id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 1061 Fiske, John Myths and Myth-Makers Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology .txt text/plain 78471 3471 69 stories, like the words, are related collaterally, having descended from worked like our own, and when they spoke of the far-darting sun-god, Aryan mind the howling wind was conceived as a great dog or wolf. entered the house armed with a dead man's hand with a lighted candle in sounded like the word for light, and thus gave rise to the story of a ninth night, assume human forms, and sing and dance like men and women myth of Geryon appeared to Greek scholars like Apollodoros. legends which Max Muller explains as myths of the victory of day over With many of these legends which present the myth of light and darkness originated a language which has held its own like the old Aryan and When, therefore, Achilleus is said, like a true sun-god, to have died by [Footnote 25: See the story of Aymar in Baring-Gould, Curious Myths, ./cache/1061.txt ./txt/1061.txt