Therefore certain Hellenic myths of romantic spirit or construction have been included in this work; and certain Norse and German myths have not been excluded. […] For the diverse and contradictory significations that have in recent years been proposed for one and the same myth could not all, at any one time, have been entertained by the myth-makers. […] These contradictory elements have been called the reasonable and the senseless. […] The blissful region may have been wholly imaginary. […] Minos had been a famous lawgiver and king of Crete.