Index 



Hierapolis, sacred city in Syria, 

 dove not eaten except in rites, 

 i8 ; golden image with pigeon 

 on its head, 20. 



Hiisi, Finnish demon or god of 

 underworld ; Lemminkainen 

 catches his magic moose, 

 bridles his flame horse, 199. 



Hildebrand- Hadubrand fight 

 paralleled by Cuchullaind, 

 Rustem, Ilya of Murom, 108. 



Holy Ghost symbolized by 

 dove, X. 



Hoopoe ; Tereus for his crime 

 turned into a hoopoe, 48 ; 

 called the cuckoo's lackey, 

 109. 



Horus of Egypt, son of Isis by 

 Osiris, after the latter's death, 

 118; son of the cuckoo, he 

 turns into a hawk, 119. 



Huns, the, xiv. 



Hyperboreans, peoples of north- 

 ern Europe, 12; Apollo came 

 from them at midsummer, 

 200. 



ICARius, father of Penelope, 164. 



Icarus, his bird flight, 164. 



Icelanders on voice of swan, 

 197. 



Idas, 207. 



Ilaeira, 207. 



Iliad, the, xii. 



Ilmarinen, the Vulcan of the 

 Finns, a form of Pan and 

 Vaino, turns his bride into a 

 sea-gull, 49, 127; Lemmin- 

 kainen not bidden to his wed- 

 ding, 217. 



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India, swastika not derived from* 



165. 



Irish; fosterage among, 57 ; soft- 

 ening of gutturals in, 79; cou- 

 vade among, 89; chroniclers 

 made gods into historical per- 

 sons, 91 ; treatise on bird 

 auguries, 102 ; swan in leg- 

 ends, 202 ; their term for pea- 

 cock, 133. 



Isvara, form of Siva, picks up 

 red-hot iron, 174. 



Italy, destruction of birds in, 23. 



Ithaka, Telegonos lands on, 164. 



Janus shows the cuckoo by 

 marrying his sister, 77. 



Japanese demon queller, 174. 



Jupiter approaches Hera as 

 cuckoo, 68, 86; approaches 

 Leda as swan, 203, 204. 



Kaf, mountains where the 

 Simurg lives, 214. 



Kai Kads, Persian king, his 

 campaign against the white 

 deevs, 103 ; bound eagles to a 

 car to scale the sky, 104; his 

 dynasty is a set of birds, 104. 



Kalev, god who gave name to 

 Kaleva ; of the race of giants, 

 marries Linda, the bird, T}^ ; 

 father of Kalevipoeg, a post- 

 humous son, 73; carried to 

 Kalevala on back of an eagle, 

 205 ; Linda, born of an egg, 

 prefers him, 205 ; Kalev is 

 eagle, 215; Greek analogue in 

 ^etes of Colchis, 215; Kaleva 

 old eagle god of Finland, 221 ; 



