INDEX.
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Goldziher, Ignác and Martineau, R. (Russell)
Dagon, ‘Fish,’ Solar god of civilisation, 215
Dan, the ‘Moving,’ the Sun, 123–4
Darkness expressed by words meaning ‘to Cover,’ 190–4
Darkness and Blackness associated, 147–9
David’s story has features belonging to the Solar Myth:
redness, beautiful eyes, throws stones, 109;
he kills Goliath as Thor kills Hrungnir, 430
Dawn and Sunset expressed by the same words, 43
Dawn flies, or is a bird, 116;
the name denotes ‘moving,’ 120;
it is in Aramaic ṣafrâ (Arab, aṣfar), ‘golden,’ 150–1;
its colour saffron, 152;
changes from red to white, 152;
or from white to red, 153
Dawn (or the Sun) is called the ‘Uncoverer,’ 194
Day called ‘red,’ 146;
‘white,’ 153–4;
loved by Agriculturists, 58, 60
Deborah, the ‘Bee,’ i.e. the Rain-cloud, 430
Delîlâ, loved by Samson, 405;
meaning of her name, 405, 406 note
Deluge, Biblical story of the, 319;
Assyrian very similar, 320;
Hebrews must have borrowed it from Babylonians, 320–2;
Greek, Indian, and Persian stories of, not very ancient, 319–20
Deuteronomy, expresses a compromise between Priests and Prophets with a leaning towards the Prophets, 307–8
Differentiation of Hebrew national legends after the political separation, 275–87
Dinah, the ‘Moving,’ i.e. the Sun, 123–5
Dionysus strikes wine and water out of the rock, as a Solar hero, 429;
called Liknites, ‘in a cradle,’ 389
Divine names, Hebrew and Phenician, 246–7
Division of the kingdom, 275–7
Dragon (Serpent) denotes Rain, 224–6
Dragon of the Storm, Semitic, 423;
and see Rahabh
Dual deities, male and female, among Semites, 16
Dualism in sexual connections, 182
Dualism, religious, occurs in savage tribes as well as in Îrân, 15
Dyu, nom. Dyaus, 67
Easter, heathen goddess, 431