ies about them. The two stars that
form the shoulders of Orion are said to be an old man and a boy in a
canoe, chasing a peixe boi, by which name is designated a dark spot in
the sky near the above constellation.' The Indians also know
monkey-stars, crane-stars, and palm-tree stars.

The Bushmen, almost the lowest tribe of South Africa, have the same star-
lore and much the same myths as the Greeks, Australians, Egyptians, and
Eskimo. According to Dr. Bleek, 'stars, and even the sun and moon, were
once mortals on earth, or even animals or inorganic substances, which
happened to get translated to the skies. The sun was once a man, whose
arm-pit radiated a limited amount of light round his house. Some
children threw him into the sky, and there he shines.' The Homeric hymn
to Helios, in the same way, as Mr. Max Muller observes, 'looks on the sun
as a half-god, almost a hero, who had once lived on earth.' The pointers
of the Southern Cross were 'two men who were lions,' just as Callisto, in
Arcadia, was a woman who was a bear. It is not at all rare in those
queer philosophies, as in that of the Scandinavians, to find that the sun
or moon has been a man or woman. In Australian fable the moon was a man,
the sun a woman of indifferent character, who appears at dawn in a coat
of red kangaroo skins, the present of an admirer. In an old Mexican text
the moon was a man, across whose face a god threw a rabbit, thus making
the marks in the moon. {132a}

Many separate races seem to recognise the figure of a hare, where we see
'the Man in the Moon.' In a Buddhist legend, an exemplary and altruistic
hare was translated to the moon. 'To the common people in India the
spots on the moon look like a hare, and Chandras, the god of the moon,
carries a hare: hence the moon is called sasin or sasanka, hare-mark. The
Mongolians also see in these shadows the figure of a hare.' {132b} Among
the Eskimo, the moon is a girl, who always flees from her cruel brother,
the sun, because he disfigured her face. Elsewhere the sun is the girl,
beloved by her own brother, the moon; she blackens her face to avert his
affection. On the Rio Branco, and among the Tomunda, the moon is a girl
who loved her brother and visited him in the dark. He detected her
wicked passion by drawing his blackened hand over her face. The marks
betrayed her, and, as the spots on the moon, remain to this day. {133}

Among the New Zealanders and North American Indi