Word: myth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Broken Wing of the South Wind. A Babylonian Myth written in the 15th century B. C., recently found in the ruins of an Egyptian library of the same date...
...Broken Wing of the South Wind. A Babylonian Myth written in the 15th century B. C., recently found in the ruins of an Egyptian library of the same date...
...Marduk and the Dragon. A Babylonian version of the Cosmogonic Myth...
...librettist has turned out a book very much on the old Meihac & Halevy lines, taking mythological dramatis personae and the gist of an old myth, and burlesquing the whole by the introduction of all sorts of modern matter. And in this he has shown a very keen eye for caricature. Take, for instance, his fusion of the Greek Pluto with the modern Devil, of Hades with Hell, and then further burlesquing the composite by making Hell a sort of modern hotel, into which no sinless person can obtain admission; this is excellent burlesque. His working-out of this comic donnee...
Thus we see that the principle of unselfishness is not merely something taught in a book called the Bible, or the myth of some philosophy, but is the principle that underlies the department of the universe. This is why Christ is exalted. Men always have felt that they must have heroes, representative men, who were honored not so much for what they did themselves as for the principles they represented for which the masses also had worked; and in this way Christ stands for the highest thought of man, is its best representative and therefore receives our homage. The nature...