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Orpheus promises ascends from the dark world below; Eurydike is behind him as he rises, but, drawn by doubt or by love, he looks round; the first ray of the Sun glances at the Dawn; and the Dawn fades away." We have now seen that the Greek myth is like a much older myth existing amongst the Aryan race before it passed westward.
His treatise also on Marriage Questions, addressed to Eurydike and Pollianus, seems to speak of her as having been recently an inmate of his house, but without enabling us to form an opinion whether she was his daughter or not.
Out of these heavenly artificers, the workers of the clouds, there came, in later times, two of the most striking stories of ancient legend that of Thor, the Scandinavian thunder-god, who feasted at night on the goats which drew his chariot, and in the morning, by a touch of his hammer, brought them back to life; and that of Orpheus in the beautiful Greek legend, the master of divine song, who moved the streams, and rocks, and trees, by the beauty of his music, and brought back his wife Eurydike from the shades of death.
Muller next assumes that 'Eurykyde, 'Eurynome, 'Eurydike, and other heroic Greek female names, are 'names of the dawn'; but this, it must be said, is merely an assumption of his school. The main point of the argument is that Urvasi means 'far-going, and that 'the far and wide splendour of dawn' is often spoken of in the Veda.
Max-Muller shows how this root idea of the Aryan race is found again in another of the most beautiful of Greek myths or stories that of Orpheus and Eurydike. In the Greek legends the Dawn has many names; one of them is Eurydike.
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