Popular element in myth and religion, 178, 179 -- tales (_see_ 'Märchen') Poseidon, 126 -- swallowing of, 51 Pottery, common features of early, 22 -- early, 289 Pragapati, 59, 134, 211 Preller, 61, 96 Psyche, 171 Puang-ku, 50 Pundjel, 73, 130 -- Australian god, 35 Pururavas, 65-67, 76 -- etymology of, disputed, 68, 69, 71 Qat, 55 Qing, 42 Ra, 113 -- rat of, 115 Rainbow, 117 Ram, in stars, 129 -- Zeus and the, 6 Rat, sacred in Egypt, 113 Red Indians, 21, 152 -- swallowing myth, 55 Religion, Aryan, 212-242 -- Greek and Egyptian, 118 -- origins of, 212-242 Rhodes, 61 Ῥόμβος, 39 Rhys, 82 Riddles, 14 Rikshas, 140 Ritual, 113 Robertson Smith on Totems, 115 Rome, sun worship in, 104 Roth differs from Müller and Kuhn as to etymology of Urvasi, 70 Rowan, 154 Rudra, mouse sacred to, 116 Rue, 152 Sacrifice, human, 61 Sahagun, 16 St. Gertrude, 119 Samoa, 33 -- animal worship in, 119 Samoans, 152 Samoyeds, myths of, 88 Sampo, 169 Sanskrit, 77, 140 Saturn, 61 Savage ideas in Greece, 119 Savages, 72 -- and Aryans, 135 -- art of, 276-304 -- fancy of, creates myths, _passim_ -- their astronomy, 138 -- their customs in regard to marriage etiquette, 73, 74 Sayce, Prof., 62, 141, 151 -- on myth of mice, 112 -- on Totemism in Egypt, 118 Scandinavia, gods of, 27 Scarabs, 113 Schliemann, 288 Schrader, 4 Schwartz, 61, 96 -- sees storm myths everywhere, 71 Seb, 60 Semitic peoples, Totemism of, 115 -- sacrifice, 61 Sennacherib, 112 Serpent, 117 -- myth of, 81 -- dance, 21 Servius, 37 Sethos, 111, 112 Shaman, 136 Siati, the Samoan Jason, 97 Sickle of Cronus, 61 Σμίνθιος, Σμινθεύς, 103-120 Σμίνθος, 108 Snakes as ancestors, 227 Sneezing, superstition of, 14 Sparta, 33 Spencer, Herbert, 125, 199 Spiritualism, 36 Socrates, 46 Solar myth (_see_ 'Sun') Sophocles, 61 Sorcerers, 130 Star myths, 121-142 Stone Age, implements of, 12 -- fetich, 224 -- knives of, 226 -- weapons, 125 Strabo, 108-113 Sun adored by Incas and Aurelii, 104 -- as a beast, 133 -- frog, 64-86 -- god (Ra as), 113 -- Medea and Jason explained as sun myth, 87-102 -- myth in New Zealand, 133 -- America, 133 -- myth of, 131-133 -- myths of frog explained as sun myth, 77 -- Ra and Rudra as, 113-116 -- worshipped in Peru and Rome, 104 _Svastika_, 288, 289 Swallowing myths, Indian, Basuto, Jewish, Zulu, Eskimo, 55 -- of Australians, 54 -- of Bushmen, 53 -- of Kaffirs, 54 Swan, Zeus as a, 126 Tabooed meats in Israel, 115 Taboo, 85