and leaped into the streams and pools, where they
continued to exist.

Vulcan, notwithstanding his noble descent, is obliged to follow the
trade of a blacksmith. On account of his deformity, he was cast down
from heaven into the isle of Lemnos. His leg was broken by the fall.
He erected a forge, where he makes thunderbolts for his father Jupiter
and armour for the other gods. His servants are called Cyclops,
because they have but one eye. Though Vulcan is unpleasant in the
sight of others, Venus thinks him the most beautiful of all the
divinities.

AEolus keeps the winds under his power in a cave in the AEolian Islands,
where he dwells. He can raise storms and hurricanes, and restrain
their rage at pleasure.

Momus is a jester, mocker, or mimic. His life is spent in idleness,
merely observing the sayings and doings of the gods, and then
censuring and deriding them. For instance, when Neptune was made a
bull, Minerva a house, and Vulcan a man, Momus was appointed to judge
as to whom the greatest skill was manifested in creation. The carping
god disapproved of all. He found fault with the bull for not having
his horns before his eyes in his forehead, that he might be enabled to
push the surer. He condemned the house, because it was fixed and could
not be carried away in case it was placed in a bad neighbourhood. But
the god, he said, who made man, was most imprudent because he did not
make a window in the human breast, that the thoughts might be seen.

CHAPTER X.

Satyrs described--Diana's Retirement--Pallas, the
Goddess of Shepherds and Pasture--The vile
Flora--Pomona deceived--Celestial Nymphs--Terrestrial
Nymphs--River Gods and Goddesses--Sirens--Witch
Circe--Infernal Deities--Passage to Tartarus--Palace
of Pluto--Judges of Hell--Goddesses of
Destiny--Furies--Night, Death, and Sleep: by whom
presided over--Names of Monsters condemned in the
place of Punishment--Tartarian Regions--Delights of
the Elysian Fields--Food and Drink of Pagan
Gods--Festivals of Heathens--Colour of
Gods--Sacrifices to Deities--Things sacred to Gods.

Satyrs are partly of human likeness and partly of bestial shape. They
have heads of human form, with horns and brutish ears; they have
crooked hands, rough hairy bodies, goats' legs and feet and tails. The
chief of these monsters is the god Pan, the inventor of the musical
pipe.

Diana, out of love to Chast