Myths, diversity of, 254; of death and the other world, 273.
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.
Nile, the, significance of to the Egyptians, 180; the personification of, 192.
Odin, 204, 224 _et 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.
Osiri, the name, how written by the Egyptians, 301.
Ouse, the, prolific in drift implements, 11.
Pastoral life, qualities involved in, 150; a nomadic one, 151.
Patriarch, the authority of a, part of Aryan religion, 167.
Patroclus, funeral of, a picture of Aryan rites, 247.
Pelasgi, 102, 320; the worshippers of pure nature, 215.
Perseus and the Gorgon, a sun story, 262.
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.
Picturing, 287; distinguished from picture-writing, 290.
“Pied Piper of Hameln,” the, 264, 272; a Slavonic legend, 273.
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.
Proper names, researches into, 111; in the Bible often stand for races, 114.
Red races, 116; considered by some a variety of the yellow race, 118.
Religion of the mound-builders, 40; first signs of, 51.
Rivers, English, the names of, Keltic, 111.
Romans, the, 99, 102, 320; development as a nation, internal, 321.
Rome, her proficiency in the arts of government, 168.
Shell mounds, 29, 34; proofs of their antiquity, 35, 136.
Sigurd the Volsung, 267; fire and thorn hedge used in the tale of, 278.
Slavonians, the, 103, 104; pushing back the Tartars, 119.
Somme, the, drift implements first discovered in the bed of, 11.