iant conception of poets
and sculptors. They point out traces of hideous cruelties amounting
almost to cannibalism, and of a savage cult of beasts in the earlier
history of the goddess, who was celebrated by dances of young girls
disguised as bears or imitating the movements of bears, &c. She was
represented as [Greek], and this idea, we are told, was borrowed from the
East, which is a large term. We are told that her most ancient history
is to be studied in Arkadia, where we can see the goddess still closely
connected with the worship of animals, a characteristic feature of the
lowest stage of religious worship among the lowest races of mankind. We
are then told the old story of Lykaon, the King of Arkadia, who had a
beautiful daughter called Kallisto. As Zeus fell in love with her, Hera
from jealousy changed her into a bear, and Artemis killed her with one of
her arrows. Her child, however, was saved by Hermes, at the command of
Zeus; and while Kallisto was changed to the constellation of the Ursa,
her son Arkas became the ancestor of the Arkadians. Here, we are told,
we have a clear instance of men being the descendants of animals, and of
women being changed into wild beasts and stars--beliefs well known among
the Cahrocs and the Kamilarois.'

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Here I recognise Mr. Max Muller's version of my remarks on Artemis.
{139a} Our author has just remarked in a footnote that Schwartz 'does
not mention the title of the book where his evidence has been given.' It
_is_ an inconvenient practice, but with Mr. Max Muller this reticence is
by no means unusual. _He_ 'does not mention the book where 'my 'evidence
is given.'

Anthropologists are here (unless I am mistaken) contrasted with
'classical scholars who draw their information, first of all, from Greek
sources.' I need not assure anyone who has looked into my imperfect
works that I also drew my information about Artemis 'first of all from
Greek sources,' in the original. Many of these sources, to the best of
my knowledge, are not translated: one, Homer, I have translated myself,
with Professor Butcher and Messrs. Leaf and Myers, my old friends.

The idea and representation of Artemis as [Greek] (many-breasted), 'we
are told, was borrowed from the East, a large term.' I say 'she is even
blended in ritual with a monstrous many-breasted divinity of Oriental
religion.' {139b} Is this 'large term' too vague? Then consider the
Artemis of Ephesus and 'the a