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The Mythology of the Aryan Nations (Paperback)
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The first edition of this book appeared in 1870 and was established
immediately as one of the classical works on comparative mythology.
It received appreciation and criticism in equal measures due to the
very controversial nature of the conclusions drawn that were
labeled as "momentous." However great scholars like Grimm, Max
Muller, Breal, Kuhn, Preller, Welcker, H.H. Wilson, Cornewall
Lewis, Grote and Thirlwall fully supported all the important
findings of this work which came to be recognized as a masterpiece
on Aryan mythology. The author argues that the common stock of
philosophical material, which supplements the evidence of language
for the ultimate affinity of all the Aryan nations, has been molded
into an infinite variety of shapes by the writers of Greek and
Latin, of Persian and Englishmen, of the ancient and modern Hindus,
of Germans and Norwegians, Icelanders, Danes, Frenchmen and
Spaniards. On this common foundation the epic poets of these
scattered and long-separated children of one primitive family have
raised their magnificent fabrics. From this common source they have
derived even the most subtle distinctions of feature and character
for their portraits of the actors in the great drama which in some
one or more of its many scenes is the theme of all Aryan national
poetry. "The purpose of this work is to exhibit clearly and with
sufficient fullness the general characteristics of Aryan mythology,
as a system which has grown up from words and phrases denoting not
one or two objects only, as the sun or moon, but all the phenomena
of the sensible world, as they impressed themselves on the minds of
primitive men."
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