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Index 335

Zhetysu (the “Seven Rivers” area) 23, 34,

277 and n. 41

Zichia 209 n. 167, 264

Zikhs, see Kasogs

Zilivinskaia, Emma 240

zmei, Bulgarian fantastic creature 84 n. 298,

85–86, 125

zmei-maiden 124 and n. 512, 125

Zuckerman, Constantine 36 n. 74, 54–55,

58, 152 n. 13

Zurvan 111 and n. 432

Yutlus Ana (Star Mother) 123
Yuruks 220, 273

Zacharias Rhetor 185 and n. 68, 186
Zagreus 77
Zakhoder, Boris 48, 64, 136, 174 n. 18, 206,
214 n. 197
Zalmoxis, god of the Getae 71, 107 and n. 412
Zarathustra 102 n. 388, 107
Zeus, Greek god 104, 106, 110, 112
Zhumaganbetov, Talgat 19, 80
Zhuzhans 280