Donald Alexander Mackenzie - Indian Myth and Legend

The Races of Europe , W. Z. Ripley, p. 451.

Man, Past and Present , A. H. Keane, p. 270.

The Wanderings of Peoples , A. C. Haddon, p. 21.

Vedic Index of Names and Subjects (1912), p. viii.

A convenient term to refer to the unknown area occupied by the Vedic Aryans before they invaded India.

Vedic Index of Names and Subjects , A. A. Macdonell and A. B. Keith, Vol. I, pp. 8, 9 (1912).

Compared with the Latin atrium , “the room that contained the hearthfire”. Agni is cognate with the Latin ignis , cf. Lithuanian, ugnis szwenta , “holy fire”— Early Religious Poetry of Persia , Professor Moulton, pp. 38, 39.

The theory that certain Babylonian graves show traces of cremation has been abandoned.— A History of Sumer and Akkad , L. W. King, pp. 20, 21 (1910).

A Journey in Southern Siberia , Jeremiah Curtin, p. 101.

The Dawn of Mediterranean Civilization , A. Mosso, London Trans., 1910.

British Museum Guide to the Antiquities of the Bronze Age , pp. 23, 24.

Associated, some authorities urge, with Germans from the mouth of the Elbe.

The Dawn of History , J. L. Myres, p. 199.

British Museum Guide to the Antiquities of the Bronze Age , p. 98.

British Museum Guide to the Antiquities of the Early Iron Age , p. 8.

ibid. p. 6.

ibid. p. 8.

British Museum Guide to the Antiquities of the Bronze Age , pp. 16, 17.

Egyptian Myth and Legend , p. 143.

Campbell's West Highland Tales , vol. iii, p. 55.

A History of Civilization in Palestine , R. A. S. Macalister.

The Discoveries in Crete , Professor R. M. Burrows, p. 100. Dating according to Crete the Forerunner of Greece , C. H. and H. B. Hawes, p. xiv.

Vedic Index of Names and Subjects.

See Egyptian Myth and Legend .

The North-Western Provinces of India , 1897, p. 60.

Ethnology in Folklore , George Laurence Gomme, p. 34 et seq .

A History of Sanskrit Literature , p. 115.

See Egyptian Myth and Legend .

The “Golden Age” of the gods, and the regeneration of the world after Ragnarok, do not refer to the doctrine of the world's ages as found in other mythologies.

Lay Morals.

2 Kings , v, 18.

One of the sections of the epic Mahabharata is called “Go-Harran”, which signifies “cattle harrying”.

[47]Like the giants and demons of Teutonic mythology, who fought with the gods in the Last Battle.

The deified poets and sages. See Chapter VIII.

Adolf Kaegi says: “Also Vadha or Vadhar”, which he compares with German, Wetter ; O.H. German, Wetar : Anglo-Saxon, Weder ; English, Weather . The original word signifying the sudden change in atmospheric conditions caused by the thunderstorm was ultimately applied to all states of the air.

Roy's translation of Mahabharata .

Like the giants and demons of Teutonic mythology, who fought with the gods in the Last Battle.

Like the giants and demons of Teutonic mythology, who fought with the gods in the Last Battle.

The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria , by T. G. Pinches, LL.D.

Cosmology of Rigveda , Wallis.

Religion of the Ancient Egyptians , Professor A. Wiedemann, p. 137.

Rigveda , iv, 34. 9.

Cosmology of Rigveda , Wallis.

A History of Sanskrit Literature , pp. 106, 107.

Rigveda , ii, 53; iii, 55.

Teutonic Myth and Legend , pp. 35-9.

The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria , T. G. Pinches, LL.D.

An old Germanic name of Odin related to Divus. Odin's descendants were the “Tivar”. (Pronounce Dyaus as one syllable rhiming with mouse .)

Rigveda , iv, 18. Wilson, vol. iii, p. 153.

The Laws of Manu , ix, 8; p. 329. ( Sacred Books of the East , vol. xxv.)

Adi Parva , sect. lxxiv of Mahabharata , Roy's translation.

See Egyptian Myth and Legend .

The Satapatha Brahmana , translated by Professor J. Eggeling, Part I, pp. 369, 373. ( Sacred Books of the East , vol. xii.)

Arrowsmith's translation.

Teutonic Myth and Legend , p. 173.

Vana Parva section of Mahăbhărata , sect. xliii, Roy's translation.

Rigveda , v, 2.

Rigveda , i, 95.

Rigveda , iv, 6. 8.

Rigveda , iii, 23. 3.

Rigveda , i , 95. 4, and note, Oldenberg's Vedic Hymns ( Sacred Books of the East , vol. xlvi).

Teutonic Myth and Legend , pp. 16 and 187-9.

See Chapter X.

Oldenberg, Rigveda , iii, 1.

A demi-god.

Vedic Hymns , trans. by Oldenberg. ( Sacred Books of the East , vol. xlvi.)

Rigveda , i, 13 and i, 26 (Oldenberg).

Art. “Aryan Religion”, Hastings' Ency. Rel. and Ethics .

The air of life = the spirit.

Muir's Original Sanscrit Texts , v, 58, ff.

Professor Macdonell's A History of Sanskrit Literature .

Indian Wisdom , Sir Monier Williams.