Index 



Peacock, xi ; assigned to Hera, 

 6, 124; falsely said to have 

 reached Greece under Alexan- 

 der, Solomon imported them, 

 124; Chinese reverence for 

 them, 124; became bird of 

 Pan, taking its name from 

 him, 132; name in many lan- 

 guages means sun, 133, 137; 

 Greek name for peacock taken 

 from Persian tawus, 133 ; 

 humming noise of its feathers, 

 134; on coins of Samos, 135; 

 jewelled peacock offered to 

 Hera by Emperor Adrian, 

 136; katreus a name for 

 the peacock, also name of 

 a Cretan king, 137; peacocks 

 owned by Vikingers, 138, 

 180 ; oath on the peacock, 

 138 ; peacock became wicked 

 to Christians from connection 

 with heathen, 146; no such 

 prejudice in Old Testament, 

 146. 



Pedauque, la Reine Pedauque, 

 a swan goddess, 192. 



Pelasgians, general term for 

 races about the ^gean before 

 the Greek, 8 ; also Pelargians 

 as if the "stork people," 

 9 ; oracle at Dodona was 

 Pelasgian, ii ; Herodotus 

 wrong in saying they had 

 no names for gods, 14 ; Pelas- 

 gian or non-Aryan race of 

 Syria, 19. 



Peleia, male pigeon, the "qua- 

 ker," found in Pelops, " dove 

 face," and Peleus, 16. 



Peleus, father of Achilleus, his 

 name means male pigeon 

 (peleia), 221. 



Pelican, siupid bird taken up 

 for crests over coats of arms, 

 147. 



Pelops, not from pelos dark, but 

 peleia male pigeon, his name 

 means " Dove Face," 16. 



Penelope, bird origin of, 164. 



Peony, plant of Pan and the 

 sun, a magic plant, 40. 



Pephredo, name of one of the 

 Graiai, 197. 



Persian heroes, 103, 104, 106; 

 legends of swan enchantments, 

 191. 



Perugia, tomb with owls and 

 serpents, 170. 



Perun, old Russian god o2 thun- 

 der, 21. 



Philomela turned to nightingale, 

 48. 



Phoebe, 207. 



Phcenix, fabulous bird that 

 burned itself periodically, was 

 the eagle, description of 

 picture in Herodotus, 220; a 

 form of Pan, 220 ; humanized 

 as the blind king pursued by 

 harpies, 220. 



Phoinikoi retain Pan's name, 

 136 ; brought the phcenix and 

 paan the peacock to Asia 

 Minor and Europe, 137. 



Pica, the magpie, 42. 



Picus, old Italian god, xii; was 

 the woodpecker, 25 ; his Italiot 

 worshippers like Lapps and 

 Finns, 32 ; figured as youth 



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