Index 



Tereus changed to hoopoe or 

 hawk, 48 ; his name means 

 piercer, a form of Picus the 

 woodpecker, 48. 



Tikka, modern Finnic term for 

 woodpecker, 38. 



Tonn, tonndi, underground de- 

 mons of the Finns and Esths, 



113- 



Tuatha de Danann, mythical 

 magical early race in Ireland 

 means "Folk of the Dark 

 Gods," 113. 



Tundareos, mortal father of 

 Helen, 164; the woodpecker, 

 164; from root like tundo to 

 strike, 207. 



Tuoni, Finnish hell, swan of 

 Tuoni, 199. 



Turanians, their gods assumed 

 by Greeks, 175 ; Vaino, Turan- 

 ian parallel of Pan-Orpheus, 

 176. 



Turkestan, home of swan, 190. 



Turks, the, xiii. 



Ukko, Finnish and Esthonian 

 highest god similar to Zeus, 

 13; woodpecker was his 

 special creation, 37. 



Uluxe, Etruscan and early Greek 

 form of Ulysses, 163. 



Ulysses, his name in Etruscan, 

 162; in Sikulian, 163; named 

 from cry of owl, 163; his 

 adventures often nocturnal, 



163 ; his wife of bird descent, 



164 ; has a son by " she-hawk " 

 who like a cuckoo kills his 

 father, 164. 



Unda, same root as Fand daugh- 

 ter Mananan mac Lir of Ire- 

 land, 202. 



Undine, Fouque's tale of, same 

 as Irish Fand, 202. 



Untamo, in the Kalevala the 

 uncle and father of Kullervo, 

 76, 77, 106. 



Urda, well of, in Edda, 187. 



Vaino or Vainamoinen, old god 

 of Kalevala, xvi ; parallel of 

 male Venus of Italy, catches 

 Aino as a fish, 13 ; born of the 

 sea like Venus, 13; like 

 Venus, double trait of mar- 

 riage and funeral celebrant, 20, 

 21 ; parallels with Orpheus, 

 142, 144; his adventures for 

 the Sampo dimly like Argo- 

 naut expedition, 143. 



Valkyrs, swan maidens are 

 Valkyrs, 192 ; conductors of 

 souls, 192 ; Graiai were Val- 

 kyrs, 196 ; modern Valkyrs in 

 Mecklenburg, 201 ; Leda a 

 swan-valkyr, 207. 



Velleda, a female wizard or 

 prophetess in Germany, 31. 



Vendish sounds twitteringly, 50. 



Venezuela, egret soon be extri- 

 pated there, 23. 



Venus, xii ; her symbol the 

 dove, 6 ; sparrow also given 

 to her, 7 ; her worship only 

 apparently the opposite of 

 death, 8 ; male as well as 

 female Venus in Italy, 12; 

 parallel of male Venus is 

 Finnic Vaino, of female, Fin- 



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