Index 



with woodpecker on head, 

 41 ; a Greek form was Tereus, 

 49, 51 ; in Old Prussia as 

 Picollus, 50 ; marries Canens 

 (singer) daughter of Janus, 

 78 ; his father Saturn and his 

 son Faunus show the cuckoo 

 crime, 78; son Kuknos killed 

 by Herakles, 194. 



Pikker or Pikne, thunder god of 

 Esthonians, 34 ; parallel of 

 Picus in Italy, 34 ; prayer to 

 Pikker, 38 ; later views of 

 Pikker in Esthonian stories, 

 41 ; Prussian parallel in Picol- 

 lus, 50 ; early separation from 

 Vaino, Lemminkainen and 

 Ilmarinen, 127. 



Pittacus, the philosopher, his 

 bird name, 139. 



Plato, dreamt Sokrates fled to 

 his bosom as a swan, 194. 



Pliny on the woodpecker as a 

 prophetic bird, 41 ; meaning 

 for strix, 168. 



Polish sounds twitteringly, 50. 



Pollux, his bird birth, 164, 215. 



Priam of Troy, Pelasgians his 

 allies, 9. 



Procne turned to swallow, 48. 



Ptolemies, marriage of brother 

 and sister, result of bird god 

 worship, 109 ; cuckoo traits 

 in their line, 120. 



Pythagoras, the mystic, his bird- 

 like traits, 139. 



Radigast, god of old Slavonic 

 race, in Mecklenburg with 

 head of beast, 188; swan or 



goose his bird, 188 ; his region 

 the swan's haunt, 201. 

 Rasavahini, his idea that beasts 

 remember former benefits, 



XV. 



Rauen, the princess in the rock 

 at, 40. 



Raven, name of Gaul who 

 sacked Rome, 45 ; raven or 

 crow assists Valerius in com- 

 bat, 46 ; ravens Hugin and 

 Mugin, 46. 



Rhea, sister and wife of Saturn 

 shows cuckoo origin, ']'], 108. 



Rhedynvre, the stag of, its great 

 age, 219. 



Rhetra, site of old Vendish tem- 

 ple, 187, 201. 



Rhys, Professor, derives Fand 

 from Latin unda, 202. 



Rigveda on the cuckoo, 60 ; 

 prayer at call of owl, 168. 



Romulus and Remus saved by 

 woodpecker, 27. 



Roodabeh, mother of Rustem, 

 her labor helped by the 

 Simurg, 214. 



Riigen, island of Baltic, swan 

 brings babies from, like stork, 

 197. 



Rustem, son of Zal, saves Per- 

 sian heroes from effect of 

 couvade, 104 ; his birth as- 

 sisted by the Simurg, 103, 

 214; has same adventures as 

 Cuchullaind, fights with his 

 own son, 106. 



Sabines worshipped wood- 

 pecker, 29. 



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