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WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAS. 9, 1881.
THE STELLAR GLORY.
"MYTHOLOGY
OF THE
TIOWS."
CONSTJKLLA
Meeting or the Scar Club Numerical LUt
Increased Planetk and star Lec
ture by Kev. C. J3 Ileupt.
The meeting of the Star Club of the
Yeung lien's Christian association last
evening was one of the most interesting of
the course. Several Ieadiug Constellations
were presented, increasing the nnmerical
list. The facte staled in regard te the
planets new in the western sky, were also
of much interest, while the paper by Rev.
Mr. Ileupt will repay careful reading.
The work of the club, as directed by Mr.
McCaskey, was as fellows :
The old lines of Dr. Watts, giving the
order of the Zodiacal constellations are as
useful an aid- te memory new as they have
ever been.
"The Ram. the Bull, the Heavenly Twins,
And next the Crab the Lien shines.
The Irgiu and the Scales ;
The Scorpion, Archer and Sea Geat,
The man that, holds the watering pet,
The Fis-h with glitleiing tails."
Twe of these constellations, the " heav
enly Twins " and the Bull, including the
Pleiades and the Hyades have already
been indicated en our present
list. Te-night we will leek at three mere
of them, the Ram, the Cnib and the Lien,
iu addition te thu Fishes an I one or two
ether groups net within the Zodiacal belt.
When the Zedi i.; was lirst marked out
in the heavens In the old astronomers the
Ram was the fiist constellation and there
fore the lirst feign. Owing te the nuta nuta
teon of the pole, that plays se large a part
in the grand Ice Age theory of which we
recently hcaid from Prof. Phillips, the
Rain has new become the second constella
tion while it .still holds its p'ace as the
first sign. This place, as lirst sign, it will
continue te held, though it must fall
back for the next 20,000 years or mere in
the order of constellations until it has be
come eleven tli and twellth constellation,
when it will once mere resume its place at
the head of the line, again te fall te the
rear, though still another of the grand
cycles of which the Ice-Age theory takes
acceuut and linds evidence in the coal
measures and elsewhere upon our glebe.
Knewing the Hyades and the Pleiades
we leek tewaids the northwest for the
Ram. Extend a line from Aldcbarau iu
the Hyades (Ne. 18 of our list) te Al
pheratz (Xe. 14) in the north west angle of
the Square of Pegasus. Divide this line
into three equal parts, and at the point of
division nearest Alpheratz we find three
stars which at once attract attention and
fix the head of the atiimal we are in search
of. The two brightest of these stars, of
nearly equal magnitude, arc Arietis and
Shcratau, about ieur degrees apart, that
farthest north being Arietis, which is the
middle of the head of the Ram, as he is
represented in the charts looking back to
wards tLe Bull along the due of the Sun's
appaient path in the Heavens. Shcratan,
in the coil of ene of the horns, has very
near it a fainter star, at the distance of one
and a half degrees, named Mcsartim. The
three planets new conspicuous iu the
western sky are very near the stars just
named iu the Ram. The body of the Ram
extends eastwaid towards the Bull, of
which constellation only the head and
fore shoulders are shown in the charts.
West of the Ram is the Fishes, a star
gie.ip without any distinguishing features,
and but one or two of whose taint stars
have been named.
The Lien, which is easily recognized
frein the well-known 'Sickle.' a conspic
uous star-group, is new te be seen iu the
eastern sky immediately after sunset. It
is en the meridian shortly alter 10 o'clock.
Seven stars are named iu this constellation.
In the Sickle, which fixes the head and
fore shoulders of the Lien, we have the
bright star Regulus marking the handle.
This star is also known as Cor Ltenis, or
"heart of the Lien " It is much used by
navigators for determining their longitude,
being less than half a degree from the
ecliptic. When en the meridian it makes
an isosceles triangle with Procyen and
Caster, the former some forty degrees te
the northwest aud tiic latter nearly an
equal distance te the southwest. The
small star at the peinkwlicrc the handle
jeiDS the blade is net named. Next be
yeud it and lirst in the blade is AI Uieba.
a bright double star whose period is 1,000
years ; that is te say, it requires the two
great suns of which it is composed 1,000
years te revolve about each ether. This star
is some nine degrees from Regulus. The
next iu the blade, Adhafera, four degrees
from AI Gieba, is iu the deck of the Lien.
Six degrees beyen 1 this is Northern Ras
al Asad, and next beyond is Southern Ras
al Asad, in the mouth of the Lien. Te the
northeast of the Sickle is a triangle net
very large, but readily distinguished. Of
this the star farthest cast is Dencbela, in
the tail of the Lien, and, of the two stars
iu the side towards the Sickle, that nearest
the meridian is Zezma ; in the back of the
Lien. Zezma is about thirteen decrees
east from Al Gieba, and is a triple star.
Dencbela is about 25 degrees cast of
Regulus and ten degrees northeast from
Zezma.
;Viaving the Lien, we new fix Cancer, the
Crab, which lies in the Zodiac between it
and the Twins. Te identify here the
three oivfeur stars that have received
names, they should be looked for in a clear
night, when the moon is net shining.
Half-way between Pollux and Regulus are
Asellus Borealis and Asellus Australis,
both faint stars between which a geed eye
may distinguish the dim nebula Prsesepe,
or the Bee Hive, almost the only nebula
in the heavens that cau be distinguished
without the aid of a telescope. Nearly
half-way between Al Gieba aud Procyen
is the faint star'Acubcns. The stars Reg
ulus, Procyen aud Pollux form a triangle
which includes a very large part of the
Crab.
Returning te the Lien we carry a line
J trem Denebola te Bcnetuasch, in the han
dle the Great Dipper. Dividing this into
three parts, we have at the point of divi
sion nearest Denebola, a beautiful group
of faint stars known as Berenice's Hair :
at the next neint of division, nearest linn-
( etnasch, is Cor Caroli, the " Heart of
Charles," in the neck of one of the dogs
of Boetes, who is new pushing en above
the horizon by nine or ten o'clock in the
evening. As we are in the vicinity of the
Dipper, we will glance for a moment at
Cassiopeia's Chair ; which lies directly be
yond the North Star, and as far from it in
ene direction as the Great Dipper in the
ether. The five prominent stars here re
semble somewhat the letter "Y?." A
straight line from Mcgrcs, the star where
the handle joins the bowl of the Dipper,
through the North Star and carried as far
beyond it, will strike Caph. The next star
at the first angle in the W, is named SchV
dir, and at the third angle is Rucba.
Oar numerical list for the evening is
Sheratanand68 Mesartim, in the BUffqw,85S1!,!i
69, Regains; 70, Al Gieba; 71,' " well for us, standim; u
tnereiere centmuea : jne. ee, Arietis ; 67,
Adhafera ; 72, Northern Ras al
Asad ; 73, Southern Ras AI Asad ;
74, Zezma, and 75 Denebola, in the
Lien ; 76, Asellus Australis ; 77, Asellus
Borealis ; 78, Praesepe, the Bee Hive
Nebula, and 79 Acubens; in the Crab ; 80,
Berenice's Hair, a star group ; 81, Cor
Caroli ; 82, Caph ; 83. Schedir, and 84
Rucba, in the constellation Cassiopeia.
Venus, Jupiter and Saturn.
We say that the stars are fixed se far
at least as our observation gees, they
never change their relative positions. But
net se with the three planets new conspic
uous iu our western sky Venus, Jupiter
and Saturn which nightly present a new
combination iu the heavens with reference
te each ether aud te the stars about them.
The crescent moon during a part of the
present and past months has added no little
te the charm of variety which these mov
ing orbs present and will continue te de se
during the month of April. When we
leek at the four planets, three of which
are primary, our interest in them is in
creased by knowing some facts as te the
relative sizes, velocities and distances from
us and from the sun. The moon of which
secondary planets Jupiter has four
and Saturn eight is but little mere than
a quarter of a million of miles distant
from us and' its diameter is something
ever 2000 miles. Se near is it that its
light comes te us in about one second of
tune. The planet Venus revolves in an
orbit between us and the sun. Its year
is equal te seven of our months, and its
present distance from us is probably forty
millions of miles. It is somewhat smaller
in size than our Earth, about 1500 times
smaller than Jupiter, the less brilliant
planet new nearest the horizon ; and near
ly 1000 times smaller than Saturn, least
brilliant of the three. Jupiter is
new mere than 500 millions of miles, and
Saturn mere than 1000 millions distant
from us. Venus sweeps en in its orbit
around the sun at the rate of 1300 miles
per minute, Jupiter at the rate of 500
miles, and Saturn gees S50 miles per min
ute, or about as far as from Philadelphia
te Pittsburgh in a single minute of time !
The year of Jupiter is equal te twelve and
that of Saturn te thirty of our years, that
is te .iay, Jupiter is twelve times as leug
as our earth aud Saturn thirty times as
long in making its annual revolution
around the Sun. At the"?distances here
named the light which reaches us from
the Moen in little mere than a second
would come from Jupiter in about 45
minutes, while it would be nearly an hour
and a-half en its way te us from Saturn.
. The Denver Phenomenon.
Mr. McCaskey then read te the class
some extracts from late copies of the
Denver Tribune, received from Mr. Herace
D. Gast, and Wm. M. Shrciner, ferme
high school boys new in Colerado, giving
very graphic account of the wonderful
lunar phenomena observed there, en the
night of February 14, 1881. The diagram
accompanying the newspaper report which
was placed en the blackboard in enlarged
form, gives a satisfactory idea of this re
markable appearance in the heavens.
The special paper for the meeting was
then read by Rev. C. E. Ileupt en the
Mythology of the Constellation.
. A lie is aiways a pretender. It never
uses its own name as a deer-plate. Yet a
truth and a falsehood often seem alike,
though they arc the reverse of each ether.
It takes but little te make a truth seem a
lie. Much depends en the way in which a
given fact is perceived. Twe minds may
thus reach different conclusions after view-
in'
tlie same thing, rer you can very
easily "switch off," anywhere along the
track of direct truth, into seeming truth,
fallacy, error; and even the highest,
noblest aspiraiens Sand impulses of the
soul have elten furnished the motive force
that impelled the mind from little truth
downward into great, sad error. Thorns
of ignorance in the heart-field always choke
out the growth of truth by absorbing its
feed. Ofteu there is a grand inter-tangling
of truth with error whereby the truth truth
ueedle is se covered, ceufused, corroded,
and concealed iu the falsehood-stack as te
compel the judgement te pause before the
mass in giving verdict of true or false.
Indeed, man knows that there are some
portions of the truth se far above him
that he needs a revelation from Ged t
bring them down te the plane of his com
prehension, some explanation from Ged of
the superhuman phenomena that arc going
en about him. And you fiud that when
ever -that direct unfolding of the mind of
Ged has been wanting, man in his greater
or less ignorance of scientific facts has 6. -dcavercd
te supply the absence by invent
ing a revelation. These inventions we call
" myths."
Definition.
A truth and a myth often leek alike,
aud yet they ale different as a substance
and a shadow. Truth is always heavenly
aud divine. Hence it is permanent. All
its parts fit according te that order which
is declared te be the first law of Heaven,
and which the best philosophy of China
teaches is the highest principle of existence.
A myth is earthly aud human, often full
of the greatest errors and deceptions. A
trutli is a rose, come forth from the eter
nal mind of Ged, a living, vitalizing thing.
A myth is the skillful, artificial effort of
ignorance te reproduce truth. A myth is
the substitute for Ged's truth. It is the
best representation of truth that men
could make. It is the effort of man who
had lest the revelation and words of Ged
te make a revelation from Ged and
te hear Ged's words again. A truth
is eternal; a myth is temporary. A
myth is subjective, ". c, it is evolved
by man out of- the depths of
his own consciousness, A truth is object ebject
ive. It shines out from Ged upon the
mind and soul of mau. A truth is a fact.
A myth is only an idea. Hence, popularly
speaking, you may call a myth a labuleus
human statement or narrative utterly fic
titious, generally of a moral or even a re
ligious nature. It is usually allegorical,
describing one thing by means of another.
It tells the tale of the past by a counter
feit presentment of the heroes and
actions of the past. Te be accepted it
must be popular, plausible and involve
elements of supernatural and superhuman
power. A myth is the child of ignorance
and wonder, ignorance as te what has
happened and wonderment en beholding
the great and geed. Or, if you will, t is
only auethcr evidence of the groping,
blundering efforts of the human mind te
find its Ged and its surroundings.
Explication.
It is, of course, impossible for man by
any system of guesses te create a true re-'
veiatien for Ged ; but yet men of every
age and land have had their myths, and
these " delusions en their face " have, in
deed, their cousinhood of truth, and teach
a geed lessen.
Mythology is the knowledge and rea
sening concerning the ideas of Ged and
his works in man, which have occupied
the minds of men. It is a science built en
surmises, aided only by whatever light the
mind of man could bring te' bear upon
them. It might be called a superstition,
but could never lays claim te the title of
revelation te man. It is man's counter-
upon and
viewing from the high prometory of truth
the elayind wide my tholegic sea of the past,
te ceusider what geed things lie in its
besom, what pearls of thought and frag
ments of the adamantine rock of wisdom
are tossing ever its time-worn sands for
us te gather.
And it is well for us te consider bow this
mythology, the science net only of making
but also of telling the artificial for the
real truth, was applied by men of old te
the stars, Ged's jewels in heaven's velvet.
these beautiful orbs of steady light, ever
shining points of " the seventh heaven of
glory ;" and hew the very highest inven
tions of this counterfeit religion were in
variably connected with them. The an
cients, journeying in the path of knewl
edge, had net yet come te the forks be
tween morals, politics, psychology, re
ligion, mathematics, astrology and astron
omy. Sometimes Ged has spoken unto the
fathers of the race out of heaven, as in
the cases of Cain, Euech, Neah, etc. And
they who at Babel wandered away from
the knowledge of Ged retained only an
echo of revolatieu in their memories.
Theso that followed them imagined that
Ged did at all times speak, but only
through the lauguage of nature.
Every form came te have a meaning te
them, a reason for its existence, a mes
sage te convey. Hence, the best way te
express these meanings was by their
form. Hence, the languages of all these
primitive races were hieroglyphic. Then
they began te see meaning -and language
everywhere, which awaited only a read
ing. Above all they found imaginary
forms frescoed, if I may say se, upon the
great dome abeve them. The mere they
could discern the forms, the mere would
they understand the language of the gods
and their deeds. All that was needed was
te recognize what shape was embroidered
upon the tapestry along the walls of the
celestial firmament, and their knowledge
of truth would be complete.
Man's mind is endowed with two in
stincts (among the ethers) of worship and
prayer ; aud following these insticts he has
ever held a profound dependence upon
some power or powers outside of and
higher than himself te whom he has con
stantly appealed for aid. Mythology
availed itself of these insticts, and became
a science of ideas, of power rather than
the mere representations of power. The
pictures, "or constellations," of heavenly
bodies, were only the emblems of great at
tributes. Ferm was te them euly a sec
ondary cousideratieu.
The Hindu, the Egyptiau, the Pheenic
ian worshiped the idea or myth et power
Dy representing their god with fifty arms ;
or with the head of the lien, the ram, or
the ex. Te them worship was abject fear
rendered te avert evil, rather than te pro pre
euro geed ; thus leading them te cruel
sacrifices. Mercy and love formed no
part of the attributes of their deities.
But in Greece all was different. Here
the divinities possessed all the passions
and loves et humanity, joined with a su
preme power, controlled by wisden and
justice. His Ged was a friend te the
Greek.
History.
The wondering Aryan, awakening from
.sleep, .refreshed aud thankful, looked
forth upon the morning glow, which he
saluted as his god Arnstra. Te him the
diurnal and the nocturnal heavens were
"twin brethren, who had been nursed
upon the besom of Aditi." Aditi is the
space beyond the horizon. The gods were
"Adityas" t. e., children et Aum.
Aditi, iu a word, was boundless space, but
space endowed with life, form and power
the power, namely, of delivering men
from its heaviest of their chains . e.,
sin. The storm they pictured as a ram
pant bull, "whose bellewings they had
heard in the thunder." It was easy then
te find a place for him among the stars.
"The horse was placed in heaven also te
represent the Sun. Fire was Agni, ene of"
the Adityas. Such was the innocent,
child-like mythology of the Hindus, se
poetic, closely allied te science and se
rich in moral lessens." But the sin of
which the Hindus spoke seen showed it
self even in the mythology.
The Etruscans changed this simple, in
nocent, moral mythology into a political
astrology, which opened the way for all
sorts of schemes, delusions and selfishness.
The Etruscans called their deities " Con
sented, ' sharers of the destinies of their
race, "and believed that they were fated te
perish after a reign of 8,000 years. This
doctrine of the renovation of Heaven,
earth and gods is found te prevail wher
ever politics, the growth et conquest or
the migration of a nation has supplanted
the simple and child-like faith" which
springs up of itself among au innocent
and unconquered Pagan people.
In primitive Greece the Sun was a torch
and the stars candles, periodically lighted
and extinguished. There, tee, they be
gan te distinguish the constellations
through which the Sun appeared te pass.
According te He-ied, "Chaes is the parent
of Night and Erebus : but tlte Earth is the
parent of the Heatens.,
The zodiac was the heaven which ex
actly corresponded with the earth, pro
tected the earth, taught the earth its du
ties. Said the Cosmogonists, " the earth
is explained by the heavens." But as they
were bound te proceed from the known te
the uuknewn they did in met explain
heaten by the earth, and
men. Hence, in many
universe is an egg ; in
duck's egg, the spots en
in particular by
mythologies, the
Finland it is a
the shell rcprc-
senting the constellations,
Examples.
Taking the constellations as they were
commonly known and accepted, there can
no form be found which is net earthly, de
veloped from mundane ideas or combina
tions of ideas. Thus the constellations,
visible te Ptolemy, were forty-eight in
number. Permit me te name them in their
order. North of the zodiac, were the
Little Bear, the Great Bear, the Dragen,
Cepheus (the royal gentleman and Argo
naut), the hunter Boetes (ignorantly
chasing his own mother Caliste, trans
formed into a bear), the Northern Crown
(the gift of the trne Ariadne), Hercules
(the kneeling monster swinging his Indian
club), the Harp, the Swan, Cassiopeia
(seated in her chair), Perseus (the daunt
less), the skillful Charioteer, Esculapius
or Sarpentarius (the conqueror of death by
medicine), grasping the serpent, the
Arrew, the Eagle, the Delphin of Arien,
the Head of the Herse, and the flying
horse, Pegasus (who wen his place by a
flight te the stars), Andromeda (saved
and wooed by Peisms), and the Triangle,
constituting twenty-one.
In the zodiac are the twelve familiar
ones, the Ram, the Bull, the "Twins, the
Crab, the Lien, the Virgin, the Scales, the
Scoipien, the Archer, the Geat, the Water
man and the Fishes. The ancients dis
cerned fifteen constellations south of the
zodiac, te wit : The Whale, Orien battling
with the bull, the Eridanus (river of Phae
ton), the Hare, pursued by the Great Deg
and also the Little Deg the Ship Arge,
sweeping along before the Hydra, en
whom the Carrien Crew is seated,the Cup,
the roving Ceutaur, the cannibal wolf Ly Ly
caen, the Altar, the Southern Crown and
the Southern Fishes constitute the com
plete list of incongruous forms suspended
aloft in the heaven of man's soul.
The constellations added by Hevelius, of
the seventeenth century, are Antineus,
Mount Menelaus, the Hunting Dogs, the
Giraffe Cereberus, Berenice's Hair, the
Lizard, the Lynx, Sobieski's Shield, the
Sextant, the Southern Triangle, the Little
Lien in number, 12.
The astronomer, Halley, added eight, te
wit : Neah's Deve, the Royal Oak, the
Crane, the Phcsnix, the Peacock, the
Bird of Paradise, the Fly, and the Cha
meleon. All of these myths are, yen beheld,
eirthly conceptions recorded en the im
mensity of space.
lBSeeace or Stellar Mythology.
The contemplation of the glories of the
starry heavens has always and instinetive-
ly been connected with the knowledge of
Ged. It exerted a wonderful influence
upon the education of man and the devel
opment of the race.Even the Bible writers,
inspired of the true Ged, refer te them as
well-known objects in their day. Jeb
"speaks of Ged's "commanding the sun,"
and "sealing up the stars ; as making
Arcturns (the Hebrew signifying the Ar
abic idea of the constellation, a bearer, a
wagon) Orien (whom the Hebrews
regarded as an impious
upon the sky : hence,
" giant " bound
Jeb xxxviu..
31, "Cans't thou Zoom the bands of Orien?''
the Pleiades (Hebrew word meaning a
heap); and the "Chambers of the Seuth"
the large vacant spaces in the southern
sky, in which, te a northern observer, no
stars were discernible. Again, the word
Mazzaretb, used in Jeb xxxviii : 33, sig
nifies "scatterings;" and is used origi
nally te denote the north, the region of
the "wind that scatters." But it was
afterward applied te the twelve signs of
the Zodiac, scattered through the year.
The 34th verse is remarkable, " Knewest
thou the ordinances of Heaven? Cans't
thou set the dominion thereof in the
earth?" The word "Dominion" erigi
nally refers te "write," or make records.
Hence it would seem te denote signs, or
prescriptions ; suggesting the notion that
the signs or constellations prescribed and
controlled the destinies of men. Many
ether such instances might be shown.
In I Kings xxiii., 5 the word " Mazza Mazza
eotb" is mistranslated "planets."
Net only te the child who imagines them
holes through which the glory of heaven
is shining and angels are peeping down
upon this world, but te these elder chil
dren of contemplation, the shepherds tf
the East, supine upon the grassy plain,
head pillowed upon elbow ; and te these
piiests, ignorant of any higher wenbip
than their own ideas, and who must be
able te furnish a reason for everything
around them, were the stars suggestive ;
and their seemingly equidistant position
and.arrangemcnt seen led these dreamy
superstitious watchers te see (or suppose
they saw) imaginary forms outlined in
the heavens by groups of stars. And the
Uranolegy of te-day delights te retrace
the lines that made the old world's eyes
reverent as it gazed en high. Even new,
de we, of te-day, delight te listen te the
lucent poetry of these forms, rung te the
" music of the spheres."
The attributes of the one Ged, Jehovah,
were distributed unto many deities in the
stellar world, before the Pagan mind, but
it was especially in Greece that the My
thology of the Constellations reached its
greatest perfection, its acme of influence.
The nations of the East, Chaldeans, Egyp
tians, etc., as early (Laplace thinks) as
1400, B. C. were the original observers
who marked off the heavenly bodies into
mytholegic groups. Sir Isaac Newton was
of the opinion that all the old censtella
tiens related te the fable of the Argouaut Argeuaut
ic expedition ; and that they were pic
tures hung along the galleries of the
heavens te commemorate the heroes and
exploits of that bold enterprise.
Object or the Mythology.
The imperishability of the stirs made
them the best monuments, and facts exalt
ed te connection with them were, seem
ingly at least, te last forever. Hence te
place among the stars a gieuping of ideal
forms, illustrative of the events of men,
was the most permanent and public way
te make their facts and legends memor
able and maintain them unchanged.
Though Sir Jehn Herschel regards them
as of but little scientific valne, and though
ether astronomers, as Vielins and Schil
lerius, have sought te modernize or
seripturalize them ; yet, the old nnceuth
figures remain a faithful picture of the
time and the civilization long age ; an im
perishable record of a history that is pre
historic. They constitute the poetry and
net the prose of history. Better then te
keep them as they are, records of the
mental efforts of man, struggling upward
te reach the truth, than te associate Ged's
Revelation and especially the manifesta
tion of His Sen with their mythic forms'.
The question naturally arises, Are these
stories mytholegic, or are they true his
tory ? Manifestly they are mythic ; and
yet most of them like their forms have an
earthly foundation in real fact. Men of
antiquity, looking upon what had taken
place, have constructed them out of what
materials they had en hand (or rather in
head.) aud successive generations have
net dared te molest se holy a thing as the
mythology. Many constellations are
grouped about a single idea or story.
Fallacy of Mythology.
A parable presents a fact within a story
from real life ; A simile shows the agree
ment of two facts ; a fable teaches a truth
by what could cot possibly have occurred ;
but a myth presents te us under a fictitious
story only the idea that has taken pos
session of the fancy. Te show that the
whole system of the constellations is myth myth myth
oeogic aud net real, we need only reflect
that the Greeks altered and revised the
constellations of the Egyptians, te suit
themselves; the Remans transformed
these of the Greek. Se tee there were
many myths, or explanations of the same
constellation in each land ; as in the case
of the Swan, the Lesser Deg, etc.
The Cba'dean-i had one canae for a star,
or group, the Hebrews another, and se
throughout. Ne less than four huge irreg
ular constellations wind their tortuous
course across the heavens of the Greeks.
The Greek "wolf" was the Jewish "deg,"
and, while some thought that certain stars
made the huge bear's tail, ethers con
sidered them te depict a wagon. Frem
the antiquated spring lamb which we find
hung upon the hooks in Aries down te the
two dried herring tied together in the last
Zodiacal box, there Are many queer charac
ters. Many of the forms are the deities
disguised whom Jupiter, the chief celestial
policeman, caught in their various pranks
and jailed, se as te be up out of the way
and also serve as a warning te all the bad
boys of futurity. The crew we read was
changed from purest white te its present
shade, becausa of its fafe-bearing propensi
ties. Otrieets or MyUwlegy.
Three great and deble objects lie in the
view.ef these old-time levers of mythology.
One is te fix fictitious heroes and their
deeds .imperishably in the minds of the
people, and encourage submission te, ven
eration for and.wender at the greatness
and works of the "Higher Powers."
Anether is te deify and ennoble the actual
exploits of true heroes, which otherwise
would be lest from history. The third is te
show the interest of the gods in the affairs
of men.
Toe seen we laugh and threw down our
mythologies and astrolegies and cry, "Ab
surd! Preposterous!" These fancies
were the religion of the clearest minds in
Europe in their day. Although there is
much of falsehood and of delusion in it
all, we of the light of Revelation should
remember that these myths were once the
only means of knowing ued,and tiis Law,
and they are weighted with a value
that is net only mental but moral.
Net only have they their aesthetic
beauty, but a pure, abiding confidence in
their half obscured divinities and the kind
of morality they taught. Hew satisfying
the story of the Pleiades, seven sweet vir
gins of spring time, who were made stars,
with their sisters the Hyades, en account
of their amiable virtues and their mutual
affectum ; in like manner, V irgii repre
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address lulus : "Made nova virtute pucr ;
sic itur ad astra." "Ge en in virtue as
you've begun, my boy. se .you tee shall
reach a place among the stars."
It was netall madness and infatuation
that led te these things. Betore
saying se let us pause ! Had the men who
se devoutly loved and served these deities
of the constellations, who could believe
in theso myths with such child-like faith,
lived in the light'and scientific clearness of
our times, is it net likely that ttiey W.tuld
have become the highest ornaments of
the Christian Church and models of every
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