Il, the most ancient conception of God known to the Semites, 195. Implements of later stone age, 39. Incas of Peru, 116. Indians, the North American, 159; “picturing” of, 288, 290 _et seq._ Indra, 202, 206; hymn to, 208; character of, 209; resembles Apollo, 217. Inflected language, 79, 81, 83; spoken by the white race, 118; divisions of, 118. Inflections, growth of, 70; the third stage in the formation of language, 72. Ishtar, 194. Isis, 189, 195, 196. Israel, the children of a nomadic people, 130. Italians, 99; the primitive, 320. “Jack the Giant Killer,” 264. Japanese use of Chinese characters, 296. “_Javan_” in the Bible for Ionians, 318. Jupiter, 199, 202, 206, 207. Kaiser Karl in the Unterberg, 278. Karkemish, 315. Kinship in languages, 91. Kitchen-Middens. See SHELL MOUNDS. Kneph, 188. Kurdur-Nankunty, a king of Susa, 126. Lake dwellings, bronze weapons found in the later, 150. Lake villages, the, 44; construction of, 45; object of 46; civilization of, 47, 52. Language, the growth of, 55; five stages in, 81; arrested by the invention of writing, 84; change in, resolved into two forces, 85; classification by, 106; holds the records of past times, 106; the key to the early Aryan civilization, 141. _Langue d’oil_ and _langue d’oc_, 66. Lapps, the, 117. Letters, invention and growth of, 280 _et seq._; invention of, by the Egyptians, 301. Law first connected with religion, 166. _Leiche_, the word, 93. Lithuanians, the, 99, 105. Lohengrin, myth, 275, 276. Loki, 210. Lombards, the, 104. Longobardi, the, 325. Lot, 126. Mâ, the Sanskrit root, 68. Magyars, the, 119. Mammoth age, the, 10. Mammoth, drawing of a, by a prehistoric man, 18. Man, the earliest traces of, 6; his first stages of life, 16. “Man,” the one who measures, 68. Mankind, progress of, in the stone ages, 48 _et seq._ Maoris, the, 118. Mara, the name, 272. Mark, the word, 153. Marriage ceremony among the Aryans, 145. Maruts, the hymn to, 209. Maut, an Egyptian divinity, 187 Melanesia, 115. Menes, 121. Mesopotamia, 123. Milky Way, the, a river of death, 277. Minôs, 318. Mir, the Russian, 162. Mitra, 211. Mnemonics, different systems of, 284 _et seq._ Moloch, 194. Monger, the word, 153. Mongolians, marks of the, 120. Monosyllabic language, 78, 81, 83. Montenegrins, the, 106. Moon, “the measurer,” 68. Moon-gods of the Egyptians, 185. Moon myths, 262 _et seq._ Moravians, the, 105. Moses receives the law, 166. Mound-builders, their religion, 40. Mythologies, the relationship between different, 173; of the different Aryan nations, 176. Mythology explained through the study of language, 172, 173; the earliest, 177; of the Shemites barren in incident and character, 195; the stories related of the gods, 255. Myths, diversity of, 254; of death and the other world, 273. Nation, the beginnings of, 313, 316. Nations of the prehistoric world, 133.