The Mythology of the Aryan Nations, Volume 1Longmans, Green, and Company, 1870 - Aryans |
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Achilleus Agamemnon Aphroditê Apollôn Aryan Aryan nations Aryan race Athênê beautiful bird body BOOK Brahman bride bright brother Brynhild Champa CHAP character child Daphnê dark Dasent daughter dawn death Dêmêtêr Divine dragon earth epic Eurydikê evidence exhibit fact germ German story Gladstone gods golden Greek mythology Grote heaven Helen Helios Herakles Hermes Herodotos heroes Hesiodic Hindu Hindu story History of Greece Homeric horse human Ibid idea Iliad Iliad and Odyssey Ilion incidents Indra jackal Kephalos king land language legends less Luxman maiden Master Thief Max Müller Medeia Meleagros moral mother myth mythical narrative night Norse tale Odyssey Oidipous Oinônê once origin Paris parrot Perseus phenomena Phoibos phrases poems poet popular prince princess Professor Max Müller Prokris rajah reappears Rhampsinitos Sanskrit scarcely Sigurd slay sleep solar tell Teutonic Theseus tradition tribes Trojan truth Vedic Vicram VIII Volsung Vritra wife words Zeus
Popular passages
Page 331 - Let me not yet, O Varuna, enter into the house of clay ; have mercy, almighty, have mercy.
Page 388 - Where there is happiness and delight, where joy and pleasure reside, where the desires of our desire are attained : there make me immortal!
Page 104 - She, the fortunate, who brings the eye of the gods, who leads the white and lovely steed (of the sun), the Dawn, was seen, revealed by her rays, with brilliant treasures she follows every one.
Page vi - Aryan world have asserted that the epic poems of the Aryan nations are simply different versions of one and the same story, and that this story has its origin in the phenomena of the natural world, and the course of the day and the year.
Page 142 - Squeeze it again," said the Wolf; and when the Prince did so the Giant screamed still more piteously, and begged and prayed so prettily to be spared, saying he would do all that the Prince wished if he would only not squeeze his heart in two. "Tell him if he will restore to life again your six brothers and their brides, whom he has turned to stone, you will spare his life,
Page 179 - Historical evidence, like judicial evidence, is founded on the testimony of credible witnesses. Unless these witnesses had personal and immediate perception of the facts which they report, unless they saw and heard what they relate as having happened, their evidence is not entitled to credit.
Page 141 - Far, far away in a lake lies an island ; on that island stands a church ; in that church is a well; in that well swims a duck; in that duck there is an egg, and in that egg there lies my heart — you darling ! " In the morning early, while it was still grey dawn, the Giant strode off to the wood.
Page 41 - ... what we term the operation of material forces, and not less expressive of the utter absence of even the faintest knowledge. Life would be an alternation of joy and sorrow, of terror and relief; for every evening the dawn would return leading her bright flocks, and the short-lived sun would die. Years might pass, or ages, before his rising again would establish even the weakest analogy ; but in the meanwhile man would mourn for his death, as for the loss of one who might never return.
Page 158 - She immediately consented, and got up to fetch the burning sticks he asked for; but before she gave them to him, she and her companions threw upon them a certain powder, containing a very potent charm; and no sooner did the Rajah receive them than he forgot about his wife and little child, his journey, and all that had ever happened to him in his life before; such was the peculiar property of the powder. And when the conjurors said to him, "Why should you go away ? stay with us, and be one of us,"...
Page 104 - Thou, who art a blessing where thou art near, drive far away the unfriendly ; make the pastures wide, give us safety ! Remove the haters, bring treasures ! Raise wealth to the worshipper, thou mighty Dawn. "Shine for us with thy best rays, thou bright Dawn, thou who lengthenest our life, thou the love of all, who givest us food, who givest us wealth in cows, horses, and chariots. " Thou, daughter of the sky, thou high-born Dawn, whom the Vasishthas magnify with songs, give us riches high and wide...