An Irish precursor of Dante : $b a study on the Vision of Heaven and Hell ascribed to the eighth-century Irish saint Adamnán, with translation of the Irish text
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Æons, early Persian, 79;
of Philo Judæus, 79 _n._;
of Hesiod, _ib._
Ailill, 132.
Alberic, Vision of, 238-9;
cp. with Dante, _ib._
Alcuin, 5 _n._
Aldfrid, King of Northumbria, 8.
Alexandria, Jewish colony in, 86;
culture mainly Hellenic, 86-8;
contact with Egyptian ideas, 88-9.
Allegory, in the Avesta, 74-5, 182;
in Virgil, 46;
in the Shepherd of Hermas, 104;
in Irish legends, 135, 142, 144-5.
Amesha Spentas, the, and Philo’s Emanations, 78-9.
Ancona, Prof. A. d’, _I Precursori di Dante_, 175 _n._, 184 _n._,
190 _n._, 203 _n._, 208 _n._, 213 _n._, 216 _n._, 228 _n._,
229 _n._, 238 _n._
Angels, hierarchies, 30, 185, 223-4;
guardian angels, 29, 86, 181-2, 191, 214;
tending souls of dead, 35, 191 (and see art. ‘Guide’);
porter in Otherworld, 35, 84, 193;
fallen angels, 202 _n._, 211;
angel of death, mistaken, 110, 111;
angel giving light in Paradise, 34;
in Hell, 214.
Anglo-Saxon scholars and missionaries, 5 _n._
Annals, Irish, see under Ireland;
of Ulster, cited, 2 _n._
Apap, Egyptian ‘Eater of the Dead,’ 89, 196 _n._
Apocalypse of St. John, see ‘Revelations’ of St. Paul, St. Peter, etc.;
see ‘Paul,’ ‘Peter,’ etc.
Apocryphal Books, Christian, abundance of, 101;
Jewish traditions in, 97.
Apostles, Vision at death of B. V., 29, 107;
in Paradise, 31, 98, 194-5.
Apuleius, 49.
Aquinas, Thomas, pupil of Petrus Hibernicus, 6 _n._
Arali, 70.
Arch, fiery, watery, etc., in legends, 32, 152, 160, 188.
Arculf, 11, 12.
Árd-Ollamh, the, 117.
Árd-Rí, the Irish, 116 _n._
Ariel, archangel, 36.
Ariosto’s enchanted gardens, Otherworld origin of, 181.
Aristophanes on the Otherworld, in the _Frogs_, 59 _sqq._;
on the mysteries, _ib._
Armageddon, 163 _n._
Árt mac Cuinn, 133, 136, 138-9.
Art, sacred, and the mediæval legends, 186, 215 _n._
Ascetics, priority of, in Paradise, 39, 198.
Assyrian eschatology, 69, 70, and see ‘Chaldæa.’
Augustine, St., Vision of Curina, 110;
purgatorial theory, 193;
cited, 202.
Avesta, eschatology, 71 _sqq._;
animistic conceptions, 75;
allegorising tendency, 74-5;
date and composition, 76;
Neo-Platonic influences, 76 _sqq._;
early Persian elements, 79;
Oriental elements, 81;
influence on Hebrew thought, 70.
Axiochos, pseudo-Platonic dialogue, 58.
Bagadas, Bridge myth among the, 132.
Baitan, 157.
Ballyshannon, Mórdáil of, 18.
Balor, the Fomorian champion, 135 _n._
Bards, the Irish order, 117 _n._
Battle at the end of the world, 163.
Bécuma Cneisgel, 136, 138.
Bede, Venerable, and Adamnán, 9, 10, 23;
account of St. Fursa’s visions, 166 _sqq._;
of Drihthelm’s vision, 233.
Béfind, 122.
Belach Dúinn, 8.
Benn Edair, 136.
Best, Mr. R. I., _Adventures of Árt, Son of Conn, and the Courtship
of Delbchaem_, 136 _n._, 137.