Uranos being masculine could not produce of himself, and Earth was the only female being that could be united with him. […] The Titan-war therefore could have formed no part of the original mythe. […] This arrangement could hardly have been known to Homer, who never mentions Hestia, and but incidentally Demeter. […] Many other heroes could also boast of being the sons of Zeus by different mothers. […] No parents more suitable could be assigned to the poet, whose strains could move the woods and rocks, than the god of poetry and the muse Fair-voice.

Ino had two children, who could not ascend the throne while Phryxus and Helle were alive. […] The god who blamed Jove for not having made a window in man’s breast, so that his thoughts could be seen. […] It was the picture of desolation, for nothing could grow on its parched and withered banks. […] A marine deity, who could foretell events and convert himself at will into all sorts of shapes. […] A Scandinavian god, who could walk on the water and in the air.