Ballades and Verses Vain
[1] Pronounced "Maudlin."

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 Vous y verrez, belle Julie, Que ce chapeau tout maltraité Fut, dans un instant de folie, Par les Grâces même invente. 

 "À Julie." Essais en Prose et en Vers, par Joseph Lisle; Paris, An. V. de la République.

[3] Tonatiu, the Thunder Bird; well known to the Dacotahs and Zulus.

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[4] The Hawk, in the myth of the Galinameros of Central California, lit up the Sun.

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[5] Pundjel, the Eagle Hawk, is the demiurge and "culture-hero" of several Australian tribes.

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[6] The Creation of Man is thus described by the Australians.

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[7] In Andaman, Thlinkeet, Melanesian, and other myths, a Bird is the Prometheus Purphoros; in Normandy this part is played by the Wren.

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[8] Yehl: the Raven God of the Thlinkeets.

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[9] Indra stole Soma as a Hawk and as a Quail. For Odin's feat as a Bird, see Bragi's Telling in the Younger Edda.

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