hear from afar 321–2
horses, vehicles 152, 153–4
language 77, 160–2
made visible to men 134
many-named 129
mount hero’s chariot 483
names 134–8
paragons of beauty 97
power celebrated in hymns 309–10
presence sensed by dogs 134
rapid growth 149–50
roam earth in human guise 132–4
seat(s) 123, 124, 151, 179
secret names 129, 161
special weapon or implement 150
twelve gods 122
unageing 128
untiring, unsleeping 128
upper and lower 122–4
watch heroes’ duel 486
weight 133
words for ‘god’ 120–1
‘X and the other gods’ 122
Goibniu 155–6, 159
gold associated with gods 153–4
Graeco-Aryan 6, 7, 10, 11, 21
Graiai 298 n. 66
Grannus 262
Greek, Greeks 6, 8, 15, 24
Grosdanka 213–14
groves, sacred 280
Guinevere 237
Gulses, Gulzannikes 380, 386
Hades 388, 391
etymology 394
‘hair’ of Earth 344
Hallowe’en 396
Halosydna 271
Hamp, Eric 352–3
hanging in myth and ritual 226, 235–6
Haoma 159, 346
Harald Wartooth 496–7
Hasammili 155
Hasanlu 205
Hattic 7
Hávamál 71–2
head hunting 492–3
many-headed monsters 299–300
healing gods 148
healing spells 334–9
‘hear me’ 316–17
heart of bronze/iron 89
heart-eating 88
heart laughs 89
hearth cults 145, 267–70
heaven
and earth 340–1
made of stone or metal 342–3
reached by noises 91
Hebrew saga 62
Hector’s funeral 497, 498–9
Hel 388, 390, 391, 392
Helen 137, 186, 190, 230–2, 236
abduction 230, 232, 237, 438
born from egg 231–2, 236
Rhodian cult 230, 235–6
ritual wedding at Sparta 235
suitors 434, 436
Helfermärchen 427
Heliades 230
Heliodorus 133
Helios 196, 198, 200, 211, 230
bowl 208–9
chariot 206
Hengist and Horsa 190
Hephaestus 154–6, 267–8, 271, 296
Hera 185, 192
Heracles 159, 249, 251, 258, 428, 429–30,
442
and Cacus 261
and Geryoneus 260–1, 451
death 444
recital of famous deeds 251, 315–16
Heraclitus 200, 243
herbs 331–2, 334, 335
Hercynian forest/mountains 241
‘herds and men’ 100–1, 324
Herkyn(n)a 243
Hermes 150, 152, 282–3
hermeticism 77–8
hero 411–12, 425–46
and charioteer 469, 473, 483
and horse 465–8, 490–1
and women 432–40
as exemplum 479
birth stories 427
boyhood feats 428–9
distortion of features 456–7
fair hair, flashing eyes 427–8
fights in front line 458–9
fire from body 456
funeral 496–503
great size/strength 425–6
heat 455–6
how to kill one 443–6
joy in battle 458
master of fighting techniques 457–8516 Index