Vedic Mythology c13.15

c13.15

magical rites 8. man and beast 153. man-tigers 153. Manes 172, 173. Mannhardt 53. marriage processions 154. Max Müller 16, 70, 87, 104, 123, 151. mead, Indo-European 114. measuring the earth 11. medu 114. men and animals 148. men, origin of 14. messengers 143, 172, 173. metamorphoses 134, 151, 163. metempsychosis, germ of 166. meteor 163. method in mythology § 4 (5—7). μέθυ 114. Meyer 81, 173. milk 168; = rain 10, 80; = water 86; ripe — 62. milky way 88. mirage 136. mist 158. Mithra 30, 37, 44, 127. monkey 64, 151. monotheism, a kind of 4; polytheistic — 16, 17. moon 31, 48, 69, 70, 73, 74, 88, 104, 108, 111, 118, 136, 137, 159, 173; = Soma 112; phases of the — 112, 125, 133, 134; waning of the — 112. morning star 53. mortar and pestle 106; deified 155. mother earth 22, 88, 90. mothers, Agni's two 91; Waters as — 85. mountain = cloud 111, 159. mountains 135, 161; aerial — 10; — deified 154. Muir 123. Myriantheus 53. mythological conceptions, relative ages of 20. mythology, comparative § 6 (8); definition of — § 1; characteristics of Vedic — § 2 (2—3); post-Vedic — 86, 87. myths, primary and secondary traits in 6.