The Open court . sus, Ascle-l)ius, jheseus, T Irracles, etc., arc sons of Zeus, all of them divine])ersonalilies. who haw cimie to he!]), to liberate, to heal, to rescue,to ransom nianlsind from all v\\\. from death, disease and oppres-sion. \Vlien the ])olylheism of the gods had become worn out, thenndi-rlying idea was purged of its primitive naturalism in the I!RI1)I:S. 85 akiiil)ir nl a (hialislio ])liil< isopliN-, liiially rrsultin-- in an ascetic re-ligion. Alnidsl all mdd-nicn wlm appear as sasiniirs in India. .\ in Circccc arc sn])piiscd to have 1)cen the nhjrei df p
The Open court . sus, Ascle-l)ius, jheseus, T Irracles, etc., arc sons of Zeus, all of them divine])ersonalilies. who haw cimie to he!]), to liberate, to heal, to rescue,to ransom nianlsind from all v\\\. from death, disease and oppres-sion. \Vlien the ])olylheism of the gods had become worn out, thenndi-rlying idea was purged of its primitive naturalism in the I!RI1)I:S. 85 akiiil)ir nl a (hialislio ])liil< isopliN-, liiially rrsultin-- in an ascetic re-ligion. Alnidsl all mdd-nicn wlm appear as sasiniirs in India. .\ in Circccc arc sn])piiscd to have 1)cen the nhjrei df persiculii mat the time of their hirth. < ne of the eldest myths reprcsentin-this t\pical feature is tin- story of the birth of Zeus. JJis fathc-rKriMios. a prehistoric deity, later on identilud with (hronos, whichmeans time, was sup])osed to ha\e heen in the hahit of swallowin.^his own children. 1 le was niarritd to the t^oddess Rhea,^ also calledCxhele, an ancient poddess who nnist have l)een a form of the. RHEA Asiatic Istara, for even in her later forms she is still endowed withman\ ( )riental features, and is a goddess not less of life and resurrection than of death and the darker ])owers of the nether i\hea was chosen h\- Kronos as liis wife, and when she took lhe ancient goddess Rlica or Cyl)ek> must not lie confinindcil widi KcaSilvia. The very words arc different as appears from the fact that in theformer the c is short, and in tlie latter, long. B\ an nnjustificd license thename Rea Silvia is frequently also spelled in the Greek fashion with an hafter the R. Even Harpers Lntin Diclionavy and Dictionary of ClassicalAnliqiiity are guilty of this mistake which has crept in at an early in Denkniiilcr des klassischen Altertinns follows Prcller in spellingthe Roman goddess in the Roman way. Rca. 86 THE OPEN COURT. pity on her offspring- she gave her (hvine Inishand a stone insteadof the infant that she had ]:)orn him. In
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