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To read Rabelais is to gather, as if from the earth-gods, spirit to endure anything. Naturally he uses wine, and every kind of wanton liquor, to serve as symbols of the intoxication he would produce. For we must be "rendered drunk" to swallow Life at this rate to swallow it as the gods swallow it. We must be drunk but not mad.
The sky-gods, like the earth-gods, were separated into groups, the one composed of women: Hathor of Denderah, or Nit of Sais; the other composed of men identical with Horus, or derived from him: Anhuri-Shu of Sebennytos and Thinis; Harmerati, or Horus, of the two eyes, at Pharbæthos; Har-Sapedi, or Horus, of the zodiacal light, in the Wady Tumilat; and, finally, Harhuditi at Edfu.
The Earth-gods themselves had stamped the incarnation, and who would dare to doubt the handiwork of the Earth-gods? Chinn, being practical above all things, saw that his family name served him well in the lines and in camp. His men gave no trouble one does not commit regimental offences with a god in the chair of justice and he was sure of the best beaters in the district when he needed them.
It is therefore surely to be encouraged both in oneself and in children; and that, although I have often felt that there is something inhuman, or infrahuman, in it, as though the earth-gods in us all Pan, or Demeter laid ghostly hands again, for a space, upon the soul and sense that nobler or sadder faiths have ravished from them.
The Earth-gods themselves had stamped the incarnation, and who would dare to doubt the handiwork of the Earth-gods? Chinn, being practical above all things, saw that his family name served him well in the lines and in camp. His men gave no trouble-one does not commit regimental offences with a god in the chair of justice-and he was sure of the best beaters in the district when he needed them.
The other gods of the Pantheon the city did not need to worship; and moreover local worship was addressed to a large extent to the Chthonian or earth-gods, as Demeter and Dionysus, of whom the epic poems know but little. The poets were of little assistance therefore to the working religion; but on the other hand the happy and beautiful deities of Homer found entrance wherever poetry was loved.
An enumeration will not even suggest the picture. Sheep and cattle had made it a grove of the earth-gods. We remembered the Spring by the cabin, and crossed to it. Skimming the leaves from the basin, we watched it fill with that easy purity of undisturbed Nature.... Now there was a fine blowing rain in our faces, and the smell of the woods itself in the moist air was a Presence.
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