spersion of his race, was sufficiently advanced to allow of his
entertaining such comparatively exalted conceptions of the relations
between men and women. The absence of these myths from barbaric
folk-lore is, therefore, just what might be expected; but it is a fact
which militates against any possible hypothesis of the common origin
of Aryan and barbaric mythology. If there were any genetic relationship
between Sigurd and Ioskeha, between Herakles and Michabo, it would be
hard to tell why Brynhild and Iole should have disappeared entirely
from one whole group of legends, while retained, in some form or
other, throughout the whole of the other group. On the other hand, the
resemblances above noticed between Aryan and American mythology fall
very far short of the resemblances between the stories told in different
parts of the Aryan domain. No barbaric legend, of genuine barbaric
growth, has yet been cited which resembles any Aryan legend as the story
of Punchkin resembles the story of the Heartless Giant. The myths
of Michabo and Viracocha are direct copies, so to speak, of natural
phenomena, just as imitative words are direct copies of natural sounds.
Neither the Redskin nor the Indo-European had any choice as to the main
features of the career of his solar divinity. He must be born of the
Night,--or of the Dawn,--must travel westward, must slay harassing
demons. Eliminating these points of likeness, the resemblance between
the Aryan and barbaric legends is at once at an end. Such an identity
in point of details as that between the wooden horse which enters
Ilion, and the horse which bears Sigurd into the place where Brynhild
is imprisoned, and the Druidic steed which leaps with Sculloge over the
walls of Fiach's enchanted castle, is, I believe, nowhere to be found
after we leave Indo-European territory.

Our conclusion, therefore, must be, that while the legends of the Aryan
and the non-Aryan worlds contain common mythical elements, the legends
themselves are not of common origin. The fact that certain mythical
ideas are possessed alike by different races, shows that in each case
a similar human intelligence has been at work explaining similar
phenomena; but in order to prove a family relationship between the
culture of these different races, we need something more than this.
We need to prove not only a community of mythical ideas, but also a
community between the stories based upon these ideas. We must show not
only