INDEX.
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Goldziher, Ignác and Martineau, R. (Russell)
Gaza, gates of, carried off by Samson, a disguised myth of a descent to the nether-world, 403–4
Gazelle, designation of the rising sun, 178–9
Gazelles, golden, at Kaʿbâ at Mekka, 178
Geiger, L., his researches on the faculty of distinguishing colours, 141
Gender-distinctions in nouns, supposed by Bleek to encourage formation of mythology, 2–3
Genealogies invented through national hatred, 358–9;
concocted by national pride or for other reasons, 357–8
George, Saint, kills a dragon—a general Aryan Myth, 431
German gods’ names preserved in names of days of the week, 431
German heathen practices in Christian times, 430–2
Getube, in an Ojibwa legend, has twelve children, 174
Gideon, the ‘Smasher,’ is made a National hero, 256
Gold, called sulphur-coloured and red, 142–4
Greeks love Agricultural life, 80;
preserve traces of Nomadism, 70–1
Gynaeocracy, 76
Hagar, the ‘Flying,’ i.e. the Sun, 119
Haggai expresses the compromise between Priests and Prophets, 308
Hair in mythology denotes Rays of sun or moon, 137–40
Hajnal, ‘dawn,’ in Hungarian, denoted originally ‘white,’ 351
Ham is made ancestor of the Canaanites, 255;
his grave (according to Mohammedan tradition), in the district of Damascus, 280
Hamor, father of Shechem, called ‘Ass’ from the red colour, which is Solar, 181
Heaven, called the ‘High’ in the Semitic languages, 91
Hebrew Mythology became Jahveistic, 433–4;
its existence denied by Bunsen, 12–3
Hebrew Myths did not grow into religion, 248–9;
but generally became history, 249, 255
Hebrew national consciousness, its effect on the Myth, 251–4
Hebrew national individuality aroused, 259
Hebrew political centralisation confirmed Monotheism, 268
Hebrews (ʿIbhrîm), the ‘Wanderers,’ 53;
show sympathy with Shepherds as against Agriculturists, 86–7;
adored the Serpent in the Desert, 226;
adopted the Solar religion of Canaan, 227, 240–2;
their history begins with the conquest of Canaan, 232;
remained Nomads some time after leaving Egypt, 232;
abandoned Nomadism on passing the Jordan, 233;
took social and political institutions from the Phenicians, 242;
forgot the fact of their original polytheism and set