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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.
Max-Muller, who also tells what the story means, and this helps us to see the meaning of the tale of Eros and Psyche, and of many other myths which occur among all the branches of the Aryan family; among the Teutons, the Scandinavians, and the Slavs, as well as among the Greeks.
And he said this, and they taught him how to make the sacred fire, and he became one of them, and dwelt with Urvasi for ever. Now this, we see, is like the story of Eros and Psyche; and Mr. Max-Muller teaches us what it means. It is the story of the Sun and the Dawn.
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