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ZOOLOGICAL MYTHOLOGY

OR

THE LEGENDS OF ANIMALS

BY

ANGELO DE GUBERNATIS

PROFESSOR OF SANSKRIT AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE IN THE ISTITUTO DI STUDII
SUPERIORI E DI PERFEZIONAMENTO, AT FLORENCE
FOREIGN MEMBER OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PHILOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY
OF THE DUTCH INDIES

_IN TWO VOLUMES_

VOL. I.

LONDON

TRUeBNER & CO., 60 PATERNOSTER ROW

1872

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PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND COMPANY
EDINBURGH AND LONDON




  TO

  MICHELE AMARI AND MICHELE COPPINO

  This Work

  IS DEDICATED

  AS A TRIBUTE OF LIVELY GRATITUDE AND

  PROFOUND ESTEEM

  BY

  THE AUTHOR.




ZOOLOGICAL MYTHOLOGY;

OR

THE LEGENDS OF ANIMALS.

First Part.

THE ANIMALS OF THE EARTH.




CHAPTER I.

THE COW AND THE BULL.


SECTION I.--THE COW AND THE BULL IN THE VEDIC HYMNS.

SUMMARY.

    Prelude.--The vault of Heaven as a luminous cow.--The gods and
    goddesses, sons and daughters of this cow.--The vault of Heaven as a
    spotted cow.--The sons and daughters of this cow, _i.e._ the winds,
    Marutas, and the clouds, Pricnayas.--The wind-bulls subdue the
    cloud-cows.--Indras, the rain-sending,