1870. This is Volume I of II. Upon its appearance, this book was established immediately as one of the classical works on comparative Mythology. The purpose of this work is to exhibit clearly, and with sufficient fullness, the general characteristics of Aryan mythology, as a system which has grown up from words and phrases denoting not one or two objects only, as the sun or moon, but all the phenomena of the sensible world, as they impressed themselves on the minds of primitive men. See other books by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Volume 2 ISBN 0766189406.