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LECTURE THE THIRD. THE PREI—IISTQRIC GODS.

Two prehistoric périods bearing upon Hindu religionm Scepticism ahcaut Comparative: MythnlmgymDifi‘im culties in the way of Comparative Mytlmlmgywc'omn parative Mythology and Ethnolmgym’l‘he myth 0f Cerberusm’l‘he luau—European perioderc-xhistcaric words for godwFather Sky and Mother Earthw The Thundererw’l‘hc Vedic: Agvins, or “ Horsemen,” the two Sons of Heavenw’l‘he Dioscuri in Greek