The Arctic Home in the Vedas c17.76

c17.76

Hemispheres, the two celestial, upper and lower, referred to and mentioned in the Rig-Veda, 262, 263. Hemanta, with Shishira, the dual season, 183; represented the yearly sunset, 283. Hêrakles, names of the wives of, representing dawns, 393. Hercules, the pillars of, 146; the cows of, carried off by Cacus, 200. Hermes, stealing the oxen of Apollo, 204. Herodotus, mentions people sleeping for six months, 71; his account of the Phœnician mariners sailing round Africa, 146. Herschel, Sir, on seasons, 29; error in his view regarding the heat received by each hemisphere in summer and winter, 31; on the perpetual spring in interglacial times, 38. Hesiod, on the source of earthly rivers, 276. Himâlayas, the, upheaved in later geological ages, 21. Hiranya-hasta, the gold-hand, given by the Ashvins, 303, 311. Historic period, in Greece and Egypt, 2. Hodur, the blind Norse god of winter, killing Baldur, the god of summer, 405. Home, the primeval Aryan, not in Central Asia, 18, 408; nor in Finland or Scandinavia, 409; but in the Arctic regions, north of Siberia, in pre-glacial times, 418, 419; See, Airyana Vaêjo. Homer, Iliad and Odyssey, 78; his legend of cow-stealing, 204; on the shape of the earth, 275; on the circulation of aerial waters, 276; drew from the same mythological source as Vâlmîki, 349; mentions Khalkos or bronze coins, 442. Horses, of the sun, sevenfold and tenfold, 184, 341. Hudleston, Mr., on the extravagance of Dr. Croll's calculations, 35. Hukairya, a mountain in the Avesta, 266. Hundred, night-sacrifices, 211-217; fortresses or cities destroyed by Indra, leather straps of Kutsa, 221; moving in the abode of Indra, and turning on and off the course of ordinary days, 221. Hvarenô, the, Glory in the Avesta, 308. Hymns, Vedic, interglacial in substance, post-glacial in form, 459-462.