Zoological Mythology or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 1 (of 2)

Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 1 (of 2)

Prelude.The vault of Heaven as a luminous cow.The gods and goddesses, sons and daughters of this cow.The vault of Heaven as a spotted cow.The sons and daughters of this cow, i.e. the winds, Marutas, and the clouds, Pinayas.The wind-bulls subdue the cloud-cows.Indras, the rain-sending, thundering, lightening, radiant sun, who makes the rain fall and the light return, called the bull of bulls.The bull Indras drinks the water of strength.Hunger and thirst of the heroes of mythology.The cloud-barrel.The horns of the bull and of the cow are sharpened.The thunderbolt-horns.The cloud as a cow, and even as a stable or hiding-place for cows.Cavern where the cows are shut up, of which cavern the bull Indras and the bulls Marutas remove the stone, and force the entrance, to reconquer the cows, delivering them from the monster; the male Indras finds himself again with his wife.The cloud-fortress, which Indras destroys and Agnis sets on fire.The cloud-forest, which the gods destroy.The cloud-cow; the cow-bow; the bird-thunderbolts; the birds come out of the cow.The monstrous cloud-cow, the wife of the monster.Some[Pg 2] phenomena of the cloudy sky are analogous to those of the gloomy sky of night and of winter.The moment most fit for an epic poem is the meeting of such phenomena in a nocturnal tempest.The stars, cows put to flight by the sun.The moon, a milk-yielding cow.The ambrosial moon fished up in the fountain, gives nourishment to Indras.The moon as a male, or bull, discomfits, with the bull Indras, the monster.The two bulls, or the two stallions, the two horsemen, the twins.The bull chases the wolf from the waters.The cow tied.The aurora, or ambrosial cow, formed out of the skin of another cow by the ibhavas.The ibhavas, bulls and wise birds.The three ibhavas reproduce the triple Indras and the triple Vishus; their three relationships; the three brothers, eldest, middle, youngest; the three brother workmen; the youngest brother is the most intelligent, although at first thought stupid; the reason why.The three brothers guests of a king.The third of the ibhavas, the third and youngest son becomes Tritas the third, in the heroic form of Indras, who kills the monster; Tritas, the third brother, after having accomplished the great heroic undertaking, is abandoned by his envious brothers in the well; the second brother is the son of the cow.Indras a cowherd, parent of the sun and the aurora, the cow of abundance, milk-yielding and luminous.The cow St.Relationship of the sun to the aurora.The aurora as cow-nurse of the sun, mother of the cows; the aurora cowherd; the sun hostler and cowherd.The riddle of the wonderful cowherd; the sun solves the riddle proposed by the aurora.The aurora wins the race, being the first to arrive at the barrier, without making use of her feet.The chariot of the aurora.She who has no feet, who leaves no footsteps; she who is without footsteps of the measure of the feet; she who has no slipper (which is the measure of the foot).The sun who never puts his foot down, the sun without feet, the sun lame, who, during the night, becomes blind; the blind and the lame who help each other, whom Indra helps, whom the ambrosia of the aurora enables to walk and to see.The aurora of evening, witch who blinds the sun; the sun Indras, in the morning, chases the aurora away; Indras subdues and destroys the witch aurora.The brother sun follows, as a seducer, the aurora his sister, and wishes to burn her.The sun follows his daughter the aurora.The aurora, a beautiful young girl, deliverer of the sun, rich in treasure, awakener of the sleepers, saviour of mankind, foreseeing; from small becomes large, from dark becomes brilliant, from infirm, whole, from blind, seeing and protectress of sight.Night and aurora, now mother and daughter,[Pg 3] now sisters.The luminous night a good sister; the gloomy night gives place to the aurora, her elder or better sister, working, purifying, cleansing.The aurora shines only when near the sun her husband, before whom she dances splendidly dressed; the aurora Urva.The wife of the sun followed by the monster.The husband of the aurora subject to the same persecution. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 38687
Author: De Gubernatis, Angelo
Release Date: Feb 28, 2012
Format: eBook
Language: English