“The fair, ambrosial golden sandals worn To bear her over ocean like the wind, And o’er the boundless land. In hand she took, Well tipped with trenchant brass, the mighty spear, Heavy and huge and strong, with which she bears Whole phalanxes of heroes to earth, When she, the daughter of a mighty sire, Is angered. From the Olympian heights she plunged And stood among the men of Ithaca. ... In her hand she bore the spear, And seemed the stranger Mentes.” When Pallas returned to heaven she “Passed like an eagle out of sight and all Were seized with deep amazement as they saw.” Another time Pallas appears to Odysseus or Ulysses in the shape “Of a young shepherd, delicately formed, As are the sons of kings. A mantle lay Upon her shoulder in rich folds, her feet Shone in their sandals: in her hand she bore A javelin. As Ulysses saw, his heart Was glad within him, and he hastened on And thus accosted her with wingèd words, ‘Fair youth, who art the first whom I have met Upon this shore, I bid thee hail, and hope Thou meetest me with no unkind intent. Protect what thou beholdest here and me; I make my suit to thee as to a god, And come to thy dear knees.’” After a little talk with Odysseus “the blue-eyed goddess, Pallas, smiled And touched the chief caressingly. She seemed A beautiful and stately woman now, Such as are skilled in works of rare device.” She advises Odysseus and says to him: “Hither am I come to frame for thee Wise counsels, and to hide away the stores Given by the opulent Phæacian chiefs At thy departure. I shall also tell What thou must yet endure beneath the roof Of thine own palace, by the will of fate. Yet bear it bravely, since thou must, nor speak To any man or woman of thyself And of thy wandering hither, but submit To many things that grieve thee, silently, And bear indignities from violent men.” Thus this beneficent Dawn Goddess is always helping mankind in their troubles, and scattering abroad so much wisdom that she came to be called in Greek mythology the Goddess of Wisdom. The Indian and the Japanese stories following show other fancies about gods of the sky and air. “The Lover’s Vision of the Happy Land” gives a picture of the home of departed spirits in the sky. “The Message-Bearers” is related to the idea that the wind is a messenger of the gods, but it is the wind in the form of the repeated sounds in echoes.