:7] This again is Hercules.

[554:8] This is Apollo, Siva and Ixion.

[554:9] Rev. G. W. Cox.

[555:1] Who has not heard it said that the howling or whining of a dog
forebodes death?

[555:2] Bunce: Fairy Tales, Origin and Meaning.

[556:1] Quoted by Bunce: Fairy Tales.

[557:1] See Bunce: Fairy Tales, p. 34.

[558:1] "The _Sun_," said _Gaugler_, "speeds at such a rate as if _she_
feared that some one was pursuing her for her destruction." "And well
she may," replied _Har_, "for he that seeks her is not far behind, and
she has no way to escape but to run before him." "And who is he," asked
_Gaugler_, "that causes her this anxiety?" "It is the _Wolf_ Skoell,"
answered _Har_, "who pursues the Sun, and it is he that she fears, for
he shall one day overtake and devour her." (Scandinavian _Prose Edda_.
See Mallet's Northern Antiquities, p. 407). This Wolf is, as we have
said, a personification of _Night_ and _Clouds_, we therefore have the
almost universal practice among savage nations of making noises at the
time of eclipses, to frighten away the monsters who would otherwise
devour the Sun.

[558:2] Aryan Mythology, vol. i. p. 103.

[559:1] Tylor: Primitive Culture, vol. i. p. 308.

[559:2] Mueller: The Science of Religion, p. 65.

[559:3] Cox: Aryan Mythology, vol. ii. p. 1.

[560:1] As the hand of Hector is clasped in the hand of the hero who
slew him. There, as the story ran, the lovely Helen "pardoned and
purified," became the bride of the short-lived, yet long-suffering
Achilleus, even as Iole comforted the dying Hercules on earth, and Hebe
became his solace in Olympus. But what is the meeting of Helen and
Achilleus, of Iole and Hebe and Hercules, but the return of the violet
tints to greet the Sun in the _West_, which had greeted him in the East
in the morning? The idea was purely physical, yet it suggested the
thoughts of trial, atonement, and purification; and it is unnecessary to
say that the human mind, having advanced thus far, must make its way
still farther. (Cox: Aryan Mythology, vol. ii. p. 822.)

[560:2] The black storm-cloud, with the flames of lightning issuing from
it, was the original of the dragon with tongues of fire. Even as late as
A. D. 1600, a German writer would illustrate a thunder-storm destroying
a crop of corn by a picture of a dragon devouring the produce of the
field with his flaming tongue and iron teeth. (Baring-Gould: Curious
Myths, p. 342.)

[561:1] M. Breal, and G. W.