see also Astarte Isidore, bishop of Seville, 149 Isis, 51, 78, 170, 174, 181, 195, 301 Israel, kingdom, 178, 222, 227, 295 Israelites, 58, 88, 269, 276, 293, 335 Istehar, 160 Italy, 246
Ixtlilxochitl, Fernando de Alva, 33-34,
153 Izebel, Queen, 179
Jaiminiya-Upanisad, Hindu book, 314
January, month of, 345
Japan, Japanese, 70, 358
Jasher, Book of, 39-43, 220
Jeans, J. H., tidal theory of, 9
Jeffreys, H., 9
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Jeremiah, 129, 179, 295, 296, 354
Jericho, 39, 139-140
Jeroboam, King, 166, 291
Jerome, 64, 176, 292
Jerusalem, 178, 209, 213, 219, 227,
228, 231, 262, 276, 295, 296, 353 Jewish Antiquities, book, 231 Job, Book of, 201, 257 Joel, prophet, 208, 215, 283-288, 381 Jordan, river, 139
Josephus Flavius, 231, 232, 269, 270 Joshua ben Nun, 39-43, 43-45, 46, 150, 159, 219, 293, 300, 306, 385 Joshua, Book of, 39-44, 236 Josiah, King, 178, 295 Jotham, King, 212 Jubmel, god of the Lapps, 74 Judah, Judea, 178, 230, 293, 294-297,
351 Julius Africanus, 149 Julius Caesar, 126, 195 Junctinus, 84 Jung, C, 383 Jupiter, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 14, 78, 172-175, 187, 237, 238, 242, 271, 272,
289, 301, 355, 361, 371, 379, 382
Kaaba, 290
Kadesh, wilderness of, 87
Kagra, god, 90
Kalevala, Finnish epos, 50, 60-61, 89,
118, 132, 137 Kalidasa, 267, 268
396 SELECTIVE NAME INDEX
Kamchadals, 346
Kamchatka, 329
Kami Yamato, Emperor, 130
Kanga, tribe in Africa, 90
Kant, I., 7, 368
Karnak, Temple of, 323, 324
Kaska, tribe in British Columbia, 189
Katuns, calendar stones of Yucatan, 32
Keith, A., 28
Kelvin, L., 22
Kepler, Johannes, 316
Khwan, Chinese administrator, 101
Kidron, valley, 295
Kingsmill Islands, 346
Kirghiz people, 160
Kis, Chinese world age, 31
Kitab Alaghani, 88
Koluma River, 329
Korah, revolt of, 56
Koran, 72, 114
Krakatoa, volcano in the East Indies,
96, 126 Kukulcan, the Morning Star, 157 Kumara, semi-god, 268 Kwang-Tze, 254 Kwei, Emperor, 235, 254
Lachish, in Judea, 227-229
Lamarck, J. B., 18, 25
Landa, D. de, 73, 339
Laplace, P. S., 7, 8, 11, 368
Lapland, Lapps, 73-74, 89, 314
Latins, 269, 307
Layard, Henri, 198
Leiden Papyrus, 107
Lena River, 329
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Leningrad Papyrus, see Ermitage
Papyrus Letopolis, in Egypt, 232, 310 Leucippus, Greek philosopher, 317 Leverrier, U. J. J., 280
Lexell's comet, 78 Liber memorialis, by Lucius Ampelius,
34 Libna, town in Palestine, 228 Libya, 144, 147, 169 Libyan Dynasty, 204, 322, 355 Lick Observatory, 365 Lithuania (time measure in), 344 Little Bear, 218, 313 Livy, Titus, 238
Loanga, tribe in Africa, 90
Lowell Observatory, 364, 365
Lowell, P., 364
Lucan, 270
Lucian, 251, 252
Lucifer, 156, 170, 176, 202, 203, 258,
259, 293 Lucius Ampelius, 34 Lu-Heng, Chinese, author, 236 Lupus Martius, 264 Lux Divina, 180 Lu-Yang, duke of, 236, 237 Lydia, 55 Lydus, 83, 84 Lyell, Charles, 18, 305
Maadim, Hebrew for Mars, 292 Macrobius, 178, 301 Madison boulder, 75 Maimonides, 220-224
Manasseh, King, 294, 295, 296 Manetho, 69, 170, 299, 337 Mango, Fiji Islands, 160 Manius Acilius, consul, 51 Manuscript Cakchiquel, 91 Manuscript QuichS, 48, 54, 128 Manuscript Troano, 67, 91 Maoris of New Zealand, 68, 135, 136 March, month of, 238, 241 Marduk, 67, 78, 86, 174 Marquesas Islands in Polynesia, 346 Mars, 5, 6, 9, 11, 238-294, 346, 362-368 Maruts, 282-289 Mary, 294
Masudi, Arab author, 88 Maui, god, 308, 309 Maximilian, Emperor, 41 Mayas, 32, 45, 118, 196, 237, 305, 339 Mazda, 86; see also Ormuzd Mazdaism, 31, 57 Mazzaroth, 201, 202 Mecca, 94, 290
Mediterranean, 73, 277, 278, 286 Menin, in Flanders, 120 Menomini Indians, 309, 310 Mercury, 5, 6, 9, 243, 355 Mesopotamia, 274, 275, 278, 349; see
also Assyria, Babylonia, Assyro-
Babylonia, Euphrates
SELECTIVE NAME INDEX
397
Mexico, people of, 34, 45, 89,112,113, 163, 179, 186, 211, 263, 264, 269, 339; see also Aztecs, Toltecs, Maya
Micah, prophet, 208, 215, 381
Michael, Archangel, 292-294, 306
Michigan, Lake, 28
Middle Kingdom of Egypt, 47, 49
Midgard, serpent, 265
Midrash Koheleth, book, 224
Midrash-Rabba, 124-125
Mievish-Muspar, 258
Milo, in the city of David, 228
Minerva, 169-172,241; see also Athene
Missouri, valley of, 326
Mithra, 178
Mohammed, 156, 289, 290
Molina, 61
Mongols, 344
Moon, 10, 360-362, and passim
Moph and Noph (Memphis), 69
Moses, 65, 94, 97, 149, 151, 176, 296, 352
Moses ben Maimon, see Maimonides
Moslem year, 342
Moulton, F. R., 8, 359
Mount Carmel, 209
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Mount Casius, 79
Mount Haemus, 49, 79
Mount Sinai, see Sinai
Mt. Wilson Observatory, 365
Mycenae, 166, 216, 265
Nabonassar's era, 210
Nabonidus, King, 268
Nadab, son of Aaron, 56
Naga or snake gods, 175
Nahua-Indian, 45
Nebuchadnezzar, 222, 242, 275, 354
Neptune, 5, 9, 372, 373
Nergal, 241-244, 261-264, 268, 274,
275, 283, 288, 292 N'ergal-Eriskigal poem, 281 Nergalsharezer, 242 Nergilissar, 242, 275 New Year's Day, 123, 318, 352 New Zealand, 308, 347 Newton, Isaac, 7, 280, 384 Niagara Falls, 28
Niao, constellation of, 103 Nidana-Sutra, Sanskrit text, 331 Nigeria, in Africa, 347
Nigidius, 270
Nihongi, chronicles of Japan, 100, 130 Nile, 138, 209
Nineveh, 198, 266, 274, 348, 351, 353 Nippur, temple of, 275 Nisan, month of, 348, 351, 352
Noga, 165, 175 North Pole, 326 North Star, 190, 218 Numa Pompilius, 240, 290, 343, 545, 352, 356
Octavian Augustus, 126, 195, 320
Odin, 86, 253
Odyssey, 245, 247
Oedipus, 301
Ogyges, 61, 103, 158, 171
Olin, 66
Ollantaytampu, in Peru, 320
Olympiads, Olympic games, 196, 211,
239 Olympiodor, 270 Olympus, 50, 168, 173, 247-249 Omeyah, son of Abu-Salt, 88 Oraibi, tribe in Arizona, 121 Origen, 203, 272, 292 Orion, 108-109 Ormuzd, 185; see also Mazda Orphic hymns, 50 Osiris, 50, 174, 301 Osorkon II, pharaoh, 209, 355 Ovaherero, tribe in Africa, 90
Ovid, 139, 143-145; 169, 237, 240,
301, 311, 320, 345, 356
Palestine, 265, 268, 276; see also
Judea Pallas, 85, 171 Pallas Athene, see Athene Palmyra, 94
Panathenaic processions, 196 Panmotu, in South Pacific, 68 Panopolis, in Egypt, 232 Pawnee Indians, 190-192 Persia, 332, 343
Peru, Peruvians, 61, 71, 196, 340, 357 Perun, 86
Peter, on God's day, 35 Petosiris, 84 Phaenon, 170 Phaethon, 143-145, 159-160, 169
398
SELECTIVE NAME INDEX
Philistratus, 245
Philo, 30, 33, 57, 300
Phobos, satellite of Mars, 279-280
Phosphorus, 170
Pi-ha-khiroth, 60, 88
Pi-khiroti, 60, 88
Pillars of Hercules, 146
Pissac, in Peru, 320
Pithom, 64
Plato, 109, 111, 112, 145, 160, 252,
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271, 298, 299 Pliny, 51, 82, 83, 96, 126, 165, 171,
195, 272, 273, 278, 288, 320, 338 Plutarch, 53, 85, 121, 163, 170, 239,
317, 320, 337, 339, 343, 345, 356 Pluto, 5, 6, 9, 372, 373 Point Hope, in Alaska, 327 Polar star, 191, 314, 379; see also
North Star Polibius, 239 Politicus, of Plato, 109 Polyhistor, of Solinus, 152 Polynesia, 32, 179
Pomponius Mela, 106-107 Popol-Vuh, Mayan book, 54, 91, 93 Porcius Cato, 239 Poseidon, 249
Predmost, 26
Priam, King of Troy, 247, 276 Procopius of Caesarea, 346 Prometheus, 57 Pseudo-Philo, 95-96, 98 Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy), son of Lagus,
89 Ptolemy, Claudius, 174, 195, 210, 316 Ptolemy III (Euergetes), 195, 336 Punic wars, 278