Greek races traced to Zeus--usually disguised, for amorous purposes, as a
brute. The Arcadians had an eponymous heroic ancestor, 'Areas;' they
also worshipped Artemis. Artemis, as a virgin, could not become a mother
of Areas by Zeus, or by anybody. Callisto was also Artemis. Callisto
was the mother of Areas. But, to save the character of Artemis, Callisto
was now represented as one of her nymphs. Then, Areas reminding the
Arcadians of [Greek] (a bear), while they knew the Bear constellation,
'what was more natural than that Callisto should be changed into an
arktos, a she-bear . . . placed by Zeus, her lover, in the sky' as the
Bear?
Nothing could be more natural to a savage; they all do it. {144b} But
that an Aryan, a Greek, should talk such nonsense as to say that he was
the descendant of a bear who was changed into a star, and all merely
because 'Areas reminded the Arcadians of arktos,' seems to me an extreme
test of belief, and a very unlikely thing to occur.