The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-08-09
Philosopher Of Barlow Writes In-
terostingly Aren't Mythology
hORlL LESSONS FR0a ANCIENT TALES
D0lVos Into Old Traditions Of Past
Agea and Draws Some interest
Ing Conclusions Therefrom.

OF God. There Is q feeling Of help
hee8ness in our nature and 4 MAJ can't
find a God no viii make one. II is Gu
4ons how strangely similar are eli the
heather mythologies 10 the Bible rellg.
son. ST. John says: And there was
war In heaven and Michael and hts an
geis fought against the dragon and his
Gngols and hurled them down. Thnt
oad dragon, which is the devil, was
cast down unto the earth" Just SO
In Greeian and Roman and Scandina.
Van mythology there was war "
Gheir heaven and the good delties pre-
vailed and the evil were cast out, but
not destroyed. Jupiter had war with
ne Titans and dethroned them. Oden,
0r Wooden, as no was called, had war
with Lod and dethroned him and gave
him Hela, or Hell, for his kingdom,
The Scandlnavdans had a serpent 10
aguTe in the dawn Of their creation,
end that serpent was ever gnaWing az
the roots OF me tree OF lhe-a tree
that grew by a spring and was kept N
perpetual bloom by the water OF the
spring. This spring was at one end
Of the rainbow and the home OF Wo.
den and the gods was at the other end.
and as often az the rainbow appeared
Wooden and his Tetinue made use Of 1t
as a beautiful bridge over which they
passed to the spring TO drink and re
new their youth and hold their high
court and sit in judgment upon offend
0rs. Just so our religion tells us of
She tree Of life and the water OF life
and the leaves OF the tree which are
for the healing Of the nations.
This Scandinavian mythology was e
beautiful and fascinating religion and
the NoTsemen, including the Danes ana
6wedes, believed in 1t as piously as
we believe in our Bible and Christian
ity. Indeed it took centuries to over
throw 1t and plant Christianity there.
Bor centuries 1t held sway over all
Germany and even to this day all
ChristendOm uses the names Of the
days Of the week that came down from
the Norsemen, for Wednesday was Wo.
densday and Thursday ives ThoFBday.
ThoT was Woden's son and was the
god Of the clouds. When he wished
TO make 1t thunder and shake the rain
out Of the heavens he took two great
mountains, one In each hand, and clap
ped them together Friday was Fryga-
6Gy. Fryga was Woden's wife. Just
80 we got the names R the months
from Roman mythology and we got tht
consultations in the heavens from
che Egyptian mythology and it remains
unchanged to this day But wish the
young people to know and renembes
chat in all mYtholOgies their religion
was founded upon faith that truth
and justice and virtue must prevail
over evil. The good were rewarded
end the evil were punished not only In
this world, bat in the world to come,
The difference is that our religion Ne
founded upon love and mercy rather
Than justice and we have but one God
instead of hundred
Now 1t seems that Jupiter and his
brothers, Pluto and Neptune, after
they had whipped the Titans, proceed
cd at once to divide their great do
main. Jupiter was the eldest and
smartest and so he gave the seag to
Neptune and hades to Pluto and kept
heaven for himself. Smart, wasn't he?
Hades was not hell at that time. The
spirits of the dead, both good and bad
miRgled together in hades until Pluto
concluded TO separate the unreDentant
and incurable ones for fear they would
usurp his kingdom, and so he estab
hshed a hell and called it Tartarus and
shut up all the hardest cases therein.
Now Pluto married a daughter O.
Ceres and she had a son named Plutus
He was the god Of wealth and that IA
where the word plutocracy came from
Our millionaires belong to it. So il
seems that the god of money is broth
on in law to the god Of hell. Pretty
close kin and dangerous, but 1t Is &C
eOrding to scripture, for it says thai
"the love Of money is the root of al
I evil" and 1T Is easier for camel II
go through the eye Of a neeoIe than fol
q rich man to go to heaven" Now this
Plutus began to give his riches to The
good only, but Jupiter didn't like tina
and struck him blind so that hi
couldent tell one man from another
and so he gropes his way about slowly
till he finds a man. Then he gives hin