—— and oak, the Aryan god of the, ii. 356 sqq., x. 265
Thunder-beings, among the Teton Indians, viii. 237
“—— -besom,” name applied to mistletoe and other bushy excrescences on trees, xi. 85, 301;
a protection against thunderbolts, xi. 85
—— -bird in rain-making, i. 309;
the mythical, painted on screens behind which girls at puberty hide, x. 44
—— god, threatening the, ii. 183 n. 2;
black victims sacrificed for rain to the, ii. 367;
conceived as a deity of fertility, ii. 368 sqq.;
of the Hittites, with a bull and an axe as his emblems, v. 134 sqq.