Ragnarok : the age of fire and gravel

LEGENDS OF THE COMING OF THE COMET, 137

Was this jagged, white, sickle-shaped object a comet ?

“And Night bare also hateful Destiny, and black Fate, and Death, and Nemesis.’

And Hesiod tells us that “she,” probably N Night—

“Brought forth another monster, irresistible, nowise like to mortal man or immortal gods, in a hollow. cavern ; the divine, stubborn-hearted Echidna (half-nymph, with dark eyes and fair cheeks ; and half, on the other hand, a Serpe nt, huge and terrible and vast), speckled, and fleshdevouring, neath caves of sacred Earth. . .. With her, they say that Typhaon (Typhon) associated in love, a terrible and lawléss rayisher for the dark- eyed maid. F But she (Echidna) bare Chimera, breathing resistless fire, fierce and Auge, fleet-footed as well as strong ; this monster had three heads: one, indeed, of a grim-visaged lion, one of a goat, and another of a serpent, a fierce drag-

Comet or 1862,

Aspect of the head of the comet at nine in the evening, the 23d August, . and the 2th Auzust at the same hour.

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