“Abant,” the word,154.Abraham, Bible history begins with,113,129;and Lot,126,155.Accad,125.Accadians,124,128;the inventors of cuneiform writing,311.Adoption, ceremony of, among the Aryans,146.Agglutinative languages,79,81,83,88et seq.;spoken by the yellow race,118.Agni,210; hymn to,211;the Indian fire-god,248.Agricultural life, the, gives rise to new relations,156.Ahanâ,257.Ahura-mazda, the god of Zoroastrianism,234.Air-god of the Egyptians,188.Alani, the,104,325.Alaric,325.Alphabet, the Phœnician,304et seq.Amenti,179.Amun,181,201.Ana,193.Ancestor worship,143;of the Aryans,147.Angles, the,325.Animal gods of the Egyptians,191.Animal worship of the Egyptians,123.Anubis,192.Aphroditê,206,224;an Asiatic divinity,318.Apollo,202,209,214;the god of the Dorians and Ionians,216;shrines of,216;the sun-god pursuing Daphne,257;found in the mythology of all branches of the Aryan family,258.Aral, lake, the region of, the home of the Turanians,120.Aramæans,124.Aratrum, the word,108.Ares, the national divinity of the Thracians,220.Armenians,99.Art, the earliest rudiments of,17.Artemis,204,223et seq.;and Endymion, the story of, a moon myth,263.“Arthur’s Chase,”226.Aryans,98;the origin of,99;evidence of language concerning,108;the early, a pastoral people,132;their entry into Europe,133;their social system,140;their faculty for abstract thought,201;the other world of, 241et seq.;possessed a spiritual conception of the soul,246;separation of,316;their languages,90;two main divisions of,91;their mythology, remarkable for diversity of its legends,199;their religion contrasted with Semitic,197;the sky-god in,199.Ashara, the,195.Ashtoreth,194.Assyrians, the,98,129;their gods,193et seq.Athene,204et seq.,222.Attila,119.Australians, the,118.Avars, the,119.Aztec picture writing,292.Aztecs of Mexico, the,116.Baal,193.Baal Chemosh,194.Baal Zebub,194.Babel,124.Babylon,127.Babylonians, the,98.Bæda, quotation from,1.Balder,203;a sun-god,229,246;the myth of his death,250et seq.Barbarians, origin of word,105.Barbarossa, legend of,278.Barter in the stone age,139.Bavarians, the,104.“Beauty and the Beast,”259.Bel Merodoch,194.Beowulf,327; the poem of,267;the Lohengrin myth in,276.Bible narrative, an aid to prehistoric study,2;itself corrected and enlarged by prehistoric inquiry,5;continuous history begins with Abraham,113.Bil, Assyrian sun-god,193.Black races, the,115.Bow, earliest use of the,50.Brahma,202.Brehon laws, the,322.Brennus,322.Bridge of death, the,277.Bronze age, the,54;domestication of animals in,148.Bronze introduced into Europe by the Aryans,140.Bronze weapons, found throughout Europe,149.Browning’s “Pied Piper of Hameln,”272.Bulgarians, the,106.Burgundians, the,104,325.Burial customs,40.Burial mounds. SeeTumuli.Canaanites, the,98; their gods,195.Carinthians, the,105.Case endings, origin of,75.Caspian Sea, the boundary of the Aryan home,243.Cattle, place of, in Aryan mythology,151.Cave-dwellers,49;implements of,15;drawings of,18;used fire,20;skeletons of,21.Celts, the,101,322;their fighting capacity,323.Cerberus,245.Chaldæa,123.Chaldæans,98;a mixed people,124;their buildings,125;their civilization, traces of, found in that of Mexico and Peru,128;their religion,193.Cherdorlaomer,126.China,127.Chinese,117;kept in a primitive condition by the early invention of writing;their characters, symbolic,293et seq.;determinitive signs of,295;their civilization connected with that of the Accadians,128.Cimbri, the,103.Civilization, successive steps in the earliest,135.Clovis,325.Commerce of Cave-dwellers,52;among the Aryans,152.Confucius,127.Cord records,284.Crab, the word,68.Cromlechs,42.Cuneiform writing,310.Cupid and Psyche, the myth of,258.Cushites, the,119.Cybele,205.Czechs, the,105.Dagon,194.Daphne, the dawn,257.Daughter, signification of the word,108,110,132,200.Dawn and evening in the Veda,212.Death, the region of,236et seq.;Aryan idea of,237;Egyptian idea of,238;a journey to the sky,241;the Indian conception of,244;the river of,243;and sleep,243; myths of,273;the various images of, in popular tales,278.Delphi,216.Demeter,204,205;and Persephone,220et seq.Determinitive signs,295.dicthe Latin root,70.Domestication of animals in second stone age,50;in the bronze age,148.Drift implements,10;form a class apart,11;types of,13.Drift period, men of the,49.Druid circles, so-called,42.Dutch,99,104.Dyâus,199,202,207.Eadwine, King,1.Earth-goddess of the Aryans,204.Eddic poems,327.Egypt, history begins in,52,121;peculiar features of nature in,178;the land-root of civilization,314.Egyptians,97.Egyptian civilization, the continuation of that of the stone age,121;intellectual character of,122.—— idea of death and the soul,238et seq.—— life and thought, two elements in the character of,122.—— religion,176;how distinguished from that of other nations,178;influence of nature on,178;nature gods of,181;distinctive feature of,181;divinities of,181et seq.—— writing,298et seq.;mixed character of,301;difficulty in deciphering,302;Hieratic and Demotic,303.El. SeeIl.Elamites,125.Elysian Fields,242.English, the,104.ErdeandHerde,94.Erech,125.Eskimo, the,117.Etruscans, the,320.Fee, the word,151.“Fight of Finnsburg,”327.Finnish tongues,90.Finns, the,117.Flemings, the,104.Flint weapons of Presigny,139.Franks,104,325.French, the,99.Frey,203,204.Freyja,204;the goddess of spring, beauty, and love,230.Freyr,230.Frigg,204,205,230.Gaedhill,101.Gaels,101.Gaulish myth of a sea of death,276.Gauls, the,101.Genghis Khan,119.Geological periods, length of,7.Gerda,231.German and English, kinship of,92.Germans, the,99.Gesture language gives no insight into the origin of language,62.Gewiss, the word,66.Gipsies,159.Glass mountains, the stories of, allegories of death,279.Goths, the,324.Government, an extensive scheme of, impossible to a people ignorant of social arts,167.Græco-Italic family, the,319.Grammatical terminations accounted for,74.Greek conception of the realms of death,241et seq.Greeks,99,102;appearance of in Europe,133;their religion,214;the first European nation,317;from the beginning a commercial people,318.Grimm’s laws,107.Hackelberg, the wild huntsman of the Harz,270.Hades,241.Hadubrand and Hildebrand, the lay of,327.Hamites, the,119.Hapi,192.Hathor,188.Hel,250.Hellenes,102;first use of the word as a national epithet,319.Hera,204.Heracles,202,209;life and labors of,218.Hermes,217et seq.;the wind god,232,244.Herne the Hunter,226,249.Hieratic and Demotic writing of the Egyptians,303.Hieroglyphic writing of the Egyptians,298.Hindoos,98.History, prerequisite conditions of,3.Hittites, the,315.Hoa,193.Hormuzd,234.Horus,184,196,201.House-fire, the sacred, among the Aryans,144.Householders, assembly of, in the village community,163.Human victims found in tumuli,37.Huns, the,119.Hunter, life of the primitive,137.Iberians, the,101.Ideographs, groups of,294.Il, the most ancient conception of God known to the Semites,195.Implements of later stone age,39.Incas of Peru,116.Indians, the North American,159;“picturing” of,288,290et seq.Indra,202,206;hymn to,208;character of,209;resembles Apollo,217.Inflected language,79,81,83;spoken by the white race,118;divisions of,118.Inflections, growth of,70;the third stage in the formation of language,72.Ishtar,194.Isis,189,195,196.Israel, the children of a nomadic people,130.Italians,99; the primitive,320.“Jack the Giant Killer,”264.Japanese use of Chinese characters,296.“Javan” in the Bible for Ionians,318.Jupiter,199,202,206,207.Kaiser Karl in the Unterberg,278.Karkemish,315.Kinship in languages,91.Kitchen-Middens. SeeShell Mounds.Kneph,188.Kurdur-Nankunty, a king of Susa,126.Lake dwellings, bronze weapons found in the later,150.Lake villages, the,44;construction of,45;object of46;civilization of,47,52.Language, the growth of,55;five stages in,81;arrested by the invention of writing,84;change in, resolved into two forces,85;classification by,106;holds the records of past times,106;the key to the early Aryan civilization,141.Langue d’oilandlangue d’oc,66.Lapps, the,117.Letters, invention and growth of,280et seq.;invention of, by the Egyptians,301.Law first connected with religion,166.Leiche, the word,93.Lithuanians, the,99,105.Lohengrin, myth,275,276.Loki,210.Lombards, the,104.Longobardi, the,325.Lot,126.Mâ, the Sanskrit root,68.Magyars, the,119.Mammoth age, the,10.Mammoth, drawing of a, by a prehistoric man,18.Man, the earliest traces of,6;his first stages of life,16.“Man,” the one who measures,68.Mankind, progress of, in the stone ages,48et seq.Maoris, the,118.Mara, the name,272.Mark, the word,153.Marriage ceremony among the Aryans,145.Maruts, the hymn to,209.Maut, an Egyptian divinity,187Melanesia,115.Menes,121.Mesopotamia,123.Milky Way, the, a river of death,277.Minôs,318.Mir, the Russian,162.Mitra,211.Mnemonics, different systems of,284et seq.Moloch,194.Monger, the word,153.Mongolians, marks of the,120.Monosyllabic language,78,81,83.Montenegrins, the,106.Moon, “the measurer,”68.Moon-gods of the Egyptians,185.Moon myths,262et seq.Moravians, the,105.Moses receives the law,166.Mound-builders, their religion,40.Mythologies, the relationship between different,173;of the different Aryan nations,176.Mythology explained through the study of language,172,173;the earliest,177;of the Shemites barren in incident and character,195;the stories related of the gods,255.Myths, diversity of,254;of death and the other world,273.Nation, the beginnings of,313,316.Nations of the prehistoric world,133.Nature worship at the bottom of most mythologies,173;this does not imply an absence of spirituality,176;the objects of, everywhere the same,177;in Aryan religions,197.Neanderthal,15;skeleton discovered in,22.Nebo,194.Negroes of Africa and Melanesia,115.Neit,187.Neolithic era,13,29.Nephthys,190.Nergal,194.Nerthus,204.New Guinea,115.Nibelungen, the,327.Nile, the, significance of to the Egyptians,180;the personification of,192.Nimrod,125.Nin,194.Noah,118.Norsemen, the other world of the,249.Obotriti, the,105.O’Brien, origin of the name,323.Odin,204,224et seq.;the heaven god,227;collects the souls of heroes slain in battle,249,268;as the Wandering Jew, etc.,264;as the “Pied Piper” of Hameln,264,272;as the arch fiend,270.“Old Mother Goose,”272.Osiri, the name, how written by the Egyptians,301.Osiris,182,193,196,201.Ostro-Goths, the,104.Ouse, the, prolific in drift implements,11.