Oxus, the,99.Palæolithic era,13,25.Pan,215.Pastoral life, qualities involved in,150;a nomadic one,151.Patriarch, the authority of a, part of Aryan religion,167.Patriarchal family, the,141.Patriarchal customs,142.Patroclus, funeral of, a picture of Aryan rites,247.Pecunia, the word,151.Pelasgi,102,320;the worshippers of pure nature,215.Persephone,204,221et seq.Perseus and the Gorgon, a sun story,262.Persians,98.Perthes, M. Boucher de,11.Peruvian system of mnemonics,284.Phantom army, the legend of,225,249.Phœbus Apollo, the god of the younger Greeks,318.Phœnicians,98,129;commercial needs gave rise to their alphabet,305;the transporters of civilization,315;in Europe,317.Phœnician alphabet,304;how formed,305;resemblance to Hieratic writing of Egyptians,306;the parent of all existing alphabets except Japanese,308;how modified,309.Phonetic signs, origin of,299et seq.Phonetic writing, transition to,297.Picture records,287.Picture writing,289et seq.Picturing,287;distinguished from picture-writing,290.“Pied Piper of Hameln,” the,264,272;a Slavonic legend,273.Poles, the,99,105.Polynesian islands,118.Pomeranians, the,105.Pottery, broken, strewed at the grave’s mouth,40.Prehistoric conditions, our knowledge of, uncertain,4.Prehistoric studies, aids to,2;of events, rather than chronological,6.Prince Hatt under the earth, the Swedish story of,260.Prithvi,205,220.Proper names, researches into,111;in the Bible often stand for races,114.Prussians, the,105.Ptah,184.Pyramids, a sort of tumuli,53.Python, the,202.Quipus, the Peruvian cord records,285.Ra,184.Red races,116;considered by some a variety of the yellow race,118.Religion of the mound-builders,40;first signs of,51.Religious rites hard to trace back,172.Rents, the three,152.Rex, the,95,109.Rivers, English, the names of, Keltic,111.Romans, the,99,102,320;development as a nation, internal,321.Rome, her proficiency in the artsof government,168.Root sounds,67.Runes, Gothic,309.Russians, the,99,105.Russian village communities,169.Sabhâ, the,144.St. Ursula, the myth of,263.San,194.Sarama,218; the Sons of,244.Sargon I.,125.Sarrasin, the word,159.Sati,188.Savitar, hymn to,213.Saxons,325.Scandinavians,99,104.Sea coast, gradual protrusion of,34.Sea of death, the, mythical,276.Sekhet-Pasht,185.Semitic languages. SeeAryan.Semitic races,97.Semitic religion infused with awe,198.Servians, the,106.Shell mounds,29,34;proofs of their antiquity,35,136.Sheol,241, note.Siamese, the,117.Sigurd the Volsung,267;fire and thorn hedge used in the tale of,278.Silesians,105.Sin,194.Skirnir,231.Sky-divinities of the Egyptians,187.Sky-god of the Aryans,200.Slavonians, the,103,104;pushing back the Tartars,119.Social life, early,135.Soil-deity of the Egyptians,189.Somme, the, drift implements first discovered in the bed of,11.“Son of,” how used in the Bible,114.Sorabians, the,105.Sothis,192.Sound and sense, connection of,61.Spanish, the,99.Speech, the origin of, indiscoverable,59.Stone age, the two periods of,12.Stone age, the old, man’s life in,24;animals of,26.Stone age, the later,28;theories to account for the transition to,28;continuous history begins with,29;man of, in Denmark,30;navigation of,30;domestic animals in,32,36;men of, not cannibals,32;burial mounds of,36;human victims in,37;classes of implements of,38;pottery of,39;ornaments,41;burial customs of,40;tumuli, the truest existing representatives of,43;also called the polished stone age,43;duration of, in Europe,44;civilization of,47et seq.;successive steps in,49et seq.;first signs of religion in,51;civilization of,52;implements of, different materials of,50;people, little known of their social state,136.Stone ages, progress of mankind in,48et seq.Stonehenge,36,42.Suevi, the,104,325.Sun, supreme god of the Semitic nations,200;hopes of futurity suggested by,246.Sun-god, the death of,236.Sun-gods of the Egyptians,181et seq.;how regarded by the Indo-European nations,202.Sun-heroes, the different,262.Sun-myths,257.Surya,211.Susa,126.Swan, the, connected with ideas of death,275.Swarga,244.Symbolical teaching of the Egyptians,191.Tallies, the invention of, the germ of writing,283.Tannhäuser, the legend of,263.Tartar class of languages,89.Tartar races, invasion of the,119.Tasmania,114.Tellus,205.Teutonic family of nations,103,104.Teutons, village history of the,169;divisions of,324;an agricultural people,326;conquerors,326;feudal,327;poems of,327.Tew,199.Thanatos,241.Thammuz,194.Thibetans, the,117.Thmei,192.Thor,202;labors of,228;as “Jack the Giant Killer,”264;the recovery of his hammer,264.Thoth,185,194.“Time and Tide,”94.Timûr Link (Tamerlaine),119.Tomb-builders, the,36.Towns, English, the names of Teutonic, etc.,111.Tumuli,36; contents of,37;pottery found in,52,125;civilization of the builders of the,138.Turanian languages,88.Turanians of Central Asia,119;the early inhabitants of India were,120.Turks, the,119.Typhon,196,202.Tyr,228.Ulfilas,324.Ur of the Chaldees,125.Urki,194.Urvasi and Pururaras, the story of,258.Ushas,205.Van der Decken,226.Valkyriur, the,249,269;changed into witches,272,275.Varuna,203; corresponds to Ouranos,231.Vedic religion of India,207.Verb endings, origin of,75.Village community, the,159;features and regulations of,160;relation of the members to each other,161;correspondence of the RussianMirto,162;source of authority in,162;essentials of a true,163;assembly of householders,163;origin of,163;the ideas of personal and communal property arise in,165;origin of, distinction betweendivine and human law, in,167;changes resulting from the adoption of,68;chief of the Teuton, possessed of but little power,170.Visi-Goths,104.Vortices of national life,313.Vritra,209.Vul,194.Wampum,284.“Wandering Jew,” the,264,270.White races,118.Wiltzi,105.Wind-myths,268.Words, significant andin-significant,57et seq.;formation of, by joining others,72.Writing, the art of picturing sound,281;the invention of,282.Yaranas,100,132.Yellow races,117.Yes, origin of the word,65.Zend Avesta,207,233,235.Zend language, the,235.Zend religion, the, pre-eminence of,232.Zeus,199,202,206;the Olympic and Pelasgic,214;shrines of, at Dodona and in Elis,215,227.Zio,199.Zoroaster,166.Zoroastrianism,233.