The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-03
Troll Castle on the Danube

of his career was but a myth symbol ical of the sun god Apollo
 The names Napoleon, Apollo and Ap- polyon are but variants typifying the sun. Napoleon was born upon an island and so was Apollo. The mother of Apollo was named Leto or Latona, while she who bore the great Napoleon was named Lac titia. Bonapart had four brothers, who ruled each over a kingdom; this signifies the cardinal points of the compass north, east, south and west. His wonder ful campaign against Russia began .n June and ended in the fall most disas- trously. This but symbolizes the path of the sun northward in the summer sea son. Before it's march the snow melts and nature is released from chains of bondage, but when the autumnal equinox approaches then the sun begins its re- treat. Napoleons triumph began to wane in the fall and as winter grew apace more disastrous became his retreat a phenom- enon, which characterizes the course of the sun. Napoleon died surrounded by the. sea and to the ancents the sea was the natural grave Of the sun into which it sank at the close of every day.
 
 Thus, according to the theory of Max Muller, the story of Napoleon is but a myth and but typifes the great luminary of the heavens If 1 may be pardoned a diversion here, 1 have always been most wonderfully impressed with the remark able similarity of the names. Apollo and Abel. As is the case today among the Spanards, the letters b and are com monly interchangeable among the ancients
 The oldest epigraphic form of the name of Apollo is Aplu, which corresponds to the Semitic Ablu or Abel the son'' Of heaven, which was one of the titles ot Tammuz, the Syrian sun god. Abel was the son of Aoam and Adam means the east. The sun rises in the east and the word sun and son are often written in- terchangeably. Apollo was often known as Maponus and inscriptions in his honor under this title have been unearthed in Wales. Maponus is the Welsh variant of mabon, signifying boy. and in the east Apollo was often called the boy of light, or light bearer. But strangest of all is the fact that Morgan, the Welsh historian, claims that it was to the Welsh nation, though. of course not then occupying Wales, to which land they later emi- grated, that Cain fled after the murder of his brother, and among whom he found a wife. In other words, the inhabitants of the Land of Nod were the forefathers of the present inhabitants of Wales.
 But I have wandered from my trolls. While Germany teens with their legends, these same legends originally came from Scandlnava. It Is from the sagas of Scandinavia that Wagner draws for his story of Neibelungenlied. He ignored the German version as too risque, and deemed the Morse source purer and more orig inal fountain.
 And all through Norway do we find rem nants and traces of this tiny race, that was once believed to inhabit the land or the basement thereof at least. These traces exist in the multifarious names and titles which grace some of the most sub lime fjords and grandest mountain ranges.
 While passing my fortnight in dolce far niente upon my passage to and return from the North Cape last summer, the captain of the vessel steamed many miles out of his way to afford his passengers a view of the incomparable Troll ford Tiny 1t was, to be sure. and well de- served its name, but most wonderously beautiful was the secluded nook.
 En route thther the good ship twisted