An Introduction to MythologyGeorge G. Harrap, 1921 - 334 Seiten |
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Seite 248 - Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair; Forest on forest hung about his head Like cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.
Seite 252 - Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star...
Seite 250 - Now it is night, ye damsels may be gone, And leave my love alone; And leave likewise your former lay to sing: The woods no more shall answer, nor your echo ring.
Seite 251 - Yet it is less the horror than the grace Which turns the gazer's spirit into stone Whereon the lineaments of that dead face Are graven, till the characters be grown Into itself, and thought no more can trace...
Seite 141 - One sea eluding view. That One, a void in chaos wrapt, By inward fervour grew. Within It first arose desire, The primal germ of mind, Which nothing with existence links, As sages searching find. The kindling ray that shot across The dark and drear abyss,— Was it beneath? Or high aloft? What bard can answer this? There fecundating powers were found, And mighty forces strove, A self-supporting mass beneath, And energy above. Who knows, whoe'er hath told, from whence This vast creation rose?
Seite 58 - ... the priesthood of Nemi, has existed elsewhere; if we can detect the motives which led to its institution; if we can prove that these motives have operated widely, perhaps universally, in human society, producing in varied circumstances a variety of institutions specifically different but generically alike; if we can show, lastly, that these very motives, with some of their derivative institutions, were actually at work in classical antiquity; then we may fairly infer that at a remoter age the...
Seite 39 - For myself, I am disposed to think (differing here in some measure from Professor Max Miiller's view of the subject) that the mythology of the lower races rests especially on a basis of real and sensible analogy, and that the great expansion of verbal metaphor into myth belongs to more advanced periods of civilization. In a word, I take material myth to be the primary, and verbal myth to be the secondary formation.
Seite 145 - Kalpa ; when the same mighty deity, invested with the quality of darkness, assumes the awful form of Rudra, and swallows up the universe. Having thus devoured all things, and converted the world into one vast ocean, the supreme reposes upon his mighty serpent couch amidst the deep : he awakes after a season, and again, as Brahma, becomes the author of creation.
Seite 251 - IT lieth, gazing on the midnight sky, Upon the cloudy mountain peak supine ; Below, far lands are seen tremblingly ; Its horror and its beauty are divine. Upon its lips and eyelids seems to lie Loveliness like a shadow, from which shine, Fiery and lurid, struggling underneath. The agonies of anguish and of death.
Seite 44 - Now by far the largest part of the myths of antique religions are connected with the ritual of particular shrines, or with the religious observances of particular tribes and districts. In all such cases it is probable, in most cases it is certain, that the myth is merely the explanation of a religious usage; and ordinarily it is such an explanation as could not have arisen till the original sense of the usage had more or less fallen into oblivion.