Semitic Influence in Hellenic Mythology With Special Reference to the Recent My
Semitic Influence in Hellenic Mythology With Special Reference to the Recent My
Robert Brown
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. Of Apollo and Heracles for the tripod, the Attic legend of the rivalry of Poseidon and Athena, and many other similar theomachies, probably all contain the same kernel of historical fact, an actual conflict of worships — an earlier cherished by the aboriginal men of the locality, and a later introduced by the new settlers' {Cults, i. 270). VIII. Herakles Herakles is not found in the mythology of the other branches of the Aryan nations, and his name, for all its intensely Greek appearance, the... Aryanistic philologist is unable to explain (Vide (7. Pp. 612, 632). I am not concerned here to deny that there may perhaps have been a native Hellenic god so called ; but it is quite certain that, if such there were, he disappears, like a double star, in the overlapping Til] THE AUYO -SEMITIC SCHOOL 99 splendour of liis great brother, the Semitic toilmg, warring, voyaging, travelling, man-slaying, at times maniacal. Sun-god ; whose end is naturally, as Prof. Midler expresses it, ' the sun's death in the fiery clouds.
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