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The Emperor Decius, who persecuted the Christians, having come to Ephesus, ordered the erection of temples in the city, that all might come and sacrifice before him; and he commanded that the Christians should be sought out and given their choice, either to worship the idols, or to die. Epist. Thefarmer denied all knowledge of the theft and all participation in the booty. Consequently, the waters of the Deluge, which covered the highest points of the surface of our orb, were unable to reach it. .(Metam. And of that mount, the Cytee hathe his name. Then the man without the heart said to his wife, Go to the place where the dead lie, there you will find a purse, in that purse is her soul; shake the purse over the dead womans bones, and she will come to life. The woman did as she was ordered, and the mother of the Samojed revived. Chronici libri viii., lib. A MORE interesting task for the comparative mythologist can hardly be found, than the analysis of the legends attaching to this celebrated soldier-martyr;interesting, because these legends contain almost unaltered representative myths of the Semitic and Aryan peoples, and myths which may be traced with certainty to their respective roots. It was the emblem of Quiateot, the god of Rain. . A third in the same collection bears the same three principal figures as the first. FROM the earliest ages of the Church, the advent of the Man of Sin has been looked forward to with terror, and the passages of Scripture relating to him have been studied with solemn awe, lest that day of wrath should come upon the Church unawares. With the loss of the British tongue, much of the old terminology has died out, and a series of adaptations to Christianity has taken place, without radically affecting the system.[224]. Martinus Gallus, who wrote in 1110, says that King Popiel, having been driven from his kingdom, was so tormented by mice, that he fled to an island whereon was a wooden tower, in which he took refuge; but the host of mice and rats swam over and ate him up. Indra fights with the hideous serpent Ahi, or Vrita, who keeps guard over the fountain of rains. Some time passed by, however, and Melusina gave no token of consciousness that she had been observed during the period of her transformation. The song features prominently at the end of the movie Waking Ned Devine when friends of the deceased title character share a toast to him after his death. Another cemetery or the same people exists at Golasecca, on the plateau of Somma, at the extremity of the Lago Maggiore. [48]The site, however, had beenalready indicated by Cosmas, who wrote in the seventh century, and had been specified by him as occupying a continent east of China, beyond the ocean, and still watered by the four great rivers Pison, Gihon, Hiddekel, and Euphrates, which sprang from subterranean canals. It now transpired that the theft of fish had taken place seven years before, and the lad was no relation of the keeper, but a country boy who had only been in Chantilly eight or ten months. Again, his chronicle has suffered severely from interpolations in numerous places, and there is reason to believe that the Pope-Joan passage is itself a late interpolation. In course of time he became their king. The world, said the monarch, who had not forgotten his geography since he left school, is precisely 180,000 stages round (about 1,000,000 English miles), and it is not propped up on postsnot a bit!it is supported by the power of God; and the distance between earth and heaven is 100,045 miles (another MS. reads 9382 milesthe difference is immaterial); and round about the earth is a big sea called Ocean. And whats to the south of the earth? asked Eirek. Jourdain de Sverac, monk and traveller in the beginning of the fourteenth century, places the terrestrial Paradise in the Third India; that is to say, in trans-Gangic India. IN reading the Germania of Tacitus, with a view to the study of Teutonic mythology, I lit upon a passage so perplexing, that I resolved to minutely investigate it, and trace its connexion with other statements, and examine its bearings, little knowing whither it would lead. through the storm and the billow,By lifes chequerd troubles opprest,The rude deck my home and my pillow,I sail to the land of the Blest.The tempests of darkness confound me,Above me the deep waters roll,But the arms of sweet Pity surround me,And bear up my foundering soul. One day he saw a knight ride past, and from that moment he had no rest, till his mother gave him arms and let him ride to the court of King Arthur. On the 26th June, the feast of SS. However, after I had translated this book, I found in the course of my reading the statement that Tammuz was a man concerning whom there was a legend, and that he had been put to death in a shameful manner. In the Undine story, a water-maiden, in like manner and for a like object, is adopted by an old fisherman,, and becomes the bride of a youthful German knight. It is wrapped in a wisp of wool, and kept in a leaden box full of small grains like barley-meal. After the building of the temple schamir vanished. Perceval was the son of a poor widow in Wales, brought up by her in a forest, far removed from all warlike images. To obtain showers, the people bore it in procession. Under him were three hundred sailors who manned the vessels. It is this:. Charmed with its beauty, he prepared to shoot it, when it exclaimed, Shoot not, or it will cost you your life! As he persisted in taking aim, the swan was suddenly transformed into a lovely girl, who swam towards him, and told him that she was bewitched, but could be freed if he would say an Our Father every Sunday for her during a twelvemonth, and not allude to what he had seen in conversation with his friends. Immediately when the man saw his officer, he told this wild tale, and to add weight to his testimony (being a Romanist) he made a cross on the sand, which he kissed, as making oath to the truth of his statement.' Another was taken near Rocca de Sintra, as related by Damian Goes. Our Majesty has been informed that you hold our Excellency in love, and that the report of our greatness has reached you. The composition exhibits a strange mixture of Christianity and Heathenism, whence it would seem that the poets own religion was in a transition state:. Jacques de Vitry (Historia Orientalis), Gervais of Tilbury, in his Otia Imperalia, and many others, hold the same views, as to the site of Paradise, that were entertained by Hugo de St. Victor. Afterwards he undertook the quest of this marvellous vessel, but had great difficulty in finding again the castle of the wounded king. And this plant waslactua agrestis. We need follow him no further. The version told in the Netherlands much resembled that related at St. Albans, only that the Jew, seeing the people dragging Christ to his death, exclaims,, Atends moi! Phaethon is a solar deity; he falls into the western seas. Remain, and M. de Puget, to detect whether there was imposture in the man. London, 1842. Mylitta was identical with Atergatis; she was regarded as a universal mother, a source of life. Dara and Louise are compassionate A dignified way to say goodbye. I can linger over those noble woodcuts, and learn from them something new each time that I study them; they are picture-poems full of latent depths of thought. In one of the Icelandic sagas we have a strange story of a man standing at his house-door, and seeing the souls go by in the air, and among the souls was his own; he told the tale and died. Yes, they reply; there is a peasants son in the uplands, Geyti, son of Aslak, who is the strongest of men. Forth goes the king, and at last rides up to the house of Aslak. I speak to you in the name of the Moon., Ahem! The idea is that each family member ( Partner & Adult Children) is presented with a Whiskey Tumbler that they will use for the Wake Toast, but will keep their own glass to bring to other family gatherings in the future. Hrafn, who sailed to Limerick, was the first to tell of this; he had spent a long time in Limerick in Ireland.. Several theories have been started to account for the shape. It seems probable to me that the manner in which an offering was made for plenty, was by exposure to rats, just as M. Du Chaillu tells us, an African tribe place their criminals in the way of ants to be devoured by them. When this was done, the monster followed like a docile hound. [90] H. W. Westrop, in Gentlemans Magazine, N. S., vol. In an ancient shaft of FalunYear by year a body lay,God-preserved, as though a treasure,Kept unto the waking day.Not the turmoil, nor the passions,Of the busy world oerhead,Sounds of war, or peace rejoicings,Could disturb the placid dead.Once a youthful miner, whistling,Hewed the chamber, now his tomb:Crash! iii. Then began the wailing for Osiris, which lasted four days; this was followed by the seeking, and this again by the finding of the God. Then comes the cloud. In every mythology, the different attributes of the deity in process of time became distinct gods, yet with sufficient impress of their origin still upon them to make that origin easy to be detected. I started to wonder if it xiii.). 108. 16), the elder Olaf Saga (34), the history of Olaf Geir-stafaalp, the Holmverja Saga, and the Barda Saga. 1856, p. 48. In the ninth century there was a cloister of the blessed virgins at Cologne: this is also alluded to in the tenth and following centuries. Dr. Heylin levelled a lance in honour of the Patron of England[51]; but his historical character was again questioned in 1753, by Dr. John Pettingal in a work on the original of the equestrian statue of S. George; and he was answered by Dr. Samuel Pegge, in 1777, in a paper read before the Society of Antiquaries. [189] Washington Irving, Chronicles of Wolferts Roost, and other Papers. Concluding hastily that the hound had proved unfaithful, had fallen on the child and devoured it,in a paroxysm of rage the prince drew his sword and slew the dog. . the cry,half joy, half sorrow,As she flings her at his side:John! Between the sandy sea and the said mountains, in a certain plain is a fountain of singular virtue, which purges Christians and would-be Christians from all transgressions. It was towards dusk that he passed the cliff in which is the Hrselloch, and as he rode by, he saw a white glimmering figure of matchless beauty standing before him, and beckoning him to her. Wieland, armed with a root which renders him invisible, approaches the bank and steals the clothes. We also created 2.6 million jobs in the U.S.enough to employ the entire city of Houston, TX! They grew with prodigious force, thrusting their boughs to right and left. In their sacred book, the Popol-Vuh, the twins Hunahpu and Xbalanque turn their half-brothers into apes. 20, 21, or in Bayle, Dictionnaire, tom. According to the popular German belief, the souls of the dead spend the first night after they leave the body with S. Gertrude, the second with S. Michael, and the third in their destined habitation. Consequently Tammuzs martyrdom took place at the end of December. Shall we meet beyond the river,Where the surges cease to roll,Where in all the bright For-everSorrow neer shall press the soul? Then said he, Faire sweete Father, Jesu Christ, if ever I did thing that pleased the Lord, for thy pittie ne have me not in despite for my foull sins done here before time, and that thou shew me some thing of that which I seek.. Among the heathen, flows through a certain province the River Indus; encircling Paradise, it spreads its arms in manifold windings through the entire province. It was told in the Gesta Romanorum six hundred years ago, and it was told, may be, as many hundred years before in India, for it is still to be found in Sanskrit collections of tales. Accordingly, while Thomas was making merry with his friends in the Tower of Ercildoune, a person came running in, and told, with marks of fear and astonishment, that a hart and a hind had left the neighboring forest, and were parading the street of the village. Geoffrey of Monmouth also speaks of the reign of Peredure, who governed the people with generosity and mildness, so that he even excelled his other brothers who had preceded him[218]; and the anonymous author of the Life of Merlin speaks of him as the companion and consoler of the bard[219]. Fischart[32]says, that there is to be seen in the moon a manikin who stole wood; and Prtorius, in his description of the world,[33]that superstitious people assert that the black flecks in the moon are a man who gathered wood on a Sabbath, and is therefore turned into stone., The Dutch household myth is, that the unhappy man was caught stealing vegetables. A very similar tale is told also in the celebrated Malleus Maleficarum of a man named Puncher, with this difference, that a coin is placed on the lads head instead of an apple or a nut. It was nicknamed Cocaigne or Schlaraffenland. A paper war was waged upon the subject, and finally the whole story was proved conclusively to be utterly destitute of historical truth. The classic Venus was born of the sea-foam, and was unmistakably one with the moon. The chief of this line was an Asiatic prince, named Perillus, who came to Gaul, where his descendants allied themselves with the family of a Breton prince. Joy, song, and minstrelsy reign in that blessed region[183]. After this the abbot refused permission to any one to visit the cave. Such is the Legend of the Cross, one of the wildest of mediaeval fancies. Said he, If you are accused of having stolen the towers of Notre-Dame, bolt at once.. Then Fortunatus asked whether all who ventured into the place heard likewise the howls of the tormented souls. A long neck, too, extends from his breast, and a membrane joins his reddening toes; plumage clothes his sides, and his mouth becomes a pointless bill. Then the company uttered a piercing wail.. And this I thinkprobable enough. His speech is comprehended by every one, admonishing the people that he is the true Messiah, and the son of God, and that in him all must believe. To enable personalized advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. It is almost too well known to need repetition. William Ocham alludes to the story, and John Huss, only too happy to believe it, provides the lady with a name, and asserts that she was baptized Agnes, or, as he will have it with a strong aspirate, Hagnes. The only passage which can be found is a universally acknowledged interpolation of the Lives of the Popes, by Anastasius Bibliothecarius; and this interpolation is stated inthe first printed edition by Busus, Mogunt. This engraving, which it is quite impossible for me to reproduce, is in a curious little book, entitled Puerperium Johannis Pap 8, 1530., The following jingling record of the event is from the Rhythmical Vit Pontificum of Gulielmus Jacobus of Egmonden, a work never printed. Now, when, years after, he returned to Jerusalem, he found it ruined and utterly razed, so that not one stone was left standing on another; and he could not recognize former localities. I do not regard it as a primeval Turanian, but as an Aryan story, which, like an erratic block, is found deposited on foreign soil far from the mountain whence it was torn. When in the same quarry these two epochs are found, the remains of the second age are always superposed over those of the bronze age. The hero descends to his realm, fights, overcomes him, and despoils him of his treasures. Raymond replied that she was not visible on Saturdays. Various suggestions have been made to account for this extraordinary number. If I had the creature, I would with all my heart make a present of it to his Majesty the Czar, whose application in the research of objects of curiosity deserves the praise of all the world. He went round the water, rod in hand, and it turned at spots where he said the fish had been drawn out. Among the Swiss potteries, however, the cross is very rarely found. If bent, it revolves on its axis with more or less rapidity, in more or less time, according to the quantity and current of the water. Brit. Thereupon some ecstatic or excitable visionary beheld two females in a halo of light, who indicated the bones as those of the virgin martyrs. But we know too little of druidic mythology, and those legends which have come to us have descended in a too altered form, for us to place much confidence in such conjectures. The god is between two handled crosses, and behind the servant is a Maltese cross. ap. quickly mount your horse and fly, lest you perish with me. But George said to her:Do not fear; tell me what you await, and why all this multitude look on She answered:I see that you have a great and noble heart; yet, fly! I shall not go without knowing the cause, he replied. Silent, O Moyle, be the roar of thy water;Break not, ye breezes, your chain of repose,While, murmuring mournfully,Lirs lovely daughterTells to the night-star the tale of her woes.When shall the swan, her death-note singing,Sleep with wings in darkness furld?When will heaven, its sweet bells ringing,Call my spirit from this stormy world? "And with that he saw the chamber doore open, and there came out a great clearenesse, that the house was as bright as though all the torches of the world had beene there. 17). She was the only daughter of Nothus, an illustrious and wealthy British prince, and was sought in marriage by the son of a certain most ferocious tyrant. Ursula had, however, dedicated herself to celibacy, and her father was in great fear of offending God by consenting to the union, and of exasperating the king by refusing it However, the damsel solved the difficulty: by Divine inspiration, she persuaded her father to agree to the proposal of the tyrant, but only subject to the condition that her father and the king should choose ten virgins of beauty and proper age, and should give them to her, and that she and they should each have a thousand damsels under them, and that on eleven triremes they should be suffered to cruize about for three years in the sanctity of unsullied virginity. A man falls in love with a woman of supernatural race. According to tradition it was founded by Votan in the ninth century before the Christian era. This company of virgins surrounding her in the crystal vault of heaven is that described by Aeschylus. c. 7. (Grimm, K.M. One winters night Helgi was fetched away from home, in the midst of a furious storm, by two mysterious horsemen, and no one was able to ascertainfor many years what had become of him, till the prayers of the king, Olaf, obtained his release, and then he was restored to his father and brother, but he was thenceforth blind. In this manner he came near a hut in which lived a widow, and when she besought him not to injure her poor little cot, he turned aside, and, in so doing, broke his leg. [169] Voyage towards the South Pole, p. 143, quoted by Goss: Romance of Nat Hist., 2nd Series. The proprietor plastered over this crack. this wound on your head hath taken over much cold. And so then they rowed from the land, and Sir Bedivere cried, Ah! Each time that he played a tune a maiden died. how nicely it gives token of the feelings of joy or fear which animate the soul! Langlois, iii. The youth clasped the beautiful bird to his heart, and resisted all its struggles to escape. That some should live to see Jerusalem destroyed was not very surprising, and hardly needed the emphatic Verily which Christ only used when speaking something of peculiarly solemn or mysterious import. This fable rapidly followed in Persia the same process of application to known historical individuals that it pursued in Europe. It was this work of Henry of Saltrey which first made known the virtues of the mysterious cave of Lough Derg. Harald swallows his anger, as he had swallowed the water, and bids Geyti shoot a hazel nut from off his brothers head. The might and dominion of this prince, who had replaced the Tartar chief in the popular creed as Prester John, was of course greatly exaggerated, and was supposed to extend across Arabia and Asia to the wall of China. She threatened to jump into the well unless he opened the door. Next instant the cry of the babe from behind the cradle showed him that the child was uninjured; and, on looking farther, Llewellyn discovered the body of a huge wolf, which had entered the house to seize and devour the child, but which had been kept off and killed by the brave dog Gellert. Wherefore she committed her to God, praying Him humbly to succour her, and reprove the injury that wickedly to her was imposed by the sayd erle.. Thus Herodotus tells us how that at Memphis the death of the sacred bull was a cause of general wailing, and its discovery one of exultation. Now, Odin was the receiver of the souls of men, as Freya, or the German Holda, took charge of those of women. De S. Lory, Sainte Ursule triomphante des coeurs, de lenfer, de 1empire, Patrone du celebre college de Sorbonne, Paris, 1666, 4to. A trace of the myth appears in the ancient German heroic Gudrunlied, where the powers are ascribed to Horant,NorseHjarrandi, who is described as singing a song which no one could learn. An old calendar in the Dusseldorf town library, belonging to the tenth century, copies Usardus, merely transferring the saints to the 21st October. him, and puts him to flight. He, though he recoiled from such a couch, preferred to lie among worms which perish, rather than those which are eternal; and he cast himself nude upon the creatures. The first autumn they sacrificed oxen, but the succeeding season was not improved by it. Show more Download Her name was Derceto or Atergatis. The ancient tale of the son of Theseus torn by horses was deliberately transferred to a Christian of the same name. In some places a woman is believed to accompany him, and she has a butter-tub with her; in other localities she is replaced by a dog. . Since then she has not been heard. Jean dArras, Le liure de Melusine en fracoys Geneva, 1478. This time he was mistaken. [172] Herrera, Hist. P- 341. The urns were of a peculiar shape, and appeared to have been made for the purpose. CHORUS, You don't need to understand Italian to appreciate this utterly He saw that Ceridwen would attempt his death, in consequence of his having tasted the precious drops; so he prudently took to flight. Yet we mustconsider that King John the Kergtajer was not cast down for nought; nay, rather, because he had turned his heart from the fear of Christ his Lord, who had exalted him, and had taken a wife of the Zinish nation, called Quarakhata. Popular opinion added that his vast wealth would be obtained from hidden treasures, which are now being concealed by the demons for his use. Another Icelander brought away two children from Vinland, and they related that near their home was a land, where people walked about in flowing white robes, singing processional psalms. When too late, he observed that the little creature had aroused him that he might avoid a snake which lay coiled up near his pillow. Among these were two rude copies of coins of the successors of Constantine; but the others were of a class very common in the North. They do not all of them lead a wandering life, but many of them construct hovels of the branches of trees. In former days there lived in Skerr a Druid of renown. There bubbles up the fountain of perpetual youth, which will restore to bloom and vigour all who bathe in it, be they ever so old and ugly. Both wandered on in the cave, hearing faintly the chanting of the monks in the church, till the sound died away. . The religion in favor will be one of morality, but not of dogma; and the Man of Sin will be able to promulgate his doctrine, according to St. Anselm, through his great eloquence and wisdom, his vast learning and mightiness in the Holy Scriptures, which he will wrest to the overthrowing of dogma. This story of Lady Fanshawe is from a note to The Lady of the Lake.. It is well known that the classic fable gave two also to Apollo. But these are all versionsechoesof the principal myth of Apollo and Python. The letter has the object in view of exalting the East in religion and arts to an undue eminence at the expense of the West, and it manifests some ignorance of European geography, when it speaks of the land extending from Spain to the Polar Sea. A figure of a Shari, from Sir Gardner Wilkinsons book, has a necklace round his throat, from which depends a pectoral cross. 29 and 30). Thus Helias became Duke of Bouillon. He led them from the town towards a hill rising above the Weser, When, lo! Other people have strange notions, but they conceal them. He beheld her on the balcony; then he raised his arms towards her with an exclamation of rapture. The next to give us an account of his descent into S. Patricks Purgatory, is William Staunton of Durham, who went down into the cave on the Friday next after the feast of Holy rood, in the year 1409.

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