Mythological fictions of the Greeks and Romans . Juno pours around the globeof the earth a transparent mist, in which the rainbowdisplays its splendid colours, and the same Juno wan-ders on foot through this very mist, to visit her fosterparents at the bounds of the earth. Fancy, not choosingto dw^ell for a long time on those objects which she, ina certain manner, attempts to explain by her personifi-cations, rather dehghts to rove among the beings them-selves, to whom she gave personahty. When Juno op-posed herself to Jupiter, he suspended her on a chainiiom Olympus, into her own dominion, th
Mythological fictions of the Greeks and Romans . Juno pours around the globeof the earth a transparent mist, in which the rainbowdisplays its splendid colours, and the same Juno wan-ders on foot through this very mist, to visit her fosterparents at the bounds of the earth. Fancy, not choosingto dw^ell for a long time on those objects which she, ina certain manner, attempts to explain by her personifi-cations, rather dehghts to rove among the beings them-selves, to whom she gave personahty. When Juno op-posed herself to Jupiter, he suspended her on a chainiiom Olympus, into her own dominion, the atmosphere,with an anvil fastened to each of her feet. The heaven-ly and sublime had thus to suffer the disgrace of beingdrawn down, and all celestials mourned at the sight;but fancy, the earth-born daughter, delights in the sport. Juno represents in her person the high, commandingbeauty, which is superior to the delicacy of femalecharms, and does not need them. When, therefore, theheavenly queen intended to win Jupiter by charming ^ff^e ^/. C-- /cc^t/^^^^J <L //y^/^€^^^</^/ MORITZ MYTHOLOGY, 67 Joveliness, she was obliged to borrow the girdle of Venus,who, by her soft beauty, had obtained the prize, whenthe shepherd on the top of Mount Ida, passed the bold,decisive sentence. Juno is commonly represented by plastic art in herwhole regal splendour, sitting upon a throne or onJupiters eagle, holding in her one hand a sceptre, andin the other a veil spangled with stars that flows roundher head. A peacock is commonly seen at her feet. The chief archetype of Apollo, is the suns ray ineternally youthful splendour. It assumes human form,and with it rises to perfect beauty, in which the very ex-pression of destructive power melts away in the harmo-ny of the youthful features. As in the rays of the sun, which are both beneficentand destructive, fertilizing and producing decay, creationand destruction are united, so the divine form of whichthose rays are the archetype, unites i
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