A Guide to MythologyDoubleday, Page, 1908 - 399 pages |
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Amaterasu animals answered Apep Apollo arrows Artemis asked Balder Balna bear beautiful beaver became behold birds brother called clouds cried daughter Demeter earth eyes father fell flowers forest Freyja Frigg giant Glooskap goddess gods Greek Greek mythology ground hand head heard heart heaven Hermod Hindoo hunter hunting Indian Indra Izanagi keewiss kill lake land Leelinau light live lodge look magician maiden Manabozho Manito mighty moon mother mountain mythology myths never night Norse Norse mythology Odin Odysseus old wolf Osseo passed Paup-puk Paup-puk-keewiss Phaëton pomelo Prince Ivan princesses Rabbit replied returned Rig Veda rock sacred sister song soon Spirit stars stood story strange Tawhiri-ma-tea tell thee things Thor thou thought thunder told took trees turned voice Vritra walk Wasbashas White Hawk wife Wild-Cat wind wings wood woodpecker worship Wunzh young Zeus
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Page 388 - Got you that speckled shell ? Thus much I know, You must come home with me and be my guest ; You will give joy to me, and I will do All that is in my power to honor you.
Page 326 - Having done this, they both issued forth to the lodge door. 'You see yonder gulf,' said he, 'and the wide stretching blue plains beyond. It is the land of souls. You stand upon its borders, and my lodge is the gate of entrance. But you cannot take your body along. Leave it here with your bow and arrows, your bundle and your dog. You will find them safe on your return.
Page 183 - We need no longer rely on hunting alone; for, as long as this gift is cherished and taken care of, the ground itself will give us a living." He then pulled an ear. "See, my father," said he, "this is what I fasted for.
Page 249 - The senior took his seat, and cleared away the trees from his ears to listen. At a given signal Pan blew on his pipes, and with his rustic melody gave great satisfaction to himself and his faithful follower Midas, who happened to be present. Then Tmolus turned his head toward the Sun-god, and all his trees turned with him. Apollo rose ; his brow wreathed with Parnassian laurel, while his robe of Tyrian purple swept the ground. In his left hand he held the lyre, and with his right hand struck the...
Page 167 - Fluttring among the olives wantonly, That seem'd to live, so like it was in sight: The velvet nap which on his wings doth lie, The silken downe with which his backe is dight, His broad outstretched homes, his hayrie thies, His glorious colours, and his glistering eies.
Page 155 - Muses' mountain Helicon, and Haemus; Aetna, with fires within and without, and Parnassus, with his two peaks, and Rhodope, forced at last to part with his snowy crown. Her cold climate was no protection to Scythia, Caucasus burned, and Ossa and Pindus, and, greater than both, Olympus; the Alps high in air, and the Apennines crowned with clouds.
Page 150 - And, by my troth, had I known beforehand that thou hadst so much strength in thee, and wouldst have brought me so near to a great mishap, I would not have suffered thee to enter this time. Know then that I have all along deceived thee by my illusions; first in the forest, where...
Page 184 - Wunzh then communicated to his father the instructions given to him by the stranger. He told him that the broad husks must be torn away, as he had pulled off the garments in his wrestling, and having done this...
Page 240 - Frigga exacted an oath from fire and water, from iron, and all other metals, as well as from stones, earths, diseases, beasts, birds, poisons, and creeping things, that none of them would do any harm to Balder.
Page 90 - The first to make his appearance was the bear, who took a long and steady draught; then came the deer, the opossum, and such others of the family as are noted for their comfortable case. The moose and bison were slack in their cups, and the partridge, always lean in flesh, looked on till the supply was nearly gone. There was not a drop left by the time the hare and the martin appeared on the shore of the lake, and they are, in consequence, the slenderest of all creatures. When this ceremony was over,...