-- man in, 132 -- Medea thought to be, 96 -- myths, 132 'Moon-cat,' 117 Mouse and Apollo, 103-120 'Mouse of Night,' 117 Mouse tribe, 114 Mouse-Apollo, 103-120 Muir, 50 Müller, Mr. Max, 57, 66, 67 -- on childhood of language, 74, 218 -- on etymology of Urvasi, 68, 69 -- on fetichism, 212-242 -- on Great Bear, 139, 140 -- on Hottentot myths, 197-211 -- on Hyperion, 132 -- on myth of sun-frog, 77, 78 -- on _Ote_, 105 -- on spelling of _Totem_, 105 -- version of Vedic hymn, 83 Müller, C. O., 128 _Murri_, 127 Mysteries, 29-44 -- Dionysiac, 39 -- in Brazil, 43 -- of Bushman, 42 Myths, Accadian, 137 -- Algonquin, 99 -- Australian, 130 -- Brazilian, 131 -- Bushman, 131 -- Chinese, of mice, 112 -- diffusion of, 23, 24 -- Egyptian, of mice, 112; of stars, 130 -- Eskimo, 130, 132 -- Finnish, 101 -- Indian, of serpent, 81 -- Japanese, 93 -- names of taboo on, 82 -- of animal bride, 76-80 -- of beaver (Ojibway), 79 -- of Cronus, 45-63 -- of Finland, 156-179 -- of Hottentots, 197-211 -- of Jason, 87-102 -- of Melanesia, 56 -- of Mélusine, 76 -- of mice, 103-120 -- of night, 55 -- of plants, 143-155 -- of 'sun frog,' 77-80 -- of swallowing, 53, 54 -- of tabooed names, 82 -- of wind, 55 -- Peruvian, 129 -- Samoan, 97 -- Samoyed, 88 -- solar, 131-133 -- star, 121-142 -- Zulu, 84, 85, 88, 93 Mythology-- a 'disease of language,' 1 philological method of, 201-211 systems of interpretation of, 1-9 views of Grohmann, 117 -- of Gubernatis, 117 Naga (or serpent) race, 81 Names as germs of myths, 1 -- arguments against, 2, 3 -- of husbands not to be uttered by wives, 74 Naz, a fabulous country, 75 New Caledonia, 230 New Mexico, 31 New Zealand, 35, 143 _Nicht Nought Nothing_, 89 Night myth, 55 Oceanus, 48 Odin, 27 Odysseus, 20 'Odyssey,' 144, 147 Œdipous, 5 Ojibways, art of, 293 -- myths, 79 Orion, 121 Osiris, barrows of, 205 Osiris, 130 Ovahereroes, 20 Owl of Athens, 110 -- sacred in Samoa, 119 Pacarissa, Peruvian word for _Totem_, 104 Pachacamac, 105 Palæolithic man, his art, 299 Pausanias, 33, 52, 223 Pauthier, 50 Paoli, 110 Papa, 45, 46 Peau d'Ane, 64 Persephone, 19, 65, 171 Perseus, 5 Peru, art in, 288 -- religion of, 103-107 Pezazi, 15 Philistines, 115, 116 Philology, method of, in mythology, 97, 201 Phocians, 41 Picture-writing, 292 Pindar, 95 Piper, the Pied, 114 _Planchette_, in China, 187 Plants, folklore of, 143-155 Pleiades, 23, 121 -- in Australia, 126