Part 25

Page 207. Bird-Gods. Apparently Aristophanes preserved, in a burlesque form, the remnants of a genuine myth. Almost all savage religions have their bird-gods, and it is probable that Aristophanes did not invent, but only used a surviving myth of which there are scarcely any other traces in Greek literature.

Page 236. Spinet. The accent is on the last foot, even when the word is written spinnet. Compare the remarkable Liberty which Pamela took with the 137th Psalm.

My Joys and Hopes all overthrown, My Heartstrings almost broke, Unfit my Mind for Melody, Much more to bear a Joke. But yet, if from my Innocence I, even in Thought, should slide, Then, let my fingers quite forget The sweet Spinnet to guide!

Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded, vol. i., p. 184., 1785.

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FOOTNOTES.

{35} Cf. “Suggestions for Academic Reorganization.”

{46} The last three stanzas are by an eminent Anthropologist.

{48} Thomas of Ercildoune.

{66} A knavish publisher.

{88} Vous y verrez, belle Julie, Que ce chapeau tout maltraité Fut, dans un instant de folie, Par les Grâces même inventé.

‘À Julie.’ Essais en Prose et en Vers, par Joseph Lisle; Paris. An. V. de la République.

{108} “I have broken many a pane of glass marked Cruel Parthenissa,” says the aunt of Sophia Western in Tom Jones.

{194} N.B. There is only one veracious statement in this ballade, which must not be accepted as autobiographical.

{196} These lines do not apply to Miss Annie P. (or Daisy) Miller, and her delightful sisters, Gades adituræ mecum, in the pocket edition of Mr. James’s novels, if ever I go to Gades.

{207} Tonatiu, the Thunder Bird; well known to the Dacotahs and Zulus.

{208a} The Hawk, in the myth of the Galinameros of Central California, lit up the Sun.

{208b} Pundjel, the Eagle Hawk, is the demiurge and “culture-hero” of several Australian tribes.

{208c} The Creation of Man is thus described by the Australians.

{209a} In Andaman, Thlinkeet, Melanesian, and other myths, a Bird is the Prometheus Purphoros; in Normandy this part is played by the Wren.

{209b} Yehl: the Raven God of the Thlinkeets.

{210a} Indra stole Soma as a Hawk and as a Quail. For Odin’s feat as a Bird, see Bragi’s Telling in the Younger Edda.

{210b} Pundjel, the Eagle Hawk, gave Australians their marriage laws.

{210c} Lubra, a woman; kobong, “totem;” or, to please Mr. Max Müller, “otem.”

{210d} The Crow was the Hawk’s rival.