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vm] The Eniautos-Mythos 331
and this sequence is as it were the life-history of the plant orv Trpay/mdrtav.
2 Mr van Gennep proposes this in bis interesting paper Was ist Mt/tluix? (Inter-
nationale Wochenschrift fur Wissenscliaft, KuDst und Technik, Sept. 1910, p. 1167).
His definition of myth is as follows: 'Der Mythus ist eine Erzahlung, die allgemeine
und regehnassig wechselmle und sich wiederholende Erscheinuugen darstellt
und deren Bestandteile sich in gleicher Sequenz durch religiosmagische Handlungen
(Hi ten) aussern.
3 I omit the presentation or prologue intioducing the plays as not ritually
essential and as not noted in the Oschophoria, but it is interesting to find that in
Mr Chambers' analysis of the Mummers' play (op. cit. i. p. 211) he divides it into
three parts: the Presentation, the Drama, the Quete. See also Prof. Murray, infra,
p. 359.
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