I thought this quote was appropriate because from all our one minute creation stories we discover that animals are just as important as humans. Some are Gods that help create the world in illo tempore, or some are people who were changed due to bad things that they accomplished in their human life. Either way, animals play an important role in Mythology and need not to be forgotten.
THE CREATION: "unraveling these things from their blind heap" a God forms everything and creates the noblest of animals- human beings.
THE FOUR AGES: Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Iron; things only got worse as man became more selfish.
THE GIANTS: Get greedy trying to overthrow Jove and get killed, their blood forming angry humans.
LYCAON: Lycaon gets changed into a wolf after trying to trick Zeus; bad idea.
THE FLOOD: The wrath of Jove lets loose all his natural disasters and floods the earth of all it's evil; sound familiat?
DEUCALION AND PYRRHA: The sole survivors of the flood are innocent and obey the oracle by "spreading the bones of the mother" which turn into other humans.
PYTHON: A horrible snake, killed by Phoebus, that started legendary games of men proving themsleves as manly.
APOLLO AND DAPHNE: Phoebus teases Cupid and gets a love shot to a woman who despises him so much she chooses to be changed into a tree; ouch, love bites.
IO AND JOVE: Jove rapes a girl and then changes her into a heifer (sexist bastard) and yet his wife blames the girl; wtf.
SYRINX: Pan falls in love with a nymph who also despises him so much she is changed into reeds that whistle in the wind and become pan's signature instrument.
IO AND JOVE: Mercury kills Argus and so Juno gives into Zeus and restores IO to her human form.
PHAETHON: Son desperately wants to know of his father the mighty sun and travels to meet him.
* I chose the picture of IO and JOVE to reperesent Chapter one because it is the myth that sticks out to me the most and represents Frazer's quote of animals with souls who may be trapped and degraded *
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