. These are in the world , and there always have been good and bad people.

uch actions. Ann. Then men do grow better, instead of worse, all the world over. Mother. Yes; and that growing better is th

be careful nowadays who they take in, there are so many rogues in the world ;” and a third declared, “He had seen the taller s

ther! Have you a wish in your hearts which the gods can grant in this world ? In the next, the delights of Elysium await you.

called Acteon. This Acteon was one of the most expert hunters in the world . Acteon being one day fatigued by the chase lay d

siphone in the palace of Athamas. Those who know any thing of the world , that is, who know how men and women act, know th

few comforts; soon will the hand of death compel them to this dreary world below. But the just judges of the dead will recom

in order to make them good; and that if the good were unhappy in this world , the gods would make them amends in another life.

Mother. I am sorry to say there is still much false religion in the world . Whole nations in Asia and Africa are pagans, and

her prison, and thus went to see her. Money buys every thing in this world ; so, in this fable, it was called a god: afterwar

ly accomplished the oracle, which was uttered before he came into the world . Perseus was now king of Argos, but he chose, rat

ly removed from his brow the diadem which shed its glory all over the world , and which mortal vision, save the eye of the mig

the loss of his son, hid his brilliant head, and refused to cheer the world by his presence; while Clymene, accompanied by th

Clymene, accompanied by the Hiades, her daughters, wandered about the world in search of the unfortunate youth’s remains. At

sted her: ‘Why come you hither, woman; is there no other water in the world that you must come to drink of this lake? “‘Can a

t existed in popular credulity, as the greater fairies of the ancient world : and we regard them, at the same time, as personi

gion, and beauty, and gravity and hushing awe, and a path as from one world to another.” G. Moir Bussey has also observed,

ure, in poetry, in war, or in dominion.” The reality of an every day world has now set its seal upon all that delighted the

ee that their vices increased; while their armies, which overran the ‌ world , doubtless gave to the Scandanavians and the Gaul

s a god, who, riding in a car of fire, diffuses his light through the world ; the stars are so many divinities, who measure wi

f time; the moon presides over the silence of night, and consoles the world for the absence of her brother. Neptune reigns in

and indignation those fierce and savage spirits, who would destroy a world that has so long been the treasury of the arts! a

uld destroy a world that has so long been the treasury of the arts! a world , imaginary indeed, but delightful, and whose idea

o well fitted to compensate for the real troubles and miseries of the world in which we live.” If we turn to a still higher

een treated of so often and in so masterly a style by men of whom the world was scarcely worthy, that we are willing rather t

e of mankind; and thus Heaven is the most ancient of the Gods. As the world increased they deified heroes. The Gods of the an

Of jarring seeds; and justly Chaos named. No sun was lighted up, the world to view; No moon did yet her blunted horns renew;

has neither a beginning nor an end. He slew his father, because, the world and time once created, he could exist no longer;

d. “But when good Saturn banished from above Was driven to hell, the world was under Jove. Succeeding times a silver age beh

ll of diseases and corroding cares:‌ Which opened, they to taint the world begin And Hope alone remained entire within! Such

ultitude of evils and distempers, which dispersed themselves over the world , and which from that fatal moment have never ceas

And stubborn as the metal were the men. Truth, modesty, and shame the world forsook; Fraud, avarice, and force, their places

ch rules His different realm, accountable to thee, Great ruler of the world ; these only have To speak and be obeyed; to those

sought her “from morn to noon, from noon to dewy eve,” throughout the world . At last, when she deemed her search well nigh ho

me!” Hood. By the invention of Phœbus, medicine became known to the world , as he granted to Æsculapius the secrets of this

he held. But she lived to repent of this frightful gift. Alone in the world , her friends departed, and none to remind ‌her of

r, would give him proofs of his paternal tenderness, and convince the world of his legitimacy. Phœbus swore by the Styx that

ndeur and magnificence has been placed among the seven wonders of the world , but was burned by Erostratus, the same day that

promised a kingdom, Minerva glory, and Venus the fairest woman in the world for a wife. When Paris had heard their several cl

ven birth to him, Jupiter foresaw the mischief he would create in the world , as well as in his more immediate kingdom; he the

against his mother.     “Love! oh! he breathes and rambles round the world     An idol and idolator: he flies Touching, with

turned her to earth upon a bank of flowers. She then went through the world in search of her lost love, persecuted, and subje

sport on purple plumes unfurled, And love and beauty rule the willing world .” Darwin. Thus Cupid was at length re-united to

was ruled,     By but a sleeping child? “I went then forth into the world ,     To see what might be there; And there I hear

d Arion, with all the earnestness of an enthusiast. “Ere I leave this world , oh! allow me to touch once more, and for the las

es the thunder of its tempests. With this trident also, he shakes the world , and bids the earth to tremble. During the Consua

e, the depths have more! thy waves have rolled, Above the cities of a world gone by! Sand hath filled up the palaces of old,

evil doth he roam From his red and gloomy home. In the centre of the world Where the sinful dead are hurled? Mark him as he

akes her morning flight, Now the chariot stops: the God On our grassy world hath trod, Like a Titan steppeth he, Yet full of

bered that the merchants, who had promised him all the incense in the world to obtain his ‌protection, proved that they had p

of the victims whom they immolated to the goddess. “Who beareth the world on his shoulders so broad; Hear me, thou power, w

il and feet hairy, like those of a goat. When he was brought into the world , the nurse, terrified at sight of him, ran away i

es past! There is something come over brow and eye, Which speaks of a world where the flowers must die! Ye smile! — but your

gone, With the last leaves for a love-rosary, Whilst all the withered world looks drearily, Like a dim picture of the drowned

glad, we are glad, and in breeze or in blast, We will sport round the world as long as ’twill last.” Jennings. Alcyone, the

. Ye know not what ye do,     That call the slumberers back, From the world unseen by you     Unto life’s dim faded track. H

as the morn     When throned in ocean’s wave,     It blushes o’er the world : Yet both so passing wonderful!” Shelley. ———

o whom they offered sacrifices before declaring war, to evince to the world that they were commenced upon equitable grounds.

e melancholy day, And still the stranger wist not where to stray. The world was sad; the garden was a wild! And man, the herm

ring the golden age; but the wickedness of mankind drove her from the world , during the succeeding periods of brass and iron,

yielded up her truth; There by Euripus, ever fickle stream, He won a world in her immortal arms, And found his prized honour

d westward thrice was whirled, And from the skies surveyed the nether world . But when grey ev’ning showed the verge of night,

ee on the Naiad’s shore To languish. This is he who dared to roam The world infernal, and on Pluto’s queen, Ceres’ own lost P

ou grievest, I in vain repine.’” Virgil. ‌He returned to the upper world , where the only solace which he could find, was t

m thy light to dwell: Thou shalt not find my place below, Dim is that world — bright sun of Greece, farewell!     The laurel

one of his sons. To prevent this misery, he determined to forsake the world , and retire into some solitary place, to end his

or. Ancient writers say, that she was for a long time hidden from the world at the bottom of a well, but leaving its quiet on

nor could more important engines in the mischiefs which arose in the world be well chosen; for, from Calumny, which is the o

an Trinity. Previous to his commencing the grand work of creating the world , and all that it contains, he passed thirty six m

nd deity of the Indian Trinity, is considered as the preserver of the world , which Brahma has created out of nothingness. He

He became teacher, warrior, and prophet, that he might leave to ‌the world on his quitting it, the model of a man. He reside

wisdom. 5. His marriage and royal splendour. 6. His retreat from the world . 7. His life as a hermit. 8. His appearance, wher

the brutalizing and tyrannical distinction of castes, and invites the world to peace, life eternal, and to the identification

,     The sweat on Seeva’s forehead stood, And Ganges thence upon the world descended,     The holy river, the redeeming floo

ant plays a prominent part in the Hindoo tales. They pretend that the world is sustained by four of these animals, who are pl

ted of their minor deities, was the vital and acting principle of the world ; to whom was attributed many of the functions whi

and the second Apomti, Churunti, and Inti-quaoqui. The creator of the world , according to the Mexicans, was Mexitli, who was

uch a manner seems to have been universal both in the old and the new world , and we are forced to believe that it was drawn f

versal, of a time of primeval innocence, when man dwelt in a peaceful world , ignorant alike of sorrow and of sin. This was th

g in eternal sunshine, and free from the storms which vexed the lower world . A gate of clouds, guarded by the goddesses of th

eas and rivers, while Pluto received for his portion the subterranean world , or infernal regions. Ques. What natural phenome

ply allegories, illustrating the dominion of Jupiter over the natural world . Others were invented at later times; and all wer

e can be no doubt that they had an unfavorable influence on the pagan world , and that they contributed to weaken whatever res

], bidding him to observe, when the shades of night should darken the world , how her rival was exalted. The god of Ocean was

Venus promised to give him for a wife the most beautiful woman in the world . Paris then pronounced Venus the fairest. He was

ustus closed the temple the third time when he had given peace to the world . This occurred just before the coming of our Lord

m the flames of Mount Etna, to light her on her search throughout the world . She holds a poppy, because when she was so griev

his prize. Ceres, ignorant of what had occurred, wandered through the world in search of her daughter. At length, arriving at

ity with death, but she adopted Triptolemus, and sent him through the world to teach mankind the use of corn. He executed the

t was so beautiful that it was counted among the seven wonders of the world . Two hundred and twenty years were spent in the b

casket, set free the evils and miseries which flew abroad through the world . When he saw what he had done, he shut the box qu

Hell was moved to pity. Eurydice was permitted to return to the upper world , but only on condition that Orpheus did not look

cities contended for the honor of having given this great poet to the world ; these were Smyrna, Chios, Colophon [Col′ophon],

f the future destinies of his race, she offered to conduct him to the world of shades. Æneas having plucked, in the sacred gr

aven, who flourished at different times and in different parts of the world . According to the historian Varro, they were ten

me granted by Apollo. She accompanied Æneas on his visit to the lower world . According to a well-known Roman legend, one of t

ns. Ormuzd, or Oromasdes, who remained faithful and pure, governs the world with all the attributes which are given to the tr

eme Deity, at the creation. Ques. When do the Hindoos think that the world was created? Ans. At an incredibly remote period

ma created all things, Vishnu preserves them, and when the end of the world is come, which the Vedas say will occur in about

tenth Avatar is called Kalki, in which Vishnu will come to judge the world , destroying the wicked and rewarding the good. Q

nto signifies spirit worship; the priests of this sect teach that the world is governed by an infinite number of spirits. The

, and with gray hair. The followers of Lao-tze believe in a spiritual world , in spiritual manifestations, and in the transmig

ith regard to God? Ans. In his writings he declares plainly that the world was erected by a threefold divinity. His follower

say that in the beginning, there was neither heaven nor earth, but a world of mist, in which flowed a mysterious fountain. T

dually accumulating, the great deep was filled up. Southward from the world of mist, was the world of light. From this a warm

e great deep was filled up. Southward from the world of mist, was the world of light. From this a warm wind flowed upon the i

ers sit the ravens, Hugin and Munin, who fly every day over the whole world , and on their return report to him all that they

ad in widening circles until it reached the uttermost confines of the world . Heimdall was not permitted to marry, lest any ca

may be able to meet the giants in the final contest at the end of the world . He sends the Valkyrior, therefore, to every batt

ous size, that, holding his tail in his mouth, he encircled the whole world . Hela was cast into Niffleheim, where she receive

if Baldur were really so beloved. “If,” said she, “all things in the world , both living and lifeless, weep for him, then sha

result of Hermod’s mission, the gods made proclamation throughout the world , beseeching all created things to weep for Baldur

on a funeral pile which was built of his own ship, the largest in the world . All the gods were present, and even the Frost an

whether gods or demons, are doomed to perish. When all are slain, the world will be wrapped in flames, the sun will become di

ct to no fate; he was free and self-existent, and the creation of the world was his own voluntary act. The Druids taught that

idical verses,) he “wrote upon stone the arts and the sciences of the world .” In his more beneficent character, the name Gwyo

Who was Quetzalcoatl? Ans. The Aztecs, like many nations of the old world , had their Golden Age. During this blissful perio

t wash away the sin that was given to it before the foundation of the world , so that the child might be born anew. Ques. How

ation of the heavenly bodies. The Sun was adored as the father of the world , the source of light and life. The Moon was honor

y constant wakefulness, and this great man, with the resources of the world at his command, would probably have sacrificed bo

ul women. They thought their own land the best and the fairest in the world ; and as they watched the sunsets and the rising o

ther. Sometimes the mighty rulers of the sun and the moon and all the world left their homes and came down to visit the peopl

he stars. ——— The Wonderful World Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful world , With the wonderful water round you curled, And t

Ah! you are so great, and I am so small, I tremble to think of you, world , at all (Lilliput Lectures.) The Great Bear a

neful birds and bright flowers. She laughed and sang to the beautiful world about her, and in return all nature seemed to smi

y. Want and famine took the place of wealth and plenty throughout the world . It seemed as though the great earth grieved with

ds, and Jupiter sent all the waters of the earth and sky to cover the world . He did not want the waters to dry up until all t

re . Eurydice He came to call me back from death     To the bright world above; I hear him yet with trembling breath     L

But when the dawn came, and Apollo began his daily journey around the world , Diana left her silvery chariot in the sky and ca

k seem. Perseus was a very brave youth; but the bravest person in the world would rather be alive than to be turned to stone,

out the way to Medusa’s island home, and the only people in the whole world who knew where that was were three sisters who li

ind of autumn     And the first fall of the snow. Ah! what would the world be to us     If the children were no more? We sho

weet and tender juices     Have been hardened into wood, That to the world are children;     Through them it feels the glow

remarkable man. Hercules was, in fact, the strongest man of whom the world has any record. Nowadays, when we wish to say tha

; And the young and the old they wander out, And traverse their green world round about; And hark! at the top of this leafy h

re the topmost twigs in the breezes sway! “Come up! come up! for the world is fair, Where the merry leaves dance in the summ

would rather be with him, even in dark Hades, than live in the bright world without him. So she mounted a little rising knoll

p his little son like a prince. At that time the wisest person in the world was a centaur named Chiron, and he might be calle

Poor Cyparissus! He had killed the creature he loved most in all the world , and his grief was sad to see. He threw himself o

as a happy, sunny-hearted lad, who seemed to have no care in the wide world . Perhaps that is why Apollo loved him so much; or

ne, are laid in earth, There should a wreath be woven     To tell the world their worth. Fitz-Greene Halleck . A Wonder

is work was all in all to him, and he took no interest in the outside world . Many women of Cyprus would have been glad to mar

with King Midas, and the king thought him the finest musician in the world . The nymphs of the woods, also, loved to hear Pan

aises sung that he, too, thought himself the greatest musician in the world ; and one day he went so far as to ask the great g

ll. Apollo, the sun god, was, as you know, the sweetest singer in the world ; therefore it was a very bold thing indeed for Pa

by God, who gave them not only a full account of the creation of the world and of all living creatures, but also a code of l

d sea, and covering heavens, were known, The face of nature, o’er the world , was one; And men have called it Chaos; formless,

n unsuitable, and recounted how Erebus and Nyx ruled over the chaotic world together, until their two beautiful children, Æth

l begun, created Uranus (Heaven). This version of the creation of the world , although but one of the many current with the Gr

ny         Come to our ears, like dreams. “The Moon, too, brings her world so nigh,         That when the night-seer looks T

r his consort, and assigned to each of the others some portion of the world to govern at will. To Oceanus and Thetis, for exa

aliantly to overthrow the usurper and win back the sovereignty of the world . During ten long years the war raged incessantly,

and the land; I fix the chain to great Olympus’ height, And the vast world hangs trembling in my sight! For such I reign, un

s, asserted his fight to the throne, and could at last reign over the world undisturbed; but he knew that it would be no smal

his brothers. To avoid quarrels and recriminations, he portioned the world out into lots, allowing each of his brothers the

management of Heaven and Earth. Peace now reigned throughout all the world . Not a murmur was heard, except from the Titans,

ncast spirits. Thus, according to the ancients, evil entered into the world . bringing untold misery: but Hope followed closel

aised the cover, and allowed them all to escape. Little by little the world was peopled; and the first years of man’s existen

se rule of good old Saturn, or Cronus. Unfortunately, nothing in this world is lasting; and the Golden Age was followed by an

m by their counsels. The first suggestion offered, was to destroy the world by fire, kindled by Jupiter’s much dreaded thunde

waves step by step down the steep mountain side.     “At length the world was all restor’d to view, But desolate, and of a

trembled at his all-powerful nod. “He, whose all-conscious eyes the world behold, The eternal Thunderer sat, enthroned in g

lts or sceptre in one hand, and a statue of Victory in the other. The world is his footstool; and the eagle, emblem of streng

on a constantly revolving wheel, whereon she journeyed throughout the world , scattering with careless hands her numerous gift

ere such, that it was counted one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world . It is said, too, that the artist, having complet

had also numerous other sanctuaries scattered throughout the ancient world , and was worshipped in the same temples as Jupite

flight the obscure deity called Dulness, who until then had ruled the world . ‘‘Ere Pallas issu’d from the Thund’rer’s head,

e arts. “Bright-hair’d Apollo! — thou who ever art A blessing to the world  — whose mighty heart Forever pours out love, and

leech that wrought such healing hurled With lightning down to Pluto’s world .” Virgil ( Conington’s tr.). Æsculapius’ race w

rmission to drive the sun chariot that very day, stating that all the world would be sure to notice his exalted position, and

e glance the Deity.” Byron. One of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world , the famous Colossus of Rhodes, was a statue of A

ds to night, And rising Cynthia sheds her silver light, Wide o’er the world in solemn pomp she drew Her airy chariot hung wit

ars, and shrines were dedicated to his service throughout the ancient world . His statues were considered sacred boundary mark

upon Apollo and Diana to use their poisoned arrows, and thus rid the world of these two ugly and useless giants. Of a fiery

leaving the mountain where they had grown up, journeyed out into the world to seek their fortunes. After some time they came

came from all points of the compass, and all parts of the then known world , either to witness or to take part in the noted w

rcus, Aidoneus), son of Cronus and Rhea, received as his share of the world the supervision of the Infernal Regions, situated

refined; With those who leave a deathless name behind, Friends of the world , and fathers of mankind.” Chapter XIII: Bacc

nied him on all his travels; for he delighted in roaming all over the world , borne by his followers, or riding in his chariot

rom limb. Bacchus, god of wine, was worshipped throughout the ancient world , and festivals without number were held in his ho

evil doth he roam From his red and gloomy home, In the centre of the world , Where the sinful dead are hurled? Mark him as he

akes her morning flight. Now the chariot stops: the god On our grassy world hath trod: Like a Titan steppeth he, Yet full of

until another crevice offered her the means of returning to the upper world , and seeing once more the blue sky and sun on the

sufferings they endured, and to allow Proserpina to revisit the upper world once more. “Arise, and set the maiden free; Why

per world once more. “Arise, and set the maiden free; Why should the world such sorrow dree By reason of Persephone!” Ingel

l the time came when Hercules’ education was completed, and the whole world lay before him, full of pleasant possibilities, a

sadly perplexed Hercules, for he did not know in what portion of the world he would find these apples, which had been given

any places, but specially in Sparta, their birthplace, where they had world renowned wrestling matches. Chapter XXIV: Œdi

e. Driven from home early in life, Bellerophon wanders throughout the world like his brilliant prototype, and like it, ends h

                “‘Come, my friends, ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world . Push off, and sitting well in order, smite The s

nt mother’s track. There shall Æneas’ house, renewed For ages, rule a world subdued.’” Virgil ( Conington’s tr.). This obsc

the fact that just as flint arrowheads are found in all parts of the world , differing but slightly in form and manufacture,

d Psyche, which has its parallel in stories found in all parts of the world , was invented to explain curious marriage customs

t men in the primitive state; and “in early philosophy throughout the world , the sun, moon, and stars are alive, and, as it w

fications were Cerberus (the grim three-headed guardian of the nether world ) and Pluto or (Aides), whose name means “the weal

d Sea of Marmora, on route of Argonauts, 236 Brass Age. Third age of world , 23 Bri-a′re-us. One of the Centimani; son of Ur

269, 270; lover of Scylla, 314 Golden Age. First age of the ancient world , when all was bliss, 22; Janus’ reign, 176 Gor′g

attendants, 82 Horn Gate. Gate leading from cave of Somnus to outer world , 180, 181 Hours. Attendants of Apollo, 66; atten

efence by, 335 Ivory Gate. Gate leading from cave of Somnus to outer world , 180. 181 Ix-i′on. Criminal in Tartarus; bound t

Minor, where Medea took refuge, 221 Med-i-ter-ra′ne-an. Sea dividing world in two, 4 Medu′sa. Gorgon slain by Perseus, whos

Pan-do′ra. First woman; created in heaven, she brings evil into the world , 18-22, 24 Par′cæ. The Fates, or Mœræ; they spin

e lesser Roman divinities, 268 Silver Age. Second age of the ancient world , 22 Sil′vi-a. Daughter of Latin shepherd; her st

Troy. [Relief on sarcophagus: Roscher 2: 279.] 82. Atlas bearing the world . [Statue: Müller.] 83. Hercules and Cerberus. [Va

form, and restore them, purified and breathing of Elysian air, to the world of life and art and ever-young mankind. For the r

e fire of imagination, kindles the present from the past. In this new world of ours, shall slopes and mountains, gorges, cano

questions that nearly every child and every savage asks: What is the world , and what is man? Who made them? What else did th

ng a new thing. The æsthetic, myth, first, removes us from the sordid world of immediate and selfish needs, and then unrolls

world of immediate and selfish needs, and then unrolls a vision of a world where men and things exist simply for the purpose

, beginning with crude dreams and fancies about experience, life, the world , and God, has gradually developed truer and highe

ruer and higher conceptions of his own nature, of his relation to the world about him, of duty, of art, and of religion. § 7.

m the latter poem we learn the Greek mythology of the creation of the world , the family of the gods, their wars, and their at

work was “put together” by Snorri Sturlason, who lived 1178-1241, the world was not informed of the fact until 1609, when Arn

ondrous beings. But the most consistent account of the origin of the world and of the gods is given by the poet Hesiod, who

— So far we have a history of the throes and changes of the physical world ; now begins the history of gods and of men. For i

ppear to be the personification of mighty convulsions of the physical world , of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. They play

e arts. § 23. The Age of Gold. — Whether in this or in other ways the world was furnished with inhabitants, the first age was

efarious uses. Fraud, violence, war at home and abroad were rife. The world was wet with slaughter; and the gods, one by one,

flagration might set Heaven itself on fire, he proceeded to drown the world . Not satisfied with his own waters, he called his

ror, in perfect majesty and repose, and ruling with a nod the subject world . Phidias informs us that the idea was suggested b

orshipper apostrophizes the Venus of Melos, that “inner beauty of the world ,” whose tranquil smile he finds more fair than “T

re fair than “The Medicean’s sly and servile grace”: — “From our low world no gods have taken wing; Even now upon our hills

Wherever that still thought within the breast The inner beauty of the world hath moved; In starlight that the dome of evening

f Hades, with the holy ceremonies and rites of death and of the lower world . Of the institutions founded, or favored, by her

placed in their mouths, and their bodies had been duly buried in the world above.95 Otherwise he left them gibbering on the

, and baleful marshes. These naturally seemed to afford access to the world below. One of these descents to the Underworld wa

rtends, no bird could fly across it.98 Before the judges of the lower world , — Minos, Æacus, and Rhadamanthus, — the souls of

s, perchance, the bleaching skeletons of the dead. The people of this world — of ghosts and clouds and darkness — are also so

ades was brother of Jupiter. To him fell the sovereignty of the lower world and the shades of the dead. In his character of H

urneyed to Olympus; but otherwise he ignored occurrences in the upper world , nor did he suffer his subjects, by returning, to

hus, and Minos, sons of Jupiter and judges of the shades in the lower world . Æacus had been during his earthly life a righteo

the difference between ancient and modern conceptions of nature. The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and s

on the backs of sea-beasts. And himself, the thunderous shaker of the world , appeared above the sea, and made smooth the wave

s, who became king of Crete, and after his death a judge in the lower world ; Rhadamanthus, who was also regarded as king and

r world; Rhadamanthus, who was also regarded as king and judge in the world of ghosts; and Sarpedon, who was ancestor of the

rth, at last!’ “The Heavens shot one swift sheet of lurid flame; The world crashed: from a body scathed and torn The soul le

purpose of his errand. The youth replied, “Oh, light of the boundless world , Phœbus, my father — if thou dost yield me that n

igh in air, and the Apennines crowned with clouds. Phaëton beheld the world on fire, and felt the heat intolerable. Then, too

to Larissa and the suburb tomb. Gladness be with thee, Helper of our world ! I think this is the authentic sign and seal Of G

evanish quite That consecration to the lower Gods, - And on our upper world the third day rise! Lead her in, meanwhile; good

he pilgrim-heart, to whom a dream was given, That led her through the world , — Love’s worshipper, — To seek on earth for him

rus. The Wanderings of Ceres.204 — Ceres sought her daughter all the world over. Bright-haired Aurora, when she came forth i

on condition that Proserpine should not during her stay in the lower world have taken any food; otherwise, the Fates forbade

umes: I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world , A white-haired shadow roaming like a dream T

A soft air fans the cloud apart; there comes A glimpse of that dark world where I was born. Once more the old mysterious

s, Wordsworth expresses in the sonnet, already cited, beginning, “The world is too much with us.” 227 Schiller, also, by his

t yet dead, but alive even in the practical atmosphere of our western world , the exquisite poem here appended would indicate:

housand cattle, and from these I draw and drink the best, milk in the world . And cheese I never lack, in summer time or autum

veyed the oxen in safety to Eurystheus. Fig. 82. Atlas bearing the world . [Statue: Müller.] One of the most difficult labo

the apples. His twelfth exploit was to fetch Cerberus from the lower world . To this end, he descended into Hades, accompanie

s. The request was granted. Mercury led Protesilaüs back to the upper world ; and when the hero died a second time Laodamia di

et; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro’ Gleams that untravell’d world , whose margin fades Forever and forever when I mo

with many voices. Come, my friends, ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world . Push off, and sitting well in order smite The s

f time sufficient to carry a modern navigator several times round the world , did they arrive there. The Harpies. — Their fir

ove with life, as to wish to leave these tranquil seats for the upper world ?” Anchises replied by explaining the plan of crea

be born, and to relate to him the exploits they should perform in the world . After this he reverted to the present, and told

which should rise the Roman power, to be in time the sovereign of the world . As Æneas and the Sibyl pursued their way back to

ign land. From that union should spring a race destined to subdue the world . Our readers will remember that in the conflict w

bove nor earth beneath, but only a bottomless deep, Ginungagap, and a world of mist, Niflheim, in which sprang a fountain. Tw

lating over another, the great deep was filled up. Southward from the world of mist was the world of light, Muspelheim. From

he great deep was filled up. Southward from the world of mist was the world of light, Muspelheim. From this proceeded a warm

he sun began to shed its rays upon the earth, it caused the vegetable world to bud and sprout. Shortly after the gods (the An

r the gods (the Anse-race, Anses, Aesir, or Asa-folk) had created the world , they walked by the side of the sea, pleased with

n and Munin, — Thought and Memory, — who fly every day over the whole world , and on their return report to him what they have

ll of Lidskialf Odin rose, The throne, from which his eye surveys the world ; And mounted Sleipnir, and in darkness rode To As

only thy desire. Yet dreary, Nanna, is the life they lead In that dim world , in Hela’s mouldering realm; And doleful are the

each other’s look and speech, Wandering together through that gloomy world , And talking of the life we led in heaven, While

as he was said to be. “If, therefore,” she added, “all things in the world , both living and lifeless, weep for him, then sha

nd witnessed. The gods upon this despatched messengers throughout the world to beg everything to weep in order that Balder mi

ere stood Balder’s ship Hringham, which passed for the largest in the world . Balder’s dead body was put on the funeral pile,

battle, Surter, who has killed Freyr, darts fire and flames over the world , and the universe is consumed. The sun grows dim,

on his ways, For they knew that the gift was Odin’s, a sword for the world to praise. Then all made trial, Siggeir and his

apped by the fervent blaze, And naught ‘twixt earth and heaven save a world of flickering flame, And a hurrying, shifting tan

t that ever was born, Shown forth to the empty heavens and the desert world forlorn: But he looketh, and loveth her sore, and

sore, and he longeth her spirit to move, And awaken her heart to the world , that she may behold him and love. And he touchet

and my love, they lie In the hollow hand of Odin till the day of the world go by. I have done and I may not undo, I have giv

s from the Pythian’s mystic cave of yore, Those oracles which set the world in flame, Nor ceased to burn till kingdoms were n

’s allusion in the Summer: — “So stands the statue that enchants the world ; .So bending tries to veil the matchless boast, T

bolical meaning. Considering the fable with reference to the physical world , Bacon says, in his Wisdom of the Ancients, that

o the habitation of the dead, where it remains till it returns to the world , to dwell in some other human or animal body; at

d scenic arrangements of four of the grandest musical dramas that the world has possessed: Rhine-Gold, Siegfried, The Valkyri

De′los, 63, 256, 339; Com. § 39. Delphi, 39; oracle of, 61; centre of world , 74; 139,189, 269, 276, 310; Com.§§ 38,44 (4), 85

rioration, theory of, 8-13. Deuca′lion, 12; with Pyrrha repeoples the world , 49, 223; descendants of, 244; Com. § 29; genealo

ia (Eris), 73; apple of, 285. Dith′yramb ( Arion’s), 26. Division of world among Greek gods, 40. Dodo′na, the oracle, 52, 53

E Earth, 37,38,125; gods of, among Greeks, 74-77; conception of world , 74; lesser Greek divinities of E., 77; myths of

of Bavaria; one of the finest collections of ancient statuary in the world . Gnos′sus (Cno′sus, Cnos′sus), the ancient capita

ey prepared for those that should follow blissful abodes in the other world , of which they are king and queen. 2. Brahmanic:

ive energy of the godhead, calm, passionless, remote from man and the world . He is four-headed and four-handed. Vishnu: orig

ninth Avatar, say some, was as Buddha; in his tenth he will end this world , and reproduce Brahma, who will create things ane

§ 34, 57-66. Ju′piter (Zeus), 6, 9, 39; war with Titans, sovereign of world , 40; Com. § 18; reign, 40-42; his abode, 51; his

enealogy, § 170. Oriental mythology, records of, 34-36. Origin of the world : Greek, 37; of the gods, 38; of man, 42, 43; Nors

85; younger d., 85, 86; lesser divinities, 86, 87; Wordsworth’s “The world is too much with us,” 87; myths of Neptune, 189-1

164, The Sphinx. Wordsworth, W., 1770-1850. Quoted, 15; Sonnet, “The world is too much with us,” 87; Laodamia, 290, 291; Com

t. Chapter II. Prometheus and Pandora. The creation of the world is a problem naturally fitted to excite the livel

in a jar full of all manner of evils, as in the former statement? The world being thus furnished with inhabitants, the first

s. So saying he took a thunderbolt, and was about to launch it at the world , and destroy it by burning; but recollecting the

ed her, and longed to obtain her; and he who gives oracles to all the world was not wise enough to look into his own fortunes

et satiated. She sent a gadfly to torment Io, who fled over the whole world from its pursuit. She swam through the Ionian sea

another. You will hardly believe me; but look when night darkens the world , and you shall see the two of whom I have so much

e purpose of his errand. The youth replied, “O light of the boundless world , Phœbus, my father, — if you permit me to use tha

e see all a father’s anxiety. Finally,” he continued, “look round the world and choose whatever you will of what earth or sea

n air, and the Apennines crowned with clouds. Then Phaëton beheld the world on fire, and felt the heat intolerable. The air h

and gave him a passage to Tartarus. Ceres sought her daughter all the world over. Bright-haired Aurora, when she came forth i

tion, namely, that Proserpine should not during her stay in the lower world have taken any food; otherwise, the Fates forbade

Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world , ——              * * * * might with this Paradise

he pilgrim-heart, to whom a dream was given, That led her through the world , — Love’s worshipper, —     To seek on earth for

down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.” The Centaurs.

The last exploit we shall record was bringing Cerberus from the lower world . Hercules descended into Hades, accompanied by Me

ccompanying the words with the lyre, he sung, “O deities of the under world , to whom all we who live must come, hear my words

ence, till they had nearly reached the outlet into the cheerful upper world , when Orpheus, in a moment of forgetfulness, to a

s. The request was granted. Mercury led Protesilaus back to the upper world , and when he died a second time Laodamia died wit

                 “Come, my friends, ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world . Push off, and sitting well in order smite The so

f time sufficient to carry a modern navigator several times round the world , did they arrive there. Their first landing was a

of our series we have given the pagan account of the creation of the world , so as we approach its conclusion we present a vi

love with life as to wish to leave these tranquil seats for the upper world ?” Anchises replied by explaining the plan of crea

be born, and to relate to him the exploits they should perform in the world . After this he reverted to the present, and told

which should rise the Roman power, to be in time the sovereign of the world . Æneas and the Sibyl then took leave of Anchises,

rned by some short cut, which the poet does not explain, to the upper world . Elysium. Virgil, we have seen, places his

ign land. From that union should spring a race destined to subdue the world . Our readers will remember that in the conflict w

factorily explained. He traced the various forms and phenomena of the world to numbers as their basis and essence. The “Monad

l musical and arithmetical proportions, and denotes the system of the world . As the numbers proceed from the monad, so he reg

o the habitation of the dead, where it remains till it returns to the world , to dwell in some other human or animal body, and

host with which he went to bestow his blessings upon the rest of the world . He conquered the nations every where, but not wi

s from the Pythian’s mystic cave of yore, Those oracles which set the world in flame,     Nor ceased to burn till kingdoms we

ror, in perfect majesty and repose, and ruling with a nod the subject world . Phidias avowed that he took his idea from the re

on alludes to in his Summer. “So stands the statue that enchants the world ; So bending tries to veil the matchless boast, Th

sulship of Paulus Fabius, (A. D. 34) the miraculous bird known to the world by the name of the Phœnix, after disappearing for

thy glutton would surely devour him, though there were no more in the world .”   Dryden in one of his early poems has this a

, too, as if conscious of the irregular way in which he came into the world , was supposed to have a great antipathy to a cock

iness; but Ahriman marred this happiness by introducing evil into the world , and creating savage beasts and poisonous reptile

of this, evil and good are now mingled together in every part of the world , and the followers of good and evil — the adheren

nd is the personification of the preserving principle. To protect the world in various epochs of danger, Vishnu descended to

tar, in which Vishnu will appear at the end of the present age of the world to destroy all vice and wickedness, and to restor

laborers.) The four sons of Brahma, so significantly brought into the world , became the fathers of the human race, and heads

no heaven above nor earth beneath, but only a bottomless deep, and a world of mist in which flowed a fountain. Twelve rivers

lating over another, the great deep was filled up. Southward from the world of mist was the world of light. From this flowed

he great deep was filled up. Southward from the world of mist was the world of light. From this flowed a warm wind upon the i

he sun began to shed its rays upon the earth, it caused the vegetable world to bud and sprout. Shortly after the gods had cre

table world to bud and sprout. Shortly after the gods had created the world they walked by the side of the sea, pleased with

ders are the ravens Hugin and Munin, who fly every day over the whole world , and on their return report to him all they have

as he was said to be. “If, therefore,” she added, “all things in the world , both living and lifeless, weep for him, then sha

nd witnessed. The gods upon this despatched messengers throughout the world to beg every thing to weep in order that Baldur m

ere stood Baldur’s ship Hringham, which passed for the largest in the world . Baldur’s dead body was put on the funeral pile,

battle, Surtur, who has killed Freyr, darts fire and flames over the world , and the whole universe is burned up. The sun bec

e many things concerning the stars and their motions, the size of the world and the lands, and concerning the might and power

. Against the Druids, as their chief enemies, these conquerors of the world directed their unsparing fury. The Druids, harass

on as they best might till the light of the Reformation dawned on the world . Iona, from its position in the western seas, was

ud shall fail, Returning Justice lift aloft her scale, Peace o’er the world her olive wand extend, And white-robed Innocence

ed in a cavern, and occasionally giving them liberty to blow over the world . So much command was he supposed to have over the

s, tigers, or panthers. “Jolly Bacchus, god of pleasure, Charmed the world with drink and dances.” T. Parnell, 1700. Ba′l

ed mass of matter supposed to have existed before the creation of the world , and out of which the world was formed.         

o have existed before the creation of the world, and out of which the world was formed.                         “… Behold th

“Which wast begot in Demogorgon’s hall And saw’st the secrets of the world unmade.” Spenser. Deuca′lion [Deucalion], one

id temple, which was considered to be one of the seven wonders of the world . Olym′pus [Olympus] was the magnificent mountain

it numberless diseases and evils which were soon spread all over the world , and from that moment they have afflicted the hum

s magnificence induced Pliny to give it rank among the wonders of the world . Pa′phia [Paphia], a name of Venus. Pap′remis [

Pallas wisdom, and Venus promised him the most beautiful woman in the world . Paris gave the golden apple to Venus. Soon after

etch Helen, who was renowned as being the most beautiful woman in the world . She was the wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta; bu

” Earl of Dorset. “To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.” Shakespeare. Pe′leus

fore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of

pent: because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordaine

ghtful it is to escape at times from the dull realities of the actual world , and lose one's self in the enchanted mazes of pr

m are the publishers of most of my other works, but simply to let the world see how inadequate is the remuneration sometimes

llers had refused the present work, they enabled me to give it to the world , and thus lay the foundation of a moderate indepe

r themselves a System of gods so like to man, and yet ruling over the world , it was natural that a body of mythes, or legends

h men have to assign a cause for the various phænomena of the natural world . The Scandinavian mythology is full of instances,

r Ferhad, the lover of the fair Shîrîn16. Many changes in the natural world have also been effected by the Saints, according

ts of Europe. 4. The desire to account for the phænomena of the moral world has also led to the invention of legends. Thus th

ature and connection of things, so profuse the resemblances which the world presents to view, such is the analogy which runs

had succeeded his predecessors Uranos and Kronos in the empire of the world . In the midst of the grove already described, and

he died and was buried, after having made five progresses through the world , all whose kings feared and obeyed him. The objec

manners. He gradually reduced under his sway the greater part of the world . By study of the heavens, and thus learning to fo

t the new monarch defeated him, and then ruled, the lord of the whole world and the benefactor of mankind. After his death he

ythology of a people, a knowledge of their cosmology, or views of the world , its nature, extent, and divisions, is absolutely

seem to follow that the Ocean lay outside of the hollow sphere of the world , and encompassed the middle of it like a rim. The

a rim. The armillary sphere would thus give us an idea of the Homeric world . The portion of the hollow sphere above the earth

anishment to its murky regions. Such were the opinions respecting the world and its parts held by the Greeks of the heroic ti

s of Cherubim Uplifted in paternal glory, rode Far into Chaos and the world unborn ; and placing his golden compasses set of

unborn ; and placing his golden compasses set off the space for the world he was about to create. It formed a hollow globe,

us earth ‘self-balanced on her centre hung’ in the midst of the round world  ; and the sun, the moon, and the other heavenly b

enerally understood. Cosmogony and Theogony. The origin of the world and the origin of the gods, i. e. cosmogony and t

e sun, moon, and other luminaries and light-beings ; and the material world being thus completed, Kronos and Rhea give birth

he youngest child, so is Zeus ; the Titans divide the dominion of the world , so do the Kronids. As Kronos devours his childre

not directed by the well-known hand, they run out of the course ; the world is set on fire, and a total conflagration would h

quainted with it till we should open the volumes of Homer, what a new world would burst on our sight, — how splendid would Ol

Kronos and Rhea. He and his brothers, Poseidôn and Hades, divided the world by lot among them, and the portion which fell to

the scene of the conflict. Some say it was at the gate of the nether world , when the hero was sent to drag the dog of Hades

f the principle of attraction, on which the coherence of the material world depends. Nothing was more natural than to term Ap

e she was found and consoled by the god Pan. She now goes through the world in search of Cupid : she arrives at the kingdom o

an mythologist Fulgentius780. “The city in which Psyche dwells is the world  ; the king and queen are God and matter ; Psyche

ls in light according to the philosophy of the East. But further, the world presents no illustration so striking or so beauti

sephone by Hades, and the search of the goddess after her through the world . It is noticed by Hesiod881 ; but the Homeridian

arth and water being the causes of growth and increase in the natural world have been enveloped901. Perhaps the Demeter-Erinn

d in a future state, and worshiped a deity presiding over that unseen world . It may be doubted whether they gave him a consor

the Hierophant to represent the Platonic Demiurgos or creator of the world  ; the Torch-bearer (Daduchos), the sun ; the Alta

FURIES. Mούσαι926. Camenæ. Muses. In the early ages of the world , when the principle of assigning a celestial caus

ing attributes, the transition was easy from the natural to the moral world  ; and the guardian goddesses of the seasons were

egarded as the maintainers of order both in the moral and the natural world . There is however another view taken of these god

ians had fabled that their god Osiris had made a progress through the world , to instruct mankind in agriculture and planting1

wine-making in that country, made a conquering expedition through the world , to instruct mankind in the culture of the vine a

lly take place around it. Each revolving year brings to the vegetable world the seasons of decay and of reviviscence ; mankin

always been so ? is the question man naturally asks himself. Has the world ever gone on thus decaying and renewing ? — and h

the World. Homer nowhere speaks of cosmogony or of the ages of the world . Hesiod, who is the first that treats of them, gi

Aratus1441 is the next in order of time who mentions the ages of the world . He speaks of but three races of men, — the golde

ccounts it is to be observed that it is races of men, not ages of the world , which are spoken of1443. Hesiod makes these race

he solar year, which is continually renewed ; so the four ages of the world compose a mundane year which will also be renewed

and fifth races was an application of the ancient mythe to the actual world , and from a moral it became a continuation of the

andora. The celebrated mythe of the introduction of evil into the world by means of a woman is related at large by Hesiod

nd evil, and the jar of evils ; and the introduction of evil into the world by the first woman. But Eve was tempted, Pandora

The mythic portion of a nation’s annals must be always regarded as a world in itself1528, the creation of fancy, where the r

vered what she had done she prayed to the gods to take her out of the world , and she was changed into a nightingale (ύηδών).

ame the fashion to regard the Egyptians as the colonisers of half the world . Still it is only in an imperfect fragment of Dio

dden through the air, and achieved adventures in various parts of the world . But in reality the foundation of this mythe lies

iated ; and she sent a gad-fly to torment Io, who fled over the whole world from its pursuits. She swam through the Ionian Se

riestly nobility. Their religion was founded on peculiar views of the world and its periods, and the art of learning the will

om all should be free and open, and whose house and temple this whole world should be.” In the ‘Council of the Gods’ of the o

d ; “Ver magnus agebat Orbis,” Virg. speaking of the beginning of the world  ; and Milton says, Universal Pan, Knit with the