Identifier: opencourt_nov1900caru (find matches)
Title: The Open court
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 Open Court Publishing company, Chicago
Subjects: Religion Religion and science
Publisher: Chicago : The Open Court Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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ber endeavors to prove) Valmiki, a late redactor of the Rfttndyana, must have beenfamiliar with Homer. He lived somewhat after the beginning of the Christian era when Greekinfluence began to make itself felt in India. 2 Between Hebe, the girlish bride, and Herakles who is here youthful and beardless, hoversEros. Zeus and Hera are on the left. Aphrodite with Hiineros and two of her maids, Charis andPeitho, on the right. Underneath Dionysos arrives in his chariot, drawn by panthers. Fromthe opposite side Apollo and Artemis arrive, while Eunomia and Euthymia receive the guests. ON GREEK RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY. 655 idea that permeates the whole of Greek mythology, of the sametheme of saviourship, which is most apparent in the Herakles myth.The story of Demeters daughter and her sad fate finds manyparallels in the legends of dying gods and heroes, among which themost typical is the tale of the death of Adonis. Like the Heraklesmyth, it is of Phoenician origin, the name Adonis being nothing
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Perseus Liberating Andromeda.Ancient relief. Capitol. (From Springer, Hatidb., p. 256.) else than the Greek form of the Semitic title of God, Adon, i. e..Lord, a word which is used in the same significance in the Bible.Adon, the sun-god and husband of Astarte, the Phoenician Venus,dies and is resurrected. He is the same as Tammuz for whom, asthe prophet Ezekiel, Jewish women wept in the temple. 656 THE OPEN COURT.

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