Absalom and his hair, i.334.Achilleus, horses of, i.351.Acheloos, horn of, i.266.Açvinâu, the, i.18,19;friendship for Tritas,25;awakening of,27;and the aurora,30;eyes to the blind, feet to the lame,32,36;and Kabandhas,63;the sons of,78;as the two ears of Vishnus,81,285-287,300-302,304,306-308,310,315,319,321,327,370;ass of,371.Adam and Eve, legend of, ii.411.Aditis and the cow, in Vedic literature, i.5,6,23,70,74.Adonis, ii.14-16.Adrikâ, the nymph-fish, ii.331;son and daughter of,332.Æschylos, fabled death of, ii.197.Æsculapius, i.353.Afrasiab, i.114,116,117.Agas and synonyms, i.402.Agnis, as the fire-god, i.10;adjutant to Indras,13,299,301.Agnus Dei, sacrifice of the, i.423.Ahalyâ, legend of, i.414.Ahura Mazda, i.97,109.Aiêtas, bulls of, i.267.Ai-Kan, story of, i.146.Alexander the Great, i.119;and augury, ii.178;and the fish,333;and the crab,355.Allwis, the dwarf, i.207,225,260,261.Amalthea, i.430.Amazons, the, i.211,212.Ambrosia, i.5;giver of,18;the milk which forms,52,54;contest for,53;the demons and,53;Gandharvas, guardians of,53,81;of the cow,275,276;the origin of, ii.361;the phallical reference of,361,365.Ampelos, i.267.Amphisbhæna, the, ii.386.Anantas, the serpent, ii.398,399.Angadas, i.337.Animals, gradation of, for sacrifice, i.44;substitutes for, in sacrifice,44;battles of tame and savage,186;inviolability of the mysteries of,246;mythical identification of, ii.123;colours of, in mythology,295,296.Ansumant, i.332.Antony, St, the Vedic, i.47;and the hog, ii.6.Antelopes and the Marutas, ii.83,84;king disguised as an,86.Ants, the, and the serpent, ii.44;and the shepherd's son,45;and the grain,47;and the horses,50;Indian,50,51;that dig up gold,51;the monster,51.Apâlâ, Indras, and the somas, ii.3;and her ugly skin,5.Aphroditê, i.394;and Hermes, ii. 197.Apollo, and Laomedon, i.279;Smintheus, ii.68;and the crow,254.Apple-tree, the legend of, i.251;the mythical,405;and the goat,405.Aquila and Aquilo, ii.191,192.Arabs, the, saying of, ii.11.Arachnê, ii.163.Arcadia, i.387,390.Ardshi-Bordshi Khan, the history of, i.120;stories from,134,139.Ardvî Çûra Anâhita, the Persian, i.99,100.Argos panoptes, i.418.Argus, ii.327.Arǵunas, i.79,104.Ariadne, i.212.Arkas, ii.118.Arnê, ii.259.Artemis and Aktaion, ii.86;the huntress,87;and hind,88.Arunas, i.292.Ases, the three, and the eagle, ii.191.Ashis Vaguhi, i.108,109.Ass, the, among the Greeks and Romans, i.259,260;in the East,360;in the West,360;mistakes about,361;Christianity powerless to redeem,361,362;hymn in honour of,361,362;treatment of, by the Church,363;downtrodden condition of,363;in the Rigvedas,364;names of,364,365;of Apuleius,366;which carries mysteries,367;and flight into Egypt,367;of the Açvinâu,371;of Indras,371;phallic nature of,372,373;chastisement of, for phallic offences,372,373;fall of, in the Rigvedas,372,374;the demoniacal,374,376;slowness,374;the golden,375,376;the Hindoo,377;and the jackal,377,378;-lion,378,379;-musician,378,379;three-legged, braying,379;and lion,380;braying of, and the merchants,380;and Vesta,384;and the Trojans,386;ears of,386;skin of,388;that throws gold from its tail,388;and the waters of Styx,390;horned, of India,390,391;horn of the Scythian,390,391;and Silenos,391,392,394;and Bacchus,392;and the talisman,393;skin of,394;proverbs about,394;the combed,395;shadow and nose,395;golden, of Apuleius,395;uncontainedness,396;that brays,397,398;in hell,398;knowledge of,398.Assassins, story of the king of the, ii.35.Atavism in mythology, i.199.Atli, i.226.Attis, the Phrygian, ii.409.Audhumla, the cow, i.224.Aulad, the warrior, i.112,113.Aurora, the cow, process of re-creating, i.20;cow of abundance,26;relations to Indras,27;the milk of,27;and her cows,25,29;the girl, the swift one without feet,30,31;the evening, perfidy of,32;as a sorceress,33;persecutions of,34;the saviour,35;once blind, now seeing and sight-giving,36;and the night,36-38;the sisters,38;the younger,38,39;nuptials of, and its conditions,39;fruit of the nuptials of,39,40;and Rakâ,50;characteristic form of,50;as a cow,51;mother of the sun,51;rich in pearls,56;and the moon,56,65;the Persian,100-102,121-125,146;awakener of,163,170;amours of,324;the two, and the fox, ii.124.Avesta, the, i.109,110.Bacchus and the asses, i.392.Bâlin and Sugrîvas, i.312,313; ii.100,101.Barrel, the mythical, i.197.Basiliça, story of, i.298,299.Batrachomyomachia, the, ii.71.Battos the shepherd, i.279.Bear, at blind-man's-buff with the maiden, ii.69;and Vicvâmitras,109;king of the bears,109;in the forest of honey,109;eater of honey,110;and peasant,110-112;duped by the peasant,112;and the fox,113;king and the twins,114,115;the demoniacal, and the two children,115,116;disguises of,117;woman in the den of,117,118;half bear half man,118;as musician,118,119.Beaver, the, ii.79,80.Bees and the Açvinâu, ii.215;Vedic gods as,216;as moon,217;from the bull's carcase,217;in Finnish mythology,218;spiritual and immortal,218-220;wax of,219;and young hero,220;as musician,223.Beetle, the, and eagle, ii.209;the sacred,209;red,209,210;names of the red,210,211;and first teeth of children,211;worship of the red,211,212;green,214.Bellerophontes, i.305,338.Berta, i.85;the Russian Queen,218;Queen, legend of,251-257;large-footed,253.Betta and the cake-youth, ii.238,239.Bharatas, King, ii.85.Bharadvâǵas, ii.275,276.Bhîmas the terrible, i.77-79,104.Bhogavatî, city of, ii.403.Bhrigus and Cyavanas, ii.10.Binding, vanquishing by, i.106,107.Birds, language of, i.151,152;the mythical impersonations of, ii.168,169;the wise, story of,169-172;virtue of feathers of,172;the language of,174;story of, and the queen,175;excrement of,176;the blue,176;Semiramis and,176;as diviners,177;auguries from,178;the, of Bretagne,271,272.Bitch, the mythical, ii.19-25;as spy,35.Blind lame one, the, i.31,32.Blue Beard, the Esthonian, i.168.Boar, the, of Erymanthus, ii.9;of Meleagros,9;the monster wild, in the Rigvedas,9,10;Indo-European tradition of,13;tusks of,15.Brahmadattas and the crab, ii.356.Brahmanâs, the, i.414.Bréal, M., i.263.Bribus, ii.308.Bridge, the mythical, i.228.Brian, the Celtic hero, i.239,240.Brother, the third, i.79,83;the Turanian, and his dream,139-142;the riddle-solving eldest Turanian,142;the third, in quest of the lost cow,155,156;journey to hell,157;as counsellor,156,159;royal, as peasant,162;awakener of the princess of the seven years' slumber,162,163;who mounts to heaven,176;and the tree-purchaser,176;endeavour of, to milk the bull,177;who snaps his fingers,184;ascent into and descent from heaven of,189,190;who steals from the other two,194;and the flying-ship,205;in bronze, silver, and gold,291.Brothers, the three, i.77,80,82,104;the Persian,105;the two,107,108,120;the three,109,111,125,128;the four, and the pearls,127;the six, Calmuc story of,128,129;the two, Calmuc story of,130;the two Calmuc, rich and poor,131,132;the two (lion and bull), and the fox,134;the three,148,153,156,161;the three dwarf, story of,161,162;the two rich and poor, and magic stone,177;the three, of the purse, whistle, and mantle,288,289;the two, who go one to the right and the other to the left,317,319,327.Brünhilt, i.212.Brutus, the first, i.199.Bufonite, ii.384.Buhtan and the fox, ii.134,135.Bull, the sun a, i.4;the, fecundator of the cow,5;the great bellowing,7-10;the horns of,9;a symbol of royalty,44;of the Persians,95;the excrement of,80,95;disembodied soul of,97;ambrosial,99;capacity of, for drinking,175;in the council of animals,185;which comes out of the sea,222,223;which carries the maiden,223;about to be sacrificed,270;without entrails,270,271.Buri, i.224.Butterfly, the mythical, ii.213,214.Butter-ears, the cat, ii.53,54.Bucephalus, i.338.Cabala, i.73.Cacus, i.280,281.Caduceus of Mercury, ii.219,220.Çakuntalâ, i.219.Calf, the, as marriage-priest, i.257.Çambaras, cities of, i.13.Çantanus, myth of, i.67,68.Canicula, the, ii.33.Çaoka, i.98.Çaradvat, ii.332.Çarmishthâ, the witch, i.83,84.Carp, the, ii.351,352.Carpus, ii.352.Cat, the white, ii.42;penitent,54;fox, and fattened mouse,56;and sparrow,56;dog, and ring,56,57;and dog and supposititious child,57;and moon,58;and Diana,58;and St Martha,58;and Freya,59;and St Gertrude,59;the chattering,59;and fox,59;and cock,59;and lamb,60;the grateful,60;the white, Blanchette,61;and the house,62.Cats, the enchanted, ii.62;the black,62,63;ill-omened apparitions of,63;and witches,63,64;the two,64.Çavarî, i.64,66,69.Cerberi, the, i.49.Cerire, i.117.Chameleon, the, ii.161.Charlemagne, tradition of, i.161;and Orlando,256.Children, king of, story of, i.135,136.Chimæra, the, ii.158.Chinese, the, and Little Tom, i.336.Christ and Prometheus, ii.40.Christopher, St, and Christ, ii.57;and lark,274;and the cocks,284.Chrysaor, i.305.Cianna and the grateful ant, ii.46.Cicada, the, ii.223,224.Cienzo and Meo, story of, i.329,330.Cinderella, origin of the legend of, i.31,101,126,161;the Russian,196,197; ii.5,197,281,304.Circe and the ass's head, i.366;and the companions of Odysseus, ii.6.Çivas, thedeus phallicus, i.44,59; ii.160.Claudius, Publius, and the auguries, ii.291.Clodoveus and St Martin, i.356.Clouds, the, i.6-9;mythical conceptions of,11,12;sky with, as a forest,14;as mountains,61;battles in,62;as barrels,63.Cock, the mythical functions of, ii.278;and Mars,280;Indras, the paramour of Ahalyâ, as a,280;and hen in India and Persia, and sacredness of the,282,284;crowing of,282,285,286;Christus invoked as a,283;in the Gospels,283;the miraculous,284;of night,285;and Minec' Aniello,287;Esthonian legends of,288;hitting the,289;as a symbol,290;-fights,290;the Danes and,290;auguries from,291.Coition, mythical, i.348.Cornucopia, Scandinavian, i.225.Cosmogony, the Persian, ii.412.Cosimo and the fox, ii.135,136.Cow and the Bull, the, origin and meaning of the myth, i.3,4;respect paid to, in the family,46.Cow, the infinite, celestial, i.5,6;