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A Book of Myths, by Jean Lang
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Title: A Book of Myths
Author: Jean Lang
Illustrator: Helen Stratton
Release Date: September 21, 2007 [EBook #22693]
Language: English
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A BOOK OF MYTHS
BY JEAN LANG
(MRS. JOHN LANG)
WITH SIXTEEN ORIGINAL DRAWINGS IN COLOUR BY HELEN STRATTON
[Illustration]
THOMAS NELSON & SONS NEW YORK
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
[Illustration: "WHAT WAS HE DOING, THE GREAT GOD PAN, DOWN IN THE REEDS BY THE RIVER?" (See page 209)]
PREFACE
Just as a little child holds out its hands to catch the sunbeams, to feel and to grasp what, so its eyes tell it, is actually there, so, down through the ages, men have stretched out their hands in eager endeavour to know their God. And because only through the human was the divine knowable, the old peoples of the earth made gods of their heroes and not unfrequently endowed these gods with as many of the vices as of the virtues of their worshippers. As we read the myths of the East and the West we find ever the same story. That portion of the ancient Aryan race which poured from the central p