[142] The attempt is not to explain the origin of each separate name, but only of the general habit of giving animal or human names to stars.
[143] Mr. Herbert Spencer believes that the Australians were once more civilised than at present. But there has never been found a trace of pottery on the Australian continent, which says little for their civilisation in the past.
[144] See C. O. Müller (Prolog. zur Mythol., Engl. transl., p. 17): ‘Callisto is just nothing else than Artemis and her sacred animal comprehended in one idea.’ See also pp. 201-4. Müller (C. O.) very nearly made the discovery that the gods of Greece may in some cases have a bestial ancestry.
[145] Brugsch, History of Egypt, i. 32.
[146] Brough Smyth.
[147] Amazonian Tortoise Myths, p. 39.
[148] Sahagun, vii. 3.
[149] Grimm, D. M., Engl. transl., p. 716.
[150] Hartt, op. cit., p. 40. For a modern sun-man and his myth in the Cyclades, see J. T. Bent, in the Athenæum, Jan. 17, 1885.
[151] Kaegi, Der Rig Veda, p. 217.