[1494] Some peculiar combinations appear in the figures of Semiramis and the Kuretes and the Korybantes; see the articles in Roscher's Lexikon under these headings.
[1495] Cf. Gomme, Folklore as an Historical Science; Van Gennep, La formation des légendes.
[1496] See the various folk-lore journals; W. W. Newell, article "Folk-lore" in Johnson's Universal Cyclopædia; cf. Gomme, op. cit., and § 881 below.
[1497] So in the cases of the Australian ancestors, the Polynesian, Teutonic, Finnic, Slavic, Greek, Phrygian, and other heroes and gods, the Hebrew patriarchs, and many other such figures.
[1498] See above, § 859.
[1499] See above, § 649.
[1500] Such were the Greek rhapsodists (Müller and Donaldson, History of the Literature of Ancient Greece, i, 33 ff.), and probably the Hebrew mashalists (Numb. xxi, 27, Eng. tr., "they that speak in proverbs"). Such reciters are found in India at the present day.
[1501] On the value of myths for religious instruction cf. Schultz, Old Testament Theology, Eng. tr. (of 4th German ed.), i, chap. ii.
[1502] Geffcken, article "Allegory" in Hastings, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics.
[1503] Phædrus, 229; Cratylus, 406 f.; Republic 378.