... district of Byblos, or else merely the region of Nahr
Ibrahim, five miles to the south of Jebeil, which became the centre of the cult of Adonis. It was a
wooded region where grew various species of ... referred to in the section on Egyptian mythology. The resin
of the conifers was the tears of Osiris; and, if the coffins of Egyptian priests were by preference
made of r...
...
use of this fragment of shining energy by using it to forge the disk of Vishnu, the trident of Siva,
the lance of Karttikeya the god of war, and the weapons of Kuvera the god and guardian of ... non-Aryan origin of his
deity. The legend of his marriage with the daughter of Daksha is further confirmation of this
hypothesis.
Daksha, one of the Prajapatis or lords...
... three-quarters of that of all the other Gods
combined. An inventory of his wealth made under Rame-ses III tells us that he possessed, among
other riches, 81, 322 slaves and 421 ,3 62 head of cattle. His ... this, of all
Biblical narratives even when closely paralleled by myths from Persia, Babylonia, Egypt and
Greece; and of all hagiological legends. Otherwise, the New Lar...
... many occasions Hermes was of service to Apollo and, in particular, took
charge at their birth of several of Apollo's children.
The Good Offices of Hermes. In spite of his malicious pranks ... other temples: the temple of
Athene Nike and the Erechtheum.
The chief festivals of the cult of Athene were: the Arrephoria, in the course of which two little girls
of noble...
... mountains of Thrace. It was there that Iris came in search of him to fan the
funeral pyre of Patroclus. It was said that Boreas carried off Oreithyia, daughter of Erechtheus,
from the banks of the ... had offended only by an excess of good fortune he might hope
to propitiate the goddess by sacrificing a part of his happiness.
Polycrates, tyrant of Samos, was terrified of...
... and symbol of the Roman matron - a logical
consequence of her own title of spouse of Jupiter, the supreme god.
Her role of goddess of childbirth was not confined to the protection of the Roman ... mother of Dionysus; Ino. mother
of Melicertes; Autonoe, mother of Actaeon; Agave, mother of Pentheus; and Polydorus, father of
Labdacus who was the ancestor of the Labda...
... composed of six ingredients: the miaul of a cat,
the beard of a woman, the roots of a mountain, the tendons of a bear, the breath of a fish and the
spittle of a bird. This chain was supple and soft ... of
Ulster and Medb of Connacht and Rhiannon of the Welsh tradition. In Ulster there is evidence of a
symbolic union of a new king with a mare representing the fert...
... simplicity of the religion of Indra, that of the
Brahmans, the religion of Agni, allowed of endless developments and variations.
The Religion of Agni
Agni is a personification of fire, which ... forces of nature, beasts, men and eods.
MYTHOLOGY OF ANCIENT PERSIA
RELIGION OF THE ZEND-AVESTA
THE HISTORICAL AND RELIGIOUS SETTING
The Iranians are an offshoot of tha...
... accept the year 522 as the official date of the
introduction of Buddhism into Japan, since in that year the Korean kingdom of Paikche sent the
Emperor of Japan a gilded bronze statue of Buddha and ... Kato, op. cit. p. 23 — 24 ). The legend of the annual
meeting of the star of the Cowherd and the star of the Spinning Maiden over the Milky Way was
brought to Japan duri...
... know about the mythology of the Chibchas is to be found in the basic theme of the
civilising hero Bochica. In this mythology there is also mention of Nencatacoa, the god of weavers;
of Chaquen, ... god of boundaries; of Bachue, goddess of water, protectress of
vegetation and harvest; of Cuchavira, master of the air and the rainbow who healed the sick and
protected...