Library of Universal History And Popular Science volume 23
Library of Universal History And Popular Science volume 23
Isreal Smith Clare
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Nowhere have we such a multitudinous pantheon. Not only was the multiplicity of external* nature re- flected in the spiritual world as in a mirror, but ever)- phase, and act, and circumstance of human life, every quality of the mind, every attribute of the body, might be, generally was, personified, and became a divine be- ing. Sleep and Death, Old Age and * Zeus may have been once Dyaus, " the sky" (Max Muller, "Chips from a German Workshop, " vol. Ii. P. 72); but the word very j early "became... a proper name" and desig- ; * Thirlwall, " History of Greece, " vol. I. P. Nated a person. I 235. Compare Hesiod. " Works and Days, " t " History of Greece, " vol. I. Pp. 463-465. ' 1. 250. 66 THT. RELIGIONS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD. Pain, Strength, Force, Strife, Victory, Battle, Murder, Hunger, Dreaming. Memory, Forgetfulness, Lawlessness, Law, Forethought, Afterthought, Grief, Ridicule, Retribution, Recklessness, Deceit, Wisdom, Affection, Grace, were gods or goddesses, were pre- sented to the mind as persons, and had their place in the recognized Theogonies, * or systematic arrange ments of the chief deities according to supposed relationship and descent.
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