Styx, River 48, 63, 100, 113
sub-Saharan mythologies 265, 284–97
Sumerian mythology 12, 180, 186, 192–97
Sumitra 207
Sun Wukong 218
Surt 153, 156
Susanoo 181, 221, 222–25, 223
Suttung 142, 143
Svartálfheim 136, 137
syncretism 35T
Ta’aroa 300–01, 316 , 316 –17
Tablet of Destinies 189
T’aebaek-san, Mount 228, 228 , 229, 231
Tahitian mythology 316–17
Talos 79
Tane 301, 317, 318, 319, 321
Tangaroa 319
Tantalus 49
Taranis 128
Tarchetius 104
Tarpeia 105
Tarquinius Superbus 111
Tartarus 33, 49
Tata 251
Tawa 238, 239
Tawhirimatea 318, 319
Te Samoa 328–29
Te Sema 329
Tecciztecatl 254, 255
Tefnut 268, 269
Tehuelche people 260–61
Telemachus 68, 71
Teotihuacán 255
Tethys 21, 22
Tezcatlipoca 250–51, 251 , 252
Thakur Deo 212
Theia 21, 23
Themis 21, 23
theoi agoraioi 31
theoi daitioi 31
theoi ktesioi 31
Thera (Santorini) 91
Theseus 76–77, 77 , 79
Thetis 62, 63
Thialfi 146, 147
Thor 132, 144, 145, 146–47, 14 7, 153, 156, 159
Thor’s hammer 145 , 145 , 157
Thoth 269, 270, 273, 280, 282
Thrym 145
Tiahuizcalpantecuhtli 255
Tiamat 159, 188 , 188–89
Tiberinus 101
Ti’iti’i 321
tiki 317, 317
Tikopian mythology 13, 328–31Pygmalion 120 , 120
Pyramid Texts 265, 283
Pyramus and Thisbe 124
Pyrrha 37–38, 38, 197
Pythia 58, 58 , 59
Python 58, 59Q
Qingu 189
Quetzalcoatl 250, 251 , 252, 253, 254, 255
Quirinus 105, 107R
Ra (Egyptian sun god) 268, 269, 269 , 271,
272–75, 274 , 279, 280, 282, 283
Ra (Polynesian sun god) 323
Ragnarök 133, 138, 139, 148, 152–57
Rainbow Serpent 305–06, 306 , 307
Rama 181, 204–09, 207 , 209
Ramayana 13, 180, 204–09
Rangi 318, 318
Rapa Nui people 324–25
Ravana 206, 207, 208, 209, 209
Raven and the Whale 242–43
Regin 158
Rhea 21, 23, 26–27, 116
Rhea Silvia 103
Roman mythology 13, 92–125
Rome, founding of 94, 95, 100, 102–05, 116
Romulus and Remus 94, 100, 102–05
rongorongo boards 325
Ru 322–23
Rugarug-évai 315
runes 139 , 157, 157S
Sabine women, rape of 104–05, 105
Saga of the Völsungs 158
Sagaritis 117
St. George and the Dragon 159
Saku 328–31
Salmon of Knowledge 169
Samguk Yusa 229
Samhat 192, 195
Sami (Mahu) 312, 313
Sampo 161, 162, 162 , 163San Bushmen 265, 284
Saoshyant 199
Saraswati 200
Saturn 26 , 108
satyrs 46, 108 , 109
seasonal cycle 17, 51, 89, 117, 184–87, 227
Sedna 236
Segur 332–33
seidr 152
Sekhmet 270–71
Selene 23
Semele 45, 52
Sétanta 167
Seth 269, 270, 272 , 273, 278, 279, 280–82
Sha Wujing 219, 219
Shakespeare, William 16, 124
shamans 152, 241 , 241 , 265
Shamash 194–95
shape-shifting
Greek 44–45
Hindu 200, 210
Native American 242
Norse 142–43, 144–45, 147, 159
Roman 106, 122–23
sub-Saharan 265
Shatarupa 200
Shatrughna 207
Shintoism 221 , 223
Shiva 201, 210, 211
Shu 268, 269
Shurpanakha 208
Sia 269, 272
Sibyl of Cumae 99, 100, 110 –11, 111
Sibylline Books 111
Siduri 195, 197
Sif 144, 144 , 149
Sigmund 158
Sigurd 129
Sigurd Fafnisbane 158–59
Silenua 122
Silenus 90, 109
Silver Age 38
Sirens 71
Sisyphus 49
Sita 206, 207, 208–09
skaldic verse 131, 143
Skidbladnir 144, 145
Skog Tapestry 136
Sköll 155, 157
Skylla 71
Sleipnir 141, 141 , 148
Snorri Sturluson 128
Gylfaginning 152, 155–57
Prose Edda 13, 130–33, 131 , 137, 139, 141,
143, 146, 147, 149 , 152, 154
Sól 133
Sophocles 16, 65, 85
Sosom 315
Sparta 33, 45
Sphinx 86 , 87
Spider Woman 238–39, 239
Stymphalian birds 74INDEX 349
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