Custom and Myth

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. In the essays styled The Myth of Cronus,' 'a Far Travelled Tale,' and Cupid and Psyche.' Why, then, do distinguished scholars and mythologists reach such different goals Clearly because their method is so precarious. They all analyse the names in myths 1 but, where one scholar decides that the name is originally Sanskrit, another holds that it is purely Greek, and a third, perhaps, is all for an Accadian etymology, or a Semitic derivation. Again, even when scholars agree as to the original root from which a name springs, they differ as much as ever as to the meaning of the name in its present place. The inference is that the analysis of names, on which the whole edifice of philological comparative mythology.