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| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | Rune X, Ilmarinen forges the Sampo | high | Since I forged the arch of heaven, / Forged the air a concave cover. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | PREFACE / THE AENEID / BOOK FIRST / THE COMING OF AENEAS TO CARTHAGE; lines 120-221 | medium | Aeneas comes from Troy as an exile of fate to Italy and Lavinium, is driven by heaven, must found a city and bring his gods into Latium, and is linked to the Latin race, Alba, and Rome. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | PREFACE / THE AENEID / BOOK FIRST / THE COMING OF AENEAS TO CARTHAGE; lines 317-400 | medium | Jupiter foretells Ascanius/Iülus's rule, the move to Alba Longa, three hundred years of rule, Ilia's twin offspring from Mars, and Romulus, nursed by a she-wolf, naming the Romans. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK SEVENTH / THE LANDING IN LATIUM, AND THE ROLL OF THE ARMIES OF ITALY / BOOK EIGHTH / THE EMBASSAGE TO EVANDER; lines 5161-5236 | high | After the meal, Evander says the rites, feast, and august altar are due worship because they were saved from bitter perils, and he addresses a Trojan guest. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK SEVENTH / THE LANDING IN LATIUM, AND THE ROLL OF THE ARMIES OF ITALY / BOOK EIGHTH / THE EMBASSAGE TO EVANDER; lines 5238-5331 | high | After the rites, Evander walks with Aeneas and his son, recounting Fauns, Nymphs, oak-born humans, Saturn's exile and lawgiving, the golden age, later war and greed, the naming of the Tiber, and Evander's divinely guided settlement. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FIRST / THE COMING OF AENEAS TO CARTHAGE / BOOK SECOND / THE STORY OF THE SACK OF TROY; lines 980-1059 | medium | Hector appears in Aeneas’s sleep, wounded and grieving, tells him to flee Troy’s flames, entrusts him with Troy’s holy things and household gods, and brings out Vesta’s chaplets and everlasting fire. | record |
| Greek | Aesop's Fables; a new translation | THE HAWK, THE KITE, AND THE PIGEONS / THE WOMAN AND THE FARMER / PROMETHEUS AND THE MAKING OF MAN / THE SWALLOW AND THE CROW; lines 5283-5302 | medium | At Jupiter's bidding, Prometheus begins creating Man and the other animals; Jupiter notes that rational mankind is outnumbered by irrational beasts. | record |
| Ainu | Aino Folk-Tales | AINO FOLK-LORE. / I.--TALES ACCOUNTING FOR THE ORIGIN OF PHENOMENA. / II.--MORAL TALES. / IV.--MISCELLANEOUS TALES.; lines 1811-1905 | medium | A baby is then heard crying outside; the old woman brings in a fine baby boy, who is kept, grows into a man, and kills many deer and bears. | record |
| Ainu | Aino Folk-Tales | AINO FOLK-LORE. / I.--TALES ACCOUNTING FOR THE ORIGIN OF PHENOMENA. / II.--MORAL TALES. / IV.--MISCELLANEOUS TALES.; lines 2102-2199 | high | Okikurumi, with his younger sister Tureshihi, taught the Ainos arts such as bow-and-arrow hunting, netting fish, and spearing fish. | record |
| Ainu | Aino Folk-Tales | LOCAL SECRETARIES. / HONORARY SECRETARIES. / INTRODUCTION. / AINO FOLK-LORE.; lines 435-482 | medium | "The only mythological names which appear are Okikurumi, whom the Ainos regard as having been their civilizer in very ancient times, his sister-wife Turesh, or Tureshi[hi] and his henchman Samayunguru." | record |
| Ainu | Aino Folk-Tales | HONORARY SECRETARIES. / INTRODUCTION. / AINO FOLK-LORE. / I.--TALES ACCOUNTING FOR THE ORIGIN OF PHENOMENA.; lines 485-608 | medium | A large house suddenly appears on a mountain top, containing six beautifully arrayed people who constantly quarrel. | record |
| Ainu | Aino Folk-Tales | HONORARY SECRETARIES. / INTRODUCTION. / AINO FOLK-LORE. / I.--TALES ACCOUNTING FOR THE ORIGIN OF PHENOMENA.; lines 902-1009 | medium | In ancient days, the new world is unsettled and burning beneath a thin crust, so people stay in huts; Okikurumi fishes for them and sends Turesh with food, while commanding them not to ask questions or look at her face. | record |
| Islamicate Folklore | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 4010-4107 | medium | All men rode horses “without bridle or stirrups,” and the king says he has never heard of such things. | record |
| Indigenous Australian | Australian Legendary Tales: folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies | CONTENTS / PREFACE / INTRODUCTION / ANDREW LANG.; lines 1021-1119 | medium | Beeargah seizes the comebee, cuts it open, takes the firestick, fires grass as he runs, and Bootoolgah concludes the secret has become common property. | record |
| Indigenous Australian | Australian Legendary Tales: folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies | CONTENTS / PREFACE / INTRODUCTION / ANDREW LANG.; lines 3224-3258 | medium | Wirreenun remains calm, summons a neighbouring rainmaker, consults with him, and orders the tribes to Googoorewon, a dry plain surrounded by gaunt trees said to have once been black fellows. | record |
| Indigenous Australian | Australian Legendary Tales: folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies | CONTENTS / PREFACE / INTRODUCTION / ANDREW LANG.; lines 561-655 | medium | Byamee finds the deep holes dry, takes shortcuts from hole to hole, and the passage says his track is still marked by morilla ridges; he reaches a wet muddy hole, sees the kurreahs, and hides behind a big dheal tree. | record |
| Indigenous Australian | Australian Legendary Tales: folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies | AS TOLD TO THE PICCANINNIES / COLLECTED BY MRS. K. LANGLOH PARKER / WITH INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW LANG, M.A. / CONTENTS; lines 67-124 | low | “Bootoolgah the Crane and Goonur the Kangaroo Rat, the Fire Makers.” | record |
| Indigenous Australian | Australian Legendary Tales: folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies | CONTENTS / PREFACE / INTRODUCTION / ANDREW LANG.; lines 868-931 | medium | The tale of Bootoolgah and Goonur begins in a country without fire; Bootoolgah rubs two pieces of wood, sees spark and smoke, and suggests making fire to cook food. | record |
| Daoist | Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer | LANGUAGE. / CHAPTER XXVIII. / ON DECLINING POWER. / CHAPTER XXIX.; lines 12777-12905 | medium | The passage says the Yellow Emperor's virtue was incomplete, Yao was not paternal, Shun not filial, Yü lacked natural feeling, T'ang deposed his sovereign, Wu Wang vanquished Chou, and Wên Wang was imprisoned; desire for advantage disturbed their purity. | record |
| Daoist | Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer | THE OLD FISHERMAN. / CHAPTER XXXII. / CHAPTER XXXIII. / THE EMPIRE.; lines 14207-14322 | medium | "Of old, the great Yü drained off the flood of waters, and caused rivers and streams to flow through the nine divisions of the empire" and adjacent regions. | record |
| Daoist | Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer | CHAPTER XV. / SELF-CONCEIT. / CHAPTER XVI. / EXERCISE OF FACULTIES.; lines 6757-6895 | medium | With a decline in virtue, Sui Jen and Fu Hsi ruled; natural adaptation remained but unity was gone. The editor glosses Sui Jen as "The Prometheus of China." | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER XV. THE HUNT OF SLIEVE CUILINN / BOOK FIVE: OISIN'S CHILDREN / BOOK SIX: DIARMUID. / CHAPTER I. BIRTH OF DIARMUID; lines 10465-10539 | medium | Diarmuid reaches full strength, gains a place among the Fianna, is loved by women, performs many deeds, and fights a wild ox for seven days and nights on the Mountain of Happiness. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER I. THE FIGHT WITH THE FIRBOLGS / CHAPTER II. THE REIGN OF BRES / BOOK TWO: LUGH OF THE LONG HAND. / CHAPTER I. THE COMING OF LUGH; lines 1089-1182 | high | The door-keeper requires an art for entry; Lugh names arts including carpenter, smith, champion, harper, poet, tale-teller, magician, physician, cup-bearer, and brass-worker, but each is refused because the household already has one. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER I. BIRTH OF DIARMUID / CHAPTER II. HOW DIARMUID GOT HIS LOVE-SPOT / CHAPTER III. THE DAUGHTER OF KING UNDER-WAVE / CHAPTER IV. THE HARD SERVANT; lines 11053-11154 | medium | Fergus of the True Lips rebukes Diarmuid and reminds him that he was reared and taught by Manannan in the Land of Promise and by Angus Og. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER I. BIRTH OF DIARMUID / CHAPTER II. HOW DIARMUID GOT HIS LOVE-SPOT / CHAPTER III. THE DAUGHTER OF KING UNDER-WAVE / CHAPTER IV. THE HARD SERVANT; lines 11156-11258 | high | At a gathering, a woman-messenger reports ships, boats, and armies robbing the country; the King of Sorcha says this is the High King of Greece, who wants to put the entire world under him. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER I. THE FIGHT WITH THE FIRBOLGS / CHAPTER II. THE REIGN OF BRES / BOOK TWO: LUGH OF THE LONG HAND. / CHAPTER I. THE COMING OF LUGH; lines 1184-1265 | medium | After Lugh comes to Teamhair and decides to join his father’s people against the Fomor, he, Nuada, the Dagda, Ogma, Goibniu, and Diancecht spend a year secretly planning a rising. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER I. THE FIGHT WITH THE FIRBOLGS / CHAPTER II. THE REIGN OF BRES / BOOK TWO: LUGH OF THE LONG HAND. / CHAPTER I. THE COMING OF LUGH; lines 1267-1358 | medium | Lugh Lamh-Fada is recognized as returning with Riders of the Sidhe from the Land of Promise and his named foster-brothers, sons of Manannan. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER I. THE FIGHT WITH THE FIRBOLGS / CHAPTER II. THE REIGN OF BRES / BOOK TWO: LUGH OF THE LONG HAND. / CHAPTER I. THE COMING OF LUGH; lines 1267-1358 | high | A surly Fomor troop of nine times nine messengers arrives to ask rent and taxes from Ireland; Eine, Eathfaigh, Coron, and Compar are named as especially cruel, and the Tuatha de Danaan greatly dread them. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | BOOK TWO: LUGH OF THE LONG HAND. / CHAPTER I. THE COMING OF LUGH / CHAPTER II. THE SONS OF TUIREANN / CHAPTER III. THE GREAT BATTLE OF MAGH TUIREADH; lines 2206-2301 | medium | While the Dagda is away, Lugh gathers Druids, smiths, physicians, law-makers, and chariot-drivers of Ireland to make battle plans. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | BOOK TWO: LUGH OF THE LONG HAND. / CHAPTER I. THE COMING OF LUGH / CHAPTER II. THE SONS OF TUIREANN / CHAPTER III. THE GREAT BATTLE OF MAGH TUIREADH; lines 2303-2409 | medium | Goibniu tells Lugh he will replace broken swords and lost spear-points, and that his spear-points never miss and kill those they touch. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | BOOK TWO: LUGH OF THE LONG HAND. / CHAPTER I. THE COMING OF LUGH / CHAPTER II. THE SONS OF TUIREANN / CHAPTER III. THE GREAT BATTLE OF MAGH TUIREADH; lines 2411-2509 | medium | Lugh breaks away from those guarding him, rushes to the front, urges the men of Ireland to fight rather than remain in bonds and tribute, and sings a song of courage. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | WITH A PREFACE BY W.B. YEATS / DEDICATION TO THE MEMBERS OF THE IRISH LITERARY SOCIETY OF NEW YORK / AUGUSTA GREGORY. / PREFACE; lines 265-327 | medium | Adam imagines a bird into life and creates all things by fancy; heroes can make a ship from a shaving. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER IV. THE HIDDEN HOUSE OF LUGH / BOOK THREE: THE COMING OF THE GAEL. / CHAPTER I. THE LANDING / CHAPTER II. THE BATTLE OF TAILLTIN; lines 2823-2893 | medium | The Children of Rudraighe, descended from Eimhir, are said to live in Emain Macha for nine hundred years and to include later notable men such as Fergus and Conall Cearnach. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER V. AINE / CHAPTER VI. AOIBHELL / CHAPTER VII. MIDHIR AND ETAIN / CHAPTER VIII. MANANNAN; lines 3788-3890 | medium | Manannan is later heard of in Ireland: he sends a messenger to Etain, brings up Deirdre's children, teaches Diarmuid and Cuchulain, is called by some Deirdre's father, and appears as a hare before hounds to lead Ulstermen to her hiding place. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | WITH A PREFACE BY W.B. YEATS / DEDICATION TO THE MEMBERS OF THE IRISH LITERARY SOCIETY OF NEW YORK / AUGUSTA GREGORY. / PREFACE; lines 419-501 | high | Later farming people and town labourers named themselves after Finn’s companions; old stories of Finn and Cuchulain are said to have helped shape Irish and Norman-Irish aristocratic conduct. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | BOOK FIVE: THE FATE OF THE CHILDREN OF LIR / PART TWO: THE FIANNA. / BOOK ONE: FINN, SON OF CUMHAL. / CHAPTER I. THE COMING OF FINN; lines 5888-5976 | high | At the feast, the King of Ireland offers rightful inheritance to anyone who can keep Teamhair safe until daybreak from Aillen's burning. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | BOOK FIVE: THE FATE OF THE CHILDREN OF LIR / PART TWO: THE FIANNA. / BOOK ONE: FINN, SON OF CUMHAL. / CHAPTER I. THE COMING OF FINN; lines 5978-5995 | medium | Finn is described as a king, seer, poet, Druid, knowledgeable man, and sweet-sounding speaker to his people. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | PART TWO: THE FIANNA. / BOOK ONE: FINN, SON OF CUMHAL. / CHAPTER I. THE COMING OF FINN / CHAPTER II. FINN'S HOUSEHOLD; lines 5998-6089 | medium | The Fianna receive wages and rights, but their dangers are greater because they must keep strangers, sea-robbers, and every bad thing from entering Ireland. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER II. FINN'S HOUSEHOLD / CHAPTER III. BIRTH OF BRAN. / CHAPTER IV. OISIN'S MOTHER. / CHAPTER V. THE BEST MEN OF THE FIANNA; lines 6278-6377 | medium | Caoilte brings Finn out of Teamhair after Finn has been kept there by force by the High King because of a rebellion by the Fianna. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER XII. THE GREAT FIGHT / CHAPTER XIII. CREDHE'S LAMENT / BOOK FOUR: HUNTINGS AND ENCHANTMENTS. / CHAPTER I. THE KING OF BRITAIN'S SON; lines 8361-8449 | medium | They return to Finn with his three hounds and Arthur as prisoner; Arthur makes bonds with Finn and becomes his follower; the horse and mare are given to Finn, and the mare's offspring become the horses of the Fianna. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | GODS AND FIGHTING MEN. / PART ONE: THE GODS. / BOOK ONE: THE COMING OF THE TUATHA DE DANAAN. / CHAPTER I. THE FIGHT WITH THE FIRBOLGS; lines 841-858 | medium | In the Hill of the Sidhe was the well Nemnach; the stream Nith flowed from it, and the first mill in Ireland was built on that stream. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) | MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD.; lines 6597-6671 | high | Osiris is introduced as son of the earth-god Qeb/Seb; as king on earth he reclaims Egyptians from savagery, gives laws, and teaches worship of the gods. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) | MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD.; lines 6725-6799 | medium | Wheat and barley are attributed to Isis; stalks are carried in procession at her festivals; after first cutting at harvest, Egyptian reapers lay down the stalks, beat their breasts, lament, and call upon Isis. | record |
| Persian | The Persian Literature, Volume 2, The Gulistan | XCIII / XCVIII / CVIII / CXIII; lines 4804-4835 | medium | Jemshid is said to be the first to put edging around his garment and a ring on his finger; when asked about ornament on the left hand, he says the right hand's being right is ornament enough. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Heroic Romances of Ireland | LITERAL TRANSLATION / TEXT OF LEABHAR NA H-UIDHRI / INTRODUCTION / TEXT WITH INTERLINEAR TRANSLATION; lines 12761-13012 | high | The passage says this was done by Eochaid, and that he is called Eochaid Airem because by him a yoke was first put on the necks of oxen for the land of Ireland. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Heroic Romances of Ireland | THE COURTSHIP OF ETAIN / EGERTON VERSION / THE COURTSHIP OF ETAIN / LEABHAR NA H-UIDHRI VERSION; lines 1814-1914 | medium | Eochaid wins many games and demands works for his realm: clearing stones from Meath, removing rushes around Tethba, cutting down the forest of Breg, and building a causeway across Lamrach. At sunset the steward sees Mider, his fairy host, and fairy oxen laboring there. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Heroic Romances of Ireland | THE COURTSHIP OF ETAIN / LEABHAR NA H-UIDHRI VERSION / MAC DATHO'S BOAR / INTRODUCTION; lines 1995-2030 | low | The tale's style is called more barbaric than other romances but relieved by humour; the only supernatural touch is said to occur in a Rawlinson variation; Curoi mac Dari is described as a Munster hero overshadowed by Ulster in accepted versions. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Heroic Romances of Ireland | FROM THE BOOK OF LEINSTER (TWELFTH-CENTURY MS.) / THE SICK-BED OF CUCHULAIN / INTRODUCTION / THE SICK-BED OF CUCHULAIN; lines 3437-3584 | medium | Labraid and Cuchulain make a circuit about the army and see it as innumerable; two ravens speak and reveal Druid secrets, the armies laugh, call the one there the madman from Ireland, and chase the ravens away. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Heroic Romances of Ireland | PAGE 118 / PAGE 121 / PAGE 124 / PAGE 126; lines 8308-8369 | medium | “Woe for him who shall be upon the hillock” waiting for the hound; the figure is named “the Hound of Emain Macha,” “the Hound of battle,” and has “hues of all colours.” | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | ENDNOTES / PREPARERS NOTE / PREFACE / INTRODUCTION; lines 1010-1106 | medium | Hermes is born, makes a lyre from a tortoise shell, steals Apollo's cattle, is involved in a tribunal of Zeus, and through the lyre gains Apollo's friendship and prerogatives. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | INTRODUCTION / BIBLIOGRAPHY / HESIOD / HESIODS WORKS AND DAYS; lines 1532-1621 | medium | The gods hide livelihood from humans; Zeus hides fire after Prometheus deceives him, and Prometheus steals fire back for humans in a hollow fennel-stalk. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | HESIOD / HESIODS WORKS AND DAYS / THE DIVINATION BY BIRDS / THE ASTRONOMY; lines 2338-2416 | medium | A Diodorus notice contrasts earthquake explanations with Hesiod’s claim that Orion piled up the promontory by Peloris, founded Poseidon’s close, settled in Euboea, and was taken among the stars for his renown. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE ASTRONOMY / THE PRECEPTS OF CHIRON / THE GREAT WORKS / THE IDAEAN DACTYLS; lines 2439-2460 | high | Pliny reports that Hesiod says the Idaean Dactyls taught the smelting and tempering of iron in Crete. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE PRECEPTS OF CHIRON / THE GREAT WORKS / THE IDAEAN DACTYLS / THE THEOGONY; lines 2738-2827 | medium | Heracles with Iolaus destroys Hydra through Athene's plans; Pegasus and Bellerophon slay Chimaera; Heracles overcomes the Nemean lion. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE GREAT WORKS / THE IDAEAN DACTYLS / THE THEOGONY / THE CATALOGUES OF WOMEN AND EOIAE1701; lines 3529-3639 | medium | Brief notices mention Arabus' daughter, Danaus making waterless Argos well-watered, and Aegyptus sending fifty sons to Argos. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE GREAT WORKS / THE IDAEAN DACTYLS / THE THEOGONY / THE CATALOGUES OF WOMEN AND EOIAE1701; lines 3641-3768 | high | Cephisus is a river in Orchomenus where the Graces are worshipped; Eteoclus first sacrificed to them; the river has sweet-flowing water and winds like a snake. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE GREAT WORKS / THE IDAEAN DACTYLS / THE THEOGONY / THE CATALOGUES OF WOMEN AND EOIAE1701; lines 3770-3893 | high | Aeacus was born and, when grown, chafed at being alone; Zeus made all the ants on the island into men and women, and they were the first to fit ships with thwarts and use sails. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | II. 1745 / THE SHIELD OF HERACLES / THE MARRIAGE OF CEYX / THE GREAT EOIAE; lines 4786-4884 | medium | Alcmene says Zeus begot Heracles to be most toilful and most excellent; the Fates also made him so. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | ENDNOTES / PREPARERS NOTE / PREFACE / INTRODUCTION; lines 531-624 | low | Precepts of Chiron gives moral and practical precepts from Chiron to Achilles; Great Works includes cultivation topics, the judgment of Rhadamanthys, metals, and possible relation to Idaean Dactyls on discovery and working of metals. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | I. TO DIONYSUS 2501 / II. TO DEMETER / III. TO DELIAN APOLLO / TO PYTHIAN APOLLO; lines 6003-6078 | medium | Apollo ponders which men to bring as ministers in sacrifice at Pytho and notices a swift ship of Cretans from Cnossos sailing toward Pylos for trade. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | I. TO DIONYSUS 2501 / II. TO DEMETER / III. TO DELIAN APOLLO / TO PYTHIAN APOLLO; lines 6080-6145 | medium | Apollo addresses strangers from wooded Cnossos, says they will not return home, identifies himself as Apollo son of Zeus, and says he brought them over the sea without intending harm so that they will keep his honored temple and know the gods’ plans. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | II. TO DEMETER / III. TO DELIAN APOLLO / TO PYTHIAN APOLLO / IV. TO HERMES; lines 6148-6247 | medium | Hermes leaves the cradle, finds a tortoise at the threshold, laughs, calls it an omen of luck, carries it within, and says that if it dies it will make sweetest song. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | II. TO DEMETER / III. TO DELIAN APOLLO / TO PYTHIAN APOLLO / IV. TO HERMES; lines 6249-6341 | medium | Hermes is said to have first invented fire-sticks and fire, piling dry sticks in a trench until fierce flame spread. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | II. TO DEMETER / III. TO DELIAN APOLLO / TO PYTHIAN APOLLO / IV. TO HERMES; lines 6546-6640 | medium | Hermes plays the lyre, sings of the gods and dark earth, honors Mnemosyne first, and Apollo is moved with joy and longing. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | XII. TO HERA / XIII. TO DEMETER / XIV. TO THE MOTHER OF THE GODS / XV. TO HERACLES THE LION-HEARTED; lines 7133-7143 | medium | Heracles formerly wandered over unmeasured land and sea at Eurystheus' command, doing and enduring many violent deeds. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | XVIII. TO HERMES / XIX. TO PAN / XX. TO HEPHAESTUS / XXI. TO APOLLO; lines 7229-7248 | high | The Muses are asked to sing of Hephaestus, famed for inventions; with bright-eyed Athene he taught glorious gifts to men throughout the world. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE MARGITES / THE CERCOPES / THE BATTLE OF FROGS AND MICE / OF THE ORIGIN OF HOMER AND HESIOD, AND OF THEIR CONTEST; lines 8912-9016 | medium | At Argos, Homer recites Iliadic lines praising Argive territories and warriors; the leading Argives reward him with costly gifts, set up a bronze statue, and decree repeated sacrifices to Homer and to Chios. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE CERCOPES / THE BATTLE OF FROGS AND MICE / OF THE ORIGIN OF HOMER AND HESIOD, AND OF THEIR CONTEST / ENDNOTES; lines 9516-9643 | medium | Maron is called priest of Apollo and, according to Homer, discoverer of wine; Maronea in Thrace is said to be named after him. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | The Iliad / CONCLUDING NOTE. / INTRODUCTION.; lines 1079-1154 | medium | Homer is said to have formed the character of the Greek nation, unlike other nations formed by prophets, lawgivers, and sages; later Greek lawgivers and sages paid homage to his genius. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | CONCLUDING NOTE. / INTRODUCTION. / THEODORE ALOIS BUCKLEY. / POPES PREFACE TO THE ILIAD OF HOMER; lines 1694-1762 | medium | “Homer not only appears the inventor of poetry, but excels all the inventors of other arts” and retains “the honour of the chief invention.” | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE RECONCILIATION OF ACHILLES AND AGAMEMNON. / BOOK XX. / ARGUMENT. / THE BATTLE OF THE GODS, AND THE ACTS OF ACHILLES.; lines 18903-19042 | medium | Neptune leads the way to a walled and trenched mound made for Alcides when a sea monster swept the shore; Greek-side gods sit there in cloud and air, while adverse powers gather around Apollo on hills by Simois. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR. / CONCLUDING NOTE. / A. POPE / END OF THE ILIAD; lines 23328-23452 | medium | The note says Homer and Shakespeare express the deeper inspirations of human nature, are the universal inheritance of the human race, and are common benefactors set forth by providence. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR. / CONCLUDING NOTE. / A. POPE / END OF THE ILIAD; lines 23698-23815 | medium | The Myrmidons are located in southern Thessaly, traced to Myrmido son of Jupiter and Eurymedusa, fancifully linked to ants, and described as early field-dwellers using dens and tree cavities until Ithacus settled them. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR. / CONCLUDING NOTE. / A. POPE / END OF THE ILIAD; lines 25189-25329 | high | Heracles is described as a famous semi-divine subjugator, beloved by Zeus but condemned to labor for others; at the close of his career he is admitted to godhead and marries Hebe. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE ACTS OF DIOMED. / BOOK VI. / ARGUMENT. / THE EPISODES OF GLAUCUS AND DIOMED, AND OF HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE.; lines 6917-7060 | medium | The first task assigned is conquest of the Chimaera, a non-mortal mingled monster with a dragon's fiery tail, goat body, lion head, and flaming nostrils and throat. | record |
| Japanese | Japanese Fairy Tales | MY LORD BAG OF RICE / THE TONGUE-CUT SPARROW / THE STORY OF URASHIMA TARO, THE FISHER LAD / THE FARMER AND THE BADGER; lines 1413-1523 | high | The passage contrasts the north-pointing compass with the shinansha, a chariot bearing a man-shaped figure that always points south. | record |
| Japanese | Japanese Fairy Tales | MY LORD BAG OF RICE / THE TONGUE-CUT SPARROW / THE STORY OF URASHIMA TARO, THE FISHER LAD / THE FARMER AND THE BADGER; lines 1525-1574 | high | A leaf carrying a spider over the river inspires Kotei to invent the first boat; he then has enough boats made for the whole army. | record |
| Japanese | Japanese Fairy Tales | THE TONGUE-CUT SPARROW / THE STORY OF URASHIMA TARO, THE FISHER LAD / THE FARMER AND THE BADGER / THE ADVENTURES OF KINTARO, THE GOLDEN BOY; lines 1834-1943 | high | Raiko’s army includes the elite Four Braves; after Kintaro grows up, Raiko makes him their chief. News then arrives of a cannibal monster, and Raiko orders Kintaro to rescue the people. | record |
| Japanese | Japanese Fairy Tales | COMPILED BY / PREFACE / JAPANESE FAIRY TALES / MY LORD BAG OF RICE; lines 262-377 | medium | Hidesato sees an enormous centipede winding around the mountains in starlight, with fire-like eyes and glowing feet moving toward the shore. | record |
| Japanese | Japanese Fairy Tales | THE JELLY FISH AND THE MONKEY / THE QUARREL OF THE MONKEY AND THE CRAB / THE WHITE HARE AND THE CROCODILES / THE STORY OF PRINCE YAMATO TAKE; lines 5813-5924 | medium | The Prince identifies himself as the King's son Yamato, sent by his father as avenger of evil to bring death to rebels and end robbery and murder. | record |
| Japanese | Japanese Fairy Tales | THE JELLY FISH AND THE MONKEY / THE QUARREL OF THE MONKEY AND THE CRAB / THE WHITE HARE AND THE CROCODILES / THE STORY OF PRINCE YAMATO TAKE; lines 6128-6233 | high | In Omi, villagers mourn and fear a mountain monster that raids villages and devours people, keeping men and women from ordinary work. | record |
| Japanese | Japanese Fairy Tales | THE QUARREL OF THE MONKEY AND THE CRAB / THE WHITE HARE AND THE CROCODILES / THE STORY OF PRINCE YAMATO TAKE / MOMOTARO, OR THE STORY OF THE SON OF A PEACH; lines 6236-6369 | medium | At fifteen, Momotaro is taller and stronger than other boys, handsome, courageous, wise, and viewed by the old couple as hero-like. | record |
| Japanese | Japanese Fairy Tales | THE QUARREL OF THE MONKEY AND THE CRAB / THE WHITE HARE AND THE CROCODILES / THE STORY OF PRINCE YAMATO TAKE / MOMOTARO, OR THE STORY OF THE SON OF A PEACH; lines 6371-6508 | medium | Momotaro describes a sea island northeast of Japan as the stronghold of devils who invade, kill, rob, carry off goods, disobey the Emperor, and eat some captives. | record |
| Japanese | Japanese Fairy Tales | THE QUARREL OF THE MONKEY AND THE CRAB / THE WHITE HARE AND THE CROCODILES / THE STORY OF PRINCE YAMATO TAKE / MOMOTARO, OR THE STORY OF THE SON OF A PEACH; lines 6510-6645 | medium | Momotaro says, “The first thing necessary in an army is harmony,” orders the dog, monkey, and pheasant to be friends with one mind, and the pheasant becomes a member of the suite and receives half a cake. | record |
| Japanese | Japanese Fairy Tales | THE QUARREL OF THE MONKEY AND THE CRAB / THE WHITE HARE AND THE CROCODILES / THE STORY OF PRINCE YAMATO TAKE / MOMOTARO, OR THE STORY OF THE SON OF A PEACH; lines 6647-6752 | medium | The pheasant flies from the ship to the castle roof, announces Momotaro’s challenge, demands that the devils surrender by breaking off their horns, and threatens them with death by the pheasant, dog, and monkey if they resist. | record |
| Japanese | Japanese Fairy Tales | THE WHITE HARE AND THE CROCODILES / THE STORY OF PRINCE YAMATO TAKE / MOMOTARO, OR THE STORY OF THE SON OF A PEACH / THE OGRE OF RASHOMON; lines 6883-6997 | medium | Watanabe is praised as a hero after showing the ogre's arm; he has a strong wooden, iron-banded box made, seals the arm inside, and keeps it in his room under his own charge. | record |
| Japanese | Japanese Fairy Tales | THE STORY OF PRINCE YAMATO TAKE / MOMOTARO, OR THE STORY OF THE SON OF A PEACH / THE OGRE OF RASHOMON / HOW AN OLD MAN LOST HIS WEN; lines 7485-7562 | medium | Jokwa has subjects collect five-colored stones, boils them with porcelain in a caldron, and produces a paste for mending the sky. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 10267-10454 | medium | The Northland maiden says she will not wed for riches and chooses Ilmarinen for wisdom, worth, good behavior, and because he forged the Sampo. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 10456-10602 | high | Ilmarinen tells his affianced that another test requires him to go to Tuonela and bridle the bear of Mana; she advises forging a steel magic bridle on a rock beneath water in triple currents, with steel and copper straps. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 10946-11134 | medium | A butcher is sought across multiple lands and even in Tuoni's empire and Manala, but the search is unsuccessful. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 10946-11134 | high | Louhi asks who will brew barley beer and abundant mead for the people of Northland coming to her daughter's marriage feast, saying she does not know brewing's secret or origin. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 12401-12581 | medium | A babe playing by the stove tells the bride not to weep, to leave her burdens to strong animals and horses, and says she is being led to flowers, fruitful trees, forests, Kalew's mead, Ilmarinen's protection, a waiting steed, and singing wedding birds. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 14907-15087 | medium | Lemminkainen replies that he is armored and can use magical bridles, iron chains, and violence against the bear and wolf. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 1501-1670 | medium | Wainamoinen remains on an ocean-washed, verdureless island and considers who should sow it; he thinks of Pellerwoinen, first-born of plains and prairies, also called slender Sampsa. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 1501-1670 | high | Wainamoinen considers how to kill and fell the oak, laments life without sun and moon, and calls on Kap/Luonnotar to lend water-forces and ocean strength to uproot the tree so light may return. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 1672-1830 | medium | Groves, forests, vines, flowers, birds, berries, herbs, and vegetation appear, but barley is not growing. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 1832-2015 | high | Wainamoinen clears the forest, leaves the birch for birds, speaks with a heavenly eagle, and the eagle kindles a wind-fanned fire that burns the other trees while the birch remains. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 20223-20369 | medium | Wainamoinen asks Ilmarinen to forge a mighty fire-sword to use against wild beasts and Northland people during the Sampo journey. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 20371-20542 | medium | Wainamoinen sings youths with heroic strength into copper mail on one side of the vessel, maidens with copper belts and golden rings on the other, and ancient mighty heroes into the ship. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 20738-20913 | medium | Wainamoinen asks Lemminkainen to look beneath the war-ship; Lemminkainen reports that it is not on sand, rock, or tree-snag, but on the back, shoulders, and fin-bones of the mighty pike of Northland. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 20738-20913 | high | At shore, Wainamoinen gathers the pike fragments, is urged to slice the fish because his hands are sacred, asks the maidens to cook it, and all gathered people feast, leaving fish-bones on the rocks. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 20915-21098 | high | Wainamoinen lets Wainola groups try the harp; young and aged players produce discord. Lemminkainen also tries the fish-bone harp but fails, and Wainamoinen proposes taking it to Pohya. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 20915-21098 | medium | The harp is carried to the artist who made it, to Wainamoinen. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 21100-21292 | medium | Moon's daughters and Sun's maidens weave and spin on cloud-rims and a many-colored bow; when they hear Wainamoinen's harp, they drop silver implements and their threads break. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 22275-22460 | medium | Wainamoinen makes a magic harp from sacred birch-wood, with archings from birch and framework from aspen, and asks where to get tuning hooks and pins. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 22655-22841 | medium | Wainamoinen, wise enchanter, goes to rescue his people, opposes Mana and Tuoni, and prepares healing bath-rooms with heated sandstone, Northland wood, water, birch brooms, and vapors. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 22843-23030 | medium | Wainamoinen is described as enchanter and wisdom-singer who expelled nine diseases, healed Kalevala, and saved his people; the diseases are children of Lowyatar. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 23748-23933 | medium | At the start of Rune XLVIII, Wainamoinen is called enchanter and eternal wisdom-singer; he considers how to weave a flax-yarn net and asks who will plow, sow, and spin so he may catch the Fire-pike, the thing of evil. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 23935-24126 | high | The Sun-child receives a silver-edged, golden-headed magic fish-knife from heaven and carves the Fire-pike, revealing nested fish, colored balls, and the fire fallen from the seventh heaven through nine ether regions. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 24521-24719 | medium | Wainamoinen asks Ilmarinen to forge a magic trident, steel rings, master-keys, iron bars, and hammers so the Sun may be uncovered in Pohyola’s copper-bearing mountain and stone-berg. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 24923-25115 | medium | Mariatta weeps and says she must go as an outcast to the burning mountain, the forest stable, and a manger near the flaming steed of Hisi. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 25117-25220 | high | Wainamoinen recognizes his waning powers, sings a farewell to Northland and Wainola, sings himself a copper boat, and sails westward over the waters. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | BOOK II / EPILOGUE / THE END / GLOSSARY; lines 25330-25477 | medium | Pikku Mies is the water-pigmy that felled the over-spreading oak-tree for Wainamoinen. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | BOOK II / EPILOGUE / THE END / GLOSSARY; lines 25330-25477 | high | Sampo is the jewel that Ilmarinen forges from magic metals, a talisman of success to its possessor, and a continual source of strife between northern tribes. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | BOOK II / EPILOGUE / THE END / GLOSSARY; lines 25478-25534 | high | Wainamoinen is the chief hero of the Kalevala and hero of Wainola; his mother Ilmatar fell from the air into the ocean; Wainola is the home of Wainamoinen and his people and a synonym of Kalevala. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 3687-3882 | high | Youkahainen, filled with envy, prepares a cross-bow and poisoned arrows for Wainamoinen, whom he calls an old magician, eternal bard, hero, and rival minstrel. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 4073-4266 | medium | Wainamoinen says he cannot forge the Sampo but will send Ilmarinen, a master smith who forged the heavens and the air without visible hammer or tongs marks. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | DR. J.D. BUCK, / AN ENCOURAGING AND UNSELFISH FRIEND, AND TO HIS AFFECTIONATE FAMILY, / THESE PAGES ARE GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED. / PREFACE; lines 433-517 | high | Pikku Mies emerges from the sea in copper gear, grows from pigmy to giant, and fells the primitive oak that had shut out the sun's light from Northland. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 4656-4840 | high | Ilmarinen is born on the Coal-mount, carries hammer and tongs, builds a smithy and furnace on a swamp hillock, and finds young iron formations in wolf and bear tracks. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 4842-5023 | medium | Ilmarinen, called a skilful blacksmith and first of iron-workers, thinks a bee has brought flower-honey to aid water in forming steel from iron. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 5211-5401 | medium | Wainamoinen renews incantations, sings up a wondrous pine tree reaching clouds and heavens with golden top and branches, and sings the Moon and Great Bear into its branches or top. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 5403-5596 | high | Louhi asks about Ilmarinen, whom she has long expected to forge the Sampo; the stranger answers that he himself is Ilmarinen. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 5598-5794 | medium | On the third night, Ilmarinen sees the magic Sampo rising, forges it with tongs, anvil, and hammer, and the finished Sampo produces flour, salt, and money with a many-colored rocking lid. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 5992-6167 | low | Lemminkainen denies low lineage, says he descends from a worthy race of heroes, and claims a sword of fervor and spear of courage sharpened by Hisi and forged and burnished by the gods. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 6368-6539 | medium | Lemminkainen says wizards and serpents have bewitched him before, and that three Lapland wizards once tried to sink him by magic in marsh water, mud, and quicksand, but he was born a hero and magician and was not troubled. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | DR. J.D. BUCK, / AN ENCOURAGING AND UNSELFISH FRIEND, AND TO HIS AFFECTIONATE FAMILY, / THESE PAGES ARE GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED. / PREFACE; lines 680-769 | high | The chief heroes Wainamoinen, Ilmarinen, and Lemminkainen are considered by Finns proper as descendants of Ilmatar, impregnated by winds when air, light, and water alone existed; Esthonians regard them as sons of the Great Spirit before earth's creation. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 8570-8763 | medium | Wainamoinen builds a vessel by enchantment from oak-tree timber, singing three times to set parts of the boat; three words of master-magic are missing for completion. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 11070-11217 | medium | Dhoulkarnain is introduced; his power is established on earth; he follows routes to the setting of the sun in a miry fount and to the rising of the sun upon a people without shelter from it. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 11219-11354 | medium | The notes identify Dhoulkarnain probably as Alexander the Great, describe a divine commission against impiety and idolatry, name Yadjoudj and Madjoudj as eastern barbarous peoples, and discuss a rampart identified with fortifications associated with Alexander. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 17322-17443 | medium | Noah's mission is said to be similarly described by the Rabbins, with citations to Sanhedrin and Midrash Rabbah. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 19679-19788 | high | By God’s will they rout the enemy; David slays Goliath; God gives David kingship, wisdom, and teaching, and divine restraint prevents total corruption of the earth. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) / INTRODUCTION; lines 201-285 | medium | The Koran is described as a major religious book that transformed Arabian desert tribes into a nation of heroes and helped create vast Muhammedan politico-religious organisations. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 848-912 | medium | The passage says Arabia was prepared for a new religion and needed a master mind; Muhammad's career is described as showing the force of intense faith and as having great influence despite serious defects. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XVII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XVIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 23710-23808 | medium | “Gog and Magog waste the land; shall we therefore pay thee tribute, on condition that thou build a rampart between us and them?” | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | THE KORAN. / PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE / SECTION I. / SECTION II.; lines 2405-2456 | medium | Arab tribal division and independence are said to favor Mohammed's first propagation of religion and foundation of power; after conversion, tribal union favors later conquests and grandeur. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 25242-25306 | medium | Before David's invention, men used broad plates of metal; one writer says David's iron became soft in his hands like wax. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | LIFE OF GEORGE SALE. / R. A. DAVENPORT. / INTRODUCTION / TO THE READER.; lines 500-578 | medium | "Mohammed, the lawgiver of the Arabians, and founder of an empire" that spread in less than a century over a vast part of the world. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | A PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE, / BY GEORGE SALE. / ONE OF THE LORDS OF HIS MAJESTY'S MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL. / MY LORD,; lines 68-146 | medium | The speaker notes that founders of states and lawgivers are usually honored, but says the legislator of the Arabs has been treated differently by those rejecting his claim to a divine mission, especially Christians. | record |
| Celtic Welsh | The Mabinogion | CONTENTS / INTRODUCTION / C. E. G. / THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAIN; lines 1179-1240 | medium | The ladies say they are daughters of earls; after arriving with beloved husbands, they were stupefied, their husbands were slain by the demon owning the castle, and their horses, clothing, gold, and silver were taken. | record |
| Celtic Welsh | The Mabinogion | INTRODUCTION / C. E. G. / THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAIN / PEREDUR THE SON OF EVRAWC; lines 1858-1941 | medium | Peredur reaches a central castle, meets a huge grey man, two pages, an aged woman, and a maiden; the grey man calls the lion his porter, and the maiden warns Peredur that her father’s giant vassals in the black houses will attack him in the Round Valley. | record |
| Celtic Welsh | The Mabinogion | THE MABINOGION / TRANSLATED BY LADY CHARLOTTE GUEST / CONTENTS / INTRODUCTION; lines 245-338 | medium | The first class of names includes great features involving proper names and actions; Cadair Idris and Cadair Arthur are said to imply heroic qualifications for Idris and Arthur. | record |
| Celtic Welsh | The Mabinogion | PEREDUR THE SON OF EVRAWC / GERAINT THE SON OF ERBIN / THE DREAM OF RHONABWY / PWYLL PRINCE OF DYVED; lines 6756-6841 | medium | Bendigeid Vran says that whoever would be chief should be a bridge; he lies across the river, hurdles are placed on him, and the host crosses. The saying is presented as the origin of a proverb. | record |
| Celtic Welsh | The Mabinogion | PEREDUR THE SON OF EVRAWC / GERAINT THE SON OF ERBIN / THE DREAM OF RHONABWY / PWYLL PRINCE OF DYVED; lines 7019-7112 | low | Manawyddan proposes going to Lloegyr to seek a craft; at Hereford they make saddles, and he makes gilded, blue-enamelled housings in the manner of Llasar Llaesgywydd, source of the name Calch Lasar. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE SEVENTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 11457-11570 | medium | Combe is described as mother of the Curetes; another Combe discovered brazen arms and bore a hundred daughters. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | BOOK THE SEVENTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 11676-11770 | medium | The celebrants address Theseus as greatest and bravest hero, praising his deeds against the Cretan bull, the Cromyonian boar, Periphetes, Procrustes, Cercyon, Sinnis, and Scyron. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 1564-1619 | medium | The note says Prometheus formed humans from clay and animated them with fire stolen from heaven. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 2205-2222 | medium | Lerna is described as a swampy Argive place where poets placed the haunt of the seven-headed Hydra slain by Hercules. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | INTRODUCTION. / BOOK I. / BOOK II. / BOOK III.; lines 284-310 | medium | Agenor commands Cadmus to seek Europa; Cadmus kills a dragon in Boeotia, sows its teeth, men are produced, and they help build Thebes’s walls. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | BOOK II. / BOOK III. / BOOK IV. / BOOK V.; lines 339-351 | medium | The passage mentions the invention of agriculture by Triptolemus. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 3677-3764 | medium | Ericthonius is said to have invented chariots to hide deformed legs and to have instituted the Panathenaea at Athens. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 3919-4011 | high | The Centaurs are described as half-human, half-horse monsters; Chiron is described as learned in medicines, music, astronomy, and as teacher of Æsculapius, Hercules, Jason, and other heroes. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE THIRD.; lines 4261-4331 | medium | Cadmus consults the oracle of Phoebus; the oracle says an unyoked heifer will meet him in lonely fields and that he should build a Boeotian city where she lies down. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE THIRD. / EXPLANATION.; lines 4334-4419 | medium | The fable summary states that Cadmus’s companions are devoured by the dragon guarding the fountain of Mars; Cadmus slays it; Minerva advises him to sow its teeth; armed men arise, fight, and five help build Thebes. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE THIRD. / EXPLANATION.; lines 4421-4519 | medium | Pallas descends through the air, favors Cadmus, and orders him to sow the dragon’s teeth in turned earth as seeds of a future people. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE THIRD. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 4522-4606 | high | Palaephatus and others say Cadmus' dragon was a king named Draco, son of Mars; his teeth were his subjects; five named men were reconciled to Cadmus. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 5796-5867 | high | Bacchus cultivates the vine, teaches useful arts, receives divine honors, and is worshipped at the Trieterica, where Bacchantes carry his image in a chariot drawn by tigers or panthers, wear vine leaves, hold thyrsi, make music, and shout his names. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE FIFTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 8229-8324 | high | “Ceres was the first to turn up the clods with the crooked plough; she first gave corn and wholesome food to the earth; she first gave laws.” | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | THE METAMORPHOSES. / BOOK THE FIRST. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 872-944 | high | The explanation reports Bochart's identification of Prometheus with Magog, gives genealogical and Scythian parallels, associates both with metalworking, and cites Diodorus Siculus on Prometheus teaching fire production from flint and steel. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 8991-9085 | high | Ceres yokes two dragons to her chariot, travels through the air, goes to Triptolemus, and orders him to scatter entrusted seeds in fallow and restored cultivated ground. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 9088-9125 | medium | Triptolemus reigned at Eleusis when the mysteries of Ceres were established; Philochorus says he traveled by ship carrying corn and introduced Ceres' worship as her priest. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE SIXTH. / EXPLANATION.; lines 9444-9536 | medium | Tournemine explains the story through Attic aborigines, Pelasgian navigation and piracy, Cecrops from Saïs, the teaching of agriculture and olive cultivation, Minerva's worship and patronage, a fable where Minerva overcomes Neptune, and a ship/horse ambiguity in an ancient language. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE FOURTEENTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 10447-10540 | medium | Dido first resents the murder, then pretends reconciliation to conceal her plan to escape the kingdom. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE FIFTEENTH.; lines 12042-12141 | medium | Hercules reaches the Lacinian shores with Iberian cattle, rests at Croton's dwelling, and says that in Croton's grandsons' time the place will be the site of a city. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE FIFTEENTH. / EXPLANATION.; lines 12144-12220 | medium | Myscelus consults the oracle about a colony and is told to settle where he meets rain in a clear sky; he trusts the oracle, sails, faces dangers, and lands in Italy. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE FIFTEENTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 12858-12942 | high | Numa returns, is invited to rule Rome, has a nymph for wife and the Muses for guides, teaches sacrificial rites, brings a warlike people toward peace, dies, and is mourned. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE FIFTEENTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 12944-13014 | high | The nymphs and son of the Amazon are astonished, like the Etrurian ploughman who saw a clod move by itself, become human, speak destiny, and become known as Tages, first teacher of Etruscan divination. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | BOOK THE FIFTEENTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 13198-13289 | medium | Etrurians practice divination by entrails and bird flight; the practice spreads through Italy; Tages is described as its first teacher, an author of treatises, a son of the earth, and one said to have sprung from the earth in Etruria. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE NINTH. / EXPLANATION.; lines 2235-2321 | high | Acheloüs causes damaging inundations and boundary confusion between Acarnania and Ætolia; Hercules raises banks, straightens the river course, and establishes peace. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE NINTH. / EXPLANATION.; lines 2393-2473 | medium | Hercules recounts his labors against Busiris, Antaeus, Cerberus, the bull, the Amazonian belt, the dragon-guarded apples, Centaurs, the boar, Hydra, Thracian steeds, the Nemean lion, and the heavens; he then says a consuming flame afflicts his lungs and limbs and questions the gods’ existence. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | BOOK THE NINTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 2748-2841 | medium | Eurystheus orders Hercules to rid Greece of robbers and wild beasts; the passage notes possible historical rationalization, multiple figures named Hercules, and the Twelve Labours tradition. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | BOOK THE NINTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 2843-2927 | medium | Hercules frees the area near Lake Stymphalus from thieves represented as birds; drains Lernaean marshes and likely burns thickets to destroy serpents linked to Hydra; destroys Erymanthian boars and brings one to Eurystheus. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | BOOK THE NINTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 2929-3006 | medium | Hercules travels with Geryon's herds into Italy; Cacus, a robber in the caverns of Mount Aventine, steals oxen; Hercules, aided by Evander and Faunus, destroys him and shares spoils. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | BOOK THE NINTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 3008-3100 | high | The passage says Hercules kills his tutor Linus with a lyre blow; after Amphitryon sends him away, he prepares in solitude as a shepherd for the task of purifying the earth of violence. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 3334-3411 | medium | Miletus voluntarily flees in a swift ship across the Aegean, founds a city in Asia bearing his name, and with Cyane, daughter of the winding river Mæander, has the double offspring Byblis and Caunus. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 3576-3652 | medium | Miletus is said by some writers to be son of Apollo and Deione, with Thia as another named mother, and is identified as founder of Miletus in Caria. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE TENTH. / EXPLANATION.; lines 4104-4203 | medium | Because Orpheus excelled in poetry and music, he was said to be the son of Apollo and the Muse Calliope. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 5127-5208 | medium | The festival commemorated the introduction of laws and civilized regulations, generally ascribed to Demeter. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE ELEVENTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 6004-6101 | low | Some writers call Silenus king of Caria and friend of Midas; the commentator says he was probably called foster-father or tutor of Bacchus because he introduced Bacchus’s worship into Phrygia and neighboring countries. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 6256-6345 | high | After embankments go underwater and plague begins, an oracle requires a royal virgin sacrifice; Hesione is exposed to a sea-monster, Hercules saves her for six horses, is refused payment, kills Laomedon, plunders Troy, gives the kingdom to Podarces, and gives Hesione to Telamon. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | RHEA (OPS). / DIVISION OF THE WORLD. / THEORIES AS TO THE ORIGIN OF MAN. / THIRD DYNASTY--OLYMPIAN DIVINITIES.; lines 1081-1171 | medium | Amphion becomes king of Thebes, is linked with music and poetry, and uses a lyre from Hermes to make stones move into walls and towers; Zethus is linked with archery, the chase, and a club in sculpture. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | RETURN OF THE GREEKS FROM TROY. / PRONOUNCING INDEX. / A COMPLETE COURSE IN THE STUDY OF ENGLISH. / NOTES; lines 11638-11773 | medium | After Perseus cuts off Medusa's head with Athene's help, Medusa's two sisters make a dirge-like song from the snakes of their hair; Athene imitates it on a reed and invents the flute. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | RETURN OF THE GREEKS FROM TROY. / PRONOUNCING INDEX. / A COMPLETE COURSE IN THE STUDY OF ENGLISH. / NOTES; lines 11638-11773 | high | Aristaeus is a rural divinity said to have taught mankind how to catch bees and use honey and wax. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | JUPITER. / HERA (JUNO). / JUNO. / PALLAS-ATHENE (MINERVA).; lines 1430-1518 | high | Athene protects the state, law, and right; supports the Greeks in the Trojan war; institutes the Areopagus; and presides over learning, agriculture, numbers, trumpets, chariots, the Argo, and the wooden horse. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | PALLAS-ATHENE (MINERVA). / MINERVA. / THEMIS. / VESTA.; lines 1634-1698 | high | The passage says early humans did not know sowing or tilling and that Demeter’s introduction of agriculture ended the need for nomadic life. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | PALLAS-ATHENE (MINERVA). / MINERVA. / THEMIS. / VESTA.; lines 1776-1867 | high | Demeter gives Triptolemus a chariot drawn by winged dragons and grains of corn, sending him to teach agriculture and husbandry throughout the world. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | VENUS. / HELIOS (SOL). / EOS (AURORA). / PHOEBUS-APOLLO.; lines 2279-2363 | high | The oracle is guarded by the huge serpent Python, a scourge of the neighborhood and terror of men and cattle. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | VENUS. / HELIOS (SOL). / EOS (AURORA). / PHOEBUS-APOLLO.; lines 2279-2363 | medium | Apollo appears as a vigorous youth, reveals himself, and tells the sailors he brought them to Crissa to become his priests and serve in his temple. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | VENUS. / HELIOS (SOL). / EOS (AURORA). / PHOEBUS-APOLLO.; lines 2441-2527 | medium | Apollo helps build Troy's walls with his music; when he plays the lyre, huge stone blocks move by themselves and fit precisely into place. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | BRAURONIAN ARTEMIS. / SELENE-ARTEMIS. / DIANA. / HEPHAESTUS (VULCAN).; lines 3109-3194 | medium | Hephaestus is introduced as son of Zeus and Hera, god of beneficial fire, workmanship, mechanical arts, and hearth; he is deformed and lame after Zeus hurls him from heaven to Lemnos, where the Lemnians receive him and he later teaches metalwork and useful arts. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | DIANA. / HEPHAESTUS (VULCAN). / VULCAN. / POSEIDON (NEPTUNE).; lines 3296-3398 | high | Poseidon and Athene contest naming Cecropia; Poseidon strikes the ground with his trident and the horse appears, while Athene produces the olive-tree; the gods award victory to Athene and the city is called Athens. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | DIANA. / HEPHAESTUS (VULCAN). / VULCAN. / POSEIDON (NEPTUNE).; lines 3296-3398 | high | Poseidon and Athene contest naming Cecropia; Poseidon strikes the ground with his trident and the horse appears, while Athene produces the olive-tree; the gods award victory to Athene and the city is called Athens. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | MARS. / NIKE (VICTORIA). / VICTORIA. / HERMES (MERCURY).; lines 3746-3817 | medium | Hermes is described as messenger and ambassador of the gods, conductor of shades to Hades, patron of youth and athletics, inventor of the alphabet, teacher of interpreting foreign languages, and cunning attendant of Zeus when Zeus travels on earth disguised as a mortal. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | VICTORIA. / HERMES (MERCURY). / MERCURY. / DIONYSUS (BACCHUS).; lines 3954-4041 | high | Dionysus roams woods with companions, finds the vine, extracts an exhilarating beverage, and sets out with followers to plant and teach vine cultivation. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | ASCLEPIAS (AESCULAPIUS). / AESCULAPIUS. / ROMAN DIVINITIES. / JANUS.; lines 5712-5790 | medium | Janus is said to have been an ancient Italian king deified after wise rule; Saturn, identified with Greek Cronus, gave him knowledge of past and future events, explaining his two opposite-facing faces. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | LIBITINA. / LAVERNA. / COMUS. / THE CAMENAE.; lines 5955-5976 | high | Carmenta was celebrated as mother of Evander, who led an Arcadian colony into Italy and founded a town on the river Tiber later incorporated with Rome. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | CEREALIA. / VESTALIA. / PART II.--LEGENDS. / CADMUS.; lines 6563-6631 | high | Cadmus searches unsuccessfully for years, consults Apollo's oracle at Delphi, and is told to abandon the search and found a city where an unyoked heifer lies down. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | VESTALIA. / PART II.--LEGENDS. / CADMUS. / PERSEUS.; lines 6736-6832 | medium | Perseus performs funeral rites for Acrisius, exchanges kingdoms with Megapenthes, founds Mycenae and Midea, and gives Medusa's head to Pallas-Athene, who places it on her shield. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | VESTALIA. / PART II.--LEGENDS. / CADMUS. / PERSEUS.; lines 6834-6902 | high | Daedalus is introduced as an Athenian architect, sculptor, and mechanician who advances sculpture beyond earlier forms. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | CADMUS. / PERSEUS. / THE ARGONAUTS. / STORY OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE.; lines 7050-7143 | medium | The Argo leaves Heracles and Polyphemus behind; Glaucus rises from the waves and says Zeus wills Heracles to remain for another mission; Polyphemus remains in Mysia, founds a city, and becomes king. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | SATURN. / RHEA (OPS). / DIVISION OF THE WORLD. / THEORIES AS TO THE ORIGIN OF MAN.; lines 746-830 | medium | Gods and heroes tame and civilize primitive humans by teaching metalwork, building houses, and useful arts. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | THE ARGONAUTS. / STORY OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE. / PELOPS. / HERACLES (HERCULES).; lines 7587-7685 | medium | Heracles learns of the lion on Mount Cithaeron, ascends the mountain, kills it, and wears its hide and head as shoulder covering and helmet. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | THE ARGONAUTS. / STORY OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE. / PELOPS. / HERACLES (HERCULES).; lines 7687-7783 | medium | Heracles meets the heralds of Erginus traveling to Thebes for the annual tribute of 100 oxen, mutilates them, and sends them back with ropes around their necks. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | THE ARGONAUTS. / STORY OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE. / PELOPS. / HERACLES (HERCULES).; lines 7687-7783 | medium | The first task is to bring Eurystheus the skin of the Nemean lion, which ravages the area between Cleone and Nemea and has a hide invulnerable to mortal weapons. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | THE ARGONAUTS. / STORY OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE. / PELOPS. / HERACLES (HERCULES).; lines 7785-7884 | medium | The sixth task is to chase away the Stymphalides, immense birds of prey also noted from the Argonauts legend; their wing-feathers are sharp as arrows and they destroy men and cattle near Lake Stymphalis. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | THE ARGONAUTS. / STORY OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE. / PELOPS. / HERACLES (HERCULES).; lines 7886-7984 | high | Heracles captures and tames the Cretan bull, rides it across the sea, delivers it to Eurystheus, and the released bull is eventually killed by Theseus at Marathon. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | THE ARGONAUTS. / STORY OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE. / PELOPS. / HERACLES (HERCULES).; lines 7886-7984 | high | An oracle says only Hesione's sacrifice can appease the gods; when Heracles arrives she is chained to a rock to be devoured by the monster. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | THE ARGONAUTS. / STORY OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE. / PELOPS. / HERACLES (HERCULES).; lines 7986-8074 | high | The tenth labour is the capture of Geryones' magnificent red cattle on Erythia; Geryones has three bodies and the herd is guarded by Eurytion and Orthrus. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | THE ARGONAUTS. / STORY OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE. / PELOPS. / HERACLES (HERCULES).; lines 7986-8074 | medium | At Mount Caucasus, Heracles shoots the eagle tormenting Prometheus; Prometheus tells him how to reach the far western region where Atlas supports the heavens near the Garden of the Hesperides and advises him to send Atlas for the apples. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | SATURN. / RHEA (OPS). / DIVISION OF THE WORLD. / THEORIES AS TO THE ORIGIN OF MAN.; lines 832-898 | high | Prometheus loves the beings he created and teaches them astronomy, mathematics, the alphabet, healing, and divination. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | SATURN. / RHEA (OPS). / DIVISION OF THE WORLD. / THEORIES AS TO THE ORIGIN OF MAN.; lines 832-898 | high | Zeus, pretending to be deceived but understanding the trick, chooses the bones and in anger refuses mortals the gift of fire. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | PELOPS. / HERACLES (HERCULES). / BELLEROPHON. / THESEUS.; lines 8404-8503 | high | At Epidaurus Theseus meets Periphetes, son of Hephaestus, who kills travellers with an iron club; Theseus kills him and takes the club as trophy. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | PELOPS. / HERACLES (HERCULES). / BELLEROPHON. / THESEUS.; lines 8505-8590 | high | The slaying of the Minotaur ends the tribute of seven youths and seven maidens exacted from Athens every nine years by Minos after his conquest of Athens. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | PELOPS. / HERACLES (HERCULES). / BELLEROPHON. / THESEUS.; lines 8505-8590 | high | Theseus ascends the vacant throne with unanimous Athenian approval, becomes known as a wise prince and legislator, and persuades Attic communities to entrust administration to Athens. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | THE EPIGONI. / ALCMAEON AND THE NECKLACE. / THE HERACLIDAE. / THE SIEGE OF TROY.; lines 9869-9911 | high | Aeneas, son of Aphrodite, escapes with his son and father Anchises, carries Anchises on his shoulders, goes to Mount Ida and then Italy, and becomes ancestor-hero of the Romans. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XXIII: THE GIANTS / CHAPTER XXIV: THE DWARFS / CHAPTER XXV: THE ELVES / CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA; lines 10215-10329 | medium | Sigurd goes into the world seeking adventures and is said to have vowed to right wrongs and defend the fatherless and oppressed. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA / CHAPTER XXVII: THE STORY OF FRITHIOF / CHAPTER XXVIII: THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS / CHAPTER XXIX: GREEK AND NORTHERN MYTHOLOGIES; lines 12542-12649 | medium | Greek first images and humans are associated with clay and Prometheus; Northern statues and first humans Ask and Embla are associated with wood and Odin, Vili, and Ve. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA / CHAPTER XXVII: THE STORY OF FRITHIOF / CHAPTER XXVIII: THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS / CHAPTER XXIX: GREEK AND NORTHERN MYTHOLOGIES; lines 12542-12649 | high | Odin's wit contest with Vafthrudnir is compared with Apollo-Marsyas and Minerva-Arachne contests; Odin is compared with Apollo for poetry and Mercury for teaching runes/alphabet. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS / INTRODUCTION / CHAPTER I: THE BEGINNING / CHAPTER II: ODIN; lines 1709-1827 | high | A semi-historical Odin, chief of the Æsir from Asia Minor, migrates into Europe, conquers several lands, leaves sons on thrones, founds Odensö and Sigtuna, builds a temple, and introduces worship. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS / INTRODUCTION / CHAPTER I: THE BEGINNING / CHAPTER II: ODIN; lines 1830-1874 | medium | Odin is supposed to have given his people a code of laws in the Hávamál, teaching virtues and giving instructions for burial of the dead. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | INTRODUCTION / CHAPTER I: THE BEGINNING / CHAPTER II: ODIN / CHAPTER III: FRIGGA; lines 1992-2120 | medium | Rerir brings the apple home and gives it to his wife to eat; later she bears Volsung, a famous Northern hero who gives his name to his race. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | INTRODUCTION / CHAPTER I: THE BEGINNING / CHAPTER II: ODIN / CHAPTER III: FRIGGA; lines 2123-2236 | high | In Southern Germany, goddesses such as Holda, Hulda, or Frau Holle are described as having attributes like Frigga’s; Holda gives gifts, presides over weather, is linked with snow, rain, clouds, weaving, spinning, housekeeping, and gives flax to mankind and teaches its use. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | INTRODUCTION / CHAPTER I: THE BEGINNING / CHAPTER II: ODIN / CHAPTER III: FRIGGA; lines 2238-2359 | high | A misty form blesses the field; the flax blooms with blue flowers; Holda teaches harvesting, spinning, weaving, and bleaching linen, bringing prosperity. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER III: FRIGGA / CHAPTER IV: THOR / CHAPTER V: TYR / CHAPTER VI: BRAGI; lines 3819-3966 | medium | Bragi, child of Odin and Gunlod, is born in the cave; dwarfs give him a magical golden harp and send him out on a vessel; after showing no signs of life, he sits up and sings the song of life while his song reaches heaven and Hel’s realm. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER V: TYR / CHAPTER VI: BRAGI / CHAPTER VII: IDUN / CHAPTER IX: FREY; lines 4487-4607 | high | Dwarfs from Svart-alfa-heim give Frey Gullin-bursti, a golden-bristled boar whose radiant bristles are linked with sun rays, grain, and agriculture; the boar is said to have taught ploughing. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER V: TYR / CHAPTER VI: BRAGI / CHAPTER VII: IDUN / CHAPTER IX: FREY; lines 4864-4983 | medium | Frey, god of peace and prosperity, reappears on earth, rules Swedes as Ingvi-Frey and Danes as Fridleef, marries Freygerda after rescuing her from a dragon, and has a son, Frodi. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER IX: FREY / CHAPTER X: FREYA / CHAPTER XI: ULLER / CHAPTER XII: FORSETI; lines 5368-5476 | high | The stranger speaks a code of laws combining the good points of the collected regulations, vanishes, and the jurists exclaim that Forseti himself had been among them and delivered the code. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER X: FREYA / CHAPTER XI: ULLER / CHAPTER XII: FORSETI / CHAPTER XIII: HEIMDALL; lines 5627-5758 | medium | Riger leaves Asgard, reaches a poor seashore hut, is hosted by Ai and Edda for three days, teaches them, and after his departure Edda bears Thrall. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XXIII: THE GIANTS / CHAPTER XXIV: THE DWARFS / CHAPTER XXV: THE ELVES / CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA; lines 9986-10091 | high | Regin, in exile among humans, teaches sowing, reaping, metalwork, sailing, taming horses, yoking beasts, building, spinning, weaving, and sewing. | record |
| Greek | Phaedrus | PHAEDRUS / INTRODUCTION. / ON THE DECLINE OF GREEK LITERATURE. / PHAEDRUS; lines 3550-3661 | medium | Socrates says Theuth of Naucratis is an old god with the ibis sacred to him, inventor of arts including letters; Theuth presents inventions to Thamus, god-king of Egypt at Thebes/Ammon, who praises or censures them. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto CIX. The Praises Of Truth. / Canto CXI. Counsel To Bharat. / Canto CXII. The Sandals. / Canto CXIX. The Forest.; lines 26143-26234 | medium | The saints warn that fierce monsters around the distant forest feed on human blood and flesh, assume various forms, attack holy saints, and should be chased or destroyed by Ráma. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto CXIX. The Forest. / BOOK III. / Canto I. The Hermitage. / Canto V. Sarabhanga.; lines 26886-27059 | medium | The hermits say Rakshasas kill forest ascetics; corpses lie near tangled paths, and the blood of slaughtered saints has stained Mandakini and Pampa. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto I. The Hermitage. / Canto V. Sarabhanga. / Canto VIII. The Hermitage. / Canto XI. Agastya.; lines 27704-27812 | high | Ráma says Agastya killed a deathlike fiend, made the southern realm a refuge free from oppression, put giants to flight, and subdued the giant brood so that no fiend may enter. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto V. Sarabhanga. / Canto VIII. The Hermitage. / Canto XI. Agastya. / Canto XII. The Heavenly Bow.; lines 27980-28109 | medium | Agastya says Rama, true to virtue's path, has the power to protect trusting anchorites and defend the hermits who depend on him. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto X. Rishyasring Invited. / Canto XI. The Sacrifice Decreed. / Canto XII. The Sacrifice Begun. / Canto XIII. The Sacrifice Finished.; lines 2946-3017 | high | The gods explain that Rávaṇ won Brahmá’s favor through severe penance and was protected from all living things except man, so only a man can kill him. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XXIII. The Omens. / Canto XXIV. The Host In Sight. / Canto XXV. The Battle. / Canto XXVIII. Khara Dismounted.; lines 30274-30458 | medium | Saints led by Agastya say Rama was brought to the forest to kill evil giants and that, after his victory, the saints of Daṇḍak can practice holy tasks. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XXIII. The Omens. / Canto XXIV. The Host In Sight. / Canto XXV. The Battle. / Canto XXVIII. Khara Dismounted.; lines 30754-30880 | medium | “Know, twice seven thousand, fierce in might, / Are slain by Ráma in the fight,” followed by the report that Khara and Dúshaṇ are dead and that Ráma freed the saints in Janasthán and Daṇḍak. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XXIII. The Omens. / Canto XXIV. The Host In Sight. / Canto XXV. The Battle. / Canto XXVIII. Khara Dismounted.; lines 30975-31147 | medium | The feathered king brings an elephant and tortoise to the tree; when the loaded bough breaks over ascetics, he removes it, carries off the load and prey, and frees the hermits from danger. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XI. The Sacrifice Decreed. / Canto XII. The Sacrifice Begun. / Canto XIII. The Sacrifice Finished. / Canto XV. The Nectar.; lines 3155-3293 | medium | The gods create thousands of unmatched mighty beings in monkey forms that change at will, eager to kill the fiend; the multitude includes monkey, bear, and highland ape hosts. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XIX. The Birth Of The Princes. / Canto XXIV. The Spells. / Canto XXV. The Hermitage Of Love. / Canto XXIX. The Celestial Arms.; lines 4527-4679 | medium | The saint tells Raghu’s princely child that he is well pleased and will bestow heavenly arms on him; with them he will conquer foes, even gods, spirits, serpents, and fiends. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XI. The Summons. / Canto XX. The Spies. / Canto XXI. Ocean Threatened. / Canto XXII. Ocean Threatened.; lines 49985-50125 | high | Ocean says Nala, son of Vishvakarma and born among the Vanaras, has inherited celestial art and should build a bridge across the sea. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XXIX. The Celestial Arms. / Canto XXXI. The Perfect Hermitage. / Canto XXXIII. The Sone. / Canto XXXIV. Brahmadatta.; lines 5006-5160 | medium | Kuśa, a king of Brahmá’s seed, has four sons by a Vidarbha queen, counsels them that protection is a prince’s duty, and the sons establish or inhabit Kauśámbí, Mahodaya, Dharmáraṇya, and Girivraja. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto CXXVI. Bharat Consoled. / Canto CXXIX. The Meeting With Bharat. / Canto CXXX. The Consecration. / APPENDIX.; lines 57183-57268 | medium | The gods ask Vishṇu, for the good of the universe, to become Daśaratha’s son by dividing himself into four parts in the wombs of the king’s three consorts and to conquer Rávaṇa, who is invulnerable to gods. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto CXXIX. The Meeting With Bharat. / Canto CXXX. The Consecration. / APPENDIX. / CAREY AND MARSHMAN.; lines 57286-57377 | high | Brahman reflects and states that Ravana's boon protected him from Gandharvas, genii, gods, Danu beings, and giants, but Ravana contemptuously omitted humans; therefore he must be killed by a human. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto CXXX. The Consecration. / APPENDIX. / CAREY AND MARSHMAN. / SCHLEGEL.; lines 57379-57463 | high | Vishnu appears radiant after being contemplated by Brahma; the gods ask him to support them by becoming Dasaratha's son and dividing into four parts in the wombs of the king's consorts. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | HIPPOLYTE FAUCHE. / ADDITIONAL NOTES. / H. H. WILSON. / THE SUPPLIANT DOVE.; lines 59299-59388 | high | The passage reports a Hindu literal interpretation that Ráma is Vishnu incarnate to destroy Rávana, and that he permits his wife’s capture to deliver gods and Bráhmans from the Rákshasa. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | HIPPOLYTE FAUCHE. / ADDITIONAL NOTES. / H. H. WILSON. / THE SUPPLIANT DOVE.; lines 60016-60062 | low | Weber’s quoted opinion reads the Rámáyan as allegorical: Sítá is the plough-furrow, Ráma is connected with the plough, and the pair represent agriculture introduced southward; the Rákshases are demons and giants. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | H. H. WILSON. / THE SUPPLIANT DOVE. / INDEX OF PRINCIPAL NAMES / FOOTNOTES; lines 62332-62449 | medium | “Manu as a legislator is identified with the Cretan Minos, as progenitor of mankind with the German Mannus”; the note then cites Tacitus on Tuisco and Mannus. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | FOOTNOTES / ILIAD. XVII. 426. / GORRESIO. / MACBETH.; lines 64865-64999 | medium | A mountain in the eastern Himalaya north of Assam was torn asunder, forming a pass, by the War-God Kartikeya and Parasurama. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | CONTENTS / INVOCATION.(1) / BOOK I.(6) / OM.(8); lines 864-991 | medium | Hermits seek Ráma’s aid against fiends; he is asked to act like a guardian god, cuts Śúrpaṇakhá’s face, and kills Dúshaṇ, a triple-headed monster, and many fiends. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto LXXV. The Parle. / Canto LXXVI. Debarred From Heaven. / BOOK II. / Canto I. The Heir Apparent.; lines 9795-9955 | medium | The people praise Rāma’s form and mind, truth, justice, promise-keeping, gentleness, gratitude, knowledge of law, self-control, care for Brahmans, mastery of weapons, and victories with Lakshmaṇ. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE. / BOOK I. / BOOK II. / BOOK III.; lines 13198-13348 | medium | “there are two principles of human nature, one the spirited and the other the philosophical,” and a god has given two arts so that the principles may be harmonized like instrument strings. | record |
| Celtic Irish | The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge | HERE NOW THE DEER-STALKING OF AMARGIN IN TALTIU / THE ADVENTURES OF CUROI SON OF DARE FOLLOW NOW / THE REPEATED WARNING OF SUALTAIM / XXVII; lines 15481-15606 | medium | Laeg brings Cuchulain the sword Hard-headed Steeling; Cuchulain cuts off the heads of the three hills at Ath Luain, explaining the Three Flat Tops of Ath Luain. | record |
| Celtic Irish | The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge | WORKS ON THE TAIN BO CUALNGE / THE PILLOW-TALK / THIS IS THE ROUTE OF THE TAIN / THE MARCH OF THE HOST; lines 1819-1952 | low | At Cul Silinne, Fergus becomes anxious about Cuchulain and warns the men of Erin to guard themselves against Cuchulain son of Sualtaim, described as rapacious lion, doom of foes, vanquisher of multitudes, mangler of great hosts, and flaming torch. | record |
| Celtic Irish | The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge | THE PILLOW-TALK / THIS IS THE ROUTE OF THE TAIN / THE MARCH OF THE HOST / THE YOUTHFUL EXPLOITS OF CUCHULAIN; lines 2775-2894 | medium | The boy sets out carrying a little lath-shield, bronze hurley, silver ball, little javelin, and toy-staff with a fire-hardened butt-end. | record |
| Celtic Irish | The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge | THE PILLOW-TALK / THIS IS THE ROUTE OF THE TAIN / THE MARCH OF THE HOST / THE YOUTHFUL EXPLOITS OF CUCHULAIN; lines 3007-3083 | low | Cuchulain asks whether Conchobar is on the battlefield, finds him hidden in a ditch with earth piled around him, and lifts him out. | record |
| Celtic Irish | The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge | THE PILLOW-TALK / THIS IS THE ROUTE OF THE TAIN / THE MARCH OF THE HOST / THE YOUTHFUL EXPLOITS OF CUCHULAIN; lines 3166-3285 | medium | Cormac Conlongas says the deed was done by a six-year-old who slew a hound that hosts and companies dared not approach, and relates it to Cuchulain at age seventeen in the Cattle-driving of Cualnge. | record |
| Celtic Irish | The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge | THE PILLOW-TALK / THIS IS THE ROUTE OF THE TAIN / THE MARCH OF THE HOST / THE YOUTHFUL EXPLOITS OF CUCHULAIN; lines 3412-3489 | medium | The boy mounts and shakes chariots, reducing them to fragments, including the chariots Conchobar kept for the boy-troop and youths in Emain. | record |
| Celtic Irish | The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge | WITH TWO PAGES IN FACSIMILE OF THE MANUSCRIPTS / MY MOTHER / CONTENTS / PREFACE; lines 366-469 | medium | The invaders arrive while the Ulstermen suffer the Pains, a curse-linked torpor connected with Macha; the debility lasts unusually long, and Cuchulain and Sualtaim alone are exempt, leaving Cuchulain to defend the province. | record |
| Celtic Irish | The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge | THE PILLOW-TALK / THIS IS THE ROUTE OF THE TAIN / THE MARCH OF THE HOST / THE YOUTHFUL EXPLOITS OF CUCHULAIN; lines 4083-4199 | medium | Fiachu says that a mere lad accomplished these deeds seven years after birth, overcame champions, and is now seventeen at the time of the Tain. | record |
| Celtic Irish | The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge | THIS IS THE ROUTE OF THE TAIN / THE MARCH OF THE HOST / THE YOUTHFUL EXPLOITS OF CUCHULAIN / THE SLAYING OF ORLAM; lines 4916-5021 | medium | Lugaid says the host fears Cuchulain; Cuchulain discusses sling-casting, grants a truce with a token, requests oaths from leeches, and asks for nightly provisions. | record |
| Celtic Irish | The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge | THE MARCH OF THE HOST / THE YOUTHFUL EXPLOITS OF CUCHULAIN / THE SLAYING OF ORLAM / THE PROPOSALS; lines 6066-6154 | medium | Nathcrantail attacks Cuchulain with thrice nine fire-hardened holly spits while Cuchulain is fowling by a pond; Cuchulain leaps onto the darts' points and pursues birds like a bird. | record |
| Celtic Irish | The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge | THE YOUTHFUL EXPLOITS OF CUCHULAIN / THE SLAYING OF ORLAM / THE PROPOSALS / THE DEATH OF FORGEMEN; lines 6680-6831 | medium | Medb summons Cur to fight Cuchulain at the ford in the morning; Cur objects that it is unfitting to contend with a beardless boy. | record |
| Celtic Irish | The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge | MY MOTHER / CONTENTS / PREFACE / WORKS ON THE TAIN BO CUALNGE; lines 843-946 | medium | The passage lists retellings and related works, including Cuchulain, the Hound of Ulster, Dun Dealgan, Cuchulain’s Home Fort, The Coming of Cuculain, The High Deeds of Finn, and The Boy Hero of Erin. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | Theogony ll. 507-616 | high | "From that time he was always mindful of the trick, and would not give the power of unwearying fire... But the noble son of Iapetus outwitted him and stole the far-seen gleam of unwearying fire in a hollow fennel stalk." | record |
| Indigenous Australian | Australian Legendary Tales: folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies | Bootoolgah the Crane and Goonur the Kangaroo Rat, the Fire Makers | high | Bootoolgah and Goonur discover fire-making, hide their firesticks, cook secretly, and Beeargah eventually takes a firestick and spreads fire while escaping. | record |
| Mesopotamian | An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic | PENNSYLVANIA TABLET, TRANSLATION, Col. I-Col. III | high | Enkidu forgets his birthplace after the woman; she tells him to leave roaming with cattle, go to Erech and Eanna, clothes him, and leads him by the hand. | record |