Greek mythology systematized (1880) (14559597319)

Identifier: greekmythologysy00scul (find matches)
Title: Greek mythology systematized
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Scull, Sarah Amelia
Subjects: Mythology, Greek Emblems
Publisher: Philadelphia : Porter & Coates
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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as in Gsea (as Dione), as productivematter developing lifes lower forms—nursing the young,indeed, but opening to mankind graves that bore nowords of resurrection. We have seen the royal Rhea,in the richness of flower and fruit and mural crown, inher stately chariot drawn by conquered lions, ride forthas goddess of the fertile earth peopled, cultivated, andcovered with cities. There now entered into Greek the-ogony a goddess who should preside over the higherrelations of human life—Hera, pure in character, grandlytrue as the wife of Zeus, exerting her queenly power inthe general interest of humanity. Like other deities,Hera combined varied characteristics. The Pelasgictendency was toward elemental or Nature worship, andit is probable that the Greek Hera was identical in naturewith the * sovereign lady, the chief goddess that inother countries signified only the deification of the fem-inine principle of Nature. Homeric Conception,—Gladstone thinks that Hera was 92 GREEK MYTHOLOGY.
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Head of Hera, or Juno. lifted suddenly from the Pelasgic system and enthronedon the highest pinnacle of the Hellenic or Olympiansystem; and though he admits that she retained a traceof her Pelasgic origin in her relations to human births,yet he assumes that she was as intensely anti-Pelasgic as HERA. 93 she was pro-Hellenic in her nature, sympathies, and operations. (See Trojan War.) *■Offices and Archetypes. Nature: i. Ethereal, all-pervading, passive productivepower—the atmosphere, as containing massesof different materials in which lie latent theseeds of all things, and which, in conjunctionwith all-quickening ether, gives rise to seriesof new productions.2. Limited control of atmospheric phenomena,showing wifely devotion in a clear sunny at-mosphere that resulted in the blessings ofNature, especially in spring; but evincing hercoldness or jealousy in retarded growth ordevastating storms. Human Life : i. Presiding over human births. 2. Protectress of the sacredness of the marri