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legists) Zeus may naturally have been at first a living person, 

 and that his identification with the sky resulted from his 

 metaphorical name. 



There are proofs that like confusion of metaphor with fact 

 leads to Sun-worship. Complimentary naming after the 

 Sun occurs everywhere; and, where it is associated with 

 power, becomes inherited. The chiefs of the Hurons bore 

 the name of the Sun ; and Humboldt remarks that &quot; the 

 sun-kings among the JSTatches recall to mind the Heliades 

 of the first eastern colony of Ehodes.&quot; Out of numerous 

 illustrations from Egypt, may be quoted an inscription from 

 Silsilis &quot; Hail to thee ! king of Egypt ! Sun of the foreign 

 peoples. . . . Life, salvation, health to him ! he is a shining 

 sun.&quot; In such cases, then, worship of the ancestor readily 

 becomes worship of the Sun. The like happens with 



other celestial appearances. &quot;In the Beirut school&quot; says 

 Jessup, &quot; are and have been girls named . . . Morning Dawn, 

 Dew, Eose. ... I once visited a man in the village of Brum- 

 mana who had six daughters, whom he named Sun, Morning, 

 Zephyr &quot;breeze&quot; &c. Another was named Star. Here, again, 

 the superiority, or good fortune, or remarkable fate, of an 

 individual thus named, would originate propitiation of a 

 personalized phenomenon. That personalization of 



the wind had an origin of this kind is indicated by a Bush 

 man legend. &quot;The wind&quot; it says &quot;was formerly a person. 

 He became a feathered thing. And he flew, while he no longer 

 walked as formerly ; for he flew, and he dwelt in the moun 

 tain ... he inhabited a mountain-hole.&quot; Here, too, we are 

 reminded that in sundry parts of the world there occurs the 

 notion that not only the divine ancestors who begat the 

 race came out of caves, but that Nature-gods also did. A 

 legend of the Mexicans tells of the Sun and Moon coming 

 out of caves ; and in the conception of a cave inhabited by 

 the wind, the modern Bushman does but repeat the ancient 

 Greek. As descending from the traditions of cave-dwellers, 

 stories of this kind, with accompanying worship, are natural; 



