Library of Universal History And Popular Science volume 19
Library of Universal History And Popular Science volume 19
Isreal Smith Clare
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F Castren, Finnisehe Mythologie, pp. 32, 86. 189 198 BEACON LIGHTS OF SCIENCE. calling all these things by related names, thinking the same thoughts, speculating in the same way as to celestial phenomena, so that as cul- ture progressed among Indians and Greeks, Teutons, Celts, and Latins, nature-myths, with features essentially the same, but underived, were independently evolved, as an attempt to explain the aspects of the world. But if the Aryans started without mythological beliefs, and mere...ly with common words for day, sky, and brightness, it is easy to see how these words should have independently become the names of the supreme Heaven-gods. From the root div or dyu, to shine, we obtain a whole series of Aryan words, denoting day, and noon, and sky, heavenly and divine, god and goddess ; and, finally, the names of spe- cific deities were evolved. Such are, in Greek and Latin, the names Atabf) and dttovr), Divania and Diana, Djanus and Janus, Djovis and Jovis, Zeus ; and such words as hora meri-diana, jove diano, sub dio, k'v 3u>s, at noon, dens, divus, dh>
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