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242 THE ORIGIN OF THE WEEK.
rived a nature-worship relating more directly to
the heavenly bodies than that of nations living
under less constant skies, and to whom other phe-
nomena were not less important, and therefore not
less significant of power, than the phenomena of
the starry heavens. So soon as we thus recognise
that Hebrew myths would, of necessity, be more
essentially astronomical than those of other na-
tions, we perceive that the Hebrew race was not
unlike other early races in having no mythology,
as Max Müller thought, but possessed a mytho-
logy less simply and readily interpreted than that
of other nations.
rived a nature-worship relating more directly to
the heavenly bodies than that of nations living
under less constant skies, and to whom other phe-
nomena were not less important, and therefore not
less significant of power, than the phenomena of
the starry heavens. So soon as we thus recognise
that Hebrew myths would, of necessity, be more
essentially astronomical than those of other na-
tions, we perceive that the Hebrew race was not
unlike other early races in having no mythology,
as Max Müller thought, but possessed a mytho-
logy less simply and readily interpreted than that
of other nations.