glyph, 108.
Akkad=the North, 334.
Akkadians, Semitic race of Assyria-Babylonia, 334.
Alexander of Macedonia, 527.
Allen, Richard Hinckley, 448, 451, 525.
Alligator, altar at Copan, 227, 228, 296;
totem of Copan tribe, 228;
symbol in codices, 504, 518;
in India, 505, 519;
totem of Mayas and Mexicans, 520.
Altars at Copan, 226, 227, 228, 229.
Amaterasu, Japanese sun-goddess, 311.
Amaytun, painted representation of the 20 and 24-year epoch, 219, 226.
Amen-Ra, the supreme dual god of the Egyptians, 389, 390, 391.
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 510, 545.
American Folk-Lore Society, 510.
American Museum of Natural History, 234.
American peoples, 479-548.
Ammon, 522.
Ammonites, 351.
Anacreon, 453.
Anales del Museo Nacional de Mexico, 86, 93, 98.
Andastes, 196.
Andean art, compared with Mediterranean, 545.
Andree, Richard, 52, 53.
Angrand, Leonce, 150, 151.
Animal form, as totem, 154;
associated with Four Quarters by Zuni, 295;
combined with bird, symbol of union of Above and Below, 296;
summary of use in symbolism 296;
in Chinese calendar, 299, in Buddhist mythology, 318;
combined with human in Babylonian symbolism, 335 (see Human form).
Anthromorphites, 530.
Apis, sacred Egyptian bull, 399;
cult of, very ancient, 437.
Apollo, worshipped in form of a column, 447, 513.
Arabia, star worship, axial rotation, seven-day period, etc., 322, 324,
448, 482, 495, 556.
Aratos, 453.
Arcadius, 530.
Architecture, ancient, influenced by religious cults of Heaven and Earth,
284;
Byzantine, 515;
cruciform, 515;
symbolism of (see Windows, Cone, Tau, Pyramid, Color, Greek fret, etc.).
Arctos, 452.
Aristotle, 485, 486, 487.
Arizona, 52, 199.
Arriaga, Padre, 134.
Arrowpoint, barbed, used instead of flint knife as symbol of
life-producing force, 55, 56.
Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, 366, 369.
Ashurbanipal, Assyrian king, offspring of Heaven and Earth, 346.
Asia Minor, compared with North America in relation to tertiary plants and
fungi, 479.
Asiatic contact, 534, 541 (see Pre-Columbian contact).
Asiatic Society of Japan, 565, 575.
Assyria, star-cult, 326;
numerical divisions, etc., 328;
cult of Polaris, 335;
analogies with China and Central America, 349;
civilization more recent than that of Babylonia, 353;
founded by Semitic Babylonians, 354;
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