A Guide to Mythology
A GUIDE TO MYTHOLOGY
Automedon and the Horses of Achilles. H. Regnault.
A GUIDE TO MYTHOLOGY
BY HELEN A. CLARKE Author of “Ancient Myth in Modern Poets,” “Longfellow’s Country,” “Hawthorne’s Country,” “The Poets’ New England,” Etc.
Garden City New York DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1918
COPYRIGHT, 1908, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN
To MY LITTLE FRIEND KATHARINE CORFIELD NEWBOLD
Helen A. Clarke
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A GUIDE TO MYTHOLOGY
HOW A MUSKRAT MADE THE WORLD
HOW THE KITE HELPED TO MAKE THE WORLD
HOW MAUI FISHED UP THE EARTH
THE ORIGIN OF THE ROBIN
THE ORIGIN OF THE HARE
HOW THE MOLE BECAME BLIND
THE BOY AND THE WOLVES; OR, THE BROKEN PROMISE
HOW WASBASHAS, THE SNAIL, BECAME A MAN
THE STORY OF MANABOZHO
HOW GLOOSKAP MADE HIS UNCLE MIKCHICH THE TURTLE INTO A GREAT MAN, AND GOT HIM A WIFE. OF TURTLES’ EGGS, AND HOW GLOOSKAP VANQUISHED A SORCERER BY SMOKING TOBACCO.
PUNCHKIN
HYMNS TO INDRA
THE FOUR APES
STORY OF THE MIDGARD SERPENT AND FENRIS THE WOLF
THE STORY OF APOLLO AND PHAËTON
THE STORY OF ODYSSEUS AND THE OXEN OF THE SUN
STORY OF ARACHNE AND ATHĒNE
YGDRASIL: THE NORSE WORLD TREE
STORY OF THE AINO WHO FELL ASLEEP AT THE FOOT OF A PINE TREE
WUNZH, THE FATHER OF INDIAN CORN
LEELINAU, THE LOST DAUGHTER
BIRTH OF THE ARBUTUS
SONG AT THE BEGINNING
FLOWER SONG
THE STORY OF ERISICHTHON
PAN AND SYRINX
POMONA AND VERTUMNUS
MYTH OF OSIRIS AND ISIS
THE NAVAJO STORY OF THE MAKING OF THE SUN, MOON, AND STARS
THE STORY OF THE CONQUERING OF THE SUN
HYMN TO THE SUN
HYMN TO SÛRYA, THE SUN
THE WORSHIP OF THE SUN, AND THE DREAM OF ONAWUTAQUTO
THE WITCH AND THE SUN’S SISTER
THE MAKING OF THE MIRROR
THE DEATH OF BALDER THE GOOD
BATTLE BETWEEN RA AND ANAPEF OR APEP IN THE UNDERWORLD
THE STORY OF PHŒBUS APOLLO
THE STORY OF ARTEMIS AND ORION
STORY OF THE CHILD AND THE STAR
OSSEO, THE SON OF THE EVENING STAR
THE WANDERING STAR
THE DAUGHTERS OF THE STARS
HOW A HUNTER VISITED THE THUNDER SPIRITS WHO DWELL IN MOUNT KATAHDIN
THE THUNDER AND LIGHTNING MEN
HOW GLOOSKAP BOUND WUCHOWSEN, THE GREAT WIND-BIRD, AND MADE ALL THE WATERS IN ALL THE WORLD STAGNANT
THE WONDERFUL EXPLOITS OF PAUP-PUK-KEEWISS
THE STORY OF ODIN’S SWORD AND SIGMUND
HOW THOR CONQUERED THE STONE GIANT HRUNGNER
HOW ZEUS CAME TO BE KING OF GODS
HYMN TO THE DAWN
THE LOVER’S VISION OF THE HAPPY ISLAND
THE MESSAGE-BEARERS
THE WAY OF THE GODS
MALAYAN STORY OF THE SUN AND MOON
HYMN TO THE MOTHER OF THE GODS
HYMN TO CIHUACOATL, THE MOTHER OF MORTALS
THE CHILDREN OF HEAVEN AND EARTH
STORY OF DEMETER
THE STORY OF DEMETER AND PERSEPHONE
LEGEND OF TU-TOK-A-NU-LA
NEZHIK-E-WA-WA-SUN; OR, THE LONE LIGHTNING
OJEEG ANNUNG; OR, THE SUMMER-MAKER
THE LEGEND OF MAUI
THE INFANT HERACLES
THE STORY OF THE CHILD HERMES
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