Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy ...
Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy ...
Tylor Edward Burnett
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154. It is to be observed in connexion with the Perseus-myth, that another of its obscure e^iisodes, the Gorgon*8 head turning those who look on it into stone, corresponds with myths of the sun itself. In Hispaniola, men came out of two cares (thus being bom of their mother Earth) ; the giant who guarded these caves strayed one night, and the rising sun tumetl him into a great rock allied Kauta, just as the Gorgon's head turned Atlas the Earth-bearer into the mountain that bears his name ; afte...r this, others of the early caye-men were surprised by the sunlight, and turned into stones, trees, plants or beasts (Friar Boman Pane in *Life of Cohinibus* in Piukerton, vol. xii. p. 80; J. G. Miiller, * Amer. Urrelig.* p. 179). In Ontral Ameiica a Quiche legend relates how the ancient animals were petrified by the Sun (Brasseur, * Popo^ Vuh,' p. 245. Thus the Americans have the analogue of tlie Scandinavian myths of giants and dwarfs surprised by daylight outside their hiding-places, and turned to stones.
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