The Early Spread of Religious Ideas : Especially in the Far East
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The word gi, here used for earth spirits, means earth. The Mongol word for earth is gajir. The Greek 0eoi X0o'iHoi, the gods of the nether world, is an exact equivalent, except that the Chinese gave these spirits no names, while the Greeks called them Demeter, Persephone, Hermes, and the Erinyes. Through Greek fondness for myth-making, the names were given. The Chinese and the Latins are behind the Greeks in that respect. There must then have been some central position in Asia where these relig...ious usages could grow up. The traditions preserved in Virgil's poem of the flight of Aeneas of Troy show that Asia Minor was a midway link, and this accords with other features of resemblance between the archaeological facts connected with South Europe and China. The old mythology of China is like that of Italy and Greece, as that of Scandi- navia and Germany is like that of Mongolia and Man- churia. The connexion is latitudinal. I find the same thing in the names of animals. Cants and hound mean ' the follower, ' and are k'iuen in new, and k l un in old Chinese.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The word gi, here used for earth spirits, means earth. The Mongol word for earth is gajir. The Greek 0eoi X0o'iHoi, the gods of the nether world, is an exact equivalent, except that the Chinese gave these spirits no names, while the Greeks called them Demeter, Persephone, Hermes, and the Erinyes. Through Greek fondness for myth-making, the names were given. The Chinese and the Latins are behind the Greeks in that respect. There must then have been some central position in Asia where these relig...ious usages could grow up. The traditions preserved in Virgil's poem of the flight of Aeneas of Troy show that Asia Minor was a midway link, and this accords with other features of resemblance between the archaeological facts connected with South Europe and China. The old mythology of China is like that of Italy and Greece, as that of Scandi- navia and Germany is like that of Mongolia and Man- churia. The connexion is latitudinal. I find the same thing in the names of animals. Cants and hound mean ' the follower, ' and are k'iuen in new, and k l un in old Chinese.
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