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But we must not allow the newer recognition of the part played by misinterpretation in the development of myths to obscure the genuine role of naïve reflection upon the phenomena of nature. Yet the savage imagination was limited by the experience at its command. The Homeric hymn to Helios "looks on the sun as a half-god, almost a hero, who had once lived on earth."
Facing the entrance stood a broad, solid table on which reposed an old-fashioned music-box consisting of several cylinders that bristled with pins; close beside it, a plaster statue: a begrimed figure lacking a nose, and difficult to distinguish as some god, half-god or mortal. On the wall of the reception room and of the corridor hung some large, indistinct oil paintings.
Max Muller observes, 'looks on the sun as a half-god, almost a hero, who had once lived on earth. The pointers of the Southern Cross were 'two men who were lions, just as Callisto, in Arcadia, was a woman who was a bear. It is not at all rare in those queer philosophies, as in that of the Scandinavians, to find that the sun or moon has been a man or woman.
Perhaps his view of life: 'I see what I see and take what I can, is as much as is asked from the many in the great plan of things but I like madness better. To me, his is fatal enchantment; to me, wars and all tragedies are better. I would rather live intensely in error than stolidly in things as they are. If this is a devil and not a half-god that sleeps within at least, I want him awake.
All were flesh of their flesh, closely drawn together in a superhuman embrace, conscious of the gigantic body formed by their union, and of the apparition above their heads of the phantom which incarnated this union, the Country. Half-beast, half-god, like the Egyptian Sphinx, or the Assyrian Bull; but then men saw only the shining eyes, the feet were hid.
She resolved and recanted, and resolved again and drove back to the hotel in despair. From the day she had known him she had helped Rimrock Jones in every way that she could; but he from the first had neglected every duty and followed after every half-god. She had written him to come, and told him of his peril, and that her own rights were jeopardized with his own; and he answered never a word.
Furthermore, that thousands of years hence, this God will embody a portion of his own Existence in human form and will send hither a wondrous creature, half-God, half-Man, to live our life, die our death, and teach us by precept and example, the surest way to eternal happiness. 'Tis a theory both strange and wild! hast ever heard of it before?"
I saw them to be puzzles of the world's own creating all artificial all built up fashioned clumsily enough from man's brute fear of the half-God, half-devil he has always made in his own image. "But now that I'm here, Nance, I find myself already a little bewildered.
And in all the tons of rubbish that have been written about Tolstoy, the story told by Anna Seuron is the most significant. But a human being is better than a half-god. Bearing this in mind I refused to be scared in advance by the notorious reputation of Frank Wedekind, whose chief claim to recognition in New York is his Spring's Awakening, produced at the Irving Place Theatre seasons ago.
Let us see how he outlines the Seer of Stockholm for an inquiring correspondent: "Swedenborg has had the fate to be worshipped as a half-god, on the one side; and on the other, to be despised and laughed at.
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