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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Myths and Myth-Makers by John Fiske: him with his ingratitude, whereupon Luxman, through grief at
this unkind interpretation of his conduct, is turned into
stone.[5]
[5] See Cox, Mythology of the Aryan Nations, Vol. I. pp.
145-149.
For further illustration we may refer to the Norse tale of the
"Giant who had no Heart in his Body," as related by Dr.
Dasent. This burly magician having turned six brothers with
their wives into stone, the seventh brother--the crafty Boots
or many-witted Odysseus of European folk-lore--sets out to
obtain vengeance if not reparation for the evil done to his
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