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be traced to the Orphic mysteries of Thrace. Odin’s head of Mimer may be compared to the head of Orpheus, which was said to utter oracles; and Heidruna, the goat of Odin, to that by which Jupiter was nourished. To these similitudes may be added also, the eyes of the sons of Thiaz, which like those of Argus were converted into stars, that ornamented the tail of the bird of Juno. The whole earth was also bound by Juno, not to reveal the place where Latona brought forth: Frigga, in the same manner, exacted an oath from Nature, not to hurt her favorite Balder. Sigard eat the heart and drank the blood of a serpent, by means of which he was enabled to understand the language of birds; the same circumstance is related also of Democritus, Melampus, and Apollonius Thyaneus. All these circumstances
