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...me, and professes astonishment on principle. But he has no leaning towards mythology; avows his contempt for what he calls “unregenerate poetry;” and ...

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...topic. As an undergraduate I had taken a course with Philip Wheelwright based upon his manuscript of "The Burning Fountain" and became interested in mythology. I subsequently spent a year at a Danish folk college, whose headmaster gave daily lectures on the pagan mythology of the Nordic folk. Until the 1950s not much had been done on the relationship between Ibsen and N...

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...f the world. This chant remains as an authentic work or primitive literature. Moreover, it is one of the principal sources of information on Hawaiian mythology, early culture, political structure, and way of life. The original text of the Kumulipo was first printed in Honolulu in 1889 from a manuscript copy in the possession of King Kalakaua. Several translations were made...

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...egun research on the chant before 1938. She was perhaps already studying it twenty years earlier when she began planning another major work, Hawaiian Mythology, which was published in 1940 (reissued in 1970 by the University of Hawaii Press). In that book she refers several times to the Kumulipo, and gives translations of parts of it as worked out with specific Hawaiian in...

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..... 69 -- The Sulphur Banks.. 69 -- Flocks Of Wild Geese.. 70 -- More Superstitious Fears Of Pele.. 70 -- Native Traditions Concerning Volcano.. 72 -- Mythology Of The Volcano.. 73 -- -- Volcano The Abode Of The Gods.. 73 -- Offerings To The Volcano Gods.. 73 -- Vengeance Of The Volcano Gods.. 74 -- Combat Between Kamapuaa And Pele.. 74 -- Destruction Of Keoua's Army.. 74...

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...t the truth and admit it even to himself. Moreover, he imposes his personal mythology on his nearest and dearest. Spouse, children, colleagues, fri... ...temporary, as the outcomes of someone else's errors, as part of the future mythology of his rise to power/brilliance/wealth/ideal love, etc. Being ... ...utional religion: priesthood, rites, rituals, temples, worship, catechism, mythology. The leader is this religion's ascetic saint. He monastically ... ...vert to form", etc. When these flimsy attempts to patch a tattered personal mythology fail, the narcissist is injured. Narcissistic injury inevitabl... ...utional religion: priesthood, rites, rituals, temples, worship, catechism, mythology. The leader is this religion's ascetic saint. He monastically ... ...ert to form", etc. When these flimsy attempts to patch a tattered personal mythology fail - the narcissist is injured. Narcissistic injury inevitab... ...tutional religion: priesthood, rites, rituals, temples, worship, catechism, mythology. Hitler was this religion's ascetic saint. He monastically den...

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... pull it back down to join another line of type. According to back shop mythology, these marvelous machines have ten thousand moving parts! Duri...

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...lfth chap- ter, twenty-fourth section, of his “Introduction to a System of Mythology,” says: “I have here gone on the assumption which I consider unav... ...phically or ethnographically, of its traditions, the vast labyrinth of its mythology, the deductions of its con- tradictory genealogies, the disputed ...

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...is day , re plies that he has no time for these ‘nice’ inter pretations of mythology, and he pities anyone who has. When you once begin there is no ... ... subjects of the Phaedrus (exclusive of the short introductory passage about mythology which is suggested by the local tradition) are first the false ... ...e, may seem to merit a more particular notice: (1) the locus classicus about mythology; (2) the tale of the grasshoppers. The first passage is remarka... ...able him to dis card them, and yet in another way to make use of poetry and mythology as a vehicle of thought and feeling. What would he have said of...

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...wn. There are so many half lights and cross lights, so much of the colour of mythology , and of the manner of sophistry adhering—rhetoric and poetry ,... ...elf, though in a different sense, he begins his discus sion by an appeal to mythology , and distinguishes between the elder and younger love. The val... ...ocrates pro ceeds to form his discourse, starting, as in other places, from mythology and the opinions of men. From Phaedrus he takes the thought tha... ... of the age. False sentiment is found in the Lyric and Elegiac poets; and in mythology ‘the greatest of the Gods’ (Rep.) is not exempt from evil imput...

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...d of the master is clearly visible in the myth. First in the connection with mythology;—he 27 Plato wins a kind of verisimilitude for this as for his... ...osophy; and still less have we any right to demand this of him in his use of mythology and figures of speech. And we observe that while employing all ... ...othing truer;’ or , as in the Statesman, he describes his work as a ‘mass of mythology ,’ which was introduced in order to teach certain lessons; or ,...

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...an we wonder that Plato in the infancy of human thought should have confused mythology and phi losophy, or have mistaken verbal arguments for real on... ...d at the end of the intellectual world’ ( Republic), he replaces the veil of mythology, and de scribes the soul and her attendant genius in the langu... ...which this retribution is accomplished Plato represents under the figures of mythology. Doubtless he felt that it was easier to improve than to invent... ...own. Then, as in the Gorgias or Republic, the curtain falls, and the veil of mythology descends upon the argument. After the confession of Socrates th...

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...e of the good government of a State. In the discussion about religion and mythology, Adeimantus is the respondent, but Glaucon breaks in with a slig... ...it is useful and is a sort of medicine or preventive; also in the tales of mythology, of which we were just now speak ing—because we do not know the... ...igible if I put the matter in this way. You are aware, I suppose, that all mythology and poetry is a narra tion of events, either past, present, or t... ...t you failed to apprehend before is now made clear to you, that poetry and mythology are, in some cases, wholly imitative — instances of this are supp... ... sort? An ideal image of the soul, like the composite creations of ancient mythology, such as the Chimera or Scylla or Cerberus, and there are many o...

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...e case where a learned antiquary unfolds historically the record of a vast mythology. Heaps of such cases, (both law and mythological records,) surviv... ...lities must have worked an extensive conformity to their own standard. The mythology sanctioned by the ritual of public worship, the features of moral... ...rship, the features of moral nature in the gods dis- tributed through that mythology, and sometimes commemo- rated by gleams in that ritual, domineere...

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...constant process of growth and transmutation; sometimes veiled in poetry and mythology , then again emerging as fixed Ideas, in some passages regarded...

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..., and may be compared with his condemnation of the same arts when applied to mythology in the Phaedrus, and with his other parodies, e.g. with the two...

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... vation. He lived before the days of Comparative Philology or of Comparative Mythology and Re ligion, which would have opened a new world to him. He ...

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...e to one of those spirits of fable-fairies, or creatures of a more antique mythology—who sometimes mingled their agency with mortal affairs, half in c...