Index 



JE\ius, the praetor, a wood- 

 pecker settled on his head, 

 44; averted danger from 

 Rome, 44. 



jEneas, xii; from oinas dove, 

 is the dove god humanized, 

 15, 17; bird traits, 19; not a 

 Trojan, but ally of Priam, 15. 



Aetites, eagle stones found in 

 eyries, help women in labor, 

 213, 214. 



Ahti, god of waters, same as 

 Lemminkainen, old love god 

 of Finns, 114. 



Aino, parallel of Syrinx and 

 female Venus, 12 ; mocks 

 Vaino, 13, 20; grief too great 

 for marriage with old man, 

 incest suggested, 126; parallel 

 of Syrinx sought by Pan, 

 126. 



Alcaeus, the poet, his bird name, 



139- 



Alcaius, the halcyon, heralds 

 approach of Apollo in spring, 

 200. 



Althamenes of Crete, fated to 

 kill his father Katreus (pea- 

 cock), 137. 



Amazon of Scotland, Scatach 

 the " shadowy " keeps a mili- 

 tary school, 98. 



American spiders, 165 ; suggest 

 swastika, 165; on shell gor- 

 gets, 166; Indians ignorant of 

 wheel, 167. 



Andromeda, Cuchullaind finds a 

 princess exposed on seashore 

 to monsters, 202. 



Anuljis vase from Clusium, 208. 



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Aoife, daughter of Scottish 

 Amazon Scatach, her love 

 affair with Cuchullaind, 98. 

 Aphareus, 207. 



Aphrodite, Greek goddess of 

 love, her bird the dove, the 

 love bird, 6; but sometimes 

 the sparrow, 7; her place in 

 Italy filled by male and female 

 Venuses, 12; higher sphere 

 than that of old bird gods, 15 ; 

 her favorite Phaon, 140; she 

 was said to have mourned 

 Adonis by leaping from Leu- 

 cadian Rock, 140. 

 Apollo, swan given to him, 6; 

 turns Kuknos into swan, 192 ; 

 heralded by Alcaius and drawn 

 by swans, 200. 

 Arabian Nights, swan changes 



in, 191. 

 Arachne, turned to spider by 



Pallas Athene, 164. 

 Ares, woodpecker assigned to 



him, 6. 

 Argonautica, not imitated in 



Kalevala, 143. 

 Aristophanes' name for wood- 

 pecker, 42. 

 Arthur, his talks with the Eagle 

 of Gwernabwy, 214; his mys- 

 terious origin, 96. 

 Aruna, charioteer of Indra, was 



born of an egg, 215. 

 Arviella, on the swastika, 164. 

 Aryans, the, xiii, xiv, xvii. 

 Atossa, queen of Persia, her 

 crime was that of bird gods, 

 especially cuckoo gods, 109. 

 Audubon, the sharp eye of, 16. 



