The Traveller enquired, "The ancient Greeks's stories, are jumble, nevertheless, this dissaray, makes them interesting. Tell me, O image, what statue are you?" The statue narrated, "The religious system of the Greeks, is the embodiment of beauty. No other worship that has ever existed so encouraged the taste for art as this. Its literature, its mythological stories, its idols and its temples, still control and to a great extent, shape the art ideas of the world. Its devotees, have above all other people possessed a perception of beauty of form and a fondness for representing it.
The people of Greece, appear to have originally come from the North-western part of Asia Minor. They were called the Hellenes. The Worship which they brought from Asia, was the worship of the "Heaven-Father," the unseenpone who dwells in ether, whose temple is the sky, and whose altar is properly placed upon the mountaintop. The Hindus called the same being Dyaus-pitar; the Romans, Diovis-pater or Jupiter; the Greeks, Zeuspater. One can readily see the resemblance between these names, and the evidence they bear to the fact that, these nations, all came originally from one common stock.
As the primal Greek race separated into various parts of Greece different forms, began to arise. As sailors from other lands arrived on their shores, they brought their own gods with them, and thus many new gods, were introduced into Greece.
The lively imagination of the Greeks and the out-door life of their primitive state, produced a number of tales and legends about the gods. Some of these were based on the tales with which their forefathers were familiar in their early home in Asia. The people lived in separate villages. Wandering minstrels and merchants, carried these tales of gods and heroes, from village to village. Poets then caught them up, and adorned them with the touches of a livelier fancy. Thus soon, a rich and luxuriant system of legendary lore, was in possession of the whole people.
Just as is the case with other nations, the beings called gods by the Greeks, are but the personifications of the powers and objects of nature, and the legends but represent the courses of nature and its operations. To these primitive notions imagination, afterwards added, and poetry clothed the whole with a warm glow. Thus was formed the popular Greek faith.
I was Caerus, the personification of opportunity, luck and favorable moments, the same as Kairos, an Ancient Greek word meaning the right, critical, or opportune moment. Kairos has a qualitative, permanent nature." The Traveller was curioused, "Thus, why did you stand on tip-toe? Say, if the cause you may reveal!"
The statue disclosed, "I was represented as a young and beautiful god. Opportunity obviously never got old, and beauty was always opportune, flourishing in its own season. I stood on tiptoe, because I was always running."
"And why you had a pair of wings on your feet?" the Traveller wanted to know more, "I had wings in my feet, to fly with the wind. I was prone to soar, if neglected, I returned no more." the statue uncovered. "And why did you hold a razor in your right hand?" added the Traveller. "I hold a razor, or else scales balanced on a sharp edge—attributed illustrating the fleeting instant in which occasions appear and disappear. As a sign to men, that I am sharper than any sharp edge." the statue explained.
