This would seem to imply that the poet looked upon Helios as a half-god, almost as a hero, who had once lived on earth. 37 Corssen, _Ueber Steigerungsendungen_, Kuhn’s _Zeitschrift_, iii. p. 299. 38 See _Selected Essays_, vol. i. p. 399. _ 39 The Childhood of the World_, by E. Clodd, p. 62. _ 40 Reynard the Fox in South Africa, or Hottentot Fables and Tales_, by W. H. I. Bleek, 1864, p. 69. Dr. Theophilus Hahn, _Die Sprache der Nama_, 1870, p. 59. As a curious coincidence, it may be mentioned that in Sanskrit, too, the Moon is called _sasāanka_, _i. e._ “having the marks of a hare,” the black marks in the moon being taken for the likeness of the hare. Another coincidence is that the Namaqua Hottentots will not touch hare’s flesh (see Sir James E. Alexander’s _Expedition of Discovery into the Interior of Africa_, vol. i. p. 269), because the hare deceived men, while the Jews abstain from it, because the hare is supposed to chew the cud (Lev. xi. 6). A similar tradition on the meaning of death occurs among the Zulus, but as they do not know of the Moon as a deity, the message that men are not to die, or that they are to die, is sent there by Unkulunkulu, the ancestor of the human race, and thus the whole story loses its point. See Dr. Callaway, _Unkulunkulu_, p. 4; and Gray, _Polynesian Mythology_, pp. 16-58. 41 According to a letter just received from an Esthonian lady, _ämmarik_ does mean the gloaming in the language of the common people of Esthonia. Bertram (_Ilmatar_, Dorpat, 1870, p. 265) remarks that _Koit_ is the dawn, _Koido täht,_ the morning-star, also called _eha täht_. _Ämarik_, the ordinary name for the dawn, is used as the name for the evening twilight, or the gloaming in the well-known story, published by Fählmann (_Verhandlungen der gelehrten Estnischen Gesellschaft zu Dorpat_, vol. i.) In Finnish _hämära_ is twilight in general. 42 See _Lectures on the Science of Religion_, pp. 194, 200. 43 See my _Lectures on the Science of Language_ (10th ed.), vol. ii. p 468. 44 See a most interesting essay, _Le Petit Poucet_ (Tom Thumb), by Gaston Paris.