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W. H. Roscher: Lexikon der griechischen und romischen Mythologie, Leipzig, 1886, I, p. 624. Louis Dyer: Studies of the Gods in Greece, 1891, p. 221. A word on the idea of the serpent as an emblem of the healing art which goes far back into antiquity. The mystical character of the snake, and the natural dread and awe inspired by it, early made it a symbol of supernatural power.
Robertson Smith, Religion of the Semites, p. 352. Grimm, Deutsche Mythologie, i. 508-596. Tylor, Primitive Culture, ii. 383 seq. See also the article "Hestia" in Roscher's Ausführliches Lexikon der Griechischen und Römischen Mythologie. 'Maklu' series, ii. ll. 1-17. A reference to the sacred action of the fire in the burnt offerings.
Roscher, Lexikon der griechischen, a Rômischen Mythologie. Dyer, The Gods of Greece. Gardner and Jevons, Manual of Greek Antiquities, 1895. L. R. Farnell, The Cults of the Greek States, 1896-1907. Nägelsbach, die Homerische Theologie. Williamowitz, Homerische Untersuchungen. G. Anrich, das Antike Mysterienwesen. Rohde, Psyche, 1891.
At that time there were at the head of the Wagner-Verein two men, of whom one enjoyed a certain notoriety as a writer, and the other as a conductor. Both had a Mohammedan belief in Wagner. The first, Josias Kling, had compiled a Wagner Dictionary Wagner Lexikon which made it possible in a moment to know the master's thoughts de omni re scibili: it had been his life's work.
Many of these sources, to the best of my knowledge, are not translated: one, Homer, I have translated myself, with Professor Butcher and Messrs. Leaf and Myers, my old friends. Then consider the Artemis of Ephesus and 'the alabaster statuette of the goddess' in Roscher's Lexikon, p. 558. Compare, for an Occidental parallel, the many- breasted goddess of the maguey plant, in Mexico.
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