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Title: Manual of mythology : Greek and Roman, Norse, and old German, Hindoo and Egyptian mythology
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Murray, A. S. (Alexander Stuart), 1841-1904
Subjects: Mythology
Publisher: New York : Scribner, Armstrong
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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of the sea,or to the Styx, and in this respect formed a female counterpartof Hermes (Mercury) in his capacity of messenger of thegods, she holding much the same position towards Hera as hedid towards Zeus. • It was Iris, the ancients believed, who charged the cloudswith water from lakes and rivers, in order that they might letit fall again upon the earth in gentle fertilizing showers; and,accordingly, when her bow appeared in the clouds the farmerwelcomed it as a sign of rain to quicken his fields, and gladlypaid honours to the goddess whose presence he recognized inthe rainbow with its splendid colours. She was represented as a beautiful virgin with wings ofvaried hue, in robes of bright colours, and riding on a rainbow;at other times with a nimbus on her head, in which the coloursof the rainbow were reflected. Plate XXVI. gives a figure of her standing, clad in a longrobe, holding in one hand a heralds staff, such as Hermes,also carries (caduceus), and in the other a helmet. XXVI.
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