of place, yet I cannot but own my strong confidence in the correctness of the general conclusions arrived at; and I gladly take this opportunity of expressing a deep sense of thankfulness to those great minds of the past and of the present, whose previous labours have alone rendered the compilation of this work possible. BARTON-UPON-HUMBER: Jan. 1, 1877. CONTENTS THE SUBJECT AND ITS TREATMENT. Design of the Work; objections considered Recent undue extension of Aryan principles The sources of Religious-mythology Its essentially compound character. Treatment of the subject adopted Style of nomenclature Relation of the enquiry to present questions Subsection I.-The Episode of Lykourg os. Consideration of П. vi. 128-41 Homerik consistency as shown in the conduct of Diomedes. Subsection V.-The Youth of Dionysos. The impersonation of joyous country life Myth of Roio and her sisters in the Kyprian Verses Subsection VIII.-Eikon of the Homerik Dionysos. Pantheism, or God in All as opposed to All in God The Demiurge reduces the Universe to order And is manifested chiefly in a Solar aspect Bishop Colenso on the Iao-myth. 70 |