Achbor, 115
Acosta, 19
Adityas, 135
Æetes, 95
Ælian, 109
Æschines, 39
Africa, 149
— customs of women in, 72
— divining rod in, 184-186
Aleutians, 74
Amazon, Indians of, 131
Ancestor worship among Hottentots and elsewhere, 197-211
Animal bride, 76
— deities, 103-120
— worship, 118
Animals —
bear in religion, 176
descent claimed from, 104, 128
in stars, 121-142
sacred, 103-120
sun regarded as a beast, 133
Apollo and the mouse, 103-120
Apollodorus, 49
Apollonius Rhodius, 95
Apsaras, 65
Apsyrtos, 95
Arcadians, 128
Ares, 126
Argives, 110
Aristophanes, 133
Arktos, 141
Arnobius, 39
Art, early Greek, 303
— gods in, 118
Art of Ojibways, 293
— of savages, 276-304
— Palæolithic, 297
Artemis Orthia, 33
Aryan myths parallel with savage, 83, 96, 97, 103-120, 141
— nuptial etiquette, 76
— race, 117
Aryans and savages, 134-135
— sensitive to ‘loud’ colours, 69
Ashanti, 24
Assyria, army of, destroyed, 112
Assyrian etymologies, 28
Astley, 72
Athens, owl of, 110
Aurelii, 104
Australia, 72
— arts of, 283
— divination in, 170
— Herbert Spencer on, 125
— moon myth, 54
— native stratagem, 41
— religion of, 231
— swallowing myth, 54
Aymar, Jacques, 191-195
Baal, 62
— Hamon, 61
Ballad of ‘Bonny Hind,’ 175
Ballads, 156-179
Barbadoes, 20
Bear among stars, 121
— Callisto changed into, 128
— in Finnish and other religions, 176
— Max Müller, Mr., on Great, 139
— Totem of Iroquois, 110
— tribes, 128
Beaver, myth of, 79-81
Bergaigne, 241
Bernier (Abbé), 197
Berosos, 60
Bheki, 77-80
Bible, 183
Bongoes, 150
Boyd, Dawkins, 299
Brahmana Aitareya, 134
— Satapatha, 134
Brahmanas, 69
Brazil, mysteries in, 43
Brown, Mr. Robert, 60
— on Moly, 151-153
— on star myths, 137
Buddhist story, 132
Bull-roarer, 29-44
— art of, 295
— their star myths, 122, 124, 131
— swallowing myth of, 53
Callaway, 84
Callisto, 132
Campbell, J. F., 93
Cannibals, 88
Cappadocia, 152
Castor and Pollux, in Australia, 128
Castren, 78
Catlin, 40
Cat, recognised as the moon, 117
Celts, art of, 289
Chanson de Geste, 161
Cheparas, 34
Chevreuil on divining rod, 188
China, planchette in, 187
Clemens of Alexandria, 39
Coins, 110
‘Comparative Mythology,’ 58
Congo, mysteries on, 40
Costigan, Captain, 41
Cronus, myth of, 45-63
— sickle of, 61
Crow, 126
Culture-Hero, 55
‘Cupid and Psyche,’ 64-86
Curtius, 3
Cushing, 37
Customs, savage Greek of expiation, 96
— of savages, 72
— among Yorubas, 73
— in Australia, 72
— Aleutian, 74
— Bulgarian, 73
— Breton, 75
— Carib, 73
— Carian, 74
— Circassian, 73
— Futa, 72
— Iroquois, 73
— Kaffir, 74
— Milesian, 74
— in Naz, 75
— Spartan, 73
— Timbuctoo, 72
— Welsh, 74
— Zulu, 74
Dacotah, 117
Dalton, 81
Dancing, Lucian on, 41
— myth, 56
— Urvasi recognised as, 68
Dead, the home of the, 171
De Cara, 3
Delphi, fetich-stone of, 52
Deluge myth, 34
Demeter, 19
— and the ram, 6
Devas, 234
‘Dionysiak Myth,’ 60
Divination in Australia, 170
Divining rod, 180-196
Dog-star, 154
Dozon, 73
Dumuzi, 137
Edomites, 115
— cats sacred in, 113
— mouse myth in, 111
— rats sacred in, 113
Emerald, worship of, 105
Eos, 69
Epic, Greek, its origin, 161
— of Finns, 156-179
Eratosthenes, 125
Eskimo, 130
— art of, 285
— moon myths, 132
Euhemerism, 199
Eustathius, 103
— in Finland, 164
Ezekiel, 115
Fairy-bride, 82
Family, the history of, 245-275
— gods, 119
Farrer, 82
Fauriel, 178
Fetich-stone of Delphi, 52
Fetich-stones, 224
Fetichism, 212-242
Finns, poetry of, 156-179
Folklore, 6
— method of, 10-28
— of plants, 143-155
Food of dead men, 171
Frog, descent claimed from, 104
Futa, 72
Gallinomeros, 133
Gaunab, 205-211
Garcilasso de la Vega, 103-107
Gens (see ‘Family’)
Γένος (see ‘Family’)
‘Gentile system,’ 236
Gervase (of Tilbury), 76
— (ancestral), 199
Giant, 90-92
Giordano Bruno, 139
Glacial age, 298
Gods, family, 119
— horned, 60
— in art, 118
— in bestial form, 134
— in Samoa, 119
— lame, 206
— of Greece, 27
— of Hottentots, 197-211
— Vedic, 234
— Vedic and Brahmanic, 27
Greece, fetich-stones in, 224
Greeks, their star myths, 136
Guiana swallowing myth, 55
Hades, 65
Halévy, 155
Hamelin, Piper of, 114
Hare and moon, 132
— in Zulu myths, 168
Harpocration, 40
Hartung, 61
Harvest home, superstitions of, 18
Heaven and earth, 45
— — Indian myth of, 50
Heitsi Eibib, 209
Hittites, 153
Horned gods, 60
Horus, 113
Hottentots, 197-211
— Herb-lore of, 143-155
Howitt and Fison, 34
Huacas, 105
Human sacrifice, 61
Ice, Age of, 298
Il, 60
Iliad, 103
Inca, 103
Indra, 134
— a ‘shape-shifter,’ 126
Infinite, the, 206
Initiation (see ‘Mysteries’)
Ioxidæ, 119
Iron, a tabooed metal, 64
— the birth of, 169
— in Vedic India, 217
Isaiah, 115
Isis, 130
Israel, Totems of, 115
Jacob, Verge de, 187
Japanese, 93
Jason, 5
— the myth of, 87-102
— the Red Indian parallel, 99
— Samoan parallel, 97
Job Ben Solomon never saw his wife, 72
Jonah, 55
Jurupari pipes, 43
Kaffir swallowing myth, 54
Kamilaroi, 34
Karnos, Karnu, Keren, 60
Kathasarit sagara, 92
Kohl, 80
Κῶνος, 39
Krāna, 59
Krishna, 170
Κρονίων, 57
— differs from Mr. Max Müller on etymology of Urvasi and Pururavas, 70
— sees fire myths everywhere, 70
Kurnai, 34
Kwai Hemm, 53
Language and thought, 211
— childhood of, 218
Lightning, 117
Loftie, Mr., 113
Long on ‘Totamism,’ 105
Lönnrot, 160
Lucian, 41
Lyons, murder at, 191
M‘Lennan, Mr., on the family, 245-275
Magic, 146
— Algonquin, 99
— in Vedas, 241
— note of lower culture, 78
Maine, Sir Henry, on the family, 245-275
Maize, superstition about, 20
Malagasy Märchen, 93
Malebranche, 190
Mandragora, 143-155
Mandrake, 144-152
Manabozho, 293
Maoris, art of, 286
— myths of, 45-50
Märchen —
Algonquin, 82
Bornoese, 82
Dutch, 76
features of, 157, 158, 163
of Nicht Nought Nothing, 89
of Swan Maidens, 82
Russian, 93, 171
Scotch, 89
South African, 171
West Highland, 93
Marriage, early, 245-275
— in connection with Totemism, 106-107
Master of Life, 105
Medea recognised as Moon, 96
— as Lightning, 96
Melanesian myths, 56
Mélusine, 117
— myth of, 76
Merman, forsaken, 76
Mexico, 16
Meyer, 66
Milky Way, 122
Mimnermus, 95
Moloch, 62
Moluna, Christoval de, 105
Moly, 143-155
Mongols, divining rod among, 184
Moon and hare, 132
— Australian myth of, 54
— man in, 132
— Medea thought to be, 96
— myths, 132
‘Moon-cat,’ 117
Mouse and Apollo, 103-120
‘Mouse of Night,’ 117
Mouse tribe, 114
Mouse-Apollo, 103-120
Muir, 50
— on childhood of language, 74, 218
— on etymology of Urvasi, 68, 69
— on fetichism, 212-242
— on Hottentot myths, 197-211
— on Hyperion, 132
— on Ote, 105
— on spelling of Totem, 105
— version of Vedic hymn, 83
Müller, C. O., 128
Murri, 127
Mysteries, 29-44
— Dionysiac, 39
— in Brazil, 43
— of Bushman, 42
Myths, Accadian, 137
— Algonquin, 99
— Australian, 130
— Brazilian, 131
— Bushman, 131
— Chinese, of mice, 112
— Egyptian, of mice, 112;
of stars, 130
— Finnish, 101
— Indian, of serpent, 81
— Japanese, 93
— names of taboo on, 82
— of animal bride, 76-80
— of beaver (Ojibway), 79
— of Cronus, 45-63
— of Finland, 156-179
— of Hottentots, 197-211
— of Jason, 87-102
— of Melanesia, 56
— of Mélusine, 76
— of mice, 103-120
— of night, 55
— of plants, 143-155
— of ‘sun frog,’ 77-80
— of tabooed names, 82
— of wind, 55
— Peruvian, 129
— Samoan, 97
— Samoyed, 88
— solar, 131-133
— star, 121-142
Mythology —
a ‘disease of language,’ 1
philological method of, 201-211
systems of interpretation of, 1-9
views of Grohmann, 117
— of Gubernatis, 117
Naga (or serpent) race, 81
Names as germs of myths, 1
— of husbands not to be uttered by wives, 74
Naz, a fabulous country, 75
New Caledonia, 230
New Mexico, 31
Nicht Nought Nothing, 89
Night myth, 55
Oceanus, 48
Odin, 27
Odysseus, 20
Œdipous, 5
Ojibways, art of, 293
— myths, 79
Orion, 121
Osiris, barrows of, 205
Osiris, 130
Ovahereroes, 20
Owl of Athens, 110
— sacred in Samoa, 119
Pacarissa, Peruvian word for Totem, 104
Pachacamac, 105
Palæolithic man, his art, 299
Pauthier, 50
Paoli, 110
Peau d’Ane, 64
Perseus, 5
Peru, art in, 288
— religion of, 103-107
Pezazi, 15
Philology, method of, in mythology, 97, 201
Phocians, 41
Picture-writing, 292
Pindar, 95
Piper, the Pied, 114
Planchette, in China, 187
Plants, folklore of, 143-155
— in Australia, 126
Popular element in myth and religion, 178, 179
— tales (see ‘Märchen’)
Poseidon, 126
— swallowing of, 51
Pottery, common features of early, 22
— early, 289
Psyche, 171
Puang-ku, 50
— Australian god, 35
— etymology of, disputed, 68, 69, 71
Qat, 55
Qing, 42
Ra, 113
— rat of, 115
Rainbow, 117
Ram, in stars, 129
— Zeus and the, 6
Rat, sacred in Egypt, 113
— swallowing myth, 55
Religion, Aryan, 212-242
— Greek and Egyptian, 118
— origins of, 212-242
Rhodes, 61
Ῥόμβος, 39
Rhys, 82
Riddles, 14
Rikshas, 140
Ritual, 113
Robertson Smith on Totems, 115
Rome, sun worship in, 104
Roth differs from Müller and Kuhn as to etymology of Urvasi, 70
Rowan, 154
Rudra, mouse sacred to, 116
Rue, 152
Sacrifice, human, 61
Sahagun, 16
St. Gertrude, 119
Samoa, 33
— animal worship in, 119
Samoans, 152
Samoyeds, myths of, 88
Sampo, 169
Saturn, 61
Savage ideas in Greece, 119
Savages, 72
— and Aryans, 135
— art of, 276-304
— fancy of, creates myths, passim
— their astronomy, 138
— their customs in regard to marriage etiquette, 73, 74
— on myth of mice, 112
— on Totemism in Egypt, 118
Scandinavia, gods of, 27
Scarabs, 113
Schliemann, 288
Schrader, 4
— sees storm myths everywhere, 71
Seb, 60
Semitic peoples, Totemism of, 115
— sacrifice, 61
Sennacherib, 112
Serpent, 117
— myth of, 81
— dance, 21
Servius, 37
Shaman, 136
Siati, the Samoan Jason, 97
Sickle of Cronus, 61
Σμίνθιος, Σμινθεύς, 103-120
Σμίνθος, 108
Snakes as ancestors, 227
Sneezing, superstition of, 14
Sparta, 33
Spiritualism, 36
Socrates, 46
Solar myth (see ‘Sun’)
Sophocles, 61
Sorcerers, 130
Star myths, 121-142
Stone Age, implements of, 12
— fetich, 224
— knives of, 226
— weapons, 125
Strabo, 108-113
Sun adored by Incas and Aurelii, 104
— as a beast, 133
— frog, 64-86
— god (Ra as), 113
— Medea and Jason explained as sun myth, 87-102
— myth in New Zealand, 133
— America, 133
— myth of, 131-133
— myths of frog explained as sun myth, 77
— Ra and Rudra as, 113-116
— worshipped in Peru and Rome, 104
Swallowing myths, Indian, Basuto, Jewish, Zulu, Eskimo, 55
— of Australians, 54
— of Bushmen, 53
— of Kaffirs, 54
Swan, Zeus as a, 126
Tabooed meats in Israel, 115
Taboo, 85
— on food of dead, 171
— on iron, 64
Tale, far-travelled, 87-102
‘Tales of West Highlands,’ 93
Tales, Popular (see ‘Märchen’)
Temples, Egyptian, 112
— Greek, 111
— Peruvian, 105
Thamyris, 97
Theal, 38
Theocritus, 29
— on Adonis’ feast, 105
Thunder-bird, 117
Toots, Mr., quoted, 65
Tortures inflicted on boys, 33
Totam, spelling of Totem in 1792, 105
Totem, or Ote, or Otem, 105
— in Egypt, 118
— in Israel, 115
— in Peru, 105
— explained, 106, 107, 245-275
— in Egypt, 107
— in Greece, 107
— in relation to the family, 245-275
— of Semitic people, 115
Totem not to be eaten, 113
Troad, mice myths connected with, 103-120
Tumatuenga, 45 et seq.
Tuoni, Hades of Finns, 171
Turndun (see ‘Bull-roarer’)
Turner, his ‘Samoa,’ 119
Turtle, Totems of Iroquois, 110
Tutenganahau, 45
— on star myths, 142
— etymology of, disputed, 68-71, 72
Veda, gods of, 212-242
Vedas, 213, 216, 217, 234, 241
Vishnu Purana, 67
Wäinämöinen (see ‘Kalevala’)
Wäinämöinen, 100
Water tabooed to frog and beaver brides, 77-80
Welsh, 74
— fairy, 82
‘West Highlands, Tales of,’ 93
Wind, charms to raise, 35
— god of New Zealand, 45
— myth, 55
— not to use husband’s name, 74
Wolf and Kid, story of, 54
— Totem of Iroquois, 110
Women, customs of, 71-75
Yorubas, 73
Zend Avesta, 117
— and the ram, 6
— as a beast, 134
— as medicine man, 200
— loves one of Pleiades, 126
— shares accomplishments of savage medicine men, 83
— swallowing myth of, 53
Zoolatry, 226
Zulu, myth of, 84
Zulus, 117
Zuni, 37
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