Index 



Salme, in the Kalevipoeg, sister 

 to Linda the bird, turns 

 human from being a pullet, 



73- 



Samoyeds, their use of magic 

 tabor or drum, 32. 



Sampo, a talisman and wonder- 

 working thing, 71 ; connection 

 with Sappho and Shamas 

 (sun), 140; Sampo at bottom 

 the same as the Golden 

 Fleece, 216, 217. 



Sappho, xii ; suggestion of bird 

 in her legend, 140; perhaps 

 her name connected with 

 Shamas, sun god, and Sampo, 

 140 ; threw herself from Leu- 

 cadian Rock for Phaon's 

 sake, 140. 



Saturn shows the cuckoo by 

 marrying his sister, yy, 108; 

 his mutilation explained 

 through couvade, 108. 



Scatach, the " shadowy," Ama- 

 zon who keeps a military 

 school in Scotland, 98. 



Schwan-federn, German expres- 

 sion, 191. 



Schwartz on lightning symbo- 

 lized as dragon or snake, ix. 



Selene, moon, 160. 



Semite, the, xvii, 



Setanta, originally the name of 

 CuchuUaind of Ireland, 92 ; 

 his prowess as a boy, 93. 



Setnau, Egyptian tale of, story 

 of brother and sister forced to 

 many, 119. 



Shah Nameh, the, xii ; bird and 

 cuckoo heroes in, 102, 106. ' 



Shannon River, name explained 

 through Finnic roots, 1 13. 



Siberia, home of swan, 190. 



Siegfried, parallel in Kalevipoeg, 

 74 ; dishonors his sister, 75 ; a 

 cuckoo god, 75. 



Sigurd, his story repeated in 

 Siegfried, 75; is a cuckoo 

 god, 106. 



Sikulian name for Ulysses, 163. 



Simurg, fabulous bird in Persia, 

 fosters Zal, 103 ; is called in 

 to help Roodabeh in child- 

 birth, 103; argues with Solo- 

 mon, 214. 



Slavic nations, favorers of 

 cuckoo, 116. 



Snowdon, the Eagle of the 

 Eagle Mountains, 219. 



Sokrates in dream flies as swan 

 into Plato's bosom, 194, 



Solomon discusses predestina- 

 tion with the Simurg, 214. 



Specht, German for woodpecker, 

 parallel of Pikker, name of 

 old bird god, 42. 



Sphinx supposed by Pausanias 

 to be a monstrous child of 

 Laius, III ; used by Greeks 

 as decoration in place of owl, 

 III. 



Spider; cross, a shorthand pic- 

 ture of spider, 165; on Indian 

 shell gorgets, 165 ; American, 

 European. Asian, 165 ; foretell 

 ruin of Thebes, 166; symbol 

 of weaving 166; cross on 

 back, origin of swastika, 167. 



Spiegel, his edition of Rasava- 

 hini, xiv. 



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