Index 



Medea in Argonautica, parallel 

 of Louhi the Hag of Pohjola 

 in Kalevala, 216. 



Megarians claim Tereus and 

 honor him as a god, 31. 



Minerva, in Etruscan "heavens- 

 red," 160. 



Minervalia, five-day festival in 

 IVrarch, 167. 



Modred, a son of King Arthur, 

 106. 



Mohammed, xvii. 



Moses, xvii, 195. 



MUUer, Max, on the swastika, 

 164. 



Munnapoika, Finnish "son of 

 egg," a modern variant on 

 Kullervo, 84. 



Narragansett Pier, 210. 



Neptune turns Kuknos, his son, 

 into a swan, 195. 



Nessa, queen of Ulster, has 

 Cormac Conlingeas by her 

 own son Conchobar, 107. 



Niurenius, on bird idols of 

 Lapps, 172. 



Nyyrikki, son of Tapio, Finnic ' 

 god of forests, is the red- 

 headed woodpecker, 39. 



Odusseus, xii; Greek etymology 

 for his name, 162 ; Etruscan 

 form, 163; Sikulian, 163; 

 meaning, 163; owl traits, 163; 

 cuckoo traits in his son by 

 Kirke, 164; his wife Penelope 

 a daughter and sister of birds, 

 164. 



Odyssey, the, xii. 



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Oesel, island in Baltic, 172; 

 bird god and temple, 172, 189. 



Oidipous, son of Laius and 

 Jocasta, xii; his crimes are 

 cuckoo crimes, no; accord- 

 ing to Pausanias he was half- 

 brother to the Sphinx, in; 

 his story in a modern E,stho- 

 nian folktale, 112. 



Oinas, old word for rock pigeon 

 in Greek, 14; probably Pelas- 

 gian, 14 ; same root as Venus 

 and yEneas, 15, 16. 



Oisin of Ireland, 91 ; kept by 

 fairies in cave, 116. 



Orpheus, xii ; with other Argo- 

 nauts has dim resemblances to 

 heroes of Kalevala, 143 ; 

 especially Vaino, 144 ; ex- 

 plains through analogy of 

 Vaino the nature of Pan, 142, 

 144, 145, 216. 



Orphic mysteries, 29. 



Orte, bronze Minerva found at, 

 169. 



Osiris, chopped to pieces like 

 Lemminkainen, 115, 199. 



Ostrich, in Bible, 146. 



Oulixes, Sikulian and early form 

 of Ulysses, 163. 



Ovid on the woodpecker on a 

 pillar, 29, 



Owl, Minerva's bird, xi ; and «p 

 Pallas Athene's, 6; sphinxes 

 of helmet of Pallas Athene in 

 Athens took the place of owl 

 figures, in; owls for sale in 

 Rome's streets, 150; small 

 owl generally called she, 151, 

 152; Australian blacks think 



