Elements of Mythology; Intended to Enable the Reader to Understand the Ancient Writers of Greece and Rome - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1821 Excerpt: ... continually persecuted her on account of her treason. The Sirens likewise inhabited the coast of Sicily. From their waist upward they were formed like young women, and their bodies terminated in the tails of fishes. They had melodious voices, with which they charmed and attracted all passengers, for the purpose of ensnaring and tearing them in pieces. This is emblematical of voluptuousness, whose allurements lead men to a miserable end, unless they imitate the prudence of Ulysses, who, when crossing this sea, commanded his men to stop their ears with wax, and was himself bound to the mast of the vessel that he might withstand the charms of the Sirens, who, vexed at this disappointment, threw themselves into the sea. THE DIVINITIES Of The EARTH. Cybele was the Mother of the Gods, and esteemed the Goddess of the Earth. She is represented as seated, and crowned with towers, and surrounded by a multitude of trees and animals. The shepherds acknowledged her as their tutelary Goddess, and called her Magna Pales. Pan was the most distinguished of the rural Gods. He was the son of Mercury, who had assumed the figure of a goat. Hence Pan had the feet and beard of a goat, and horns on his head. He was called Sylvanus. He was beloved by the Nymphs, who put themselves under his protection, and danced at the sound of his flute. He w?g particularly the God of the Arcadians, who sacrificed milk and honey to him. In the month of February the Romans celebrated in his honour certain festivals, called Lupercalia, from the place Luper"cal, consecrated to him by Evander, where Romulus and Remus were afterward nourished by a wolf. Picus, King of the Latins, had a son named Faunus, who was a rural God, greatly celebrated, and the inventor of several necessaries in agriculture. He...