Modern Mythology: Contemporary Legends and the Mythmaking Process in Modern Society

Contents173 chapters

1. 01MODERN MYTHOLOGY
2. 02DEDICATION
3. 03INTRODUCTION
4. 04REGENT MYTHOLOGY
5. 05Mythology in 1860-1880
6. 06Autobiographical
7. 07The Ugly Scars
8. 08My Criticism of Mr. Max Müller
9. 09Success of Anthropological Method
10. 10Mr. Max Müller’s Reply
11. 11THE STORY OF DAPHNE
12. 12Mr. Max Müller’s Method in Controversy
13. 13Tuna and Daphne
14. 14Criticism of Tuna and Daphne
15. 15The Explanation
16. 16Disease of Language and Folk-etymology
17. 17Mannhardt on Daphne
18. 18THE QUESTION OF ALLIES
19. 19Athanasius
20. 20Italian Critics
21. 21A Dutch Defender
22. 22Reply
23. 23‘Braves Gens’
24. 24Professor Tiele on Our Merits
25. 25Destruction and Construction
26. 26Allies or Not?
27. 27Our Errors
28. 28Uses of Philology
29. 29Personal Controversy
30. 30The Story of Cronos
31. 31Professor Tiele on Sunset Myths
32. 32Our Lack of Scientific Exactness
33. 33My Lack of Explanation of Cronos
34. 34My Crime
35. 35My Reply to Professor Tiele
36. 36Conclusion as to Professor Tiele
37. 37MANNHARDT
38. 38Mannhardt’s Attitude
39. 39Moral Character Impeached
40. 40Mannhardt
41. 41Mannhardt’s Letters
42. 42How Mannhardt differs from Mr. Max Müller
43. 43Mannhardt’s Method
44. 44Another Claim on Mannhardt
45. 45What Mannhardt said
46. 46My Relations to Mannhardt
47. 47Mannhardt’s Return to his old Colours
48. 48Mannhardt’s Attitude to Philology
49. 49Irritating Conduct of Mannhardt
50. 50Mannhardt on Demeter Erinnys
51. 51Mannhardt’s ‘Mean Argument’
52. 52Why Mannhardt is Thought to have been Converted
53. 53Mannhardt’s Final Confession
54. 54Mannhardt on Solar Myths
55. 55Mannhardt on Märchen.
56. 56‘The Two Brothers’
57. 57The Golden Fleece
58. 58Mannhardt’s Approach to Mr. Max Müller
59. 59PHILOLOGY AND DEMETER ERINNYS
60. 60Mr. Max Müller on Demeter Erinnys.
61. 61My Theory of the Horse Demeter
62. 62TOTEMISM
63. 63Totemism
64. 64Totemism Defined
65. 65What a Totem is
66. 66The Evidence for Sign-boards
67. 67More about Totems
68. 68Heraldry and Totems
69. 69Gods and Totems
70. 70An Objection
71. 71A Weak Brother
72. 72Mr. Frazer and Myself
73. 73Greek Totemism
74. 74The Greek Mouse-totem?
75. 75Philological Theory
76. 76Mr. Frazer on Animals in Greek Religion
77. 77Aryan Totems (?)
78. 78Mr. Frazer and I
79. 79Mr. Frazer on Origin of Totemism
80. 80Mr. Frazer’s Theory
81. 81THE VALIDITY OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL EVIDENCE
82. 82Anthropological Evidence
83. 83‘Positions one never held’
84. 84Positions which I never held
85. 85Anthropological Evidence
86. 86Mr. Max Müller’s Method of Controversy
87. 87Mr. Max Müller on our Evidence
88. 88The Test of Recurrences
89. 89Bias of Theory
90. 90Concerning Missionaries
91. 91THE PHILOLOGICAL METHOD IN ANTHROPOLOGY
92. 92Mr. Max Müller as Ethnologist
93. 93Names of Savage Gods
94. 94A Hottentot God
95. 95Cause of our Scepticism
96. 96Phonetic Bickerings
97. 97Phonetic Rules
98. 98Basis of a Science
99. 99Philology in Action—Indra
100. 100Obscuring the Veda
101. 101CRITICISM OF FETISHISM
102. 102Mischief of Comparisons in Comparative Mythology
103. 103Dr. Oldenberg
104. 104Comparisons, when odious
105. 105A Question of Logic
106. 106‘Scholars’
107. 107Anthropology and the Mysteries
108. 108Abstract Ideas of Savages
109. 109Perception of the Infinite
110. 110Fetishism and Anthropological Method
111. 111Origin of Fetishes
112. 112‘Telekinetic’ Origin of Fetishism
113. 113Civilised ‘Fetishism’
114. 114More Mischiefs of Comparison
115. 115Still more Nemesis
116. 116For Us or Against Us?
117. 117The Fallacy of ‘Admits’
118. 118Conclusion as to our Method
119. 119THE RIDDLE THEORY
120. 120What the Philological Theory Needs
121. 121The Riddle Theory
122. 122Mordvinian Mythology
123. 123Lettish Mythology
124. 124The Chances of Fancy
125. 125ARTEMIS
126. 126Artemis
127. 127Otfried Müller
128. 128Beast Dances
129. 129The View of Classical Scholars
130. 130Mr. Max Müller’s Explanation
131. 131Wider Application of the Theory
132. 132The Bear Dance
133. 133THE FIRE-WALK
134. 134The Method of Psychical Research
135. 135Mount Soracte
136. 136Hirpi Sorani
137. 137Mannhardt’s Deficiency
138. 138The Fire-walk
139. 139Fijian Fire-walk
140. 140Kling Fire-walk
141. 141Tupua’s Incantation used in Walking Over the Uum-Ti.—Translation
142. 142Corroborative Evidence
143. 143The Fire-walk in Trinidad.
144. 144Bulgarian Fire-walk
145. 145Indian Fire-walk
146. 146Psychical Parallels
147. 147Conclusion as to Fire-walk
148. 148Psychical Research
149. 149THE ORIGIN OF DEATH
150. 150Yama
151. 151The Origin of Death
152. 152Death, regarded as Unnatural
153. 153Why Men are Mortal
154. 154Savage Death-Myths
155. 155The Greek Myth
156. 156The Serpent
157. 157Dualistic Myths
158. 158Economic Myth
159. 159Maui and Yama
160. 160Maui Myths
161. 161Yama
162. 162Inferences
163. 163The Stealing of Fire
164. 164‘Fire Totems’
165. 165Prometheus
166. 166Savage Myths of Fire-stealing
167. 167Origin of the Myth of Fire-stealing
168. 168CONCLUSION
169. 169APPENDIX A: The Fire-walk in Spain
170. 170APPENDIX B: Mr. Macdonell on Vedic Mythology
171. 171FOOTNOTES
172. 172THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE
173. 173"Cover"

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