goals of the imagination. The spell of Capri- The 

 corn may be of the Waters of all time, since 

 the Horned Goat of our Celtic forbears, the 

 * Buccan Horn ' of our Anglo-Saxon ancestors, 

 the Latin ' Imbrifer ' or * Gelidus ' or ' Sea- 

 Goat ' (in several variants), the Greek ' Athal- 

 pees' or the commoner term signifying a 

 Horned Goat, the ancient Egyptian Chnemu, 

 God of the Waters, the perhaps as ancient 

 Aztec Cipactli, imaged like the narwhal, the 

 Chinese Mo Ki and the 'Assyrian Munaxa, 

 both signifying Goat Fish and so forth, 

 East and West, in the dim past and the 

 confused present, are all directly or indirectly 

 associated with the element of Water, with 

 the Sea, or rains, storm and change and subtle 

 regeneration. The Greek writers called the 

 allied constellation of Aquarius Hydrochoiis, 

 the Water-Pourer, in mythological connection 

 (a Latin commentator avers) with Deucalion 

 and the great Flood, that many believe to have 

 been an ancestral memory of the Deluge which 

 submerged Atlantis. The Anglo-Saxons gave 

 it the same name, 'se waeter-gyt' There is 

 a Breton legend in connection with Ys, that 

 dim Celtic remembrance of vanished Lyonesse 

 or drowned Atlantis, to the effect (for I know 

 it only in modern guise) that on the fatal night 

 when King Gradlon saw his beautiful city 

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