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Title: A child's guide to mythology
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Clarke, Helen Archibald, 1926
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Publisher: New York : Baker & Taylor Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ature. She is best described in the hymn writ-ten in her honor by Callimachus given later, and inwhich you will recognize another version of the storyof Erysichthon. MALAYAN STOEY OF THE SUN AND MOON The Moon is a woman, and the Sun also. Thestars are the Moons children, and the Sun had inolden times as many. Fearing, however, that man-kind could not bear so much brightness and heat,they agreed each to devour her children. But theMoon instead of eating up her stars hid them fromthe Suns sight, who, believing them all devoured, ateup her own; no sooner had she done it than the Moonbrought her family out of their hiding-place. Whenthe Sun saw them, filled with rage, she chased theMoon to kill her. The chase has lasted ever since,and sometimes the Sun even comes near enough tobite the Moon, and that is an eclipse. The Sun, asmen may see, still devours her stars at dawn, and theMoon hides hers all day while the Sun is near, andonly brings them out at night when her pursuer is faraway. 340
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Demeter or Ceres. The Vatican. Mother-Myths and Child-Myths HYMN TO THE MOTHER OF THE GODS(^Mexican Indian) Hail to our mother, who caused the yellow flowers to blos-som, she who scattered the seeds of the maguey, as she cameforth from Paradise. Hail to our mother, who poured forth white flowers inabundance, who scattered the seeds of the maguey, as shecame forth from Paradise. Hail to the goddess who shines in the thorn-bush like abright butterfly. Ho! she is our mother, goddess of the earth; she suppliesfood in the desert to the wild beasts, and causes them to live. Thus, thus, you see her to be an ever-fresh model ofliberality toward all flesh. And as you see the goddess of the earth do to the wildbeasts, so also does she toward the green herbs and the fishes. HYMN TO CIHUACOATL, THE MOTHER OF MORTALS(Mexican Indian) Quilaztli, plumed with eagle feathers, with the crest ofeagles, painted with serpents blood, comes with her hoe,beating her drum, from Colhuacan. She alone, who is our

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