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Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 1 (of 2)

Chapter 19: Transcriber's Notes
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The author traces the legendary and symbolic roles of animals in ancient thought, beginning with a detailed reading of Vedic hymns that present the sky as a luminous cow and its generative bull-figures, and then interprets related images—the moon, dawn, thunder, and wind—through pastoral metaphors and triadic motifs. Drawing on hymnic quotations and comparative evidence, the study reconstructs how natural phenomena, ritual ideals, and social pastoral life shaped animal imagery, and shows recurring themes such as fertility, cosmic parenthood, heroic recovery of stolen cattle, and the transformation of celestial phenomena into animal metaphors.


Transcriber's Notes

  • Corrected misspellings throughout the text.
  • There are multiple spellings of many names throughout, all of which appear valid, left per the text.
  • There are many words that are both hyphenated and unhyphenated in the text (i.e. cowmaid and cow-maid). Words were left to match the text.
  • Pg 1: Added a missing — separator (... for cows.—Cavern where ...)
  • Pg 24: Removed the second "the" (... it is the third sun ...)
  • Pg 178: Added missing period. (... him from danger. These were ...)
  • Pg 196: There is an unmatched round bracket starting on this page (...  carried off. (This is the ...)
  • Pg 211: There is an unmatched round bracket starting on this page (...  perfidious persecutor. (The evening ...)
  • Pg 313: There is an unmatched round bracket starting on this page (...  called Urvâksha (a word ...)
  • Pg 335: Removed an extra "the" (... seizes the branch of ...)
  • Footnotes 59 and 433: Have no anchor in the text.
  • Footnotes 395 and 436: Added closing quotes to the end of the footnote.
  • Footnote 518: There is an unmatched round bracket in this footnote (... attonito (or, properly ...)
  • Footnote 558: There is an unmatched quote in this footnote (... cavalli stregari;" Prologo. 10 ...)
  • Footnote 579: Replaced the final comma with a period.
  • Footnote 612: Replaced comma with period after "i" (Tuti-Name, i. 151.)
  • Footnote 659: Changed "lightned" to "lightninged" (... day it lightninged and thundered.)
  • Footnote 715: Added second period after "v" (... Ib. v. 12. ...)