00] Such were the Greek rhapsodists (Mueller and
Donaldson, _History of the Literature of Ancient Greece_, i,
33 ff.), and probably the Hebrew mashalists (Numb. xxi, 27,
Eng. tr., "they that speak in proverbs"). Such reciters are
found in India at the present day.
[1501] On the value of myths for religious instruction cf.
Schultz, _Old Testament Theology_, Eng. tr. (of 4th German
ed.), i, chap. ii.
[1502] Geffcken, article "Allegory" in Hastings,
_Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_.
[1503] _Phaedrus_, 229; _Cratylus_, 406 f.; _Republic_ 378.
[1504] Cf. Mueller and Donaldson, _History of the Literature
of Ancient Greece_, chap. xxvi.
[1505] 1 Cor. ix, 9 f.; x, 1-4; Gal. iv, 24 ff.; Heb. vii,
2; Origen, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and commentators
generally up to the sixteenth century and later.
[1506] _Origine de tous les cultes ou religion universelle_
(1794).
[1507] _Science of Language_, 2d series; cf. his Hibbert and
Gifford lectures.
[1508] It is elaborated in G. W. Cox's _Mythology of the
Aryan Nations_.
[1509] Op. cit. Sec. 864. Cf. article "Panbabylonianism" in
_Harvard Theological Review_ for January, 1910.
[1510] _Astralmythen der Hebraeer, Babylonier und Aegypter_
(1896-1907).
[1511] So in folk-tales the same motif appears in a hundred
different settings; but this is not necessarily a sign of
borrowing.
[1512] Op. cit., p. 190.
[1513] See above, Sec. 826, note.
[1514] No well-defined Arabian myths are known.
[1515] Most of the Old Testament mythical material has been
worked over by Hebrew monotheistic editors.
[1516] P. Jensen, _Das Gilgamesch Epos in der
Weltliteratur_.
[1517] Cf. article "Panbabylonianism" cited in Sec. 866, note.
[1518] As, for example, those of New Zealand, Babylonia, and
Greece.
[1519] Cf. Keightley, _Fairy Mythology_, 2d ed., p. 14 f.
[1520] Bacon, _Wisdom of the Ancients_; in Biblical
exposition many recent writers.
[1521] See above, Sec. 864 ff.; cf. Jastrow, _Study of
Religion_, p. 28 ff.
[1522] _Symbolik und Mythologie der alten Voelker_
(1810-1812).
[1523] _Antisymbolik_ (1824-1826).
[1524] Buttmann, Welcker, Lobeck, and others.
[1525] _Prolegomena zu einer wissenschaftlichen Mythologie_
(1825).
[1526] See above, Sec. 865.
[1527] See above, Sec. 359. Cf. Grant Allen, _The Evolution of
the Idea of God_.
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