INDEX.
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Goldziher, Ignác and Martineau, R. (Russell)
is brought to ruin by Zohak, 203
Jepheth, a Solar figure, 132
Jephthah, myth of his killing his daughter, 96–7;
his name mythical, its meaning, 97, 104
Joktan, denotes the Sedentary people, 54
Jonah, features of the Solar myth attached to him, 102
Joseph (the Rain), born of Rachel (the Cloud), 166, 175;
his contest with Zalîchah, 168;
with his brothers the Possessors of arrows, i.e. the Sun’s rays, 168–9;
his bow is the Rainbow, 169–70;
his story was worked out by the Northerns in his favour against the Southerns with their Judah, 285–6;
taken by the Northerns as their hero and ancestor at the separation, 278
Jubal, Solar hero, inventor of music, 130
Judah, his connexion with Tamar, a Solar legend, of Sun and Fruit, 180–2;
an ethnographical name, 175, 179–83
Judges (Shôpheṭîm), Hebrew, legends of, suffered no theocratic transformation, 287–8;
were preserved mainly in the Northern kingdom, 289
Judges, Phenician magistrates (Suffetes), 242–5
Ḳâbil and Hâbil, Arabic for Cain and Abel, 347–9
Kâfir, ‘Infidel,’ its original meaning, 193
Kalypso and Kalyke, the ‘Covering Night,’ 192
Kenite origin of name Jahveh asserted by Tiele, 293
Khitem dynasty adopted Chinese civilisation, 236
Kiyyûn (Chiun), the star, worship of, by the Hebrews, 220
Kuhn’s Herabkunft des Feuers reviewed by Steinthal, 363
Kulyatu, Solar hero of the Voguls and author of Civilisation, 207
Kutub al-awâʾil, ‘Libri Principiorum,’ 212
Ḳuzaḥ, Semitic (Arabic) Cloud-god, 73–4, 423
Lamb, white (a Cloud), adored by the Arabs, 223
Lamech. See Lemech
Laughter, words denoting, originally meant to ‘shine bright,’ 93;
of the morning or the sun and the stars, 94–6
Leah, the ‘Weary,’ is the Night when the sun is weary, 162
Legends, Hebrew, affected by the political separation of North and South, 277–89
Lemech (Lamech), Solar hero, kills his son, 129
Lengthened forms of words have greater intensity of meaning than simple, according to the Agâdâ, 340
Lenormant claims Mythology for the Semites, 11
Levi, ‘Serpent,’ i.e. Rain, 183–7
Leviathan (livyâthân), ‘Serpent,’ either Lightning or Rain, 184–6;
Storm-Dragon, 423, 425