Index 



nic Aino, 12 ; bom of sea, 13 ; 

 name explained through oinas 

 rock pigeon, 15; her favorite 

 son JEnezs a dove god hu- 

 manized, 15; some of her bird 

 traits, 18; swallow another 

 Venus bird, 19; Vaino of 

 Finland has her traits, 20; 

 male Venus, 21 ; in Germany 

 represented by Wunsch, 22 ; 

 "cast" of Venus was the 

 lucky cast, 22. 

 Vulcan, husband of Pallas, 1 58. 



Walriderske, modern Val- 

 kyrs, 202. 



Weavers, Pallas Athene, 164; 

 owl's movement, 176; daugh- 

 ters of sun and moon in Kale- 

 vala, 176. 



Welsh, great age of certain 

 animals in legends, 219. 



Wilson, Thomas, work on swas- 

 tika, 165. 



Woodpecker, blood-red hood 

 and eye, 27 ; rescued Romulus 

 and Remus, 27 ; worshipped 

 by Italiots, 28; idol of Sa- 

 bines, 29 ; mentioned by Ovid, 

 29; drums on dead branch, 

 30; a thunder bird, 31 ; sound 

 imitated by Lapps on tabor, 

 32 ; Wotjaks worship wood- 

 pecker, 34 ; thunder god Pik- 

 ker of Esths parallel of Picus 

 in Italy, 34; similar worship 

 of woodpecker in America, 

 35 ; guardian of hidden treas- 

 ure, 39 ; modern Esth name 

 is tilcka, 38; Tapio, wood god, 

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is Pikker-Picus, 39 ; brings the 

 magic plant, 40 ; white wood- 

 pecker opens treasure rock, 

 40; Specht in German, fiach 

 (raven) in Irish, 42 ; on old 

 Etruscan scarab with an aus- 

 pex, 43 ; flew on head of 

 ^lius the praetor, 44 ; in 

 White Russian superstition 

 and in the Pentameron, 45: 

 Tereus was a woodpecker god, 

 48 ; Old Prussian PicoUus pro- 

 bably a woodpecker, 50; 

 Tundareos, mortal father of 

 Leda the swan and Pollux the 

 owl is a woodpecker, 164, 207. 



Wotjaks honor woodpecker, 34. 



Wryneck called cuckoo's maiden, 

 109. 



Wunsch, parallel in Germany 

 of Pan of Greece, Vaino of 

 Finland, Fion of Ireland, 

 Faunus and male Venus of 

 Italy, 22. 



YouKAHAiNEN, young magi- 

 cian, brother of Aino the 

 suicide, 13 ; contends in 

 magic with Vaino, 100 ; prom- 

 ises Vaino his sister's hand, 

 125. 



Zal exposed by his father, 

 nourished by the Simurg, 103, 

 104, 106; father of Rustem, 

 calls in Simurg to help on his 

 birth, 214. 



Zeus, eagle goes with, 6; Do- 

 dona a seat of Zeus, like 

 Libyan temple of Ammon, 10 ; 



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