The world: historical and actual . es as Rhea, andsometimes as was the god-dess of law and jus-tice, and Nemesis ofretribution. Thesewere the principaldeities and their sev-eral allotments. Be-sides these therewere the gods of therivers, the woods, and1 he rural deities wit h-out number. Panwas an illustriouswoodland deity, in-terested in s h e p -herds, fishermen andfowlers. He was halfman and half was a famousmusician. The sa-tyrs were also halfman and half were beau-tiful female attend-ants upon the greatgoddesses. Theywere sometimes call-ed Naiads or Nere-ids
The world: historical and actual . es as Rhea, andsometimes as was the god-dess of law and jus-tice, and Nemesis ofretribution. Thesewere the principaldeities and their sev-eral allotments. Be-sides these therewere the gods of therivers, the woods, and1 he rural deities wit h-out number. Panwas an illustriouswoodland deity, in-terested in s h e p -herds, fishermen andfowlers. He was halfman and half was a famousmusician. The sa-tyrs were also halfman and half were beau-tiful female attend-ants upon the greatgoddesses. Theywere sometimes call-ed Naiads or Nere-ids. Echo was oneof their Fates were three sisters, daughters of Chaos, andpresided over the destinies of mortals. The Furieswere also three sisters, and were employed in makingboth the living and the dead miserable. Pluto, thegod of Hades, has been mentioned. There were threeJudges of the dead, Minos being chief justice. Inpassing from Earth to Hades, the soul had to crossthe river Styx in the boat of a miserly old ferry-. TIIK ASSEMBLY OF THE (JODS. man called Charon. The Christian conception ofa heaven for the good and a hell for the bad wasonly dimly outlined in classic mythology. Hadeswas the place of all departed souls, but some foundexistence there pleasant, or at least free from pain,while others were subjected to different degrees ofunhappiness. The abode of the gods was on the summit of MountOlympus, in Thessa-ly. The deities hadtheir individualhomes, but all, whenconvened by theirsovereign J u p i t e r,repaired to the pal-ace of his celestialhighness,\vhere therewas feasting andmerriment. Ambrosia wastheir food and nectartheir drink. Thecup-bearer was thelovely goddess Hebe,or the beauteous boy,stolen for that pur-pose from Earth,Ganymede. Apollotwanged his lyreamid the feast andthe nine Muses sangresponsively. Atsundown the deitiesretired to their ownrespective houses wereof brass, built byVulcan. Among the Titanswas Epimetheus. Inaccordance wi
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