INDEX.
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Goldziher, Ignác and Martineau, R. (Russell)
Aaron, grave of, 280–282
ʿAbd Duhmân, 73
Abel a herdsman, 110;
his grave (according to Mohammedan tradition) at Ṣâliḥiyyâ, suburb of Damascus, 280;
figure of the Dark Sky, 111;
Jabal another form of the same, 111–2
Abraham denotes the Heaven at Night, 32;
myth of his sacrifice of Isaac, 45–47;
his journey to Egypt on account of a famine, when Jahveh plagued Pharaoh—a type of the later residence in Egypt, 275;
his grave at Hebron, 278–280;
at Berze near Damascus, 280
Abram (‘High Father’) originally denoted Heaven, 91;
changed into Abraham, 230
Abram and Jacob, mythical ideas connected with these names not quite obsolete, 229
Adam, grave of (according to Mohammedan tradition), on Mt. Abû Ḳu-beys, 280
Agâdâ contains mythology, 29–32;
but must be used with caution, 32–34;
a hermeneutic law of the A., that ‘the intensity of a word’s sense increases with the enlargement of its form,’ 339;
etymologies in A., 337;
given even in opposition to others in the Bible, 339
Agni, ‘fire’ and ‘God of fire,’ 367–8, 382, 386–9;
hidden, and brought back by Mâtariśvan, 369–70
Agricultural civilisation, speculation on, 211–14
Agriculture, Fall of man connected with, 87
Agriculturists love the Day and the Sun, 58–60;
refer the arts of civilisation to the Sun, 202
Akra (Gold Coast), people of, identify God with clouds, 224
ʿAlî b. Jaʿfar al-Razî wrote a book on the graves of the Patriarchs at Hebron, 279
Allâh, idea of, similar to that of Jahveh, 290–1
Amnon’s liaison with Tamar, its mythical element, 181–2
Ancestors, originally mythical figures, 229, 254, 257
Aṅgiras, mythical family of, connected with Agni, 371–2
Anschauung (Conception), 377
ʿAntar, the black hero, compared with the Night, 147–8
Apperception, 376
Aptûchos, of Cyrene, identical with Jephthah, 104
Arabian children educated in the tents of Bedâwî, 88
Arabs travel by night, 56;
proud of Nomadism, 79 et seqq.;
their poetry always conveys the scenery of the desert, 84–8