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Max Muller the interest of the story will certainly consist in discovering connections between Greek and Sanskrit names of fire-gods and of fire bringing heroes. He will not compare the fire-myths of other races all over the world, nor will he even try to explain why in almost all of these myths we find a thief of fire, a Fire-stealer.
Human, too, rather than a result of 'disease of language' is, probably, the myth of the Fire-stealer. The Stealing of Fire The world-wide myth explaining how man first became possessed of fire namely, by stealing it might well serve as a touchstone of the philological and anthropological methods. To Mr.
Whether his name 'Foresighted' is a mistaken folk-etymology from the root manth, or not, we have, in the ancient inevitable idea, that the original patentees of fire would not willingly part with their treasure, the obvious origin of the myth of the Fire-stealer.
Percy Bysshe Shelley. There was another and an earlier play of Aeschylus, Prometheus the Fire-Stealer, which is commonly supposed to have made part of the series; but the best critics, we think, are of opinion, that that was entirely a satirical piece.
Will any philologist aver that in Cahroc, Thlinkeet. Australian, Andaman, and so forth, the word for 'rub' resembled the word for 'rob, and so produced by 'a disease of language' the myth of the Fire-stealer? Origin of the Myth of Fire-stealing The myth arose from the nature of savage ideas, not from unconscious puns.
Then followed a review of our contending methods in the explanation of Artemis, of the Fire-walk, of Death Myths, and of the Fire-stealer. Thus a number of points in mythological interpretation have been tested on typical examples. Much more might be said on a book of nearly 900 pages. If my answer be desultory and wandering, remember the sporadic sharpshooting of the adversary!
Thus, if the myth of the fire-stealer in Greece is explained by misunderstood Greek or Sanskrit words in no way connected with robbery, we shall show that the myth of the theft of fire occurs where no Greek or Sanskrit words were ever spoken. There, we shall show, the myth arose from simple inevitable human ideas.
But the knowledge is only emptiness; the initiation is but misery; the initiated, a man shunned and bann'd by his fellows. Oh," said Bullwig, clasping his hands, and throwing his fine i's up to the chandelier, "the curse of Pwometheus descends upon his wace. Wath and punishment pursue them from genewation to genewation! Wo to genius, the heaven-scaler, the fire-stealer!
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