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CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTORY
Supposed date of commencement of Stone Age—Aryan and Non-Aryan races
Stone Age—Bronze Age and Iron Age—Scandinavia did not receive Chris-
tianity till the eleventh century—Bearded and non-bearded races— Similarity
of type and feature between the Eskimo and the people of the Spiti Valley in
the Himalayas—Dress of the women in the Kulu Valley (Western Himalayas)
and of the Bedouin women
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in the Sahara—Great similarity in the colours and
designs of the needlework of various races—Dances of Ladakh and the Devil's
Comedies of the Tyrol 1-13
CHAPTER n
SUN WORSHIP
Sun-Worship, probably the most ancient of all superstitions— It still exists in
Hindostan— Eclipses of the Moon— How regarded in India—Traces of the
same feeling in the British Isles—Tyrolese superstitions about the Moon— Fire-
Worship—A form of Sun-Worship—Persian Sun Worshippers— Worship of the
Sun-god Mithra—Sun, Fire, and Snake- Worship intimately connected—Passing
through fire, practised in India—By the Hebrews also— Analogous customs in
Brittany and the British Isles— Le Retour du Soleil .... 14-2S
CHAPTER HI
SUN AND CUP AND MOON SYMBOLS
The Sun styled the Eye of Varuna, the god of the clouds and of the sea—Two Rajput
races of India call themselves children of the Sun and of the Moon— Singular
prehistoric monuments in the Maisur State—The Eastern aspect given to the
doors of Hindi'i temples—The Orientation of Christian Churches—European
customs regarding "the way of the Sun"—Sun symbols most numerous in
Northern lands—Examples of Sun symbols—Wizard's Drum from Lapland
Cup (or Moon) markings in Brittany—Sun and Moon or Cup markings in
Kashmir, in India, and in the British Isles .....
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