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The germs of the myths may be popular poetical views of elemental phenomena. But to insist on elemental allegories through all the legends of the Dioskouroi, and of the Trojan war, would be to strain a hypothesis beyond the breaking-point. Mannhardt's Approach to Mr. Max Muller In this essay on Lettish Sun-songs Mannhardt comes nearest to Mr. Max Muller.
His explanations, by aid of Sun-songs, of certain features in Greek mythology are plausible, and may be correct. It is a popular delusion that the anthropological mythologists deny the existence of solar myths, or of nature-myths in general. These are extremely common.
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