The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-03-28

moment the last eye closed Hermes slew him
and then released 10 and led her away. In
revenge for this cruel Decd Here sent 10 a
gad-fy which gave her no peace day or night
| This great black gad-fy has ever since tor
mented cattle. When Here learned that
Argos was dead, and that he lost his life in
her service, in order that she might ever have
his name in remembrance, she took his eyes
and placed them on the tail of the peacock
her favorite bird. When we remember that
Zeus was personifcation of the principle of
light in the sun, that 10 was the wandering
moon, we then have in this the pretty story
of the sun and moon making love to each
other, while the stars, the hundred eyes of
Argus, watched their courtship.
Besides The celestial divinities, the Greeks
conceived of internal deities whose abode was
in gloomy Tartaros. Tartaros was supposed
to be place as far beneath the earth as
| Olympus was above it. Hades (Pluto) ruled
supreme god in this underworld. Among
| the internal deities we mention Nemesis, the
Erinys or Furies and the Fates or Destines.
Nemesis was the goddess of retributive justice.
She it was who punished those who were I'M
grateful for divine mercies those who dis
regarded the rights of others those who per-
severed without conjunction in evil dolngs
She punished every form of crime took luck
away lTOm VIC uuWOItdy, CloSOo O'OAJ WAonS
to it's doer and preserved the equipoise of
society As the goddess of divine vengeance
she traversed the earth in search of the
wicked She was furnished with wings, a
helm, and chariot wheel, denoting impos-
sibility of escape from her pursuit. The
Erinys were ministers of the gods, and We're
employed by Nemesis to punish the wicked
on earth and after death. Their abode was at
the entrance of the lower world; their
Office was to torment those of the departed
who, having lived life of wickedness on the
earth, had come down to the shades without
having obtained atonement from the gods
They sometimes appeared on earth and per-
sued evil-does with speed and fury, permitting
them no rest. They were represented as
frightful old women in dark and bloody
robes, with snakes for hair and with whips
of scorpions in their hands.
The Fates like the Erinys, were three Sis
tiers. They presided over the life of man,
from his birth to his death, and put an end to
his life by cutting a thread One attached
the thread another turned the spindle, an
other cut it off Happy days were spun out
of silver and gold unhappy days out of black
worsted. The Fates were represented as three
women bending under the weight of years
They were unmoved by love or pity, and
were memorable in their DEGREES.
Beside the celestial and the Internal, the
Greeks conceived also of rural deities whose
habitations are in this world. Among the
rural deities we will mention Pan, Echo, and
Tyche, or Fortune. Pan was represented as
Satyr, having human body covered with
hair, with sharp pointed ears, with feet and
legs like goat, and as walking erect He
was god of shepherds and herdsmen of groves
and fields and whatever pertained to rural af-
fair lie wa
ancient His form, half man and half animal,
was rude symbol of the universe. In him
was personifed the ''AninaG Mundi," or ter
restial SOUL by which some believed the en-
tire universe to be directed. His favorite res
idence was in the groves and mountains OF
Arcadia But as god of the country and
country folks, he changed from place to
place like the nomadic or pastoral people of
early times. The feeling of solitude and lone
someness experienced by travellers in wild
| mountainous districts when no sound is heard
save the low murmur of the storm, was as
cribed to Pan, as the spirit of the mountains.
Pan was said to have invented the war-trum-
pet. whose hoarse tones strike terror to ene-
miles, From this circumstance we have the
modern ''panic." and phrase ''panic fear. "
He was also the inventor of the shepherd pipe,
or reed instrument. Pan conceived love
for Syrinx, coy nymph in the train of Diana.
When pursued by Pan she fed to the river
Ladon, her father, who changed her into a
reed. Perceiving that the reed, when agitated
by the wind, gave forth pleasing sound, Pan
cut the reed and fashioned it into shepherd s.
pipe which he called Syrinx. 1t was his de-
light to play on this pipe when resting In
shady grottoes and by cool streams. Think
ing the syrinx, when skillfully played, gave
forth sweeter notes than the Tyre of Apollo,
the god of music, he challenged Apollo to a
competition. Midas king of Lydia, was APP
pointed Judge and awarded the prize to Pan.
To punish Midas for this insult Apollo caused
his ears to grow like those of an ass
Echo was a mountain sprite, daughter OF
Earth and Air, and given to talkativeness.
Like Syrinx, she was loved by Pan, but she
preferred Narcissus, handsome youth, for
whom she conceived tender passion. Mar
cissus, however, treated her with cruel indif-
ference, on account of which she pinned away,
day by day, until nothing was left of her but
!. her voice. She then took to the mountains
i and woods, where she still haunts rocks and
solitary places and occupies her time mimic
ing every vocal sound she hears. To punish
Narcissus for her unrequited passion, Gu
pid, the god of love, in answer to the prayer
of the nymphs, led him by clear fountain,
in which he saw, for the first time, the re-
Election of his own face and form. Narcissus
thought he had never before seen any one
half SO lovely Ever afterward he loitered by
the brink of fountains, gazing on the beauti-
! full image, until he pinned away and died OF
grief because he could not obtain the sub
stance of 80 beautiful shadow. After death
/ Q~xxy ~xr,t,s nb still haor PC