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CONTENTS.
PAGE The Fire-god Loki 426 Loki the Thief 427 Section IV.— PROMETHEUS. The Hesiodic Ages 427 The Heroic Age 429 The Prometheus of Æschylos 430 The Punishment of Prometheus 431 The Cheating of Zeus 433 Prometheus and Pandora 433 Prometheus and Deukalion 435 Prometheus and Iô 436 Section V.—THE LIGHTNING. The Titans 437 The Kyklôpes 439 Schamir and Sassafras 440 Ahmed and Tanhaüser 441 The Greedy Alcalde 442 Mediæval Spells 443 CHAPTER V. THE WINDS. Section I.—VAYU AND THE MARUTS. Vayu and Favonius 444 Boreas and the Maruts 444 The Crushers, or Grinders 445 Rudra 445 Section II.—HERMES. Hindu and Greek Myths of the Wind 446 The Story of Hermes 446 The Theft of the Cattle 447 The Covenant of Hermes and Phoibos 447 The Meaning of the Covenant 449 The Rivalry between Hermes and Phoibos 451 Hermes the God of the Moving Air 451 Transparent Clearness of the Myth 454 Humour of the Myth 456 Hermes, the Messenger and the Thief 457 Hermes and the Charites 458 Hermes the Herald 458 Section III.-ORPHEUS. Points of Difference between Orpheus and Hermes 459 The Seirens 461 The Piper of Hameln 462 The Erlking 462 The Jew among the Thorns 463 The Story of Arîon 463