Bird Gods in Ancient Europe 



rational sequence. I am trying to show the 

 singular power of the imagination in taking 

 some one striking fact, like the drumming of 

 the woodpecker, the fosterage among cuckoos, 

 the radiance of the peacock, and evolving from 

 that simple cell the marvellously varied struc- 

 tures of mythology and fairy-tale, folk-lore, 

 epic and drama, to delight, startle, instruct and 

 awe the successive generations of men. 



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