Abaton, the, 303
Abu Ma'shar, 228
Accius, 23
Achelous, 189
Acheron, 184, 185, 195, 198
Acherusian lake, 184
Achilles, 272, 273,422; shield of, 385
Adad, 297
Adam, 224, 309; and Eve, 149
Adam of Bremen, 206
Adams, John Couch, 8
Adonis, 249, 284, 285
Aegir, 208, 209, 294
Aelianus, 42 I
Aeneas, 192
Aeneas Sylvius, Pope, 338, 339
Aeneid, 196
Aeschylus, 118, 179, 312
Aesir, the, 154-155, 160, 161, 163
Afrasiyab, Shah of Turan, 37-39, 40, 84, 201, 265, 340
Africa: Indians of, 246; study of, 353
Agamemnon, 273
Agaria, 219
Agastya, 263, 264, 395
Agni, 157, 159, 322, 382, 395,428-429
Agrippa d'Aubigne, quoted, 317
Aigokeros (Capricornus), 63
Akkadian (language), 449
Albania, 79n
Al-Biruni, 8, 30n, 83, 215n, 221
Albright, W. F., 124-125, 211, 295, 401, 419, 449
Alcmaeon, 202
Alcor, 264, 385
Aldebaran, 398, 437
Alexander, king of Macedon, 201, 202, 256,422; and the Gordian knot, 237-238; "Romaunt of," 313; linked to Gilgamesh, 313-315, 336, 419
Al-Farghani, 137
Alfoldi, Andreas, 371
Alice in Wonderland, 5m
Al-jadi (Polaris), 138
Al-Kazvini, 138
Allen, Richard H., 255
Aloe, Lake, 216-217
Alphonsus of Castile, Tables of, 271
Amaltheia, 259,426
Amaterasu, 169, 292,425
Ambales, dream of, 37; "Saga," 19, 23
Ambrosia, 259, 426
America: Snaebjorn and the discovery of, 94; myths of, 311; and Columbus, 338
Amlaghe, 20
Amlaidhe, 20
Amleth, 12-18; meaning of, 20; parallel with Kai Khusrau, 37, 39; division of story of, 82-83
Amlethus, son of Orvandil, 155, 354, 367, 430; destruction of hall by, 174; and Samson, 176; riddle of, 271
Amlodhi, 2, 19, 20, 35; mill of, 87
Amritamanthana, 383
Anahita, goddess, 40, 262
Ananke, 190
Anat, 291, 367
Anaximander, v, 82, 18m, 188, 330, 376
Anchises, 193
Anderson, R. B., 366
Andreas, 313
Angels, 396
Angkor, 7, 162
Animal stories and myth, 52. See also Bull; Cats; Fox star; Turtle; Wolves
An-Nadim, 282
Antares, 243, 437, 450
Anthropology, social, 71
Antiochus, 210, 239
Anu, 125, 291, 297, 303,431,451; Way of, 434, 437
Anunnaki, the, 297, 303
Aphrodite, 177
Apis, 285
Apocalypse, 44n
Apocalypses, 335
Apollinaire, quoted, 242 I
Apollo, 428, 447
Apollodorus, 117-118, 408
Apollon, 369
Apollonios Rhodios, 251, 254
Apsu, 153, 270, 301, 320, 3_4, 420, 435
Aqht, 291
Aquarius, 244, 256-257
Aquinas, Thomas, 75
Ara, 424
Arabs, 271, 315
Arallu, 450
Ararat, Mount, 32 3
Aratus, 245, 254, 257, 385
Arawaks, the, 166, 246
Arcadia, 278
Archaic world, dates of, 340-342
Archimedes, 72, 188, 342
Arcturus, 437
Ares, 176, 428. See also Mars
Argo, 257, 258, 265, 281, 291. 302; turtle as prow of, 369; wood of, 447
Argonauts, 172, 254, 263, P18
Arhippa Perttunen, 111
Aries, 434; Kai Khusrau, on, 44; Age of, 60, 318, 341; and Heimdal, 159
Aristarchus, 342
Aristophanes, 3 I I
Aristotle, vi, 144, 177, 32. 286, 340, 342; on astronomy, 4; on circularity, 48; and mathematics, 7; on esoteric doctrine, 118; on gods as first substances, 150; on the Milky Way, 252; quoted, 326
Arjuna, 79, 291, 310
Ark, the, 323; appearance of, 219; Utnapishtim's, 22 I, 297; as cubic, 222-223, 435; as a ship, 367
Armenia, 284
Arriaga, 226
Arrianus, 237
Arthur, King, 34, 46, 335, 347, 360, 418; myth of, 51; and Excalibur, 235
Arundati, 385
Aruns Velthymnus, 116
Aryans, 360
Asa, 234
Asgard, 156, 161
Assur-nasir-apli, Annals of, 220
Assyria, 133, 266-267, 288
Astrology, 50, 228; of Greeks, 64; problem of, 74-75; as early lingua franca, 345
Astronomy: as source of myth, 3-5, 324; modern indifference to, 60; presupposed by astrology, 345. See also planets and constellations by name
Asura, the, 81, 82, 152, 153, 263, 372
Atharva Veda, 140, 158,227,233,321
Athena, 264
Athenaeus, 118, 367
Atlas, 251
Atrahasis, 298
Atreus, House of, 174
Attila, and the Nibelungen story, 335
Attis, 285
Atum, 151
Auden, W. H., quoted, 213
Auriga, 255, 256, 258, 259, 261, 264,426; chariot of, 266, 399
Aurva, 392-393
Avalokiteshvara, 130
Avesta, 3_40' 146; Kavi Usan in, 37; on Sirius, 215, 216
Axis, world, 232-234; Heimdal as, 158-159; accompanying frame of, 235
Aztecs, 8, 290, 321
Baal, 128
Babel, Tower of, 249
Babylon, 6, 7, 195, 219, 266, 297, 307, 324,432; gods of, 124,244; Saturn in, 136; astronomy of, 142. 261, 314; Creation Epic of, 153, 166, 294; and epic of Gilgamesh, 288; Tower of, 303
Bach, J. S., 346
Balarama, 79, 310
Balder, 155, 160, 161, 285
Balmer, 61
Barabudur, temple of, 240
Barb, Alfons A., 148
Barbarossa, Kaiser, 46
Barthes, Roland, 343
Bastian, Adolf, 164n
Baumann, Hermann_ 311
Be'ersheba, 448
Bel, tomb of, 303
Bella Coola Indians, 253
Bellerophon, 37
Berard, 209
Bergelmer, 92-93, 141, 363, 366
Berger, E. H., 190
Bergson, Henri, 340
Berossos, 162, 418-419
Bertholet, Alfred, 396
Betelgeuse, 361
Bethlehem, star of, 244
Bhagavata Purana, 138
Bible, the, 4, I 15
Bieka Galles (Mars), 130
Big Dipper, 236, 266, 301, 407, 415, 451; as thigh of bull, 415, 416
Blacksmiths. See Smiths
Bloomfield, Maurice, 374
Boanerges, Sons of Thunder, 225, 226
Boghazkoi, 450
Bohl, F. M. Th. de Liagre, 290, 410, 433, 435
Boissacq, 430
Boll, Franz, x, 4, 44n, 206, 415, 423-424
Bon-po, 123
Book of the Dead, 73, 120, 1J2, 151
Book of Iceland Settlements, 94
Borneo, 166, 213
Borobudur, temple at, 124
Bouvard, 327
Bow and arrow, in constellations, 216, 321
Bradfield, 209
Brahma, 393
Brandaen, 271
Breasted, J. H., 119
British Columbia, 3 18
Brjam, 19, 35, 85
Bromwich, Rachel, 30n
Browne, Sir Thomas, 60
Brugsch, K. H., 414
Brunelstraat (Milky Way), 248
Brunetto, 197
Bruno, Giordano, 48, 342
Brutus. See Lucius Junius Brutus
Bulfinch, Thomas, 132
Bull: sacrifice of, 125, 404-405; thigh of, as Big Dipper, 415-416
Bundahishn, 247
Bunyan, Paul, 31
Burgess, E., 398, 401
Burns, Robert, 91
Burrows, Eric, 413
Cadmus, 428
Cain, 390
Calypso, 209
Cambodia, 166
Cambyses, 84
Cancer, 314, 403, 434; Gate of, 242
Can Grande della Scala, 279
Canopus, 73, 211, 257, 258, 264, 265. 268, 271, 318; as static, 269; as pilot star to Ship of the Dead, 281; and the horse's head, 395; wife of, 416-417; Eridu as, 420; Nibiru as, 431
Capaneus, 197
Capella the Goat, 259
Capricorn, 242
Casanova, P., 416
Cassirer, Ernst, 326-328
Castor, 210, 32 1
Catasterisms, of Eratosthenes, 256, 257, 265
Catlo'ltq, 214-215, 318-319, 321
Cats, 279
Cedrenus, 390
Celtic myth, related to Kalevala, 26
Censorinus, 162
Centaur, 424
Cezanne, Paul, 343
Chairemon, 427
Chaldea, 282
Chanina, Rabbi, 396
Chariot, of Phaethon, 266
Charles Martel, 75
Charles' Wain, 238, 266
Charpentier, Jarl, 360-361
Charybdis, 204, 209
Cheremissians, 26 .
Cherokee, 243, 249, 406, 407, 425; Story of whirlpool, 207; story of corn mill, 389
Chess, 161-162
Childe, Gordon, 388
Chimalpahin, 120
China, 216, 299; Saturn in, 136, 147, 261; Samson in, 166; common myths from, 311
Chiriguano, the, 247
Christ, 1I4, 197, 121, 223, 2_f, 330, 341, 355, 423
Christensen, Arthur, 370
Christianity: negation of Timaean scheme, 309; and the archaic world, 341
Chronos, 134, 189-190; and Kronos, 135n, 373-376
Chronos Aion, 189
Chwolson, D., 4, 282, 283
Cicero, 23, 138, 277. 376
Cimmerians, the, 335
Cipactli, 248
Circe, 198, 291
Circularity. and myth, 484
Cleasby, Richard, 156n1
Clemens Alexandrinus, 51n
Cleomedes, 137, 159
Clytemnestra, 175
Cocytus. river, 184, 196, 19_
Coffin Texts, 120, 132
Coleridge, S. T., quoted, 22F
Colossus of Crete, 197, 201
Columbus, Christopher, 337, 338; sources of, 338-339
Comparetti, D., 98, 116, 117
Conjunctions, Trigon of, 248. 399
Constellations: and quadrangular earth, 62; names of, 120; relation of signs to, 144-145. See also constellations by name
Copernicus, 60, 310, 342
Cornford, F. M., 230-231, 21.3-274, 307-308, 422-423, 424. 426
Corona, 355
Cosmography, and geography, 63
Cosmology, 46-47, 48; myth and, 50, 52-53, 56, IF; rules of, expressed in language of myth, 58
Cosmos, 188; frame of, 23, 36
Creation: described by Timaeus, 306; stories of, 382-383
Crete, 178, 194
Creuzer, Friedrich, 285, 2861
Crocodile. 248
Cross, wood of the, 227,447
Cube: as Saturn's figure, 212-223; ark as, 435
Cuchulainn, 31
Culture, vs. society, 71
Cumont, Franz, 284, 326
Cuna Indians, 213, 247, 447
Curse of the Miller Woman, the, I 17
Curtius, 423
Curwen, E. Cecil, 387-388
Dadhyafik, 393
da Gama, Vasco, 337
DaM.k, 370
d'Ailly, Pierre, 338
d'Alembert, Jean, x
Danes, thunderstones of, 226
Daniel, 418-419; vision of, 195
Dante, 46, 279, 296, 337; as bridge between two epochs, 75; sources used by, 118; location of Purgatory by, 193; journey of Virgil and, 194-198; quoted, 204, 250; whirlpool de scribed by, 204
Dapinu, 402-403
Dardanos, 385
Darius Codomanus (Dara), 84
Darmesteter, James, 76
Darwin, Age of, 68
Dates: related to Great Conjunctions, 268; of archaic world, 340-343. See also Time
David, King, 214, 249. 264, 421; and the Abyss, 220
Day, Florence, 411
Decamps, 388
Deimel, Anton, 409
Delphi, 447
Demeter, 170, 259, 280, 424, 425
Demiurge, the, 51, 306-307, 341
Democritus, 340
Democritus of Abdera, ix
Dendera: inscriptions of, 73; Zodiac of, 32 1,405,415,424
Denmark, 86
Descartes, Rene, 65, 343
Destruction, motif of, 176
Deucalion, 57, 63; Flood of, 279
Deus Faber, 128, 129, 372, 373,445
Deva, the, 372
de Vries, J., 362-363, 377
Dharma, 79, 309
Dhruva, Prince, 138, 141
Dhul-Karnein, 336
Diakonoff, I. M., 410
Dice, casts of, 161
Dieterich, Albrecht, 196
Dieterlen, Germaine, 53, 353
Dio Cassius, 23
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 222
Dionysos,32, 81, 287
Dioscuri, the, 226
Dittrich, Ernst, 66
Divine Comedy, sources of, 118
Dodecahedron, the world as, 187-188
Dog names, 279
Dogon, the, 53-55, 60, 353
Dorotheos of Sidon, 252
Dowson, John, 392
Draco, 282
Druidism, 8
Drums, mythical: as device of shaman, 124-128; Chinese, 125-126; of the Mande, 126
Dryden, John, quoted, 349
Dumichen, J., 73
Dumont, P. E., 114-125
Dumuzi, 284
Dupuis, Charles, viii, x, 346, 403; quoted, 230
Dyak, 239
Ea, 267, 270, 281, 324, 419, 431; Way of, 434
Earendel, 355-357
Earth: defined in language of myth, 58, 62; and equinoxes, 58-59; and the zodiacal band, 61; and motion of sky, 66; composition of mythical, 235; Ersetu as, 451
Ebeling, Erich, 266, 420
Eben Shetiyyah, 220,263-264,421,423, 435
Ecliptic, pole of, 143; and whirlpool, 240
Ecuador, 166
Edda, 141, 223, 294, 354,425; vision of world-age in, 154-156; list of heiti in, 378
Eden: serpent of, 222; Tree of Life in, 223
Edzard, D.O., 267, 409
Egypt, 247, 262, 383, 389, 405-406; language of, 73; story of Setna, 113-114; names of constellations in, 120, 216; Saturn in, 129, 136; and Ptah, 222; and the legend of Phaethon, 253; ambiguity of, as term, 282; Pan in, 287; interpretation of mnj.t in, 414-417; Sagittarius in, 424
Einstein, Albert, vi, 65, 342
Eisenmenger, J. A., 390
Eisler, Robert, 189, 230, 264, 374, 418
el-Buqat, 282, 284
Eleazar b. Pedath, Rabbi, 396
Electra, 385
Eleusis, 259,424,425
Elton, Oliver, 12
Emerson, R. W., quoted, 76
Enakim, 115
Enki/Ea, 124, 135, 146, 153, 223, 265, 281; Enmesharra as, 267; and Gilgamesh, 288; and Utnapishtim, 297-298; son-in-law of, 301
Enkidu, 289, 292, 402, 405, 442, 447
Enlil, 289, 290, 297, 298, 324,431; Way of, 434
Enmesharra, 266-267
Enoch, 77-78, 360; Book of, 152
Enuma elish, 153, 430, 434, 436, 448
Epimenides, 121
Epinomis, quoted, 43
Epiphanius, 416
Epitherses, 275
Epopeus, 422
Equinoctial colure, 212
Equinoxes, 62; out of position, 153-154
Equinoxes, Precession of, 58-59, 325; named by Hipparchus, 66; significance of, 61-68; described, 142-144; and Copernican system, 145; related to Trigon of Great Conjunctions, 268; relation of Sirius to, 286
Er the Armenian, 230-231
Era, 323, 324, 325, 413, 417
Era-Epos, 323, 436, 448, 451
Eratosthenes, 256, 257, 265, 424
Erichthonios (Auriga), 264, 266
Eridanus, 193, 196, 210, 23?, 251, 166; as the river Po, 154, 156; dual nature of, 155; confusion of with Eridu, 157-258; as whirlpool, 15$
Eridu (Hvergelmer) , 11 t, 21()-OO1I1, 163, 165, 318, 448, 449; etyamology of, 257; stylus of, 301; me from, 301, 304; source of fire, 31'; creation story, 420
Erman_Grapow, 73, 414
Ersetu, 449, 451
Esagil, 43S
Esau, 396, 405
Esthonia, 26, 118, 397; story of Kalevipoeg, 30n; mythical tree in, 447
Etana, 114
Etemenanki, 303
Etruscans, the, II6
Eudoxos, 72, 3 I 1
Euhemeros, 50
Euripides, 254
Euripus, 206-207, 238; axis of Roman circus as, 239
Evil, origin of, 149
Evolution, drawbacks of belief in, 68-71
Ezra, 419
Fable, vs. myth, 47
Fanggen, 277
Faridun, 370
Faroer dialect, 91
Fas al-rahha, 137
Fenek, 249
Fengo, 12-18, 367
Feng Shen Yen 1, 7
Fenja, 88, 158, 380, 388
Ferryman, 430-437. See also Nibiru Festus, 422
Feuchtwang, D., 421
Finland, 26, 113, 223, 312; story of Kullervo in, 27-35; and Kaleva, 115, 155; and the maelstrom, 205, 238; and the wood of the Cross, 227; mythical trees in, 446-447
Finnish Folklore Fellows, 117
Fiote, 246, 253
Firdausi, 36, 39, 43, 46, 83, 68, 283, 372; on the mythical period, 84; knowledge of astrology, 117; story of Kavag by, 370-371
Fire: astronomical, 140, 159, 321; rules relating to discovery of, 317
Fire sticks, 321; part of skambha, 311; fetching of, 322
Fitzgerald, Edward, 45
Flaubert, Gustave, 327
Floods: mythical, 57, 323; and sinking of constellations, 63; causes of, 219; arks and, 119; and Utnapishtim, 297
Forbes, R. J, 388
Forgetfulness, chair of, 408
Fornander, A., 201
Fox star, 385
Frazer, Sir James George, 69, 91, 111, 166, 281, 320, 326; Jewish legend quoted by, 386
Frederick II, Emperor, 197
Freud, S., 450
Freyr, 87, 93, 153, 285; death of, 157, 160, 364
Frobenius, vii, 390
Frodhi, 87, 285, 364, 380; mill of, 88-89, 146
Gadd, C. J., 439, 441
Galaxy, 279; and the ecleptic, 241; myth of Phaethon, 250-252. See also Milky Way
Galileo, 10, 48, 61, 143, 310, 342
Games, board, 161
Gandhi, Mohandes, 329
Ganesha, rat of, 365
Ganga, 259, 262
Ganges, river, 256, 250-260
Garsiwas, 38
Gates of Night and Day, 200
Gautama, Prince, 292
Geb, 406
Geldner, K., 428-429
Gemini, 242, 244, 321, 420
Genesis, Book of, 152
Genzmer, Felix, 365
Geoffrey of Viterbo, 418
Geography, as cosmography, 63
Georgics, 193, 258
Gering, Hugo, 366, 378, 386 Gertrude, nun, 294
Gervase of Tilbury, 423
Gesta Danorum, 12
Gibbon, Edward, 251
Gibil, 322, 429
Gideon, 168, 174
Gilgamesh, 42n, 130, 200, 202, 208, 209, 238, 257, 339, 411; epic of, 288-295, 300-301, 419, 436; Alexander as replica of, 313-315, 336, 419; and fire, 316; name of, 323; astronomical implications of, 323, 404; excursus on, 430-45 I; ferryman in epic of, 430-437; trees in epic of, 437-450
Ginnungagap, 234
Glaukos, 202
Gnostics, 131, 240
Godfrey of Viterbo, 46
Gods, as stars, 177
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 10, 333
Gog and Magog, enclosing of, 315
Golden Age, 146-147; end of, 149; in the Edda, 154-155; position of Milky Way in, 258; dates of, 340-342
Golden Bough, 69
Golden Fleece, 318
Gollancz, I., 20, 356, 357; on Lucius Junius Brutus, 21; on Snaebjorn, 24, 87, 94; on Maelstrom, 91, 205; on translation of Snorri, 361-364
Goosseus, R., 364
Gordius, 237-238
Gordon, Cyrus, 402
Gassmann, P. F., 323, 402, 409, 432
Gatze, Albrecht, 433
Granet, Marcel, 127, 129
Great Magical Papyrus of Paris, 147
Greece, 225; mythical floods of, 57; and astrology, 64; earth as center of universe in, 66; mythology of, 132134; story of Phaethon in, 263, 267; Weil on, 330
Gregoire, Henri, 364
Gregoire de Tours, 10
Griaule, Marcel, vii, 53, 327, 347, 353
Grimm, Jacob, 158, 271, 277, 354; on Orendel, 356-357; on Heimdal, 387; on horse's head, 395-396; on Lake Eim, 397
Grimm, W., 133n
Grimnismal, 162
Grotte (Frodhi's quern), 88-89, 107, 146; derivation of, 91; Freyr and, 93; parallel with Sampo, 111, 112; and Maelstrom, 205
Gundel, W., 228, 296
Guthrie, W. K. c., 238
Guyana, Indians of, 217, 246
Gwyon, 347
Gylfaginning, 156, 160; last paragraph of, 163
Gylfi, 160-161, 163
Hackelberg, 249
Hades, 407, 437; voyage of Odysseus to, 198-199. See also Underworld
Haeckel, Ernst, 71
Hagar, Stansbury, 243
Hagen, 335
Hahn, J. G. von, 90n
Hallberg, 386
Hallinskidi (Heimdal), 158, 386
Hamel, A. G. van, 161
Hamlet, 360, 363; as starting point, 1-2; contrasted with Amleth, 18-19; and Lucius Junius Brutus, 21; and Ophelia, 34; forms of, 50; Icelandic origins of, 86-87, 95; as Mars and Saturn, 176
Hamlet, quoted, 137
Hanuman, monkey-god, 403
Haosravah, 36
Harranians, the: planetary heptogram of, 4; on Mars, 176; Tammuz festival of, 282, 284
Harris, Rendel, 225-226
Harrison, Jane E., 189, 190, 274, 320
Hausravah, river, 201, 217
Havelock the Dane, 20
Hawaii, 163, 201
Hawkins, Gerald, 69
Hegel, G. W. F., 149
Heidel, Alexander, 288, 410, 420, 433
Heimdal, 155, 387; nine mothers of, 157-158
Hektor, 163
Helios, 251
Hephaistos, 128, 177, 201, 259, 264, 320; thrown by Zeus, 272-273
Hera, 272
Heracles, 167, 287. See also Herakles
Heraclitus, 7, 162, 240
Heraclitus the Obscure, v
Herakles, 214, 246, 422
Herimanus Contractus of I Reichenau, 359
Hermes, 282, 348; father qf Pan, 276, 277
Hermes Trismegistos, 210, 261, 299
Herodotus, 37; on Pan, 28j
Hesiod, 120, 146, 153, 154, 190, 194, 195, 335; on Styx, 199, 200; on Phaethon, 267
Hicetas, 310
Hieroglyphics, 72-73
Higgins, Godfrey, 256
Hildebrand, 335
Hinke, W. J., 409
Hinze, Oscar Marcel, 400
Hipparchus, 66, 142, 143
Hippopotamus, Isis as, 415
Historia de Preliis, 20
History: and reality, 46; and myth, 50, 334, 339; and evolution_ 70; reconstructed by Kepler, 399
Hittites, the, 288
Hocart, 221
Hoder, 160, 161
Hollander, John, 9
Holmberg, Sandman, 222
Holmberg, Uno, 123, 124, 125, 130n, 247, 382, 447
Hologram, 56
Homer, 91, 116, 183, 189, !90, 295, 336, 385, 389, 437; use of preexistent materials by, 117; voyage of Odysseus to Hades by, 198-199, 200; geography of, 209; on Kronos, 239; Weil on, 330
Hommel, Fritz, 409
Honduras, 243, 295
Hora Galles (Jupiter), 13_
Horapollo, 427
Horse's head, 392-396
Horus, 406, 417, 430
Horvandillus, 354
Hrolf Kraki, 20
Huang-ti, the Yellow Emperor, 50; as Saturn, 129, 135
Hubal, 221
huluppu-tree, 439, 447
Humba, 289, 403
Humbaba (Huwawa), 289, 290, 403-404
Humboldt, Baron Alexander von, x, 326
Hunrakin, 126, 166, 248
Huns, the, 315, 335
Hurrians, 288, 314
Husing, G., 403
Huwawa (Humbaba), 289, 314; cedar of, 437-438
Hvarna, 40, 265
Hvergelmer (Eridu), 111, 208, 209, 234
Hyades, the, 166, 175, 177, 398-399
Hyginus,312
Hyllos, 422
lahwe, 222
Ibn Wa'shijja, 92, 282
Iceland, 162, 311, 364; myth of Amlodhi in, 2, 19; and Denmark, 86; and Ireland, 94-95
Ideler, Ludwig, 4, 138
I-Ging, 120
Iliad, 44, 116, 330, 383; story of Hephaistos' fall in, 272-273
Ilmarinen, the smith, 31, 97, 98-103, 128; stealing of the Sampo by, 104-107
Inanna, 440
Incantation, 111
Incarnation, Christian doctrine of, 341
India, 65, 146, 204, 309, 389; and shamanism, 123; simile of turning millstone, 138; importance of numbers in, 162-163; planetary symbolism in, 240; and the Milky Way, 248n; Eridanus and Ganges, 256, 259; Phaethon in, 263; Kala in, 374; and Rohini's wain, 398; mythical trees 111, 444
Indians, American, 7, 320, 347; on reincarnation, 243; on the Milky Way, 246-247. See also Cherokee, Maya, etc.
Indonesia, Rama epic of, 214
Indra,79, 166, 310, 372, 393
Invariance, myth of, v-vi
Iran, 36, 84; shamanism in, 123
Iranians, 78, 80, 374
Ireland, Snaebjorn's connection with, 94
Irish harp (eruit), 368
Ina (Era), 323
Inagal, 412
Isengrim, 430
Ishara tam.tim, 244, 295, 409, 450
Ishtar, 215, 216, 290, 291-292, 320, 440
Isis, 249, 414-415, 425, 448
Ivalde, 155
Jacobsen, Thorkild, 265
Jakobsen, Jakob, 366
Jambushad, 92
James and John (Boanerges), 225, 226
Jamshyd, 47, 50, 84, 92, 283, 285
Janbushad, 283, 285
Japan, 168-169, 338, 383,425
Java, 124, 240
Jehovah, 223
Jenghiz Khan, 128, 335
Jensen, Peter, 295, 420
Jeremias, Alfred, 214, 409, 432
Jerusalem, 22 I
Jews, 42 I; myth of ark by, 219; myth of the Abyss by, 220; myth of Noah's flood by, 386
Jiriczek, O. L., 37
Joachim of Flora, 334
Job, 390; Book of, quoted, 263
John Barleycorn, 284
Johnsson, Finnur, 378
Jokes, function of, 425
Joshua, 174
Jubar, 355
Jung, C. G., 75
Jungle Books, 52
Jupiter (planet), 130, 239, 289, 314, 324, 372; in Kepler's figure, 136; conjunction of with Saturn, 244, 268; measurement by, 271; and Nibiru, 432
Justinian, 36
Ka'aba, 221, 423
Kaianian dynasty, 36
Kai Ka'us, 37-38, 40-41, 83, derivation of name, 371, 372;
Kai Khusrau, 36, 38-39, 83, 201, 217, 247, 265, 285, 335, 360; parallel with Amlethus, 37, 39; and the nature of myth, 47, 84; and Hamlet, 50; parallel with Mahabharata, 76
Kai Kubad, 83
Kala, 373-376
Kaleva, 96; identity of, 115
Kalevala, 26,96, 113, 119, 121; story of, 96-98; Kullervo in, 114; oak in, 223, 446
Kalhu, temple at, 221
Kali Yuga, 82, 85, 309
Kalypso, 295
Kampers, Franz, 418-419
Kamsa, Uncle, 360-361
Kane, 164, 201
Kansa (Kamsa), 80, 81
Kantele, 104, 107, 108, 369
Kara Par, 235
Karelia, 447
Kartikeya (Skanda), 157
Kaulu, 175
Kauravas, 78
Kavag, the Smith, 129, 370-371
Kavy Usa, 371
Kavya Ushanas, 372
Kayanides, 371
Kedalion, 178
Kees, Hermann, 405-406
Keimer, Louis, 427
Keith, A. B., 80
Kennedy, E. S., 400
Kepler, Johannes, 61, 221, 222, 228, 342; transition figure of, 9, 136, 268, 334; as the last Archais, 74; on the harmony of the spheres, 151; on planetary conjunctions, 399-400
Kerenyi, Karl, 32, 130
Keynes, John Maynard, 9-10
Khusrau Anushirvan, 36
Kiho-tumu, 299
Kipling, Rudyard, 49, 51, 311
Kircher, Athanasius, S.J., ix, x, 4, 91, 205, 210, 346, 361
Kleombrotos, 202
Kochob, as "mill peg," 137
Kolyvanovic, I 15
Kombabos, 404
Koran, 257, 315
Koshar-wa-Hasis, 118
Kramer, S. N., 438-439, 441
Krappe, A. H., 364
Krates of Pergamon, 198, 173
Krause, Ernst, 379
Krishna, 78, 80-82, 83, 85; return of into Vishnu, 309
Kritzinger, H. H., 400
Krohn, Kaarle, 27, 130n, 447
Kronos, 132-133, 146, 14_, 189, 100, 210, 221, 239, 159, 2_S; Orphic Hymn to, 132-133; Proclus on, 134; as Chronos, 134-135, 37x-376; Susanowo as, 176; Zeus son of, 263, 267, 280, 299; stag as, 319; Ogygian, 418-419
Ku, 201
Kuan-yin, 130
K'uei, 127-128
Kuhn, Adalbert, 381, 382
Kullervo Kalevanpoika, 2_35, 50, 81, 104, 115, 360, 430; and Hamlet, 50; son of Kaleva, 97; position of, 114; as World Observer, 13f; sea measured by, 171
Kumu honua, 201
Kumulipo, 7, 163-164
Kynosoura, 168
Labat, 439
Lake Eim, story of, 397-398
Lamaism, Tibetan, 12 3 I
Lambert, 301, 303, 448
Landsberger, Benno, 411, 443
Langdon, Stephen, 290, 4_3, 411
Language: problems of, 72-73; classical vs. contemporary, 3.3
Lapland, 16, 108, 130
Lascaux, caves at, 347
Lassie, 51
Learning vs. understanding, 118-111
Leibniz, Baron, 9, 74
Lemminkainen, 97, 104, and stealing of the Sampo, 104-107
Leo Grammaticus, 390
Lepsius, 4
Lethe, 406, 4%5
Leverrier, 8
Lewy, Hildegard, 110-11.
Liber Hermetis Trismegisti, 118
Libra, 240-241
Liebig, Justus von, viii
Liebrecht, Felix, 168, 178, 282
I-Iku, 434-436
Lilith, 249, 440, 443
Little Bear, the, 137
Livy, tale of Brutus by, 11-12, 1}
Llew Llaw Gyffes, 167
Lockyer, Sir Norman, 68, 141
Lokasenna, 93, 209
Loke, 155, 209, 222, 387, 41x
Longfellow, Henry W., 119
Lonnrot, Elias, 26, 27, 33, 111, 116; and the Kalevala, 96, 114; ignorance of archaic background of, 117
Lono, 201
Loth, J., 30n
Louhi, 98, 99, 104, 107, 108, 109
Lucius Junius Brutus, 11-13, 85; and Hamlet, 50
Luckenbill, 41 I
Lucretius, 48
Ludendorff, Hans, 61, 67
Ludr, 92, 111-111, 367
Lugh Lamhfada, 304
Luke, Book of, quoted, 86
Lykaios, Mountain, 278-279
Lykophron, 116
Lyra, 369
Lysimachides, }10
Mabinogi, 365
Macdonell, A. A., 394
Macrobius, 133, 134-135, In, 195, :68; on reincarnation, 242; on Lethe, 407
Maelstrom, 105; origin of, 1.
Magi, the, 423
Magni, 215
Mahabharata, 152, 156n, 236, 159, 163, 309, 371; parallel with Kai Khusrau, 76--78; skanda in, 157; equine head in, 392-393; conjunctions in, 401
Mahmud of Ghazna, Sultan, 36
Maimonides, 282
Maiterae (Maitreya), 113
Makalii, 365
Makemson, M. W., 139
Mallarme, Stephane, 343
Malory, Sir Thomas, 51
Mande, the, 126, 353,430
Maneros, 285
Mangaians, the, 241, 144
Manicheans, the, 131
Manilius, 250, 155, 257
Manjirae (Manjusri), 113
Mannhardt, Wilhelm, 177, 179
Mansikka, V. J., 223, 391
Maori, the, 65, 174, 110, 161
Marbhan, 368-309
Marco Polo, 338, 423
Marduk, 166, 267, 270, 294, 324, 325; temple of, 297; tomb of, 303; and Nibiru, 432; on the mes-tree, 450
Marquesas Islands, 425
Mars (planet), 130, 239, 285, 307, 324; Skanda as, 157; Susanowo as, 172; Samson as, 176; Dante on, 196-197; identity of, 390, 396; as Zu-bird, 443
Martius, 338
Maskheti (Big Dipper), 415
Mathematics, opposition of Aristotle to, 75
Matthieu, M., 364
Maui, 316
Maya, the, 8,61,67, 244, 247, 295,343; and Hunrakan, 126; story of Zipacna by, 175
Mayer, Maximilian, 212
Mayrhofer, Manfred, 381
McGuire, J. D., x
me, 301, 302, 304
Measures: gift of, 266, 268; planets as,. 271-272; by Zeus, 273; from Eridu, 304; as theme of Greek thought, 330-331
Mecca, 221
Megara, 425
Memory, fountain of, 408
Memphis (a mime), 118
Menja, 88, 116, 158, 380, 388
Menomhis, 416
Mercer, S., 414
Mercury (planet), 239, 271, 282, 289, 314; Humbaba as, 404
Merlin, 347
Mesopotamia, 303, 424; astronomy 01, 66, 216; and shamanism, 123, 114; cities of, 239; story of Phaethon in, 267; fire-god of, 321; mythical trees of, 448
Mes.tree, 437-439, 448, 450
Mexico, 74, 93, 136, 247, 405; Mars in, 176, 307; mythical trees in, 446
Michael Scoms, 228, 258, 309
Mid-air, 249
Midas, son of Gordius, 237
Mikku, 441, 443
Milky Way, the, 162, 111, 113, 1)0 131, 242, 256, 407, 446; gates to, 244; relation to Precession, 145; for spirits of the dead, 246-247; as Brunelstraat, 248; position of in the Golden Age, 258; and the Ganges, 260
Mill, the: in fable, 1; Grotte, 88-89; in Homer, 90; Sampo, 98-102, 104-108, 111; broad meaning of, 116; identity of with heaven, 140; motion and destruction of, 146; rotary, 388. See also Grotte; Sampo
Millstone, heavens turning as, 137-138
Milton, John, 135; Samson Agonistes, 165, 174; Paradise Lost quoted, 377
Mithra, 264-265
Mitra, 264
Mitravaruna, 164, 16S
Mixcouatl, 136
Mnevis, 285
Modi, 225
Mohammed 11, 339
Mongols, the, 130, 119, }IS, HS, 311
Moon, 239
Mooney, James, 389
Mordvinians, the, 26, 392
More, Sir Thomas, 51n
Moritz, L. A., 388
Morphology, comparative, ?
Morris, Desmond, 324
Moses, 44n, 60, 157,315
Mot, 367
Mother Scorpion, 195
Motion, by number vs. by generation, 308
Mouse (Mysing), 364-365
Movers, F. K., 404
Much, R., 386
Muellenhoff, 88
Muller, Max, 326
Mundilfoeri, 139, 158, 377, 3_2
Mundill (Mundell), 378-383
Mus, Paul, 124
Mus Padk, 365
Music: origin of, 7; as expression of world of abstract form, 3+6
Musical instruments, origin of, 368-369
Mylinos, 116
Myrina, 304
Mysing, 364, 380
Mysingr, 89, 107, 378
Myth: vs. fable, 47; nature of, 48; and history, 50; and science fiction, 51; cosmological information in, 150; used by Plato, 310-311; language of, 311-312; and poetry, 312; ambiguity of, 312-313; long and short forms of, 321; influence of on history, 337
Nabataean Agriculture, 282. 285
Nangaru the Carpenter, 314, 403-404
Nanshe, 301, 417
Near East, shamanism in, 113. See also individual countries by name
Nebrod, 390
Nebuchadnezzar, dream of, 195
Neckel, Gustav, 366
Nectar, 259, 426
Needham, J., 161
Nefer-ka Ptah, 113
Nemesis, place of in myth, 335-336
Nephthys, 414
Nergal, 297, 323, 324; Gilgamesh as, 448-449
Nets, destruction by use of, 174-175
Neugebauer, O., 414
Newton, Isaac, vi, 61, 342; as magician, 9; and gravitation, 64-65; Age of, 68
New Zealand, Maori of, 65f., 261
Nibelungen, Fall of the, 331
Nibiru, 431-437; explanations of word, 432-435
Nicander, 42 I I
Nicaragua, 243, 244, 295,407
Nidhogger, 443
Niedner, Felix, 366
Nihongi, 7, 168, 171, 174
Nile river, 253, 256, 263, 416-417
Nimin, 288
Nimrod, 166, 177
Nineveh, 239-240
Ningishzida, 367
Ninurta, 133, 297
Noah, 222-223, 298, 386
Nonnos, 251, 252, 255, 385
Normandy, 278
Normann, F., I38n
Norse myth, related to Kalevala, 26
North Pole, 200
Nudimud,270
Number, as unifying principle, 9, 74-75
Numbers: repetition of, 7; significance of, 162; as secret of things, 332
Numenius of Apamea, 188, 196, 239, 240
Nut, 262
Oak tree, in Kalevala, 446-447
Oannes, 418-419
Ocean, relation of to Phaethon story, 263-265. See also Sea
Oceanus, 184, 199
O'Curry, Eugene, 368-369
Odin, 160, 249, 292
Odysseus, 90, 98, 315, 447; voyage to Hades, 198-199, 200, 273; oar of, 270-271, 302. See also Ulysses
Odyssey, 116, 198, 354, 356; mill in, 90; whirlpool in, 204
Oervandil, 261
Ogotemmeli, 55, 347
Ogygia, 205, 209, 239, 295, 299, 418-419
ogyglon, 200
Ohlmarks, Ake, 387
Oikoumene, 64
Oinomaos, 280
Okeanos, 189-191, 198, 203, 214
Okoi of Audista, 1 II
Olaf Hvitaskald, 163
Old Testament, 120
Olrik, A., 364, 365
Olschki, L., 423
Olympic Games, 268, 280, 401
Omar Khayyam, 45, 47, 113
Omphalos of Delphi, 304
One-Leg, 126-127
Onians, P. B., 189
Ontrei, I I 1
Open Hole in Heaven, 143
Ophelia, 34
Oppenheim, A. L., 404
Orendel, etymology of, 356-358
Origen, 309
Origins of Scientific Thought, vi
Orion, 166, 175, 247, 353-355; Samson as, 177; zalos near, 210
Orpheus, 7, 222
Orpheus the Thracian, quoted, 137
Orphics, the, 189-190, 242, 267
Orvandil/Eigil (the Archer), 155, 354
Orvandils-ta, 354-355
Orvendel, 12, 87
Orwandel, 354
Osiris, 281, 285, 299, 303, 414, 448, 449
Ostyaks, 26, 130n
Ovid, 57, 118, 168; on Phaethon, 251, 252, 253, 263, 265
Pali-uli, 201
Pan, 275-277, 278, 285-287, 341
Pandavas, 78, 309
Paranatellonta, 256
Parmenides, 65, 200, 340
Pascal, Blaise, 7 I
Pastor of Hermas, 223
Paulus Alexandrinus, 44n
Pausanias, 69, 20m, 268, 408, 422
Pawnee, 243, 309; Skidi-Pawnee, 384
Pecuchet, 327
Pegasus, 297, 420
Pelops, 280, 386
Penelope, mother of Pan, 276, 277
Periodic system of the elements, 61
Persephone, 280
Persia, 36, 129
Perspective, as token of Scientific Revolution, 342
Peru, iii, u6
Petavius, 4
Petron, 202
Petronius, 138
Phaedo, 206, 208, 220
Phaedrus, 305-306, 328, 348
Phaethon, 210, 250-252, 258, 347; survivals of theme of, 253-254; placed among stars, 255; significance of, 256; and the oceans, 263-265; as Saturn, 265
Phaidon, 195
Pherecydes, 223
Pherekydes, 189
Philae, 303
Philistines, 166, 167, 173-174
Philolaos, 231-232, 310
Phlegethon river, 195
Photius, 422
Physics, of the Stoics, 64
Picus, 291
Pied Piper, the, 7
Fiero della Francesca, 224
Pindar, 286
Pingree, D., 400
Piran, 38-39
Pisces, Age of, 244, 268, 341
Pishdadian dynasty, 36
Pisistratus, 116
Plain of Truth, triangular, 202-203 Planets: as measuring, 271-272; as instruments of time, 306-307. See also planets by name
Plato, vi 3, 57, 134, 149, 193, 265, 271, 282, 330, 383, 389; and the language of myth, 6, 47, 51, 305, 310-313, 328; time machine of, 143, 190; on Socrates' last tale, 179; on world as dodecahedron, 187; on the frame of the cosmos, 230-232; on the sun, 246; on legend of Phaethon, 252, 273; Timaeus of, on creation of souls, 306-310; on a cosmic model, 333; on time vs. space, 340, 376; on language and memory, 347-348; on Lethe, 406-407
Pleiades, 125, 157, 164n, 177, 213, 239, 307; and Zipacna, 175; Lyre of the Muses, 369; on shield of Achilles, 385; and Noah's flood, 386
Pliny, 195, 215
Plough-star, 32 I
Plutarch, 134, 187, 101-103, 267, 383; story of death of Pan by, 275-276, 281, 282, 341; on Kronos, 299, 419
Po, river, Eridanus as, 254, 256
Poetry: early concept of, 119; and the idiom of myth, 312
Pogo, Alexander, 141
Pohja, 233
Pohjola, 98, 99, 101, 104
Polaris: and Saturn, 136; as peg, 140; and the Milky Way, 260-261
Polemon, 320
Pole stars, 59, 141; shifting of, 142-143; removing of, 383-384
Poliziano, 11
Pollux, 32 I
Polynesia, 425, 437; Dechend's work in, vii-viii; myths of, 163, 316; Orion in, 166; and the whirlpool, 213, 239; and reincarnation, 242-243; myths about rat in, 365
Poseidon, 315,437
Pramantha, 139, 140, 320, 382
Pratap Chandra Roy, 394
Precession of Equinoxes. See Equinoxes
Proclus, 134, 136, 188, 203n, 259, 267, 268, 299, 346; on fox star, 385
Procyon, 289, 314,403
Prometheus, 139; Kronos as, 133; Catlo'ltq story of, 318-319; derivation of name, 379-383
Proto-Pythagoreans,6
Psalms, Book of, quoted, 86
Ptah 12_ 135, 222, 285, 29, 38, 427
Ptolemy, vi, 50, 143, 257, 388; Geography of, 63-64; on fixed stars, 307
Pukku, 441, 443
Puranas, 78, 259-260
Pyramid Texts, 120, 132, 414, 443
Pyriphlegethon, river, 184, 195, 198
Pythagoras, v, 121, 174, 187, 279; and mathematics, 6; and music, 369
Pythagoreans, 65, 202-203, 242, 334; on legend of Phaethon, 252-253, 256; tradition of, 310; and mathematical sciences, 330-331
Pytheas, 25
Python, 304, 428, 44
Quecholli, 410
Quechua, the, 166
Querns, rotary, 388. See also Mill
Quetzalcouatl, 42n, 77, 78, 93, 213, 247, 322, 360, 382, 418
Quzistan, 284
Ra, 262, 285, 425
Rabuse, G., 196
Radloff, 123
Radulf, Johan, 130n
Ragnarok, 156, 225
Rama, 214
Ramesside Star Clocks, 414-415
Ran, 208-209, 294
Reality: related to history, 46; not concrete, 57
Recitation, of ancient poetry, 111
Reincarnation, 242-243
Rembrandt van Rijn, 333
Rephaim, 115
Republic, vision of Er the Armenian in, 230-231
Reuter, O. S., 158, 355, 362, 386
Revelation, demons from, 423-424
Reynard the Fox, 248, 347,430
Rhea, 259,425
Rhone river, 256
Riccioli, 400
Riemschneider, Margarete, 443
Rigel, 210, 261, 355
Rigveda, 44, 120, 139, 140, 161, 263, 264; Kavya Ushanas in, 37, 371; Agni in, 157, 322; on Heimdal, 158; numbers in, 162; on Yama, 304; Kala in, 374
Rilke, Rainer Maria, quoted, 329 ]
Rimbaud, Arthur, 343
Rishyasringa, 401
Rita, 265, 267, 318
Rivers of earth, 256
Rivers of heaven, 188-189, 195, 196; as time, 201; and Eridanus, 256-257
Robert le Diable, 279
Rohini, wain of, 398
Romance of Alexander, The, 51, 339
Rome, 339
Roscher, W. H., 286
Ross, W. D., 4
Rouen, Ettienne de, 418
Rouse, W. H. D., 255
Rudra, 365
Rumia, 437
Russell, Bertrand, v
Russia, 223; story of Kjolyvanovic in, 115; and wood of the Cross, 227; on end of the world, 384; mythical trees in, 447
Rustam, 43
Rydberg, Viktor, 92, fI 139, 141, 155, 362, 363; on Heimdal, 158, 159; on Hvergelmer, 208; on Yggdrasil, 233-234
Sagittarius, 239, 244, 261, 296, 321; Centaur, 424
Sahagun, 32 I
St. Francis, 334
St. Helena, 224
Saitan, 392
Salonen, A., 411, 439
Salt-mill, 366
Sampo, the, 98, 205, 221; building of, 98-102, 128; stealing of, 104-107; breaking of, 108, 14_; meaning of, 111, 121; and Samson, 176; etymology of, 232; roots of, 133
Sampsii Pettervoinen, IIp, 446
Samson, 388, 389; story of in Book of Judges, 165, 167, 173; characteristics of, 166-167; and Mars, 176; identity of, 177-178
Samson Agonistes, 116, f65
Samson Kolyvanovic, 1
Sanskrit, 91, 139; etymology of Sampo 111, 232-233
Santiago, 226
Saptarshi, 301
Sarapis, Oracle of, 313-314
Satanael, 227
Satit,321 I
Saturn, 194, 239, 268, 321, 373; Huang ti as, 129; Egyptian, 29; of Lapps, 130; Kronos as, 133, 134-135, 283; Lord of Measures, 13 -136; and the Golden Age, 146, 269 Lord of the Mill, 148; as originator of times, 15H; in pre-Islamic tradition, 221; as earth-dweller, 222; and the cube, 222-223; conjunction of with Jupiter, 244, 268; Phaethon as, 265-268; as measurer, 271; reincarnations of, 418-419
Saturnalia, 222
Saud, 79
Saxo Grammaticus, 270; Gesta Danorum, 12; story of Amleth by, Il 18, 23-24, 174; later life of Hamlet, 20; on the wolf-horse, 32; on foster-sister, 34; parallels of Amlethus and Kai Khusrau, 37; division of story by, 82-83; Iceland as source for, 86-87
Saxton, Mark, 5Ill
Sayce, 420
Scaligeri, family of Verona, 279
Scandinavia, 225
Scherer, Anton, 357
Scheria, 316
Schlegel, Gustave, 135, 136n
Schmidt, Leopold, 280
Schmoekel, Hartmut, 420
Schott, A., 292n
Schroder, F. R., 162
Schroedinger, Erwin, 72
Science: origins of, v-vi; primitive, as art of fugue, 65; Tolstoi on, 329-330; archaic, 331; related to three-dimensional space, 342
Science fiction, as myth, 51
Scorpius, 244, 251, 261, 294, 295, 296, 450
Sea: references to, 35; mythical explanations of, 263. See also Ocean
Secular motion, 143
Selket-Serqet, 244, 295,409, 450
Serpent of Eden, 222
Servius, 195, 257
Setala, E. N., 26, 34-35, lIS
Seth, 430
Setna (Seton Chamwase), 113
Seven heavens, 123-124
Seven Sages, 301
Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, 299
Seven Stars of Ursa, 3
Shahna’a, 36, 37-39, 50, 117
Shakespeare, William: contrasted with Saxo, 18-19; on the foster-sister theme, 34; on Mars and Saturn, 176
Shamanism, 121-132; analysis of, 121-122; seven heavens as ladder for, 124; drum as device of, 124-128; Siberian, 125; significance of blacksmith in, 128-130
Shamash-Helios, 290, 294-295, 297, 303
Shesha-Serpent, 79, 310
Shetland dialect, 91
Shiva, 236, 260
Shun, Emperor, 127-128
Shunashepa Hymns, 429
Siam, 127
Siduri, 209, 210, 294, 295, 412, 450
Signs, zodiacal, relation of constellations to, 144-145
Sigu, 217-218, 223; brown monkey of, 222
Sikander (Alexander the Great), 83, 84
Simana of Mekrijarvi, 111
Simmias, 180-186
Simrock, Karl, 357, 367, 378-379, 386
Sirius, 215, 239, 279, 284, 290, 320, 321, 357-358, 409, 429; Pan as, 285, 286; yew tree of, 447, 448
Siryenians, 26
Sivin, N., 128n
Siyawush, 37-39
Skadi, 170, 425
Skaldskaparmal, 24, 87
skambba, 227, 232, 233, 261, 306, 317; fire-sticks part of, 321
Skanda (Mars), 157
Slagfin the Musician, 155
Sleep and sleepers, 298-300, 418
Smintheus, Apollon, 364
Smith, Sidney, 443
Smiths: in shamanism, 128-130; as foster fathers of heroes, 371, 373
Snaebjorn, 24, 92, 139, 146, 363; identity of, 94; on the whirlpool, 205
Society, vs. culture, 71
Sociology, anthropological, 71
Socrates, 195, 210, 231, 246; in Phaedo, quoted, 179-186; on psychology, 190; on location of the world, 193; on Tartaros, 238
Soden, W. von, 120
Solon, 252, 253
Solstices, 62
Soma, the, 372,429
Sophocles, 118, 421
Souls: created by the Demiurge, 306-307; journey of, 406-407
South America, 166; Indians of, 247
South Pole, celestial, 265, 417, 422; exempted from Precession, 269
Space: preceded by time, 65, 340-341; in modern world, 342
Speiser, E. A., 300, 402, 410, 412, 420; on Nebiru, 432
Spencer, Herbert, 70
Sravana, 236
Ssabians of Harran, 92
Stag, symbol for Kronos, 319, 320, 427
Stars: gods as, 177; fixed, 306-307
Stegemann, Viktor, 252
Stephanus of Byzantium, 266, 416
Stoics, 64
Stokes, W., 29n
Stonehenge, 68
Stone Things, identity of, 410-412
Strabo, 198, 254, 303
Strom, A. V., 386
Stucken, Eduard, 390, 401, 409
Sturluson, Snorri, 24, 86, 90; on Vafhbrudnismal, 92; Gylfaginning, 156, 160, 163; on the Maelstrom, 205, 207-208; Gollancz on, 363; critics of, 365-366; on Heimdal, 387
Styx, 147n, 184, 188, 190, 209; in Dante, 194-195; in Homer, 198; in Hesiod, 199, 200; color of, 292; powers of water from, 422
Submarine life, 391
Sumer, 267, 284, 288, 324, 438-439 Sumerian (language), 120, 302, 314, 449
Sumo Indians, 243
Sun, position of, 59, 246
Sun (Chinese monkey), 270
Suomi, 108
Surt, "the Black," 156-157, 161
Susa, 6
Susanowo, 168-172, 176, 292, 390, 425
Svarnara, 265
Symplegades, 318
Synchronicity, universal, 75
Syria, 214
Tafa'i, 291
Tahaki, 175, 426, 444-446
Tahiti, 291, 395
Taillte, Games of, 304
Talos, 178
Tamerlane, 335, 339
Tammuz, 91-92, 276, 281, 283, 448; identity of, 284-285
Tane, 223,445
Tantalos, 280
Tapir, the, and the Milky Way, 246-247
Tarquin, King, 21-23; dream of, 37, 41
Tartaros, 183-185, 188, t94, 196, 199, 200, 238, 274
Taurus, 405; Age of, 125
Taylor, A. E., 187
Teiresias, 302
Telechines, 147n
Tell, William, 357
Tepictoton, 360
Testa, Domenico, 67
Teukros, 240, 256
Texcatlipoca, 247
Tezcatlipoca, 126, 136, 176, 261, 320, 322, 382, 405
Thamus, 275-277, 282, 34
Theaetetus, 190, 246
Theodoric, 335
Theodosius, Edict of, 34:
Theogony, 199
Theseus, 172
Thetis, 272,422
Thidrek (Theodoric), 133
Thiersch, F., 397-398
Third Vatican Mythograther, 239
Thjassi/Volund, the Maker, 155
Thor, 160, 161, 163, 261, 54-355
Thot, 151, 282, 348
Thucydides, 331
Thunder, sons of, 225-226
Thureau-Dangin, F., 124
Tiamat, 153, 261, 262
Tiberius, 275-277, 341
Tides, relation of to whirlpools, 208
Tiki, 316
Timaeus, 187, 246, 252, 376; creation scheme in, 305-309; as myth and wisdom, 328, 33 I, 334, 396-397
Time: as measure, 8; as dimension of heaven, 44; relation of to myth, 47; space preceded by, 65; rivers of heaven as, 201; and Saturn, 269; and timelessness, 270; biological vs. of mankind, 327-328; cyclic, 332; vs. space, 340-342
Time machine, 154, 307; and Precession of Equinoxes, 143-144
Timon, 231
Titanus, 153, 274
Tlaloc, 290
Tolkien, J. R. R., 52
Tolstoy, Leo, 329-330
Tombs, study of, 303-304
Tonga, 204
Toscanelli, Paolo, 339
Tragedies, Greek, 117-118 Translation, problems of, 72
Trees, mythological, 223, 227, 247, 317; in epic of Gilgamesh, 437-450; in India, 444; in Tuamotua, 444-446; in Mexico, 446; in Finland, 446-447; significance of, 448-450
Trigon of Great Conjunctions, 268
Triptolemus, 116
Troy, 163, 336, 385
True Cross, 224
Tsham-Pas, 392
Tuamotu islands, 299, 444
Tungus, the, 247
Tupi, the, 166, 247
Tupi-Guarani, the, 247
Turan, 37
Turanians, 78, 80
Turkestan, 235
Turks, 371
Tursum Beg, 339-340
Turtle, in Greek myth, 369
Turu, 246
Tvashtri, 372, 393
Twilight of the Gods, 141, 163; Ragnarok, 156
Tycho, 228
Typhon, 249
Tyrol, 277, 280
Uemac, 360
Ugro-Finnish languages, 26
Uhland, Ludwig, 355, 357
Uller, 447
Ulysses, 197, 336-337; and the whirlpool, 204
Umbilicus Maris, 238
Underworld, the, 267; sequence in rulers of, 448. See also Hades
Ungnad, Arthur, 420, 435
Universality of doctrines, 6-7
Untamo, 27-30, 430
Ural-Altaic Asia, center of shamanism, 121, 123
Urd, 234
Ursa Major, 247, 260, 264, 384, 405; seven oxen of, 138; on shield of Achilles, 385
Ursa Minor, 429
Urshanabi, 295, 296, 300, 411, 417; son-in-law of Enki-Ea, 301; comparative individuals to, 430
Uruk, 288, 290, 300-301, 440; meaning of, 304
Urvashi, 291
Usener, Hermann, 326
Utnapishtim, 209, 214, 219, 293, 295, 296; ark of, 221, 435; story of Deluge by, 297-298; and Gilgamesh, 298-301
Utopia, 51n
Uzumue, 425
Vadava-mukha, 394
Vafthrudnismal, 366-367, 378; Snorri on, 92
Vainamoinen, 97, 98-99, 115, 128, 141, 206, 210, 216, 228, 447; in belly of ogre, 103-104; and stealing of the Sampo, 104-107; and Kantele, 108, 109, 369; departure of, 110-111; contest of with Youkahainen, 113; and Kullervo, 114-115; as shaman, 129
Vaisvanara, an Agni, 429
Vajda, Laszlo, 121
Valens, 256
Valerius Maximus, 21, 23
Valéry, Paul, quoted, 56, 344
Valhalla, 7, 162
Vall, 161
van der Waerden, B. L., 211, 401, 436
Vanir, the, 155, 160
Varahamihira, 65-66, 398
Varuna, 263, 264, 265
Vasishtha. 264, 392
Vedas, 7, 335, 345-346, 374, 393
Vega, 261-262
Venus (planet), 74, 216, 239. 261, 290, 355
Vezelay, 261
Vidal, 160, 161
Vigfusson, 94, 139, 156n
Vindler (Heimdal), 159
Vipunen, 103-104
Virchow, Rudolf, 71
Virgil, 59-60, 62, 164, 176, 296, 336, 424; supposed prophecy of, 114, 244-245; Georgics, 167, 258; quoted, 192; as Dante's guide, 192-198; on Lethe, 407
Virgo, 245, 248-249
Vishnu, 78-79, 82, 259-260, 383; Krishna in, 309; and horse's head, 393, 394
Vishvamitra, 236
Voguls, 26, 130; on the Milky Way, 247
Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet, 334
Voluspa, 141, 160
von Hammer, 339
von Soden, 433
Vortex, 111
Votyaks, 26
Vrihaspati, 372
Vurukasha Lake, 40, 215, 217, 265
Wagner, Richard, 156
Wainwright, G. A., 405
Waralden olmay, 130
Warner, Arthur, 36n, 83, 84
Warner, Edward, 36n, 83, 84
Wars of Alexander, The, 20-21
Water, origin of, 223
Way-openers, cosmological relevance of, 318
Weber, A., 428
Weidner, Ernst, 307, 403, 436
Weil, Simone, 329, 330, 331
Wells, stones thrown in , 423, 426
Werewolves, 278
West Africans, 7
Westphalia, 249
West Sudan, 126, 249,43
Whakatu, 174
Wheeler, Post, 169
Whirlpool, 90-91, 320; universality of, 204-205; in Homer, 2 ; among the Norse, 205; in Adam of Bremen, 206; among the Cherokee, 207; in Snorri, 207-208; in the sky, 210-212; summary of information on, 238-239; as ecliptic world, 40; Eridanus as, 258. See also Grotte.
White, Lynn, 388
Whitehead, Alfred North, 64
Whitney, W. D., 233, 374
Wild Hunter, the, 249, 292
Wilson, H. H., 260
Wiseman, D. J., 411
Wissowa, 326
Woehler, Friedrich, viii
Wolves, 278-279
World-Observer, 130
Wright, Austin, 51n
Xerxes, 84
Xolotl, 93
Yakuts, the, 128, 130, 247
Yama, 50, 146, 304, 360, 373. See also Yima
Yama Agastya, 319
Year, varying lengths of, 428
Yggdrasil, the World Ash, 223, 133, 447
Yima (jamshyd), 40, 41, 146, 153, 283, 448. See also Yama
Yima-ssaeta, 146
Ymer, 92
Youkahainen, 113
Yu the Great, 128, 129, 270
Yucaran, 247
Yudhishthira, 76-.77, 79, 85, 309
Zaehner,R. C., 376
Zahan, D., 60
Zahhak, 84
Zal, 43
zalos, 258
Zebedee, 225, 226
Zend Avesta, 36
Zenker, R., 37
Zeus, 222, 259, 263, 267,437; and fall of Hephaistos, 272-273; and Lykaon, 278-279; and Kronos, 280, 299,424
Zeus the Miller, 116
Ziggurat, the, 123
Zipacna, 175, 390
Zodiac, 186-187; true center of action, 60; "signs" of, 144
Zohar, 396
Zonaras, 23
Zoroaster, 84, 376
Zu-bird, 440, 443
Zurvan akarana, 129, 189, 374, 376