[53]Here again are the'Swan-maidens'(See vol.v.346)'one of the primitive myths,the common heritage of the whole Aryan (Iranian) race.'In Persia Bahram-i-Gār when carried off by the Div Sapid seizes the Peri's dove-coat: in Santh li folk-lore Torica,the Goatherd,steals the garment doffed by one of the daughters of the sun;and hence the twelve birds of Russian Story.To the same cycle belong the Seal-tales of the Faroe Islands (Thorpe's _disibledevent= water (brilliancy) of beauty.
[76]The fourth of the Seven Heavens,the'Garden of Eternity,'made of yellow coral.