Appendix B: Mr. Macdonell on Vedic Mythology
Too late for use here came Vedic Mythology, from Grundriss der indo-arischen Philologie, 201 by Mr. A. Macdonell, the representative of the historic house of Lochgarry. This even a non-scholar can perceive to be a most careful and learned work. As to philological ‘equations’ between names of Greek and Vedic gods, Mr. Macdonell writes: ‘Dyaus=Ζευς is the only one which can be said to be beyond the range of doubt.’ As to the connection of Prometheus with Sanskrit Pramantha, he says: ‘Προμηθευς has every appearance of being a purely Greek formation, while the Indian verb math, to twirl, is found compounded only with nis, never with pra, to express the art of producing fire by friction.’ (See above, p. 194.) If Mr. Macdonell is right here, the Greek myth of the fire-stealer cannot have arisen from ‘a disease of language.’ But scholars must be left to reconcile this last typical example of their ceaseless differences in the matter of etymology of names.
Footnotes
0a Chips, iv. 62.
0b Chips, iv. p. xxxv.
0c Chips, iv. pp. vi. vii.
0d Ibid. iv. p. xv.
0e Cults of the Greek States, ii. 435-440.
0f Chips, iv. p. xiv.
0g Chips, iv. p. xiii.
5 Suidas, s.v. τελμισσεις; he cites Dionysius of Chalcis, B.C. 200.
6a See Goguet, and Millar of Glasgow, and Voltaire.
6b Translated by M. Parmentier.
7 See ‘Totemism,’ infra.
8 Longmans.
10a M. R. R. i. 155-160.
10b Tylor’s Prim. Cult. i. 145.
10c Turner’s Samoa, p. 219.
10d Gill’s Myths and Songs, p. 79.
11 M. R. R. ii. 160.
14 Metam. i. 567.
15a Grimm, cited by Liebrecht in Zur Volkskunde, p. 17.
15b Primitive Culture, i. 285.
15c Op. cit. i. 46-81.
16 M. R. R. i. 160.
17 Erratum: This is erroneous. See Contributions, &c., vol. i. p. 6, where Mr. Max Müller writes, ‘Tuna means eel.’ This shows why Tuna, i.e. Eel, is the hero. His connection, as an admirer, with the Moon, perhaps remains obscure.
18 Phonetically there may be ‘no possible objection to the derivation of Απολλων from a Sanskrit form, *Apa-var-yan, or *Apa-val-yan’ (ii. 692); but, historically, Greek is not derived from Sanskrit surely!
20a Mythologische Forschungen, p. 275.
20b Baumkultus, p. 297. Berlin: 1875.
21a Antike Wald- und Feldkulte, p. 257. Referring to Baumkultus, p. 297.
21b Oriental and Linguistic Studies, second series, p. 160. La Religion Védique, iii. 293.
22 1, viii. cf. i. 27.
23 Riv. Crit. Mensile. Geneva, iii. xiv. p. 2.
25a Custom and Myth, p. 3, citing Revue de l’Hist. des Religions, ii. 136.
25b M. R. R. i. 24.
25c Revue de l’Hist. des Religions, xii. 256.
26 Op. cit. p. 253.
27 Op. cit. xii. 250.
28a P. 104, infra.
28b Revue de l’Hist. des Religions, xii. 259.
29a M. R. R. i. 25.
29b Rev. xii. 247.
30 M. R. R. i. 24.
31a Rev. xii. 277.
31b Rev. xii. 264.
31c M. R. R. i. 44, 45.
32a Custom and Myth, p. 51.
32b Rev. xii. 262.
34 Odyssey, book ix.
37 C. and M. p. 56.
42a W. u. F. K. xxiii.
42b M. R. R. i. 23.
42c W. u. F. K. xvii.
46 Golden Bough, 1. ix.
48 περιελθειν δρομω την κωμην. Dionys. i. 80.
51a Pausanias, viii. 25.
51b Myth. Forsch. p. 244.
51c Iliad, xx. 226.
52 Myth. Forsch, p. 265
54 September 19, 1875. Myth. Forsch. xiv.
55 For undeniable solar myths see M. R. R. i. 124-135.
56 Op. cit. p. xx.
60 Folk Lore Society.
61a Von einem der vorzüglichsten Schiriftgelehrten, Annana, in klassischer Darstellung aufgezeichneten Märchens, p. 240.
61b Custom and Myth.
62a See Preface to Mrs. Hunt’s translation of Grimm’s Märchen.
62b P. 309.
65 x. 17. Cf. Muir, Sanskrit Texts, v. 277.
66 As the Sun’s wife is Dawn, and leaves him at dawn, she is not much of a bedfellow. As Night, however, she is a bedfellow of the nocturnal Sun.
71 M. R. R. i. 58-81.
72a See Robertson Smith on ‘Semitic Religion.’
72b See Sayce’s Herodotus, p. 344.
72c See Rhys’ Rhind Lectures; I am not convinced by the evidence.
73 Academy, September 27, 1884.
74a Anth. Rel. p. 405.
74b Plantagenet, Planta genista.—A. L.
74c See M. R. R. ii. 56, for a criticism of this theory.
76 Religion of the Semites, pp. 208, 209.
78 Die Religionen, p. 12.
79 Anth. Rel. p. 122.
80 Dalton.
81a Strabo, xiii. 613. Pausanias, i. 24, 8.
81b Crooke, Introduction to Popular Religion of North India, p. 380.
82a C. and M. p. 115.
82b Contributions, ii. 687.
83a Evidence in G. B. i. 325, 326.
83b Compare Liebrecht, ‘The Eaten God,’ in Zur Volkskunde, p. 436.
84a Cf. G. B. ii. 17, for evidence.
84b M. R. R. ii. 232.
84c G. B. ii. 90-113.
84d In Encyclop. Brit. he thinks it ‘very probable.’
85a i. 200.
85b M. R. R. ii. 142, 148-149.
85c R. V. iv. 18, 10.
86 G. B. ii. 44-49.
87 G. B. ii. 33.
88a Plutarch, Quæst. Rom. vi. McLennan, The Patriarchal Theory, p. 207, note 2.
88b G. B. ii. 337.
89a See G. B. ii. 332-334.
89b Religion of the Semites, p. 118.
90 G. B. ii. 337, 338.
93a Custom and Myth, p. 235.
93b M. R. R. ii. 327.
93c Op. cit. ii. 329.
94 Lectures on Science of Language, Second Series, p. 41.
95 M. R. R. ii. 336.
96 Anthropological Religion.
97a M. R. R. i. 171-173.
97b Ibid. i. 172.
97c Anth. Rel. p. 180.
100 ‘Totemism,’ Encyclop. Brit.
101a M. R. R. ii. 333.
101b Ibid. ii. 335.
103 M. R.. R.. i. 96, 127; ii. 22, 336.
106a Greek Etym. Engl. transl. i. 147.
106b Sprachvergleichung und Urgeschichte, p. 431.
109 Gr. Etym. i. 150.
110 M. R. R. ii. 142.
111a ii. 210. Cf. Oldenberg in Deutsche Rundschau, 1895, p. 205.
111b R. V. iv. 18, 10.
114 Aglaophamus, i. 700.
115 Custom and Myth, i. 29-44. M. R. R. ii. 260-273.
116 Custom and Myth, pp. 212-242.
117a Culte des Fétiches, 1760.
117b Codrington, Journal Anthrop. Inst., Feb. 1881.
118a C. and M. p. 230, note.
118b Rochas, Les Forces non définies, 1888, pp. 340-357, 411, 626.
118c Revue Bleue, 1890, p. 367.
118d De Brosses, p. 16.
120a C. and M. p. 214.
120b M. R. R. i. 327.
120c Lectures on the Science of Language, 2nd series, p. 41.
121 M. R. R. ii. 327 and 329.
124 M. R. R. ii. 324.
125a Paris: Œuvres, 1758, iii. 270.
125b M. R. R. ii. 324.
126 I have no concern with his criticism of Mr. Herbert Spencer (p. 203), as I entirely disagree with that philosopher’s theory. The defence of ‘Animism’ I leave to Dr. Tylor.
135 Meyer, 1846, apud Brough Smyth, Aborigines of Victoria, i. 432.
138 My italics.
139a M. R. R. ii. 208-221.
139b Ibid. ii. 209.
140 M. R. R. ii. 218.
141a De Dianæ Antiquissima apud Græcos Natura, p. 76. Vratislaw, 1881.
141b De Diane Brauron, p. 33. Compare, for all the learning, Mr. Farnell, in Cults of the Greek States.
142a M. R. R. i. x.
142b Life in California, pp. 241, 303.
142c Religion of the Semites, p. 274.
142d See also Mr. Frazer, Golden Bough, ii. 90-94; and Robertson Smith, op. cit. pp. 416-418.
142e Apostolius, viii. 19; vii. 10.
143a Melanesians, p. 32.
143b Samoa, p. 17.
143c M. R. R. ii. 33.
143d See also Frazer, Golden Bough, ii. 92.
143e M. R. R. ii. 208.
144a M. R. R. ii. 209.
144b Custom and Myth, ‘Star Myths.’
148a L. Preller, Röm. Myth. p. 239, gives etymologies.
148b Æn. xi. 785.
149a A. W. F. p. 328.
149b Dionys. Halic. iii. 32.
149c Hist. Nat. vii. 2.
149d Æn. xi. 784.
149e Æn. xi. 787.
150a Serv. Æn. vii. 800.
150b Authorities in A. F. W. K. p. 325.
151a Herabkunft, p. 30.
151b Pausanias, viii. 385.
151c A. W. F. K. xxii. xxiii.
153 Janus, pp. 44-49.
161 Home, the medium, was, or affected to be, entranced in his fire tricks, as was Bernadette, at Lourdes, in the Miracle du Cierge.
163 The photograph referred to is evidently taken from a sketch by hand, and is not therefore a photograph from life.—EDITOR. The original photograph was hereon sent to the editor and acknowledged by him.—A. L.
169 Procès, Quicherat, ii. 396, 397
171 Introduction to Popular Religion and Folk-Lore in Northern India, by W. Crookes, B.A., p. 10.
172 Iamblichus, De Myst. iii. 4.
173 Folk-Lore, September 1895.
174 Quoted by Dr. Boissarie in his book, Lourdes, p. 49, from a book by Dr. Dozous, now rare. Thanks to information from Dr. Boissarie, I have procured the book by Dr. Dozous, an eye-witness of the miracle, and have verified the quotation.
175 Predvestniki spiritizma za posleanie 250 lyet. A. M. Aksakoff, St. Petersburg, 1895. See Mr. Leaf’s review, Proceedings S. P. R. xii. 329.
178 Prim. Cult. i. 138.
179 Journal of Anthrop. Institute, x. iii.
180a Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo, p. 42.
180b Relations, 1637, p. 49.
183a Abor. of Victoria, i. 429.
183b Dalton, op. cit.
184 Codrington, Journal Anthrop. Institute, x. iii. For America, compare Relations de la Nouvelle France, 1674, p. 13.
185 The connection between the Moon and the Hare is also found in Sanskrit, in Mexican, in some of the South Sea Islands, and in German and Buddhist folklore. Probably what we call ‘the Man in the Moon’ seemed very like a hare to various races, roused their curiosity, and provoked explanations in the shape of myths.
186 Hahn, Tsuni-Goam, p. 150.
187 Codrington, op. cit, p. 304.
188 Codrington, op. cit.
190a Bastian, Heilige Sage.
190b Primitive Culture, i. 336.
194 Kuhn, Die Herabkunft der Feuers und der Göttertranks. Berlin, 1859.
195a Herabkunft, pp. 16, 24.
195b Dupret, Paris, 1886. Translation by M. Parmentier.
195c Pliny, Hist. Nat. xiii. 22. Bent. Cyclades.
196a Servius ad Virg., Eclogue vi. 42.
196b Australian Legendary Tales. Nutt: London, 1897. Mrs. Parker knows Australian dialects, and gives one story in the original. Her tribes live on the Narran River, in New South Wales.
196c Bosquet, La Normandie Merveilleuse. Paris, 1845.
196d Journal Anthrop. Institute, November, 1884.
197 Odyssey, v. 488-493.
198 References for savage myths of the Fire-stealer will be found—for the Ahts, in Sproat; for the tribes of the Pacific coast, in Bancroft; for Australians in Brough Smyth’s Aborigines of Victoria.
201 Trübner, Strasburg, 1897.