Zoological Mythology; Or, the Legends of Animals. Or, the Legends of Animals (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1872. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... He who handed down to us the feats of Hanumant, took care also to tell us how he had the faculty of changing his form at will; and this faculty, attributed to this impersonation of a celestial phenomenon, is the fruit of one of the most naive but just observations of virgin and grandiose nature. SECTION III. The Bull And The Cow In Iranian And Turanian TRADrricrfff SUMMARY. The bull the first created in Persian tradition.--The bull of Mithra.--Mithra and Yaraas.--The excrements of the celestial cow and bull.--Exorcisms for chasing the evil one away from the beasts of the stable.--The salutary herb, rue.--The heavenly cypress and the mythical forest.--The mountain and the gem.--The mountain of the heroes.--The defenceless soul of the bull recommends itself to the mercy of the gods.--The moon, as a cow or bitch, guides the hero over the funereal bridge.--The many-eyed god.--The golden-hoofed bull.--The spinners of the sky.--Friendship between sun and moon.--The Geusurva is the full moon.--The purifying moon.--Ardhvi-Q'ura-Anahita, the Persian aurora, has all the characteristics of the Vedic aurora, elevated, luminous, discomfiter of the demons, deliverer of the hero Thraetaona from the water, having golden shoes, swift, the first to arrive with her chariot, guesser of riddles, revered at the break of day.--The aurora sung to by her own name, the cow-aurora.--Mithra, the shepherdgod.--Mithra, the hero who fights to recover his cows.--The bull Veretraghna.--Thrita and Thraetaona.--The three brothers in the Avesta.--The two brothers.--The three sisters.--The strength of the solar hero consists in the wind.--The winds have golden shoes and an especial foible for women, as the women have for them.--Indras envious of the Marutas.--Kerec&qpa envious of the wind.--The win...