 | George William Cox - 1863 - 378 pages
...mother is in another the wife. As the conceptions of the poet vary, so varies the nature of these gods. Nowhere is the wide distance which separates the ancient...and decayed myths on which the poetry of Homer is founded.'1 But the unformed mythology of the Vedas followed in its own land a course analogous to that... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1867 - 394 pages
...is in another the wife. As the conceptions of the poet varied, so varied the nature of these gods. Nowhere is the wide distance which separates the ancient...literature of Greece more clearly felt than when we I compare the growing mythes of the Veda with the full-grown and decayed mythes on which the poetry... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1869 - 418 pages
...is in another the wife. As the conceptions of the poet varied, so varied the nature of these gods. Nowhere is the wide distance which separates the ancient...Hesiod is a distorted , caricature of the original imagej If we want to know 'whither the human mind, tlidugh endowed with the natural consciousness of... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1869 - 432 pages
...is in another the wife. As the conceptions of the poet varied, so varied the nature of these gods. Nowhere is the wide distance which separates the ancient...of .Homer is founded. The Veda is the real Theogony J of the Aryan races, while that of Hesiod is a distorted i\ (_9 caricature of the original image.... | |
 | George William Cox - 1870 - 488 pages
...As the EARL1ER VEDIC LITERATURE. conceptions of the poet vary, so varies the nature of these gods. Nowhere is the wide distance which separates the ancient...decayed myths on which the poetry of Homer is founded.' 1 But the unformed mythology of the Veda followed in its own laud a course analogous to that of the... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1873 - 424 pages
...is in another the wife. As the conceptions of the poet varied, so varied the nature of these gods. Nowhere is the wide distance which separates the ancient poems of India from the most ancient lit ;rature of Greece more clearly felt than when we compare the growing myths of the Veda with the... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1879 - 660 pages
...nursery tales. He points out, as Professor Max * Lib. ii. 53. f " Comparative Mythology," p. 76. " The Veda is the real theogony of the Aryan races,...is a distorted caricature of the original image." J Ibid., pp. 90-93. The name Danae may mean sea, or water (Danube, Don, &c.). Miiller had done, that... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1881 - 640 pages
...is in another the wife. As the conceptions of the poet varied, so varied the nature of these gods. Nowhere is the wide distance which separates the ancient...Hesiod is a distorted caricature of the original image. If we want to know whither the human mind, though endowed with the natural consciousness of a divine... | |
 | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - 1888 - 856 pages
...opinions become entirely biassed whichever way they incline. Thus Mr. Max Miiller declares that : " Nowhere is the wide distance which separates the ancient...we compare the growing myths of the Veda with the full grown and decayed myths on which the poetry of Homer is founded. The Veda is the real Theogony... | |
 | James Albert Clark - 1901 - 258 pages
...JEWISH. All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. — CHRISTIAN. The Veda is the real Theogony of the Aryan races,...Hesiod is a distorted caricature of the original image. If new light is to be thrown on the most ancient and the most interesting period in the history of... | |
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Nowhere is the wide distance which separates the ancient poems of India from the most ancient literature of Greece more clearly felt than when we compare the growing myths of the Veda with the full-grown and decayed myths on which the poetry of Homer... 
