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Abode of the Dead, Homer's, 332, 467-487.
Adam, Book of, 177; Adam's Peak, 9; Adam, where buried, 232.
Æsars, Etruscan divinities, 214.
Æsir, Scandinavian divinities, 217.
Africa, Eden located in, 4, 22, 42.
Aiaiè, location of, 332; purpose of, 332.
Akkadian cosmology, 126, 127, 163-171, 264, 483; mythology, 31, 171, 257, 264.
Akkads, two, 168.
Algæ of the Arctic Ocean, 321, 322.
Al Sirat, 155.
Ame-no-mi-naka-nushi-no-kami, 215.
Amenti, Egyptian Abode of the Dead, 173, 176, 177, 209, 266, 485, 486.
America, Eden located in, 41, 42; peopling of, 38, 56.
Ancient literature, study of, 326-361.
Anthropology, paleontological, 48, 97-113.
Ape theory of the origin of man, 447-449.
Assembly, Mount of the, 127, 128, 143, 71.
Astronomy, antediluvian, 67, 193, 214, 360.
Atlantosaurus, the, 293.
Atlas, 135, 136, 185, 212, 218, 236, 256, 350-358.
Avalon, apples of, 17, 276; loadstone castle of, 15, 276.
Avatha, throne of, 259.
Azacol, world-pillar of the Sums, 358.
Bathybius theory, 320.
Biology, the study of, 313-325.
Boat, spherical, symbol of the Earth, 164-166.
Bodhi Tree, the, 271.
Botany, paleontological, 48, 87-92.
Brain-tree, the, 277.
Brandan, Saint, visits Paradise, 13.
Bridge of the Gods. See Bridge of Souls.
Bridge of Souls, 141, 144, 145, 155-158, 270, 272, 275.
Britain nearer Heaven than Southern Europe, 214.
Buataranga, 157.
Buddhist cosmology, 131-133, 211; Buddhist Paradise, 12, 132.
Bushmen, ideas of the, 200.
Calvary, mounts commemorative of, 12, 228.
Calvin on location of Eden, 25.
Cannibalism, philosophy of its origin, 379.
Carson foot-prints, 297.
Catagenesis, 414.
Centre of the Earth. See Navel of the Earth.
Centre of Heaven, 146, 202-224, 252.
Cher-nuter (Karneter), 173, 485.
Chronometry of the anthropologists, 412.
Chug of the Earth, the, 225.
Chug of Heaven, the, 202.
Churning of the Ocean, 357, 466.
Circle, the quartered, 179-181, 247.
City of Sakra, 132.
Climatology, prehistoric, 48, 83-86.
Clouds in mythology, 254, 265, 266.
Columbus on ascent to Eden, 3-6; form of his Earth, 4, 306, 307, 435.
"Compas," the, 227.
Cone-shaped, the Earth, 136, 306, 307.
Continents built up from North to South, 94; their configuration, 106, 439, 440.
Contrasts of the two polar regions, 91, 323, 324.
Cosmas Indicopleustes, his geography, 305.
Cosmology, Ancient, 117-141, 143; "True Key" to, 117-123, 450-458.
Cradle of the Akkadians, 169, 171; of the Aryans, 39, 161, 162; of the Shemites, 39.
Creation from North to South, 248.
Cuneiform inscriptions, 27.
Cyclops, myth of the, 327, 439.
Damaras, their rain-giver, 260.
Darkness, duration oft at the Pole, 62-70.
Darwinistic speculations, 35, 110-112, 326, 327, 362-418, 447-449.
Daylight at the Pole, 62-70, 197-201.
Deathless Land, 10.
Declination of the Pole, 192-196, 247.
Deep-sea research, 320.
Degeneracy of mankind, 281-284.
Deluge, the, 4, 24, 25, 47, 194-196, 258, 274, 298, 424-431; theory of, 75-82. "Devil's Door," the, in churches, 207.
Difficulties of our hypothesis, 54, 300, 301.
Directors, the seven, 142.
Dispersion of mankind, 35, 437-450.
Doves of Zeus, 237.
Dragon, guard of Paradise, 11, 17, 125, et passim.
Early types of life normal, 294-296.
Earth, cooling of the, 59-61, 79, 84, 100, 103-114.
Earth of the Akkadians, 126, 163-171 of Columbus, 306, 435; of the Egyptians, 124, 172-181; of the Hindus, 150-156, 459-464; of the Iranians, 157-162; of the Japanese, 142; of the Greeks, 182-197, 328-359.
East, the Garden eastward, 26, 27, 219-224.
Eden, the Centre of the World, 234; the highest point of the Earth, 5, 6, 8. See Summit of the World.
Egg-hatching at opposite poles, 324.
Eggs, fourteen inches in diameter, 292.
Egyptian cosmology, 124, 172-181, 207, 265.
Electricity, the polar, 68, 253, 314, 322.
Emlak, name of India, 8.
Ends of the Earth, or World, 160, 174, 241, 242.
Er, the story of, 145.
Ethnology, 48, 97-99, 110-112.
Etruscans sacred quarter, 214.
Euphrates, the historic, 28, 251; the prehistoric, 29; as Ocean-river, 30, 72, 171, 259.
Fall of man from primitive family form, 397.
Fathers of the Church, 23, 27, 278.
Fetichism not the primitive form of religion, 368-406.
Flamens, 380.
Flaming sword, the torrid zone, 24.
Fountain of Paradise, 8, 9. See Rivers of Paradise.
Geogony, scientific, 48, 59-61.
Geography, astronomical, 48, 60-70; mythical, 117-141.
Germination as affected by positive and negative poles, 324.
Glacial Age, 75, 82, 84, 95, 100, 105-113, 161, 280, 296, 298, 304, 421, 445.
Golden Race, the, 281, 405, 407.
Gonds, their view of Hades and Heaven, 211.
Greely, rescue of Lieut., 488, 491.
Hades. See Abode of the Dead.
Heart of Earth, 246.
Heart of Heaven, 246.
Heavens of Kedem heavens, Ps. lxviii. 34. See Kedem.
Heimdallr, 158.
Hell, the Rabbinical, 199.
Higher and lower organisms, 295.
Highest part of the Earth. See Summit.
Hissarlik, 494.
Holy Sepulchre, Church of the, 226, 248.
Homeric cosmology, 117-122, 328-361, 467-487.
Homer's year-day, 200.
Homo alalus, 326; homo Darwinius, 326; homo despiciens, 327.
Horn of the World, 124, 126, 166,174, 176.
Hyperboreans, the, 22, 184, 185, 214, 237, 238, 355, 403.
Ice Age. See Glacial Age.
Ida, Mount, 182, 232, 235, 256.
Inverted World of Hades, 125, 467-487.
Iran, the Ancient, 156-162, 280.
Island of the Congealed Drop, 141.
Island, the White, of great Zeus, 182.
Ivory, fossil, of the North, 297, 298.
Izanagi's Spear of Jade, 140.
Izdhubar, Epic of, 239.
Japanese cosmogony, 140; other ideas, 140, 141, 215, 245.
Jerusalem, its earth-navel, 225-234, 248.
Job's view of the North, 205, 217.
Jordan, the river, 138.
Kedem, Qedem, Miqqedem, 26, 27, 218-224 (see the Heb. Bible), 421.
Keltic Paradise, 12.
Keshvares of the Iranians, 155-160.
Khorda Avesta, 28.
Kronos, Mount of, 231; reign of, 187.
Ladder of Paradise, 11, 144, 145, 155158, 270, 272, 275.
Lalitavistara, 211.
Lance, the shadowless, 135.
Lemuria, the hypothetic, 35, 306, 386.
Lêtô, birthplace of, 238.
Libations to the blessed dead, 244.
Life, exuberance of, 279-299; origin of, 87-113, 317-325.
Lingam, 401.
Link, the missing, 110.
Literature, ancient, study of, 326-361.
Livingstone, David, in search of Eden, 22.
Loadstone rock or castle, the magnetic Pole, 14, 15, 16, 276. Also Tylor's Primitive Culture.
Lost arts in Homer's day, 329.
Luther on location of Eden, 25, 304.
Lycopods, size of antediluvian, 285.
Macrobii, 403.
Magnetism, terrestrial, 52, 68, 253, 314.
Mahâbhârata, the, cited, 186, 319, 482.
Man-beast, Caspari's, 378, 379.
Mankind, Origin of, 33-43, 110-112, 437-449.
Man's power over Nature, 314, 416-418.
Mediæval cosmography, 305-309.
Mediæval ideas of Paradise, 13, 308.
Meroë, 236.
Meropes, 183.
Meru, mount of the gods, 42, 129, 148, 150, 154, 229, 259, 275, 461, 462.
Mesopotamia, Eden not in, 27-31.
Mexican Paradise, 260; earth-navel, 247.
Milky Way, the, 156, 269, 479.
Miqqedem. See Kedem.
Moon's orbit and Paradise, 8, 24, 258, 259, 304.
Mother-region of plants, 87-92; of animals, 93-96; of men, 97-101, 437-449.
Mountain of the World, 122-137. Movement of the sun, 329-332.
Mystery and charm of the Arctic regions, 325.
Mythology, comparative, 48, et passim.
Myths of the Greeks, origin, 326.
Naga, 260.
"Nail" of the old astronomers, 175.
Navel of the Earth, 51, 146, 147, 153, 154, 157, 168, 170, 180, 187, 225-249, 335, 350, 354.
Nebular Hypothesis, the, 59.
Night and day, one year, 50, 197-201.
Night skies of Eden, 68.
Nipple of the Earth, 42, 307, 435, 436.
North, Avalon in the, 12; highest part of the world, 122, 151, 153, 168, 204; nearest the sky, 187, 214, 247; the sacred quarter, 202, 218; "where God doth work," 205, 217.
Northern Light. See Aurora Borealis.
Ocean in the Veda, 328.
Odyssey, true idea of the, 122.
Omphalos of the Earth. See Navel of the Earth.
Origin of mankind. See Mankind.
Palm, the holy, 270.
Pamir, the plateau of, 36.
Paradise, celestial, 9, 24; terrestrial, 3-22; the two connected by the world-pillar, 145, 146; a mountain, 4, 8, 24, etc.; how connected with the moon, 8, 24, 258, 304; inaccessible, 2, 4, 7, 22, 432; its restoration promised, 458; wall of, 7, 8, 178.
Patriarchal system, 393, 424-431; Church, 432.
Peplos of Harmonia, 266.
Persea, the sacred, 266.
Philolaos, cosmos of, 212.
Philology, supposed evidence of, 37.
Phœnician mountain of the gods, 212.
Physics, terrestrial, 57-82, 313-325.
Polar research, latest, 487-491.
Pole, immovable, 195.
Pole star, 125, 146, 171, 192, 216, 217.
Pole stars, two, 130.
Polocentric maps, 154, 159; zones, 95, 106.
Polytheism, the primary religion according to Hume, 364-368.
Posture in prayer, 129, 202-218, 303.
Prester John's kingdom, 8.
Primitive monotheism, 362-406.
Puranic geography, 148-154, 240.
Qereb of the Earth, Ps. lxxiv. 12. See Navel of the Earth.
Quadrifurcate River, the, 51, 250-260.
Quarter, the sacred, 51, 202-224.
Ramayana, ideas of the, 149, 480.
Raphael, the Angel, 20.
Refrigeration of the Earth, 59.
Religionless tribes unknown, 375, 385.
Revelation, primitive, 404, 405.
Rig Veda, 210, 211, 241, 242, 243.
Rishis, the seven, 153, 190, 209, 211.
River in the air, 52, 250-261.
River of Death, 31.
Rivers of Paradise, 3, 8, 24, 27, 39, 51, 52, 127, 128, 130, 133, 134, 136, 144, 152, 171, 179, 186, 250-261.
Rivers of the Underworld, 31, 255.
Roof-pillar, Earth's axis as, 140, 265.
Root of the World, 165.
Rope of the World, 31.
Ru, the Polynesian Atlas, 158.
Sabæans, views of the, 171, 210, 259.
Sandalfon, the Talmudic Atlas, 356, 357.
Satan, how located in the North, 207.
Savagery not primitive, 386-392, 423.
Sequoia, the, of Arctic origin, 285-288.
Set, the Egyptian god, 209.
Shadowless Lance, 135.
Sheol. See Abode of the Dead.
Simian origin of man, 447-449.
Sion, the Hill of, 138, 144, 145, 232, 305, 309.
Siriad, 421.
Skambha, the World-pillar, 465-467.
Son of nine mothers, 158.
South Pole, associations, 120, 176, 205, 206, 211, 482-486.
South, sunrise in the, 197.
Southward spread of population, 56, 97-113, 116, 280, et passim.
Spear of Izanagi, 140.
Spindle of Necessity, Plato's, 358.
Spine of the Earth, the, 357.
Splinter, the golden, 358.
Stars, motion of, at the Pole, 50, 191-196.
Stature of the gods, 319, 349.
Summit of the world, 7, 8, 24, 42, 50, 123-137, 154, 167, 173, 174, 187, 202-218, 247.
Sun under the sea, 337.
Sunrise sixteen days too soon, 63.
Swastika, 180.
Symbolical Geography, 30, 225-248.
"Symmes' Hole," 84.
Taivahan Napanen, 218.
Telegonos, 332.
Thumbling, the disembodied soul, a, 319.
Titanosaurus, one hundred feet long, 292.
Tomochichi's theology, 399.
Tong tree, 274.
Totemism, 373.
Tower of Kronos, 145, 358; of Paradise, 11.
Tradition, trustworthiness of, 201, 422, 492-495.
Tree of Life, 3, 7, 30, 144, 148, 154, 243, 257, 262-278; of Wisdom, 11, 262, 271; of the World, 172, 173, 262-278.
"True Key," reception of, 450-458.
Twilight, three months, 61; variable (compare S. Alexander in Johnson's Cyclopædia, vol. iv., p. 989), 69.
Ukko, Supreme God of the Finns, 218, 256.
Umbilicus of the Earth. See Navel of the Earth.
Unity of the human race, 33.
Van, Lake, Paradise in, 24.
Varieties of the human race, 33, 34, 439.
Varshas of the Hindu Earth, 150-152.
Venezuela, 7.
Völkerpsychologie, 376.
"Where did Life begin?" 103, 224.
Wind-harp of King David, 207.
Winds, North and South, 177, 178, 207, 266, 483.
World of the ancients, 117-138; of Homer, 479.
World-pillar, see Atlas; World-tree, 262-278, 465-467.
World, the, suspended from a mountaintop, 346.
Year, a day and a night, 50, 197-201.
Yosemite trees, 287.
Zoölogy, paleontological, 48, 93-96.