Page:Atlantis - The Antediluvian World (1882).djvu/505

Rh *Marriage, 150; to one of same clan interdicted, 155; made but once a year in Peru and Babylonia, 158; in ancient Mexico, 159, 351; in ancient Egypt, 363.
 * Mashab-Ad, 279.
 * Masonry, Free, its origin, 463.
 * Maxyans, the, were red men, 196.
 * Mayapan, city of, 145, 314.
 * Mayas, their alphabet, 216; their conservatism, 218.
 * Medicine, knowledge of, received by Egypt from Atlantis, 101.
 * Mediterranean Sea, 10; a cul de sac, 176.
 * Medusa, 149.
 * Megaros, 90.
 * Meidoun Dachhour, 341.
 * Melicertes, 284.
 * Menaboshu, 108.
 * Menes, 360, 366.
 * Menominees, 184.
 * Men with tails, legends of, 148.
 * Men-wolves, 147.
 * Mermaids in America, 149.
 * Meropes, people of Atlantis, 27, 171.
 * Merops, the hero of the Deluge, 91, 92.
 * Merou, human race issued from, 171, 391.
 * Meru, 326, 465.
 * Mesomphalos, 323.
 * Mestor, son of Poseidon, 14, 309.
 * Metallurgy in Atlantis, 140.
 * Mexico, 26; plants of, 61; Flood legends of, 99; ancient, described, 350; marriage in, 351; slavery in, 351; religion in, 351.
 * Michoacan Indians, ark of, 207.
 * Midas, 27.
 * Milidh or Milesius, 410.
 * Miocene Age, flora of the, 56, 59.
 * Miztecs, Deluge legend of, 327.
 * Mneseus, son of Poseidon, 13, 309.
 * Mœris, the lake of, 362.
 * Mohammed, allusion to Deluge, 86, 92.
 * Money, origin of, 343; articles used for, 343, 344; of Mexico, 345; of Palenque, 345.
 * Mongoloids in Europe, 28.
 * Monte da Guia, 24.
 * Monte Queimada, 24.
 * Montezuma, 326.
 * Months, twelve, used by Peruvians, Egyptians, and Chaldeans, 151, 211; derived remotely from Atlantis, 287, 463.
 * Moon, silver sacred to, 346, 347.
 * Moon-worship, 347.
 * Moses, 412.
 * Mound Builders of America, 23; their leaf-shaped swords, 251; their stone celts, 253; their pottery, 260, 261, 263; their copper implements, 262, 263; from Atlantis, 370; a river people, 370; their works, 371; their civilization, 372; their system of weights and measures, 372; their pyramids, 372; they used the emblem of the cross, 375; their metallurgy, 376; their sculptures, 380; their manufactures, 380; their antiquity, 383; possessed an alphabet, 386; probably had mariner's compass, 446.
 * Mound, great, at Miamisburg, Ohio, 339.
 * Mounds, 136; of England, 341; of Mississippi Valley, 342; of Ireland, 342.
 * Municipal republics, origin of, 452.
 * Music, Highland Scotch and Chinese alike, 142.
 * Mythology of Greeks derived from Atlantis, 283, 308.

N.


 * Nachan, the city of, 313.
 * Nahsu, 194.
 * Nahua, calendar same as that of Asia, 151.
 * Nahuatl, 167, 171.
 * Nata, 100.
 * Navigation, ancient, 446.
 * Nectar, 287.
 * Negro, granite-head, 175.
 * Negroes, no tradition of Deluge among, 66; in ancient America, 174; idols, 174; figure of, at Paleuque, 175.
 * Neimhidh, 409.
 * Neith, Egyptian goddess, 7.
 * Nemaun, 330.
 * Nena, 100.
 * Neph or Num, 425.
 * Nereids in Atlantis, 16, 181.
 * Nicaraguans, Flood legends, 117.
 * Nineveh, Deluge legend dug up at, 76; the library of the palace of, 77.
 * Nirumbees, the, 157.
 * Noah aud the Deluge, 68; his name Aryan, 102.
 * Nod, the land of, 326.
 * Noronha, Fernando de, 43.
 * Nubians, the, 406.
 * Nymphs, the, 306.
 * Nyöe, the new island, 35.

O.


 * Oannes, 236.
 * Obartes Elbaratutu, 75.
 * Obelisks of Egypt and America, 367.
 * Ocean, source of gods and men, 181.
 * Odin, 271, 210; an American hero, 313.
 * Oerafa, 43.
 * Ogyges, Deluge of, 89.
 * Ojibbeways, their vine legend, 207.
 * Okanagans, Deluge legends of, 117.
 * Okeanos, 323.
 * Olmecs, the, 167.
 * Olympus, 2; described, 286; it was in Atlantis, 286; a corruption of the word Atlantis, 291, 303.
 * Origin of American races, 165, 167, 168.
 * Orphic Argonaut, 29.
 * Osiris, 309, 466.
 * Otomi, the, of Mexico, relations of their language to Chinese, 435.
 * Ouranos, 308, 309; invented mariner's compass, 445.