In Hindu myths, the bull Indra shatters the car of Daphne*; in the Greek tale, the bull carries Europa over seas and mountains, journeying always, like the sun, from east to west. […] “The Persian religion is the subject of the finest tale in Moore Lalla Rookh, the ‘Fire Worshipers.’” […] The constant struggle of life and death is described in the tale of the Volsung, which was afterwards remodeled in the great epic poem called the “Nibelungen-Lied,”* or “Lay of the Children of the Mist.”