Myths and Folk-Tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and Magyars

A FEW tens of years ago it was all-important to under- "^s tand and explain the brotherhood and blood-bond of Aryan nations, and their relation to the Semitic race ; to discover and set forth the meaning of that which in mental work, historic strivings, and spiritual ideals ties the historic nations to one another.At the present time this work is done, if not completely, at least measurably well, and a new work awaits us, to demonstrate that there is a higher and a mightier bond, the relationship of created things with one another, and their inseverable connection with That which some men reverence as God, but which other men call the Unknowable, the Unseen.This new work, which is the necessary continuation of the first, and which alone can give it completeness and significance, will be achieved when we have established the science of mythology.Introduction.xi said of other primitive races, still unbroken, unmodified ;Introduction.xix weeks old he had attained full growth.He was a hero of awful strength ; nothing could resist him.He asked about his father ; his mother told how his fathers had perished (the brothers of a father are fathers too in the Indian system) at the hands of the Northeast brothers." I will go to avenge my fathers," said he, and started.He reached the coast near the Columbia River, which he ascended ; when at the Cascades he began to try his strength.He pulled out the greatest trees with their roots, overturned cliffs, and went on his way with delight.At last he arrived at the 'land where his fathers had ruled, and went first in the early morning to the hut of his great grandparents.They were very weak and wretched, but still they were able to tell of what they had suffered from the sister." She will soon be here," said they; so he lay in waiting.She came, and was preparing to begin her insults when he seized her and put her to a painful death.Then he challenged the five wicked brothers to a wrestling-match, threw them all, and cut their heads off.The whole country rejoiced.No one felt pain.The young hero ruled that land to the delight of all.This hero was not a month old, and since we know the characters in the story, we know that the story is true.When, in Gaelic, we find heroes like the son of Fin Mac- Cumhail, Fialan, who at the age of three years slew whole armies, with their champion leaders, 1 and the Shee an Gannon, who was born in the morning, named at noon, and went in the evening to ask his daughter of the King of Erin ; or in Russian, Ivan Tsarevich, 2 nine days old, who 1 See in Myths and Folk-Lore of Ireland, " Fin MacCumhail and the Fenians of Erin in the Castle of Fear Dubh," p. 221, and " The

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