The Dawn of History: An Introduction to Pre-Historic Study

by C. F. Keary

INDEX.

[A], [B], [C], [D], [E], [F], [G], [H], [I], [K], [L], [M], [N], [O], [P], [Q], [R], [S], [T], [U], [V], [W], [Y], [Z]

“Abant,” the word, [154].
Abraham, Bible history begins with, [113], [129];
and Lot, [126], [155].
Accad, [125].
Accadians, [124], [128];
the inventors of cuneiform writing, [311].
Adoption, ceremony of, among the Aryans, [146].
Agglutinative languages, [79], [81], [83], [88] et seq.;
spoken by the yellow race, [118].
Agni, [210]; hymn to, [211];
the Indian fire-god, [248].
Agricultural life, the, gives rise to new relations, [156].
Ahanâ, [257].
Ahura-mazda, the god of Zoroastrianism, [234].
Air-god of the Egyptians, [188].
Alani, the, [104], [325].
Alaric, [325].
Alphabet, the Phœnician, [304] et seq.
Amenti, [179].
Amun, [181], [201].
Ana, [193].
Ancestor worship, [143];
of the Aryans, [147].
Angles, the, [325].
Animal gods of the Egyptians, [191].
Animal worship of the Egyptians, [123].
Anubis, [192].
Aphroditê, [206], [224];
an Asiatic divinity, [318].
Apollo, [202], [209], [214];
the god of the Dorians and Ionians, [216];
shrines of, [216];
the sun-god pursuing Daphne, [257];
found in the mythology of all branches of the Aryan family, [258].
Aral, lake, the region of, the home of the Turanians, [120].
Aramæans, [124].
Aratrum, the word, [108].
Ares, the national divinity of the Thracians, [220].
Armenians, [99].
Art, the earliest rudiments of, [17].
Artemis, [204], [223] et seq.;
and Endymion, the story of, a moon myth, [263].
“Arthur’s Chase,” [226].
Aryans, [98];
the origin of, [99];
evidence of language concerning, [108];
the early, a pastoral people, [132];
their entry into Europe, [133];
their social system, [140];
their faculty for abstract thought, [201];
the other world of, 2[41] et seq.;
possessed a spiritual conception of the soul, [246];
separation of, [316];
their languages, [90];
two main divisions of, [91];
their mythology, remarkable for diversity of its legends, [199];
their religion contrasted with Semitic, [197];
the sky-god in, [199].
Ashara, the, [195].
Ashtoreth, [194].
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].
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].
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].
Nature worship at the bottom of most mythologies, [173];
this does not imply an absence of spirituality, [176];
the objects of, everywhere the same, [177];
in Aryan religions, [197].
Neanderthal, [15];
skeleton discovered in, [22].
Nebo, [194].
Negroes of Africa and Melanesia, [115].
Neit, [187].
Neolithic era, [13], [29].
Nephthys, [190].
Nergal, [194].
Nerthus, [204].
New Guinea, [115].
Nibelungen, the, [327].
Nile, the, significance of to the Egyptians, [180];
the personification of, [192].
Nimrod, [125].
Nin, [194].
Noah, [118].
Norsemen, the other world of the, [249].
Obotriti, the, [105].
O’Brien, origin of the name, [323].
Odin, [204], [224] et seq.;
the heaven god, [227];
collects the souls of heroes slain in battle, [249], [268];
as the Wandering Jew, etc., [264];
as the “Pied Piper” of Hameln, [264], [272];
as the arch fiend, [270].
“Old Mother Goose,” [272].
Osiri, the name, how written by the Egyptians, [301].
Osiris, [182], [193], [196], [201].
Ostro-Goths, the, [104].
Ouse, the, prolific in drift implements, [11].

Oxus, the, [99].
Palæolithic era, [13], [25].
Pan, [215].
Pastoral life, qualities involved in, [150];
a nomadic one, [151].
Patriarch, the authority of a, part of Aryan religion, [167].
Patriarchal family, the, [141].
Patriarchal customs, [142].
Patroclus, funeral of, a picture of Aryan rites, [247].
Pecunia, the word, [151].
Pelasgi, [102], [320];
the worshippers of pure nature, [215].
Persephone, [204], [221] et seq.
Perseus and the Gorgon, a sun story, [262].
Persians, [98].
Perthes, M. Boucher de, [11].
Peruvian system of mnemonics, [284].
Phantom army, the legend of, [225], [249].
Phœbus Apollo, the god of the younger Greeks, [318].
Phœnicians, [98], [129];
commercial needs gave rise to their alphabet, [305];
the transporters of civilization, [315];
in Europe, [317].
Phœnician alphabet, [304];
how formed, [305];
resemblance to Hieratic writing of Egyptians, [306];
the parent of all existing alphabets except Japanese, [308];
how modified, [309].
Phonetic signs, origin of, [299] et seq.
Phonetic writing, transition to, [297].
Picture records, [287].
Picture writing, [289] et seq.
Picturing, [287];
distinguished from picture-writing, [290].
“Pied Piper of Hameln,” the, [264], [272];
a Slavonic legend, [273].
Poles, the, [99], [105].
Polynesian islands, [118].
Pomeranians, the, [105].
Pottery, broken, strewed at the grave’s mouth, [40].
Prehistoric conditions, our knowledge of, uncertain, [4].
Prehistoric studies, aids to, [2];
of events, rather than chronological, [6].
Prince Hatt under the earth, the Swedish story of, [260].
Prithvi, [205], [220].
Proper names, researches into, [111];
in the Bible often stand for races, [114].
Prussians, the, [105].
Ptah, [184].
Pyramids, a sort of tumuli, [53].
Python, the, [202].
Quipus, the Peruvian cord records, [285].
Ra, [184].
Red races, [116];
considered by some a variety of the yellow race, [118].
Religion of the mound-builders, [40];
first signs of, [51].
Religious rites hard to trace back, [172].
Rents, the three, [152].
Rex, the, [95], [109].
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].
Tew, [199].
Thanatos, [241].
Thammuz, [194].
Thibetans, the, [117].
Thmei, [192].
Thor, [202];
labors of, [228];
as “Jack the Giant Killer,” [264];
the recovery of his hammer, [264].
Thoth, [185], [194].
“Time and Tide,” [94].
Timûr Link (Tamerlaine), [119].
Tomb-builders, the, [36].
Towns, English, the names of Teutonic, etc., [111].
Tumuli, [36]; contents of, [37];
pottery found in, [52], [125];
civilization of the builders of the, [138].
Turanian languages, [88].
Turanians of Central Asia, [119];
the early inhabitants of India were, [120].
Turks, the, [119].
Typhon, [196], [202].
Tyr, [228].
Ulfilas, [324].
Ur of the Chaldees, [125].
Urki, [194].
Urvasi and Pururaras, the story of, [258].
Ushas, [205].
Van der Decken, [226].
Valkyriur, the, [249], [269];
changed into witches, [272], [275].
Varuna, [203]; corresponds to Ouranos, [231].
Vedic religion of India, [207].
Verb endings, origin of, [75].
Village community, the, [159];
features and regulations of, [160];
relation of the members to each other, [161];
correspondence of the Russian Mir to, [162];
source of authority in, [162];
essentials of a true, [163];
assembly of householders, [163];
origin of, [163];
the ideas of personal and communal property arise in, [165];
origin of, distinction between
divine and human law, in, [167];
changes resulting from the adoption of, [68];
chief of the Teuton, possessed of but little power, [170].
Visi-Goths, [104].
Vortices of national life, [313].
Vritra, [209].
Vul, [194].
Wampum, [284].
“Wandering Jew,” the, [264], [270].
White races, [118].
Wiltzi, [105].
Wind-myths, [268].
Words, significant and in-significant, [57] et seq.;
formation of, by joining others, [72].
Writing, the art of picturing sound, [281];
the invention of, [282].
Yaranas, [100], [132].
Yellow races, [117].
Yes, origin of the word, [65].
Zend Avesta, [207], [233], [235].
Zend language, the, [235].
Zend religion, the, pre-eminence of, [232].
Zeus, [199], [202], [206];
the Olympic and Pelasgic, [214];
shrines of, at Dodona and in Elis, [215], [227].
Zio, [199].
Zoroaster, [166].
Zoroastrianism, [233].

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Bæda, ii. 13.

[2] See Appendix.

[3] Mr. Evans in his Stone Implements of Great Britain divides those of the River Drift into Flakes, Pointed Implements, and Sharp-rimmed Implements.