History and chronology of the myth-making age . -Cybele, whom theyworshipped as their mother. This story is evidently a Hindu variant of the Europeanlegend of ;Hubert converted by the deer with the crossbetween its horns, which he was about to shoot, of whichanother variant is told, in which the repentant slayer ofthe deer is called St. Placidus, commander in Asia Minorof the armies of the Emperor Trajan 2. And the proofof the relation between the two stories is given in theannexed picture of the story of St. Hubert by AlbertDurer. Here we see the hunter Piliyakkha, St. Hubert, onone side
History and chronology of the myth-making age . -Cybele, whom theyworshipped as their mother. This story is evidently a Hindu variant of the Europeanlegend of ;Hubert converted by the deer with the crossbetween its horns, which he was about to shoot, of whichanother variant is told, in which the repentant slayer ofthe deer is called St. Placidus, commander in Asia Minorof the armies of the Emperor Trajan 2. And the proofof the relation between the two stories is given in theannexed picture of the story of St. Hubert by AlbertDurer. Here we see the hunter Piliyakkha, St. Hubert, onone side of the stream of the Mriga-Sammata; on theother side stands the deer he slew, and above is themountain castle of the goddess Bahu-Sundari, who resus-citated the dead deer-sun. I will now show the origin ofthe legend. Though this Asia Minor version, and the 1 Eggeling, Sat. Brdh., iii. 3, 3, 10—12 ; , vol. xxvi. pp. 202, 203. 2 Gaster, The Nigrodha Miga Jataka and the Life of St. Placidus,5 ,I894. P- 336. PLATE I. To face p. From the Picture by Albert Conversion of St. Hubert, called in the Sama Jataka PlLIYAKKHA. of the Myth-Making Age. 93 part taken in the Jataka story by the cave-mountain goddesswould seem to point to Asia Minor, whence the god Freywas said in the Edda to go northward, as the place whencethe legend originated, yet this is not a conclusion borneout by facts. The original national deer-god was mostcertainly the Celtic god Cernunnos, whose home was inNorthern France and North-western Europe, and moreespecially in the Belgian country of the Ardennes. It is onthe Meuse, about twelve miles to the west of the shrineof St. Hubert, the highest point of the elevated Ardennesregion, called the Hautes Fagnes, that we find the shrineof the Eddie god in the cave of Frey, containingpalaeolithic remains. Also the day consecrated to points to an ancient connection between the cultof the converted slayer of the year-deer and the origina
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