Assyrians, the, 98, 129; their gods, 193 _et seq._ Athene, 204 _et seq._, 222. Attila, 119. Australians, the, 118. Avars, the, 119. Aztec picture writing, 292. Aztecs of Mexico, the, 116. Baal, 193. Baal Chemosh, 194. Baal Zebub, 194. Babel, 124. Babylon, 127. Babylonians, the, 98. Bæda, quotation from, 1. Balder, 203; a sun-god, 229, 246; the myth of his death, 250 _et seq._ Barbarians, origin of word, 105. Barbarossa, legend of, 278. Barter in the stone age, 139. Bavarians, the, 104. “Beauty and the Beast,” 259. Bel Merodoch, 194. Beowulf, 327; the poem of, 267; the Lohengrin myth in, 276. Bible narrative, an aid to prehistoric study, 2; itself corrected and enlarged by prehistoric inquiry, 5; continuous history begins with Abraham, 113. Bil, Assyrian sun-god, 193. Black races, the, 115. Bow, earliest use of the, 50. Brahma, 202. Brehon laws, the, 322. Brennus, 322. Bridge of death, the, 277. Bronze age, the, 54; domestication of animals in, 148. Bronze introduced into Europe by the Aryans, 140. Bronze weapons, found throughout Europe, 149. Browning’s “Pied Piper of Hameln,” 272. Bulgarians, the, 106. Burgundians, the, 104, 325. Burial customs, 40. Burial mounds. See TUMULI. Canaanites, the, 98; their gods, 195. Carinthians, the, 105. Case endings, origin of, 75. Caspian Sea, the boundary of the Aryan home, 243. Cattle, place of, in Aryan mythology, 151. Cave-dwellers, 49; implements of, 15; drawings of, 18; used fire, 20; skeletons of, 21. Celts, the, 101, 322; their fighting capacity, 323. Cerberus, 245. Chaldæa, 123. Chaldæans, 98; a mixed people, 124; their buildings, 125; their civilization, traces of, found in that of Mexico and Peru, 128; their religion, 193. Cherdorlaomer, 126. China, 127. Chinese, 117; kept in a primitive condition by the early invention of writing; their characters, symbolic, 293 _et seq._; determinitive signs of, 295; their civilization connected with that of the Accadians, 128. Cimbri, the, 103. Civilization, successive steps in the earliest, 135. Clovis, 325. Commerce of Cave-dwellers, 52; among the Aryans, 152. Confucius, 127. Cord records, 284. Crab, the word, 68. Cromlechs, 42. Cuneiform writing, 310. Cupid and Psyche, the myth of, 258. Cushites, the, 119. Cybele, 205. Czechs, the, 105. Dagon, 194. Daphne, the dawn, 257. Daughter, signification of the word, 108, 110, 132, 200. Dawn and evening in the Veda, 212. Death, the region of, 236 _et seq._; Aryan idea of, 237; Egyptian idea of, 238; a journey to the sky, 241; the Indian conception of, 244; the river of, 243; and sleep, 243; myths of, 273; the various images of, in popular tales, 278. Delphi, 216. Demeter, 204, 205; and Persephone, 220 _et seq._ Determinitive signs, 295. _dic_ the Latin root, 70. Domestication of animals in second stone age, 50; in the bronze age, 148.