replied, "Say to them, Let me be one of you." And he said this,
and they taught him how to make the sacred fire, and he became
one of them, and dwelt with Urvasi for ever.

Now this, we see, is like the story of Eros and Psyche; and Mr.
Max-Muller teaches us what it means. It is the story of the Sun
and the Dawn. Urvasi is the Dawn, which must vanish or die when
it beholds the risen Sum; and Pururavas is the Sun; and they are
united again at sunset, when the Sun dies away into night. So,
in the Greek myth, Eros is the dawning Sun, and when Psyche, the
Dawn, sees him, he flies from her, and it is only at nightfall
that they can be again united. In the same paper Mr. Max-Muller
shows how this root idea of the Aryan race is found again in
another of the most beautiful of Greek myths or stories--that of
Orpheus and Eurydike. In the Greek legends the Dawn has many
names; one of them is Eurydike. The name of her husband,
Orpheus, comes straight from the Sanskrit: it is the same as
Ribhu or Arbhu, which is a name of Indra, or the Sun, or which
may be used for the rays of the Sun. The old story, then, says
our teacher, was this: "Eurydike (the Dawn) is bitten by a
serpent (the Night); she dies, and descends into the lower
regions. Orpheus follows her, and obtains from the gods that his
wife should follow him, if he promised not to look back. Orpheus
promises--ascends from the dark world below; Eurydike is behind
him as he rises, but, drawn by doubt or by love, he looks round;
the first ray of the Sun glances at the Dawn; and the Dawn fades
away."

We have now seen that the Greek myth is like a much older myth
existing amongst the Aryan race before it passed westward. We