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bound to the concrete form of the phenomenon, that 

 although animated, it could not assume a human 

 aspect and form. But when the specific type which 

 ideally represented the power manifested in all the 

 various modes of special phenomena was evolved, 

 then man was released from the concrete and in- 

 dividual forms of the fetish, and readily moulded it in 

 his own corporeal as well as in his moral image. So 

 Holda, changed from a heavenly to an earthly deity, 

 was transformed into the goddess of wells and lakes, 

 and assumed a perfectly human and even artistic 

 form. She loved to bathe at noon-day, and was often 

 seen to issue from the water and then plunge anew into 

 the waves, appearing as a very fair and lovely woman. 



Again, we know that in the gradual mythical 

 evolution which found its climax in Apollo, the 

 animation of this type, so fruitful in special instances, 

 extended even to the form of his arms, his bow and 

 arrows, and to the place of his habitation at Delphos. 

 He was armed, according to Schwartz, with the rain- 

 bow and with thunderbolts, and Delphos was esteemed 

 to be the centre and navel of the world. 



These mythical ideas have their special repro- 

 duction in the mythology of the Finns. (Castren.) 

 The god Ukko with his great bow of fire sends forth 

 trees as darts against his enemies ; while fighting, 

 he stands erect upon a cloud, called the umbilicus 

 of heaven. Thus we see that the process of myth is 

 similar, even in different races. 



