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Updated: May 17, 2025
'The mouse, Rudra, is thy beast, says the Yajur Veda, as rendered by Grohmann in his 'Apollo Smintheus. Grohmann recognises in Rudra a deity with most of the characteristics of Apollo. In later Indian mythology, the mouse is an attribute of Ganeca, who, like Apollo Smintheus, is represented in art with his foot upon a mouse. Such are the chief appearances of the mouse in ancient religion.
We have a great many names for the same passion, Envy, Jealousy, Spite, Prejudice, Rivalry; but they are so many synonyms for the one old heathen demon. When the death-giving shaft of Apollo sent the plague to some unhappy Achaean, it did not much matter to the victim whether the god were called Helios or Smintheus.
'But did you propose to her? Did she understand what you said to her? Did she deliberately and seriously say "Yes?" 'Yes, yes, yes, and his disordered jabot and touzled hair echoed the fatal word. 'O Smintheus of the silver bow! I groaned. 'It is the woman's part to create delusions, and destroy them! To think of it! after all that has passed between us these these three weeks, next Monday!
A Vole resembling the Arvicola arvalis, but larger, paler, and more rat-like, with large shining eyes and very short tail, overran in 1892-93 the classic land of Thessaly, the land of Olympus, and the Vale of Tempe. It has always inhabited this region, and the old Greeks had an Apollo Smintheus, or Myoktonos, the Mouse-destroying God. "At the beginning of March," according to Prof.
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