Drift implements, 10; form a class apart, 11; types of, 13. Drift period, men of the, 49. Druid circles, so-called, 42. Dutch, 99, 104. Dyâus, 199, 202, 207. Eadwine, King, 1. Earth-goddess of the Aryans, 204. Eddic poems, 327. Egypt, history begins in, 52, 121; peculiar features of nature in, 178; the land-root of civilization, 314. Egyptians, 97. Egyptian civilization, the continuation of that of the stone age, 121; intellectual character of, 122. ---- idea of death and the soul, 238 _et seq._ ---- life and thought, two elements in the character of, 122. ---- religion, 176; how distinguished from that of other nations, 178; influence of nature on, 178; nature gods of, 181; distinctive feature of, 181; divinities of, 181 _et seq._ ---- writing, 298 _et seq._; mixed character of, 301; difficulty in deciphering, 302; Hieratic and Demotic, 303. El. See IL. Elamites, 125. Elysian Fields, 242. English, the, 104. _Erde_ and _Herde_, 94. Erech, 125. Eskimo, the, 117. Etruscans, the, 320. Fee, the word, 151. “Fight of Finnsburg,” 327. Finnish tongues, 90. Finns, the, 117. Flemings, the, 104. Flint weapons of Presigny, 139. Franks, 104, 325. French, the, 99. Frey, 203, 204. Freyja, 204; the goddess of spring, beauty, and love, 230. Freyr, 230. Frigg, 204, 205, 230. Gaedhill, 101. Gaels, 101. Gaulish myth of a sea of death, 276. Gauls, the, 101. Genghis Khan, 119. Geological periods, length of, 7. Gerda, 231. German and English, kinship of, 92. Germans, the, 99. Gesture language gives no insight into the origin of language, 62. _Gewiss_, the word, 66. Gipsies, 159. Glass mountains, the stories of, allegories of death, 279. Goths, the, 324. Government, an extensive scheme of, impossible to a people ignorant of social arts, 167. Græco-Italic family, the, 319. Grammatical terminations accounted for, 74. Greek conception of the realms of death, 241 _et seq._ Greeks, 99, 102; appearance of in Europe, 133; their religion, 214; the first European nation, 317; from the beginning a commercial people, 318. Grimm’s laws, 107. Hackelberg, the wild huntsman of the Harz, 270. Hades, 241. Hadubrand and Hildebrand, the lay of, 327. Hamites, the, 119. Hapi, 192. Hathor, 188. Hel, 250. Hellenes, 102; first use of the word as a national epithet, 319. Hera, 204. Heracles, 202, 209; life and labors of, 218. Hermes, 217 _et seq._; the wind god, 232, 244. Herne the Hunter, 226, 249. Hieratic and Demotic writing of the Egyptians, 303. Hieroglyphic writing of the Egyptians, 298. Hindoos, 98. History, prerequisite conditions of, 3. Hittites, the, 315. Hoa, 193. Hormuzd, 234. Horus, 184, 196, 201. House-fire, the sacred, among the Aryans, 144. Householders, assembly of, in the village community, 163. Human victims found in tumuli, 37. Huns, the, 119. Hunter, life of the primitive, 137. Iberians, the, 101. Ideographs, groups of, 294.