Or is Mr.Lang ignorant that the god Yima became Jemshid, and that Feridun is only the god Trita?
It undoubtedly is correct to illuminate the past with other light than that of sun or dawn, yet that these lights have shone and have been quenched in certain personalities may be granted without doing violence to scientific principles.

All purely etymological mythology is precarious, but one may recognize sun-myths without building a system on the basis of a Dawn-Helen, and without referring Ilium to the Vedic _bila_.

Again, myths about gods, heroes, and fairies are to be segregated.

Even in India, which teems with it, there is little, if any, folklore that can be traced to solar or dawn-born myths.

Mr.Lang represents a healthy reaction against too much sun-myth, but we think that there are sun-myths still, and that despite his protests all religion is not grown from one seed.
There remains the consideration of the second part of the double problem which was formulated above--the method of interpretation.