Index 



owls women, 151 ; in the 

 Bible was abomination to eat, 

 152; Shakespeare denounces 

 owl, 153; Minerva turns 

 Nyctimene into an owl for 

 incest, 154; Blodeued became 

 owl for betraying her husband, 

 154; on Athenian coins, 155; 

 usefulness and ferocity, 156; 

 luctifer, 1 57 ; glaux, 1 57 ; 

 Miner valia an owl festival 167 ; 

 in Rigveda, 168 ; throttle 

 babies, 168; nine calls, 168; 

 Minerva early evolved from 

 owl, 169; Tarapilla, Baltic 

 owl-god on island of Oesel, 

 172; Palladium may have 

 been owl idol, 173; early 

 Pallas an owl, 173 ; owl gods 

 of Lapps, etc., 173; a weaver 

 in German ballads, 176; owl 

 gods of Livonians, 188; eggs 

 of owl stop drunkenness, 

 209 ; owl of Cwm Cawlwyd, 

 219. 



Palladium, stolen from Troy, 

 163 ; shaped like an animal, 



173- 

 Pallas Athene, xii ; owl is her 

 bird, 6; glaukopis, 157; wis- 

 dom, 157; her serpent, 158; 

 cock, 158 ; deity of night, 159; 

 ornaments of helmet, 160 ; 

 form of Selene, 160 ; sister of 

 Aurora, 160 ; origin of name 

 Pallas, 160 ; descent from 

 Pan, 160; epithets Paionia 

 and Pandrosos, 160 ; why 

 born of Jove's head, 161 ; 



early worship like that of 

 Finns, 173; origin of fame as 

 weaver, 176; contrasts in her 

 worship, 175; quarrels with 

 Poseidon, Ares, Hera, Aphro- 

 dite, 177 ; owl traits, 177. 



Pallas, giant prototype of Pallas 

 Athene, 173. 



Pan, xii ; oracle at Dodona 

 originally his, 13; in Germany 

 his parallel was Wunsch, 22 ; 

 Pan in one part of Greece 

 called Phan, 128; root of 

 name in phoenix, Phoenicia, 

 128; older god in Greece 

 than Zeus, Hera, Apollo, Mer- 

 cury, 129; older Turanian 

 form is Paian, Paieon, healer 

 god in Iliad, 129; not neces- 

 sarily a goat-foot originally, 

 131, 161 ; Greek way of express- 

 ing rudeness of Arcadians, 131 ; 

 gave up his birds to Zeus and 

 Hera, 132; gave his name to 

 peacock, 132; in Old Ireland 

 represented by Fion, now Finn 

 mac Cool, 132 ; lo Paian in 

 Apollo's temples retained 

 Pan's name, 134; Phaon the 

 same as Pan, 141 ; mysterious 

 god, degraded by Greeks, 



141 ; his character and ad- 

 ventures hid under Orpheus, 



142 ; primitive Turanian god, 

 160. 



Pandion, king of Arcadia and 

 Athens, 48 ; a human form of 

 Pan, 160. 



Pausanias on the sphinx, no; 

 on serpent of Pallas, 158. 

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