Index 



Spinning whorls with swastika 

 marks, 165. 



Stheneleus, father of Kuknos 

 king of the Ligurians, 193. 



Stork, Latin ciconia from Finnic 

 kuik, 190 ; swan brings babies 

 instead of stork in Riigen, 

 197. 



Subhramanya, son of Vishnu 

 of India, god attended by the 

 peacock, 123. 



Suometar, Finnish swan maiden 

 193 ; born of goose egg, 193. 



Swan, xi ; Apollo's bird, 6 ; often 

 mentioned in Kalevipoeg, 72 ; 

 one variety sings when dying, 

 73; oath on, 179; "I swan," 

 180 ; Enghsh and German 

 phrase " it swans to me," 181 ; 

 Order of Swan, 181 ; favorite 

 in heraldry, 182 ; with sha- 

 mans, 182; feather is magical, 

 182 ; musical variety, 183 ; 

 "game" of swans, 184; Norse 

 words for swan and fairy simi- 

 lar, 185 ; Elbe River perhaps 

 named from swan, 186 ; sacred 

 bird in Edda, 187 ; swan on 

 head of idol Radigast, 188, 

 201 ; night and moon god, 

 189; kuik and luig in Estho- 

 nian, 190; sacred bird in Cen- 

 tral Asia, 190; swan maidens, 

 191; swan legends of Kuknos, 

 son of Neptune, 195; of the 

 Graiai, 196 ; in Riigen acts 

 like stork, 197 ; musical voices, 

 198; quarrelsome bird, 198; 

 night flier, i 

 in Kalevala, 



Apollo and Bacchus, 200; 

 foretells death, 201 ; in Irish 

 legend, 202 ; Jupiter ap- 

 proaches Leda as, 203, 204, 

 205 ; genius of wine with 

 swan's head for cap, 208. 



Swannery, a royal preroga- 

 tive, 184 ; Lord Ilchester's, 

 185. 



"Swanny," exclamation, origin 

 shown, 180. 



Swanskin found by swan maiden, 

 she flies away, 191, 202. 



Swastika, its origin found in 

 cross on back of spiders, 165; 

 whence a sign for weaving 

 and woven things, 166 ; when 

 on figures of terra cotta, etc. 

 refers to clothing, 167. 



Syrinx, 20. 



Tapio, Finnish god of woods, 

 38 ; mentioned as Nyyrikki in 

 Kalevala, 39; he is a survival 

 of Pikker, 39. 



Tara's hill in Ireland parallel 

 to Taara's hill in Esthland, 



113- 



Tarapilla means owl in Finnish, 

 172 ; god flew as owl to Oesel, 

 172 ; Adam of Bremen on wor- 

 ship of, 173; his red-hot iron 

 shaft, 174. 



Tarhapollo, Finnish nam.e for 

 owl, 172; polio same root as 

 Pallas, 175. 



Tatar, swapping of the swan, 



190. 

 ; swan of hell ' Tawus,Persian word for peacock, 

 98; symbol of: origin of Greek term, 133. 



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