Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 2 (of 2)

The feet and the tail; the serpent is the favourite form of the demon; the devil is betrayed by his tail.--The serpent and the waters; the dragon as the keeper back of the water...

Mârgâras, mârgaras, mrigas, mrigâris, mrigarâgas.--Nakulas.--Mûsh.--Vamras, vamrî, vaprî, valmîkam, _formica_.--The serpent and the ants.--Indras as an ant; the serpent eaten by...

Lopâças, lopâçikâ.--The jackal takes in Hindoo tradition the place of the fox.--What the fox represents in mythology, and why the jackal is his mythical equivalent.--Double aspe...

White, red, and dark-coloured doves, ducks, geese, and swans.--The funereal dove; it is united with the owl; kapotas.--The doves flee from unhappy persons.--The dove and the haw...

The bird of prey the most heroic of birds.--Indras as a hawk.--The hawk and the ambrosia; the ambrosia as sperm.--The bird of prey and the serpent.--Agnis, the Açvinâu, and the...

Why the myth of the dog is difficult of interpretation.--_Entre chien et loup._--The dog and the moon.--The bitch Saramâ; her double aspect in the Vedâs and in the _Râmâyanam_;...

FISHES, AND PARTICULARLY THE PIKE, THE SACRED FISH OR FISH OF ST PETER, THE CARP, THE MELWEL, THE HERRING, THE EEL, THE LITTLE GOLDFISH, THE SEA-URCHIN, THE LITTLE PERCH, THE BR...

Monkey and bear are already associated together in India; Gambavant is a great monkey and the king of the bears.--Haris, kapis, kapilâ, kapidhvagas; rikshas, arkas, ursus, arkto...

The funereal owl.--The owl and the vulture.--The owl and the crow.--The owls as friends of the swans and enemies of the crows.--The wise owl.--The Eulenspiegel.--The owl as the...

The mândukâs or frogs as clouds in the _Rigvedas_.--Bhekas.--The frog announces the summer; the _canta-rana_ announces Christ.--The serpent, the hero, and the frog.--The frog an...

The kokilas, the nightingale of the Hindoo poets.--The heron.--Kokas.--Kapingalas.--The partridges.--The Vedas instead of the enchanted ring.--The partridge as a devil.--The hea...

The hog as a hero disguise.--The disguises of the hero and of the heroine.--Ghoshâ, the leprous maiden.--The moon in the well.--Apâlâ cured by Indras.--Apâlâ has the dress of a...

Alektrüon, a satellite of Mars, the lover of Venus, becomes a cock.--Indras, the lover of Ahalyâ as a cock; Ahalyâ turned to stone.--Indras as a eunuch or as a ram.--Pragâpatis...

The sky-atmosphere and the sky-tree.--The sun, the Açvinâu, Indras, the Marutas, and Agnis as birds.--Indras cuts off the wings of the mountains.--Indras and Somas as two birds...

Equivoque between the words _kacchapas_ and _kaçyapas_ (by the intermediate form, _kaçapas_).--Explanation of the myth of the production of the ambrosia, by means of the mandara...

The bees and the Açvinâu.--Madhumakshas.--Indras, Krishnas, and Vishnus as Mâdhavas.--The bees and Madhuhan.--Beowulf.--The god of thunder and the bees.--Vishnus as a bee.--The...

Lion and tiger symbols of royal majesty.--Tvashtar as a lion.--The hair of Tvashtar in the fire.--Winds that roar like lions.--The lion-seducer.--The lion and the honey; the lio...

The _picus_ in the work of Professor Kuhn.--_Picus_, _corvus pica_, and _picumnus_; the Vedic word _vrikas_.--The she-wolf and the woodpecker as the nurses of the Latin twin her...

Ribhavas, the brothers, work and workmanship of, i. 20, 21, 46; names and relationships, 21, 22; identification with Indras as Agohyas, 22; the third of, 20-26; in Hindoo tradit...

_Rex and regulus_.--Iyattikâ çakuntikâ.--The wren's testament.--Vasiliskos; kunigli.--The wren and the eagle.--The wren and the beetle.--The death of Cæsar predicted by a wren.-...

Luminous stag and black stag.--The Marutas drawn by antelopes, and dressed in antelopes' skins.--The stag, the gazelle, and the antelope as forms assumed or created by the demon...

The hare is the moon; _çaças_ and _çaçin_.--The hares at the lake of the moon; the king of the hares in the moon.--The hare and the elephant.--The hare and the lion.--The hare d...

The lark the first of animals.--It existed before the earth.--It buries its father in its own head.--The lark sings the praises of God.--Pragâpatis creates the stomas first.--Th...

The starry sky and the rayed sun.--The peacock becomes a crow; the crow becomes a peacock.--Peacock and swan; the dove and the peacock.--The kokilas and the peacock.--Indras now...

The riddle, how it is a fish, and not a fish.--The crab appears and the sun goes back; the crab-moon draws the solar hero back.--The crane and the crab.--The crab kills the serp...

The myth of the elephant is entirely Indian.--The Marutas as elephants; Indras as an elephant.--The elephant ridden by Indras and Agnis.--The four elephants that support the wor...

Tuscan superstition relating to the spider; the red sky of evening.--The night, the moon, and the aurora as weavers.--Arachnê.--Âurnavabhas.--Dhatâ and Vidhatâ.--Golden cloths.-...

Haris and harit; harayas and harî; green and yellow called by a common name.--The moon as a green tree and as a green parrot; the parrot and the tree assimilated.--The wise moon...

FISHES, AND PARTICULARLY THE PIKE, THE SACRED FISH OR FISH OF ST PETER, THE CARP, THE MELWEL, THE HERRING, THE EEL, THE LITTLE GOLDFISH, THE SEA-URCHIN, THE LITTLE PERCH, THE BR...