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

Chapter 70: Transcriber's Notes:
By Angelo De Gubernatis
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About This Book

The volume surveys mythical traditions and symbolic meanings attached to a wide range of animals, grouping entries under land, air, and water. Each chapter treats specific species—hogs, dogs, cats, big cats, birds from eagles to the phoenix, insects, fishes, and serpents—and traces their roles in folklore, religion, and ritual across cultures. Comparative anecdotes, etymologies, and classical and popular sources illuminate recurring motifs such as animal disguises, omens, divine embodiments, and monstrous guardians. The book closes by showing how animal imagery encodes human fears, moral lessons, and cosmological ideas.

Transcriber's Notes:

  • Fixed spelling and punctuation errors throughout
  • Non-Latin characters have been changed to their HTML equivalents (i.e. [h.] to ḥ)
  • There are several words with the same letters but diacritical marks in different locations, these appear to all be valid, so were left per the text
  • Shakespeare is spelled Shakspeare throughout, this is a spelling of his name used in the 19th century, so was left per the text
  • Goose-swans and geese-swans appear to be used interchangeably, left to match the text
  • There are several words that are spelled both with and without a hyphen (i.e. crosstrees and cross-trees), they have been left to match the text
  • The name Wesselofsky is also spelled Wesselofski, it appears the name is spelled both ways.
  • Page 102: Lakshamaṇas left per the text also spelled Lakshmaṇas elsewhere in the text, both appear correct
  • Page 209: Extra closing parenthesis ("... for weddings). According to ...")
  • Page 212: Extra closing parenthesis ("... warm themselves), is not ...")
  • Page 228: there is an extra quote. (... word kanikradat."[2] The god ...)
  • Page 254: Extra opening parenthesis ("... a crow (in Hellenic ...")
  • Page 290: Added the word "to" in the following (... same, according to Ælianos, was ...)
  • Page 336: Extra opening parenthesis ("... the Ganges, (çiṅçumâras, which ...")
  • Page 421: Left the poetry to match the text. However, this is from Dante's Inferno Canto 1.22-26, accepted wording of the 3rd and 4th line should be
    "Si volge a l'acqua perigliosa e guata,
     Così l'animo mio, ch'ancor fuggiva,"
  • Footnote 314: There is an extra quote. (... Prato:—"A three-headed ...)
  • Footnote 368: Removed the extra word "it" from the following (... and which it had scooped ...)
  • Footnote 423: There is an extra quote. (... (xxxix.): "'Da, vor ...)
  • Footnote 440: Added the word "a" in the following (... there is a beautiful palace ...)
  • Footnote 478: Inserted closing quote. (... bhîr agaććhat"; Ṛigv. i. ...)
  • Footnote 524: Extra closing parenthesis ("... viǵâniyânna saṁçayaḥ). The feet ...")
  • Footnote 525: Inserted closing quote. (... male serpent" (v. 38): Ahireva ...)
  • In the Index "Brothers" has 3 different entries for "the three", left them as is to match the text instead of combining
  • In the Index many diacriticals are left out of the names, these were left out to match the text
  • In the Index, added the volume number to the entry for "Agnis".

 

Using Index: The index at the end has links to both the volumes. Follow these instructions if you would like to have your own copy of these two volumes of "Zoological Mythology" on your hard disk. Doing so will allow the index here to be used with all the many links to the volumes when not connected to the internet:

1. Create a directory (folder) named whatever you like (e.g., ZMythology).

2. Go to the PG Catalog page and download the below mentioned files and arrange them in your hard disk as per the following directory structure:
    Volume  I at ZMythology/38687/38687-h/38687-h.htm
    Volume II at ZMythology/38688/38688-h/38688-h.htm

3. Now you are ready to use the index offline as well. Also when using the index or any of the files you may use the BACK button to return from any link.