The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads v1.c16.s6.42

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⁵ The legend of Pelops has, it is well known, of late led to the most remarkable speculations of annual victims, determined as the result of races, by the Cambridge school of religion; see *Themis*, pp. 220 ff. Usener (*Götternamen*, pp. 228, 229) compares the wedding of Soma and Sūryā to that of Zeus and Here; see also von Schroeder, *op. cit.* ii. 392 ff. Hillebrandt (*Ved. Myth.* ii. 41 f.) strongly supports Sūryā as Uṣas. The apparent polyandry of Sūryā in myth, not the wedding hymn, is clearly not to be taken as a reflex of human usage despite von Schroeder (*op. cit.* ii. 402); cf. the connexion of the morning and evening stars with the twilights, Gray, *Myth. of All Races*, iii. 325. Different ideas may easily lie at the bottom of the myths.