Freyja, 204; the goddess of spring, beauty, and love, 230.
Gesture language gives no insight into the origin of language, 62.
Glass mountains, the stories of, allegories of death, 279.
Government, an extensive scheme of, impossible to a people ignorant of social arts, 167.
Grammatical terminations accounted for, 74.
Greek conception of the realms of death, 241 _et seq._
Greeks, 99, 102; appearance of in Europe, 133; their religion, 214; the first European nation, 317; from the beginning a commercial people, 318.
Hackelberg, the wild huntsman of the Harz, 270.
Hadubrand and Hildebrand, the lay of, 327.
Hellenes, 102; first use of the word as a national epithet, 319.
Heracles, 202, 209; life and labors of, 218.
Hermes, 217 _et seq._; the wind god, 232, 244.
Hieratic and Demotic writing of the Egyptians, 303.
Hieroglyphic writing of the Egyptians, 298.
House-fire, the sacred, among the Aryans, 144.
Householders, assembly of, in the village community, 163.
Il, the most ancient conception of God known to the Semites, 195.
Indians, the North American, 159; “picturing” of, 288, 290 _et 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.
Israel, the children of a nomadic people, 130.
Lake dwellings, bronze weapons found in the later, 150.
Lake villages, the, 44; construction of, 45; object of 46; 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.
Letters, invention and growth of, 280 _et seq._; invention of, by the Egyptians, 301.
Mammoth, drawing of a, by a prehistoric man, 18.
Man, the earliest traces of, 6; his first stages of life, 16.
Mankind, progress of, in the stone ages, 48 _et seq._
Mnemonics, different systems of, 284 _et seq._
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.
