Modern Mythology

About this eBook

Author

Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912

Credits

Transcribed from the 1897 Longmans, Green, and Co. edition by David Price

Language

English

LoC Class

BL: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Religion: General, Miscellaneous and Atheism

Subject

Mythology

Category

Text

eBook-No.

14576

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14576

Release Date

January 3, 2005

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.MODERN MYTHOLOGY
2. 2.DEDICATION
3. 3.INTRODUCTION
4. 4.REGENT MYTHOLOGY — Mythology in 1860-1880 — Autobiographical — The Ugly Scars — My Criticism of Mr. Max Müller — Success of Anthropological Method — Mr. Max Müller’s Reply
5. 5.THE STORY OF DAPHNE — Mr. Max Müller’s Method in Controversy — Tuna and Daphne — Criticism of Tuna and Daphne — The Explanation — Disease of Language and Folk-etymology — Mannhardt on Daphne
6. 6.THE QUESTION OF ALLIES — Athanasius — Italian Critics — A Dutch Defender — Reply — ‘Braves Gens’ — Professor Tiele on Our Merits — Destruction and Construction — Allies or Not? — Our Errors — Uses of Philology — Personal Controversy — The Story of Cronos — Professor Tiele on Sunset Myths — Our Lack of Scientific Exactness — My Lack of Explanation of Cronos — My Crime — My Reply to Professor Tiele — Conclusion as to Professor Tiele
7. 7.MANNHARDT — Mannhardt’s Attitude — Moral Character Impeached — Mannhardt — Mannhardt’s Letters — How Mannhardt differs from Mr. Max Müller — Mannhardt’s Method — Another Claim on Mannhardt — What Mannhardt said — My Relations to Mannhardt — Mannhardt’s Return to his old Colours — Mannhardt’s Attitude to Philology — Irritating Conduct of Mannhardt — Mannhardt on Demeter Erinnys — Mannhardt’s ‘Mean Argument’ — Why Mannhardt is Thought to have been Converted — Mannhardt’s Final Confession — Mannhardt on Solar Myths — Mannhardt on Märchen. — ‘The Two Brothers’ — The Golden Fleece — Mannhardt’s Approach to Mr. Max Müller
8. 8.PHILOLOGY AND DEMETER ERINNYS — Mr. Max Müller on Demeter Erinnys. — My Theory of the Horse Demeter
9. 9.TOTEMISM — Totemism — Totemism Defined — What a Totem is — The Evidence for Sign-boards — More about Totems — Heraldry and Totems — Gods and Totems — An Objection — A Weak Brother — Mr. Frazer and Myself — Greek Totemism — The Greek Mouse-totem? — Philological Theory — Mr. Frazer on Animals in Greek Religion — Aryan Totems (?) — Mr. Frazer and I — Mr. Frazer on Origin of Totemism — Mr. Frazer’s Theory
10. 10.THE VALIDITY OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL EVIDENCE — Anthropological Evidence — ‘Positions one never held’ — Positions which I never held — Anthropological Evidence — Mr. Max Müller’s Method of Controversy — Mr. Max Müller on our Evidence — The Test of Recurrences — Bias of Theory — Concerning Missionaries
11. 11.THE PHILOLOGICAL METHOD IN ANTHROPOLOGY — Mr. Max Müller as Ethnologist — Names of Savage Gods — A Hottentot God — Cause of our Scepticism — Phonetic Bickerings — Phonetic Rules — Basis of a Science — Philology in Action—Indra — Obscuring the Veda
12. 12.CRITICISM OF FETISHISM — Mischief of Comparisons in Comparative Mythology — Dr. Oldenberg — Comparisons, when odious — A Question of Logic — ‘Scholars’ — Anthropology and the Mysteries — Abstract Ideas of Savages — Perception of the Infinite — Fetishism and Anthropological Method — Origin of Fetishes — ‘Telekinetic’ Origin of Fetishism — Civilised ‘Fetishism’ — More Mischiefs of Comparison — Still more Nemesis — For Us or Against Us? — The Fallacy of ‘Admits’ — Conclusion as to our Method
13. 13.THE RIDDLE THEORY — What the Philological Theory Needs — The Riddle Theory — Mordvinian Mythology — Lettish Mythology — The Chances of Fancy
14. 14.ARTEMIS — Artemis — Otfried Müller — Beast Dances — The View of Classical Scholars — Mr. Max Müller’s Explanation — Wider Application of the Theory — The Bear Dance
15. 15.THE FIRE-WALK — The Method of Psychical Research — Mount Soracte — Hirpi Sorani — Mannhardt’s Deficiency — The Fire-walk — Fijian Fire-walk — Kling Fire-walk — Tupua’s Incantation used in Walking Over the Uum-Ti.—Translation — Corroborative Evidence — The Fire-walk in Trinidad. — Bulgarian Fire-walk — Indian Fire-walk — Psychical Parallels — Conclusion as to Fire-walk — Psychical Research
16. 16.THE ORIGIN OF DEATH — Yama — The Origin of Death — Death, regarded as Unnatural — Why Men are Mortal — Savage Death-Myths — The Greek Myth — The Serpent — Dualistic Myths — Economic Myth — Maui and Yama — Maui Myths — Yama — Inferences — The Stealing of Fire — ‘Fire Totems’ — Prometheus — Savage Myths of Fire-stealing — Origin of the Myth of Fire-stealing
17. 17.CONCLUSION
18. 18.APPENDIX A: The Fire-walk in Spain
19. 19.APPENDIX B: Mr. Macdonell on Vedic Mythology
20. 20.FOOTNOTES

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