_STORIES_: How a hunter visited the thunder spirits who dwell in Mount Katahdin (_Passamaquoddy_, Leland).—The thunder and lightning men (_Passamaquoddy_, Leland).—How Glooskap bound Wuchowsen, the great wind bird (_Passamaquoddy_, Leland).—The wonderful exploits of Paup-puk-keewiss (_North American Indian_, Mathews-Schoolcraft).—The story of Odin’s sword and Sigmund (_Norse_, Anderson-Eddas).—How Thor conquered the stone giant (_Norse_, Anderson-Eddas).—How Zeus came to be king of gods (_Greek_).—Hymn to the dawn (_Hindoo_, “Rig Veda”).—The lover’s vision of the happy land (_North American Indian_, Emerson).—The message-bearers (_Iroquois_, Canfield).—The way of the gods (_Japanese_, Violet M. Pasteur). VII.—MOTHER-MYTHS AND CHILD-MYTHS 336 _STORIES_: Malayan story of the sun and moon.—Hymn to the mother of the gods (_Mexican Indian_, Brinton’s “Rig Veda Americanus”).—Hymn to Cihuacoatl (_Mexican Indian_, Brinton).—The children of heaven and earth (Sir George Grey, “Polynesian Mythology”).—Story of Demeter (_Greek_, from Hymn to Demeter, Callimachus).—The story of Demeter and Persephone (_Greek_, Gayley-Bulfinch, drawn from Ovid and Apollodorus).—Legend of Tu-tok-a-nu-la (_Indian_, Emerson).—Nezhik-e-wa-wa-sun, or the lone lightning (_Odjibwa_, Emerson).—Wasis, the baby (_Penobscot_, Leland).—Ojeeg Annung, or the summer-maker (_Indian_, Emerson).—The legend of Maui (_Polynesian_, Grey).—The infant Heracles (_Greek_, paraphrased from Lang’s translation of the Idyls of Theocritus).—The infant Hermes (_Greek_, paraphrased from Shelley’s translation of the Homeric Hymn to Mercury). ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE Automedon and the Horses of Achilles _Regnault_ _Frontispiece_ A Reading from Homer _Alma-Tadema_ 38 Zeus _From Pompeii_ 140 Athēne _Glyptothek, Munich_ 162 Apollo with the Lyre _Glyptothek, Munich_ 232 Diana or Artemis the Huntress _Versailles_ 240 Diana or Artemis _Correggio_ 248 Aurora _Guido Reni_ 270 The Flying Mercury or Hermes _Giovanni di Bologna_ 316 Athēne: Brandisher of the Spear _Capitol, Rome_ 320 Demeter or Ceres _The Vatican_ 340 The Infant Hercules _Louvre_ 384 A GUIDE TO MYTHOLOGY CHAPTER I WHAT IS A MYTH?