. The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . th, Diet. Aiit. 150). Thus, too, the Seven Heliades (see p. 617), the sons of thewheel-goddess Rhode, are indubitably the Seven of Ursa-Major. The Persians and the Turks still say the Seven Stars andthe Indians Golden Sea. The name Bear seems to exist only inthe European and Indian Spheres (Skt. Riksha). The Egyptiansseem to have put a Dog there (the unfallen Typhon?) and theHebrews a Boar (G. Schlegel: Uranog. Ctii., p. 684). The nameBear may be conjectured to have arisen in Northern climes, whereit held
. The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . th, Diet. Aiit. 150). Thus, too, the Seven Heliades (see p. 617), the sons of thewheel-goddess Rhode, are indubitably the Seven of Ursa-Major. The Persians and the Turks still say the Seven Stars andthe Indians Golden Sea. The name Bear seems to exist only inthe European and Indian Spheres (Skt. Riksha). The Egyptiansseem to have put a Dog there (the unfallen Typhon?) and theHebrews a Boar (G. Schlegel: Uranog. Ctii., p. 684). The nameBear may be conjectured to have arisen in Northern climes, whereit held the place of king of animals. The surviving Ainu worshipof the bear, and the fact that the North-American Indians call theconstellation the Bear mieht be adduced. 1 Soc. of Arts/otirnal, March 18, 1SS7.^ Uranog. Chi. 502, 706.^ [This sketch of a Chinese grain-bushelis taken by Prof. G. Schlegel from aChinese Encyclopaedia. I fancy the San-skrit deity Drona (bucket) the rival ofChinese bushel. Drupada, must also be this same utensil.] * As to Septemtriones see 950 and Seven.^^ The Seven of Ursa Major. 939 Some of the Eskimo call their good god Torngarsak a big the Kaleivala when the Finns have killed a bear they sing tohim The honey-footed Bear was born in lands between sun andmoon, and he died not by mens hands but of his own will.^ Thegoddess Atacntsic, founder of the Algonkins, fell down through ahole in the heavens when she was hunting a bear, or by anotheraccount she cut down a heaven-tree and fell with the fall thereof^—this is strongly pole-ish. See also the Lapp tale of ancient bear-worship at p. 696. Draco (^pole-star jtso 00 yearn a^pj McdT•Ti Befjeinasch.
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