-nos suffix 137, 240, 449
Nostratic 2
‘not without thee’ 309–10
Núadu 148, 334
nudity
in battle 449–50
in ploughing/sowing 183 n. 64
number of army expressed as multiplication
sum 471
nymphs 139, 275, 280–1, 284–92, 293, 303
oak 240, 242, 248, 250, 267 n. 96
oaths
by Earth 175
by Sky-god 172–3
by Sun 199–201
by weapons 463–4
Oceanids 275, 286–7
Oceanus 212, 260, 348
October Equus 418
Odin 160, 278 n. 147
ancestor of kings/heroes 377
father, highest of gods 173, 183
god of poetry 34
knows spells 332, 336–7
lives on wine alone 157
meaning of name 28 n. 8, 137
shamanicfigure 148–9
traveller on earth 13, 153
Odrœri’s Drink 160
Odysseus
boar-hunting 430
death 370 n. 84, 441
recovery of Penelope 433–4, 439
Olympus 151, 154
Ophion(eus) 348
Orpheus 297
Orphic cosmogony 355, 373
Orth(r)os 261
Ossetes 14
Otos and Ephialtes 165
Ouranos 137, 169, 181–2
overpopulated earth, myth of 23
owl long-lived 378–9
Palaic 7, 12
Pan 281–3, 293, 302–3
Pan
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is 261
Papaios, Papias 170, 182
Parcae 381
Parentalia 395
Parik 286
Parjanya 244–6
Parmenides 43, 200, 222, 230
‘Parnassian’ 8
Pasiphae 229–30, 417 n. 22
past, present, and future 103–4, 383
pastures in underworld 393
path of song 44
Patroclus’ funeral 496–7, 498, 501–2
patronymics 404–5
Pelasgus 375–6
Perëndi 243
Pe ̄rkons 228–9, 239–41, 248, 253
Perkos (Thracian) 243
Perkunas 133, 137, 234, 239–41, 242–3, 245,
254, 259
his stones 252 n. 53, 255, 343
Perkuna tete 212
personifications 135–6, 139
Perun(u ̆ ) 242, 244, 245, 254, 259
Pherecydes of Syros 184, 347, 348, 355, 373
Phocylides 71
Phoroneus 274
Phrygian 6, 8–9, 15, 333
metre 50–1
pillar, cosmic 345–6
Pindar 15, 29, 31, 37, 41, 64, 116–17, 404, 455
Plataia 175
Plato, myth of Er 383
Pleiades 208, 353
ploughing prayers 177, 183
poetry
and possession 28–9
and prose 26, 61
as recall 33–5
as construction 35–6
as weaving 36–8
as carpentry 38–40, 60
concepts of 31–43
language 77–8, 79
poets 27–31
and patrons 30, 63–5
contests 72–4, 362, 364
polar expressions 99–105, 329, 369–70
middle term added 103
Pole Star 352
πο ́ λι 452–3
Polydeuces 188
Polyidus’ riddle 372 n. 89
polyptoton 111–16, 481
‘bone to bone’ etc. 336–8
portents 488
Poseidon 138
Hippios 145–6
Posidaeia 140
positive + negated opposite 105
*-potis 137–8, 141520 Index