His mighty folds innocuous, overtopping
His human height, and arching down his head,
Sought in their hands for food.
Then quitting, reared, and stretched and waved his neck
And glanced his forky tongue."
Southey.
A cow, of whom the gods disputed the possession, is also worshipped by them; she was obtained by one of them through a stratagem very like that employed by Jupiter with Europa.
They pay homage also to peculiar divinities, such as the goddess of pleasure, and the god of war.
The former was fabled, like Venus, to have arisen from the sea when agitated by the gods.
The poetry of the East frequently alludes to fairies of great and