159Kartikeya, Hindu god,256Karu, hero-god of the Mundruku Indians,183Keri, hero-god of Bakairi (Carib) Indians,182Keridwen, British goddess,227,296Khepera, Egyptian creative deity,163; Osiris takes form of,164Khnemu, creative acts of,165Kiche Indians (Guatemala), creation myth of,147,172,264-265; theirmyth of origin of man,148; their myth of origin of heroes,149,265-268; Underworld of,212; mythical history of,268et seq.Kinder- und Hausmärchen, Brothers Grimm's,90King, as tree-spirit,76King of Tars, The, English romance, mythical references in,43Kingu, Babylonian monster,35Klaatsch, Dr, on Australians,37Kneph, Egyptian god,298Kodoyanpe, Maidu Indian creation myth of,180Kojiki, Japanese mythic book,259Krimen, Tupi-Guarai Indian hero,183Krishna, Hindu deity, cult of,257Kuhn, and meteorological myths,51Kuni-toko-tachi, Japanese god,168Kuvera, Hindu deity,256LLADAKSof Tibet, place of punishment of,154Laestrin, his interpretation of myths from nebular phenomena,51Lafitau, his interpretation of Indian totems,29; indicates savageelement in myth,45Lang, Andrew, on solar myth,54; on Spencer's theories,60; worksof,66et seq.; his position,66; distrust of Müller'sconclusions,66; on 'disease of language,'67; on the sacred andfrivolous in religion,67; his conception of myth, argumentsagainst,69; his general thesis,69; his theory attached toevolutionary systems,70; his three stages of myth,70; hisModern Mythology,71-72; his anti-animistic hypothesis,72-73;hisMaking of Religion,72-74; his 'All-Father' theory andsky-gods,74n.; his criticism of Frazer'sGoldenBough,75-77Language and formation of myth,56Lares, the,237Latin earth-gods,134Laurel as sacred plant,94"Lay of Hoarbeard," Norse mythic book,261-262Leda, Roman goddess,28Legend, definition of,12; Gomme's definition of,90Legend of Perseus, The, Hartland's,93Leland, C. G., hisAradia,236-237; hisKuloshap theMaster,270-271Lengua Indians of South America, creation myth of,180-181; ideasof the after-life among,214-215Leto, mother of Apollo, as darkness,121Life-index, the,247n.Lightning spear, the,124Lithuanian May Day festival,136Little May Rose, Alsatian May Day character,136Little Leaf Man, Thuringian May Day character,136Llud Llaw Ereint, British deity,295Loki, Scandinavian deity,131,292-293; as fire-god,293Lox, Algonquin deity,143Lug, Irish god,295Lunar gods,126-127; their qualities,127; connexion with water,127MMABINOGION, Welsh mythical book,262Macculloch, Dean, on folk-tale and myth,222-223Macha, Irish war-goddess,296McLennan, J. F., his writings on totemism,59Madagascar, dismemberment myth of natives of,146Magic and Religion, Lang's,75Magic, in modern Italy,236-237Mahabharata, the,257Maire, Tupi-Guarani deity,183Maize-gods of Mexico,299Making of Religion, The, Lang's,66,71,72Makonaima, Arawak creative god,177-178Malays, soul myth of,152Malsum the Wolf in North American Indian legend,271-272Mama Allpa, Peruvian earth-goddess,134Mama-cocha ('Mother Sea'), Peruvian goddess,125,314Mama Nono, Carib Earth-Mother,134,182Man, primitive, irrationality of,17; his thirst for knowledge,21;'magnified non-natural,' regarded as earliest type of god byLang,73-74; imagination of,93; not an inventive animal,96;myths of origin of, classified,148; creation of,seeChapter VI,158et seq.Manannan mac Lir, lord of Irish Hades,263,295Manawyddan, British deity,263,295Mandan Sioux Indians, creation myth of,182Mani, Polynesian god, myth of,142Mannhardt, his defection from the philological school,53; hismethod,54; Frazer's method founded on that of,75; on vegetationspirits,79Maoris, their myth of original man,148Marett, Dr R. R., on myth as non-explanatory,15n.; onpre-animistic beliefs,23et seq.; hisThreshold ofReligion,88; on the 'religious' in animism and mythology,88;on etiological myths,89Marine deities,125Maya, belief in destruction by fire among,139; culture myth of,150;fire myth of,152Mars, as agricultural god,124May-time ceremonies in Scotland,248et seq.Medico-religious practice,300Medieval mythology,43Melanesians, their myth of origin of man,148; culture myth of,150Mercury, Roman deity,32,237,294Merodach, Babylonian god,167,283,288-289; as sun-god,120;defeats Tiawath,166; described,286-287Metaphysics, savage,21Meteorological school of mythology,51Meulen, god of Araucanian Indians of Chile,310,312Mexicans, myths of birth of gods of,144; creation myth of,147;myth of the origin of heroes of,149; culture myth of,150; floodmyth of,153; place of punishment of,154; star myth of,156.See alsoAztecsMexican myth, flint-gods in,26et seq.; of Uitzilopochtli,32;creation myths,171-172; Heaven,210-211; Hades,211; sourcesof,263-270; mythology described,296et seq.Mexico, Payne on mythology of,84; Mother-goddess in,98;blood-sacrifice in,113Michabo, Algonquin Indian creative god,139,177Mictecaciuatl, wife of Mictlantecutli,211Mictlantecutli, lord of the Mexican Hades,196,211,218Milky Way,in South American myth,141; as Slavonic path to Heaven,209; asAmerican Indian route to Paradise,211-212Milton, mythology of,44Minerva,278; Ben Jonson mentions,280; described,284Minos,206Mithra, Persian deity,289Mitra, Hindu deity,289Mixcoatl, Mexican god,124Mjolnir, hammer of Thor,294Modern Mythology, Lang's,66,71Mohammed confused with gods,43Mohammedans, soul myth of,152Monan, deity of Tupi-Guarani Indians, attempts destruction ofworld,139,183Monotheism, causes of,30Moon-gods,126-127; their qualities,127; connexion with water,127;goddess, her connexion with fertility,127; with love,127;myths classified,155-156Morrigan, Irish war-goddess,296Mother-goddess in Mexico,98Mound-building in America,305-306Moxos Indians, star myth of,140Müller, K. O., his view of mythic science,46Müller, Professor Max, definition of religion,14; on character ofearly thought,21et seq.; his interpretation of myth,47et seq.;50-51; applied methods of comparative philologyto myth,48; described myth as 'a disease of language,'48; hiscritics,49-50; opposed by anthropological school,52; his theoryof effect of gender-terminations upon beliefs regarding naturalphenomena,52; Mannhardt on his theory,53Mummification, theory of soul developed from,79Mummu, Babylonian monster,34-35,166Mundruku Indians, creation myth of,183Murri tribe, fire-stealing myth of,149Muskhogean Indians, traditions of,305Muyscas Indians, flood myth of,153; moon myth of,156Mysteries, Greek,19Myth, definitions of,11,12et seq.,87; regarded by some asreligious in character,13,20,63,88; its inter-relation withcomparative religion,14et seq.; elements of,15n.;its relations with history,15n.,34,42,58,90-91,92;savage and irrational element in,15,16,18et seq.,45,65,67,69-90; editing of,16,18,33-35; and early science,20;invention of,21; development of,30-31,58; and spirit of sanctity,32-33; fusion in,33; purgation of,33; explanation of, lost,34;antiquity of,33-34; causes of its change,33-34; classificationof,35et seq.; distribution of,35-36; theory of origin of,in one centre,36; fixity of,38,55-56; authenticity of,39;Christian fathers on,43; 'psychic' explanation of,43; scientifictreatment of,46; its comprehension through language,48,andseeMüller; as natural phenomena,43; 'pragmatical' explanationof,43; Müller's interpretation of,50; personalism in,56; amongraces of low culture,56; and natural phenomena,57; names in,57-58;its regularity of development,58; regarded by some as non-religiousin character,61,68,87,92; and ritual,61,64,89,238; asprimitive philosophy,62; interpreted by allegory, renders ancientforms significant,62; non-ethical nature of,64; difference between,and religion,68; early, not essentially absurd or blasphemous,69;difference between dogma and, one of degree only,69; argumentsagainst Lang's conception of,69; Lang's three stages of,70;interpretations of, in accordance with contemporary ideas,70;complexity of,70; comparison of savage with 'civilized,'71;stratification theory of,81-82; survival of, due to grouping,86;secondary,90,238; in early, animals take place of gods,109; solar,its groundwork,120; various classes of,138; and folklore, connexionbetween,234; written sources of,245et seq.; in Englishpoetry,275-281Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Lang's,66,67,83Mythic law, nature of,30-31; resolution of materials of, intotheir original elements,47; recapitulation of progress of scienceof,100-101'Mythological habit' (interpretation of myth by one method), denouncedby Mannhardt,53Mythologie et les fables expliquées par l'histoire, La, AbbéBanier's,45Mythology, function of,11; and folklore contrasted,12et seq.;definition of,12et seq.; chronological sketch of,40etseq.; in the eighteenth century,45; symbolic method appliedto,46; comparative,47; comparative philology and,47et seq.;philological school of,47-51; described by Müller as 'a diseaseof language,'48; anthropological school of,51; meteorologicalschool of,51; Spencer's system of,59-60; takes the place ofdogma in early religion,61; exactitude essential to study of,65;'Covent Garden' school of,75; theory of non-religious nature of,88;growth of moral and ethical characteristics in,114-115Mythology and Folklore, Cox's,223Mythology of the Aryan Nations,Cox's,50Myths, what they explain,15; ætiological or explanatory,21,58,89;animistic,31; bird,31-32; creation,34-35; connexion betweenOld and New World,36; deluge or flood,56; resemblance between, notnecessarily borrowed,37; borrowing of,37,189-192; characteristicsof primitive,37-38; sophisticated,37-38; method of gauging antiquityof,38; process of interaction of,38; thunder and lightning,51;nature poetry in,53-54;solar,36; Lang on,54; Tylor'sgeneral thesis regarding,55; secondary,62,90,238; diffusion ofidentical,70; distribution of plots of,70; dissemination of,70,97;details of, represented in ceremonies,87; comparative tablesof,144-157NNAGAS, Hindu mythical beings,256Naman, Irish war-goddess,296Namaquas, death myth of,151Names, in myth,57-58; Spencer's theory of,60; Lang on philologicalanalysis of,71Narcissus,45Natural phenomena in myth,43,57Navaho Indians, creation myth of,147; fire-stealing myth of,149;after-life of,213Neevougi, sacred stone of Inniskea,27Neith, Egyptian goddess,127Nemi, priest of,76Neptune,126Nergal, Babylonian god of Netherworld,254,288Nét, Celtic war-god,295Newhaven, myth of Brounger current in,26New System, or an Analysis of Ancient Mythology, Bryant's,46New Zealanders, fire-stealing myth of,149; myth of death among,151Nibelungs, the,262Niflheim,170,197Nihongi, Japanese mythic book,168,260Ningphos (Bengal), taboo myth of,150; death myth of,151Nirig, Assyrian war-god,287Nokomis, Algonquin Indian Earth-Mother,134Normandy peasantry, fire-stealing myth of,149Nuada of the Silver Hand, Irish deity,295Nusku, Babylonian god,288Nut, Egyptian sky-goddess,165Nya, ruler of Slavonic Underworld,OOAK, 'animistic repository of thunder,'94Odin, Norse god,45; as thunder-bird,123; as wind-god,132;in creation myth,170; as Wild Huntsman,197; sacrifices hiseye for draught of water,226; leads Æsir migration,260;in the Eddas,261; described,292Odyssey, the,257-259Ogma, Irish deity,295Oki, Powhatan deity,305Okulam, Chinook myth,302Old Harry, spirit,45Ops, Latin goddess of fertility or wealth,134Oregon Indians, creation myth of,Orestes, his myth etiological,79Orinoco tribe, culture myth of,150Orion, different conceptions of,140; constellations of, in SouthAmerican myth,141-142; Bakairi idea of,182Orithyia,95Ormuzd (Ahura Mazda), Persian creative deity,169Orpheus, Reinach's,85Osiride et Iside, Plutarch's,246Osiris,135,218,220,246,285; myth of, built up,39;as corn-spirit,113-114,129-130; his development,113-114;and dismemberment myth,143; as Creator,164Otherworld, Celtic,209-210PPACARI TAMPU, Peruvian myth of,16Pachacamac, Peruvian thunder-god,16,173-174Pallas Athene,20; according to Pragmatic, Psychic, and Stoicschools,43; referred to by Milton,278; Brigit compared with,296Pampas Indians, belief in after-life,212Pan, myth of,132P'an Ku, Chinese creative deity,167Pantheons, causes which modified,30Papagos Indians, creation myth of,147Paradise,195et seq.Paraguayans, culture myth of,150Passes of Brazil, belief about earth of,134Patagonians, belief in after-life,212Pawnee Indians, dismemberment myth of,146; creation myth of,147;myth to account for customs or rites of,157Payne, E. J., hisHistory of the New World called America,84Pehuenche Indians of South America,