Rivers, English, the names of, Keltic, 111. Romans, the, 99, 102, 320; development as a nation, internal, 321. Rome, her proficiency in the arts of government, 168. Root sounds, 67. Runes, Gothic, 309. Russians, the, 99, 105. Russian village communities, 169. Sabhâ, the, 144. St. Ursula, the myth of, 263. San, 194. Sarama, 218; the Sons of, 244. Sargon I., 125. _Sarrasin_, the word, 159. Sati, 188. Savitar, hymn to, 213. Saxons, 325. Scandinavians, 99, 104. Sea coast, gradual protrusion of, 34. Sea of death, the, mythical, 276. Sekhet-Pasht, 185. Semitic languages. See ARYAN. Semitic races, 97. Semitic religion infused with awe, 198. Servians, the, 106. Shell mounds, 29, 34; proofs of their antiquity, 35, 136. _Sheol_, 241, note. Siamese, the, 117. Sigurd the Volsung, 267; fire and thorn hedge used in the tale of, 278. Silesians, 105. Sin, 194. Skirnir, 231. Sky-divinities of the Egyptians, 187. Sky-god of the Aryans, 200. Slavonians, the, 103, 104; pushing back the Tartars, 119. Social life, early, 135. Soil-deity of the Egyptians, 189. Somme, the, drift implements first discovered in the bed of, 11. “Son of,” how used in the Bible, 114. Sorabians, the, 105. Sothis, 192. Sound and sense, connection of, 61. Spanish, the, 99. Speech, the origin of, indiscoverable, 59. Stone age, the two periods of, 12. Stone age, the old, man’s life in, 24; animals of, 26. Stone age, the later, 28; theories to account for the transition to, 28; continuous history begins with, 29; man of, in Denmark, 30; navigation of, 30; domestic animals in, 32, 36; men of, not cannibals, 32; burial mounds of, 36; human victims in, 37; classes of implements of, 38; pottery of, 39; ornaments, 41; burial customs of, 40; tumuli, the truest existing representatives of, 43; also called the polished stone age, 43; duration of, in Europe, 44; civilization of, 47 _et seq._; successive steps in, 49 _et seq._; first signs of religion in, 51; civilization of, 52; implements of, different materials of, 50; people, little known of their social state, 136. Stone ages, progress of mankind in, 48 _et seq._ Stonehenge, 36, 42. Suevi, the, 104, 325. Sun, supreme god of the Semitic nations, 200; hopes of futurity suggested by, 246. Sun-god, the death of, 236. Sun-gods of the Egyptians, 181 _et seq._; how regarded by the Indo-European nations, 202. Sun-heroes, the different, 262. Sun-myths, 257. Surya, 211. Susa, 126. Swan, the, connected with ideas of death, 275. Swarga, 244. Symbolical teaching of the Egyptians, 191. Tallies, the invention of, the germ of writing, 283. Tannhäuser, the legend of, 263. Tartar class of languages, 89. Tartar races, invasion of the, 119. Tasmania, 114. Tellus, 205. Teutonic family of nations, 103, 104. Teutons, village history of the, 169; divisions of, 324; an agricultural people, 326; conquerors, 326; feudal, 327; poems of, 327.