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Max Muller goes on citing, as I also do, Otfried Muller: 'Otfried Muller in 1825 treated the same myth without availing himself of the light now to be derived from the Cahrocs and the Kamilarois. Thus it is acknowledged that Artemis, under her name of Callisto, was changed into a she-bear, and had issue, Arkas whence the Arcadians. Mr.
Max Muller explained Greek myths by etymologies of words in the Aryan languages, chiefly Greek, Latin, Slavonic, and Sanskrit, I kept finding myths very closely resembling those of Greece among Red Indians, Kaffirs, Eskimo, Samoyeds, Kamilaroi, Maoris, and Cahrocs.
Here, we are told, we have a clear instance of men being the descendants of animals, and of women being changed into wild beasts and stars beliefs well known among the Cahrocs and the Kamilarois. Here I recognise Mr. Max Muller this reticence is by no means unusual. He 'does not mention the book where 'my 'evidence is given.
In savage myths animals, not men, play the leading roles, and the fire-stealing bird or beast is found among many widely scattered races. The raven hero of the Thlinkeets, Yehl, stole fire. Among the Cahrocs two old women possessed it, and it was stolen by the coyote. Are these theftuous birds and beasts to be explained as Fire-gods? Probably not.
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