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Index

Please note: the terms are indexed where they are first cited in the work; subsequent citations (in most cases) are not listed.  Spelling in some case is idiosyncratic to Spengler and German of 1918; this is especially true of Chinese names.

12th dynasty, p206

1760 Synod, p201  

 

A

Aachen Minster, p200 

Abyssinian, cult buildings of, p209 

acanthus, p215, and shoots (chisel & drill), p212

Acropolis (Pericles), p207 

Aegean, islands & promontories of, p203

Aeschylus, p206

alchemy, p183

Alexandria, Egypt, p208, Byzantine (450 AD), p206

altarpiece, and to oratorio, p187, p203 

Amida, p209 

Anglo Saxon missionaries, p187 

angular pillars (pyramid temple Chephren),  p203

anti-plastic, p215

Antinous statues, p216

Antioch, Byzantine (405 AD), p206

Aphrodisias Caria, temple of, p210    

Apocalyptic poems, p214

Apollonian, p183    

Appolodorus, p211

apse, p210    

arabesque, p183, p196, p207, as ornamentation, p212, p215

Arabia, south, p208   

Arabian (Early-Christian Byzantine) cupola-church, p200, and state, p212, art, p207, Aramaean vine & palm, p215

Archaic sculpture and feet, p184
architrave and column, p200 

Armenia, p208  

astrology, p183

Athtar, temple of (S Arabia), p210    

Attic tragedy (relief & recovery), p203

augurs, p185

Augustan temple, p210    

autumn of the style, p207 

avenues of sphinxes and statues, p202 

Axum, Ethiopia, p208                   

 

B

Baal cults,  p209 

Baalbek, Sun temple of, p210    

Bach (art of the Fugue), p183

Bachofen (quoted), p188  

Baldur, p187 

baroque, dynasties of, cabinet diplomacy of, p183

barrel vault (roofing),   p184

basilica, p200, p209, of Maxentius (aka Basilica of Constantine),  p212, roofing, p184, Eastern, p199  

Baths, p212, of Caracalla (domed chamber), p211

Beatrice, of Dante, p183

Berengar of Tours, p185

bizarrerie, p215

body, p189 

Book of the Dead, p188  

Bramante, and St Peters,   p184

broad plains of Franconia, Saxon & Burgundy (map),  p203

bull tablet (1st Dynasty, Egypt), p200 

burked,  p204 

burning the dead, p185
Byzantium 900 AD, p207, 208, and cathedral, p213  

 

C

Calchas, p185
Caliph, p212 and caliphate as characteristic of Magian Culture, p183

cantata & Mass, p187 

Carolingian period, p196, Empire, p216, and early Romanesque (ornamentation + figure),  p212   

Carstens, p212   

catacomb painting, p206

Cathedral (depth experience) ,  p184, of Florence, p184

cella, p184
Celtic, p215,

Celto-Germanic, p193

Chephren, tomb of, p196   

Chinese Culture, gardening, landscape p190, garden architecture, p203  

choir, p210    

Chorus, p191, and date, 213

Chosroes-Nushirvan, p203

Chou period, early, p196   

Christian, early, p207, 208, Christian/late Classical (ornamentation + figure), p212; religions, p183, hymnology of the

       south, p185

Church Councils, p216 of Ephesus, p209; of Chalcedon, p209 

Cimabue, p192   

Classical period, late p208, and Pseudomorphisis, p209, and deities, of early Empire, p187, and unit-motive, p196,

           renunciation of space, p184, relief, figures, p184, monolithic column, p214, basic form of architecture, p215

Classicism, p197, p207     

Clunic reforms, p185
cognate, p206

colonnades of the early period, p202 

Colosseum (3 rings), p204 

conspectus,  p208  

consul-statues in the Capitoline Museum, p216

Corinthian capital, p204 

craft art of Byzantine-Islamic style, p215

Crusaders, p213  

cupolas, p184
Cynics, p203

 

D

dance of boors, p195 

David,  p212   

Deism (of 18th century Faustian Culture), p187

Descartes (analysis of space), p188  

dogma, Catholic versus Protestant, p183

Dome of the Rock (Jerusalem.)

domed basilica of Byzantium,  p211,  of Russia,  p211

domical churches (Constantinian), p206

Doric peripteros, p184, geometric, early and Minoan, p184, and Etruscan temple types 650 BC, p185, spring (period),

            p213, use of Egyptian elements, p213

Didymaeum of Miletus, p204

Dies Irae, p185
difficulty… of triglyphs & metopes, p204 

Diocletian’s dispensation, p212     

Dionysiac intoxication, p204, musical hostility to Apollonian Doric, p206

Diophantine mathematics, p213

Dipylon vases, warrior figures of, p196   

Dresden, p207, shepherds,  p207, Zwinger, p207 

drill, the, p216

duality, p187 

 

E

East, p216

East Aramean Persian style, p211

Easter scene Faust I, p186

Eastern border of the Empire, p208, and marches (of Roman Empire), p213

eclectic, p207 

Edda (of the 9-11 centuries), p187 and figures of, p187, of the north, p185
Edessa, p209

Egyptian Culture (relief & painting), p189, ram & sphinx avenues, p189, relief work (3rd to 5th dynasties), p189, relief

         work of 5th dynasty, p206, flat-relief, p202  date, p213, and plant column, p214, old kingdom tomb temples

         p189  

Egyptian Middle Kingdom, p206

Egyptian Empire modes of the north, p207 

elective affinity, p201  

Empire of Charles V, p213

endless space, p189  

English colonial empire under Cromwell, p213

Epicurus, p203

Epos, p193

Erecththeum, p205, p207

Eroica, p199  

Etruscan templum, p185
Eucharistic controversy, p185
Euclidean feeling, p 185, form, p187, existence, p214

Excellsior, p184
extension, p214

 

F

Fathers, the, p214, and Paradise of, p186
Faust, p186,

Faust II, last lines, p183

Faustian basic form of architecture, p215 Faustian, date, birthplace, p183

form-domain,  p205

Frankish, p215

Freiberg Cathedral (dominate Gothic feeling), p213  

Freya, p187 

 

G

Galileian dynamics, p183

Gallienus, p211

Gawan, p186

genus, p206

Germans of the migration, p186, southern castles (staircase), p205

Gernrode Church, p196   

Ghassanids, p215

Giotto, p192, character, p212   

glass –picture of Gothic cathedrals, p214

Gnostics, p214

Gods of India (Vedic), p187 

Gorgias, p207 

Gothic thrust system, p188, consecutives Church music, p188, cathedral, p196, late work in Rococo, p202, high

            century (3rd), p214

Grail legend, p213, Holy, p186
Granada, p216

Greek city states, p183

Guardi, p207 

 

H

Haigia Sophia, p184, p200, as mosque, p211 acanthus, p215

Hamlet, p186
Hansa in Baltic, p213  

Hauran, p210    

Hayden, p207 

Hellas architecture (600 BC), p206

Hellenistic megalopolis, p207 

Hildesheim cathedral, p196, p206

Hohenstaufen in Sicily, p213  

Homeric hexameter, p186

horseshoe arch, p213

Hwang Ho, p203

hymn-strophe, p196   

 

I

Iamblichus, p216

iconoclasm, p188, of Byzantium (7th century), p188, of Islam (7th century), p188, of Protestant North, p188  

Imperial Fora (its master mason), p208, p212, p215, p216

 Impressionism, p184

intercolumniations, p204 

Ionic to Corinthian, p197      

ipso facto, p197     

Isis, p213  

Islamic art, p208  

Issus, battle of mosaic (Naples), p214

 

J

Jewish religion, p183, ornamentation, p215

Justinian I contemporary of Spanish Venetian Baroque of Charles V Philip II,  p207 

 

K

kokoshniks, p201  

 

L

Lanfranc, p185
lateral depth, p200 

Leer, p183

Leitmotiv, p215

Lombard, p215

Lorrain (Claude), p184

Lucca, p216

lunettes, p199  

Lysicrates, monument of (acanthus leaves), p215

 

M

macrocosm, p214

Madonna ideal, p183

Magdeburg Cathedral, p205, and dominate Gothic, p213  

Magian Culture, birth place, and number, p183, religion, p187, soul, p214

Mainz Cathedral choir, p205

Manicheans, p214, 209, religion, p183 architecture of, p211, p215

Mannerism, p197     

Marcus Aurelius, p213  

Marienkirche (Castle of Wiirzburg), p201  

Marna-temple, pagan, p211

Mars Ultor, p215

Mashetta, Moab, castle facade, p215

Mathew Passion, p199  

Mauro-Byzantine, p212   

Mayan art, p196   

Mazdaist fire-temple, p209, architecture of, p211, Mazdaism, p216

mechanical statics, p183

Media vita in morte summa, p186
Megalopolis, p192, p211, and naturalism, p212   

Meister Eckert Meister Eckhart mysticism (dominate Gothic feeling), p213  

Merovingian age, p186

Mesopotamia, fire temples of, p210    

Mexican architecture, p204  Mexican Culture (date), p213  

Michelangelo, and St Peters dome, transition into Baroque,   p184

mien,  p203

Minerva Medica, Temple of p211

Minnesanger, p193

minstrel’s lay, p195 

Mithraeum, p209 

Mithras, p213, Mithraism, p216

Monophysite, p211

Moorish architecture, p207, Moorish buildings,  p211

mosaics, of Magian Culture, p183 of dome basilicas (Ravenna), p214, of late Roman, p215

mosque, p183

Mozart, p207 

music, p187 

Mycenaean age, p196   

 

N

naturalism (as art), p192   

nave, p210    

Neo-Platonism, p216

Nerva’ Fora, p215

Nestorian East, p209, and Christianity, p211

Nietzsche, “art…before God as the supreme witness”, p191  

Nisibis, p209 

Nordic, Old p215

Norman-Hohenstaufen (rule in Palermo), p211

Norwich cathedral Normans, p196   

nude statue, p183

Numa, p185
 

O

octagon, p200

Odysseus & Achilles (endurance), p203

Oedipus, p183

“old Northern” (poem),p186

Olympian Gods, cult of, p183

Olympus, p186
Ommaiyads, p207 

oratorio, p187 

organ fugue, p187  Ornament, p197     

oriental carpets, p197     

Origen, p214

Orpheus, p185

 

P

Paderborn (region of Westphalia-Saxony), p196   

Paestum, Temple of, p205

Palazzo Farnese,  p205

Palermo p216

Pantheon (of Hadrian) ,  p211, master mason, p208

parallel motion parts (church music), p196   

pari passu, p206

Parzival, p186, p199
Pauline West, p209, Pauline Christianity,  p209 

PaulinzelIa (region of Westphalia-Saxony), p196   

pedant,  p207 

pendentive cupola, p200

Pergamum (frieze of Giants),  p205

Persia, p208, religion of, p183, p209, temple, p209, Persian and Indian metal work, p197, Persia-Anatolia world, p215

Peterborough cathedral, p196   

Pisano character, p212    

phallus symbol, p183

Phidias, p207 

philological,  p208  

physiognomic spirit, p214, and of Magian soul, p214

pillar halls (4th dynasty) , p206

pillared basilicas (Constantinian) , p206

Plotinus, p213, p214

"Pneuma", p216

pointed arch, p213

points d’appui, p213  

Polygnotus, his fresco, p183

porch, p210 

Portuguese in E. Indies, p213  

post-Classical religions, p183

Potsdam, p207 

presentiment, p206

Procopius of Byzantium, p207 

propitious, p185
prosody, p185
Provencal, p213  

pseudomorphism, p187, p214, p216

pylon,  p203

pyramids of 4th dynasty, p189  

 

Q

 

R

Ravenna, p216, , domed basilica of, p211

Rembrandt, p183

Renaissance (contradiction), p206, and tragicomic delusion, p215

“return to nature”,  p207 

rhythmic syntax, p185

rib vaulting, p199  

Riegl, p208, and “latent Saracenic character”, p215

rock- and terrace-temples, p202 

Rococo stage (of Moorish mosques, castles), p215

Roman, late, p207

Roman portrait busts (stylized hair), p212   

Roman Syria, p208  

Romanesque, p183, p201, in Baroque monuments, p202

Romanticism, p197     

Rousseau, p207 

Rubens, p207 

 

S

Sabaean temple of S. Arabian origin, p210     

sacred precinct, p185
Sahu-re, pyramid of,  p203

Saint Chappelle, p199  

Saint Germigny des Pres, church of, p201  

Saint Lorenz, Nuremberg (late Gothic, early Baroque), p205

Saint Patroclus,  p205

Saint Paul (Rome), p210    

Saint Pierre Moissac, p199  

Saint Vitale (Ravenna)

saints (9-11th century legends of), p187  Salonika (Saint. George), p201  

sarcophagi (3rd century),  p212, 215   

Sassanids, p212   

scholastic philosophy, p213  

Schuhplattler, p192   

Sesostris, p206, p207 

Shakespeare (conflict of will and world), p203

Shan-tung, p211

Siegfried,p186
skalds, p193

South, p216

Southern France (Romanesque churches of), p196   

Spanish in America, p213  

Spengler, “emancipation of Magian mankind”,p213,’Classical’ Syncretism…”, p209, “the plane without limit”, p201

                 “one never ending sacrifice”, p187, “statical treatment of static genera”, p205, “a book” by Iamblichus,

                  p216

Speyer cathedral, p185
spherical and polygonal forms, p200 

squinch-cupola, p195 

Stabriem, p186
stalactites, p207 

stereometrically,   p184

Stoics, p203

Strasberg Minster, p213  

string instruments (origins), p195 

Strzygowski, p184, p208  

Sun god, p213  

Sun temples of the 5th Dynasty, p189  

suicide (in Apollonian Culture),  p204 

symbolic spirit, p214

synagogues of Mesopotamia, p210    

Syncretism, cult of, p209 

 

T

Tallyrand, "Qui n' a pas .vecu avant 1789 ne connait pas la douceur de vivre.", p207 

Tao, 190, and life’s path, p203

temple of Venus & Rome (vaulting) ,  p211

Teutonic knights in Slavonic East, p213  

Tevrezent, p186
Thunder-pattern, p196   

Tintoretto, p207 

Tiresias, p185
Trajan’s Fora, p215

Tristan, p186, p199  

Tzigane music, p195

 

U

union of round arch & column, p214

 

V

Valhalla,p186
Vasari, p192, on vaults (of Gothic naves),   p184

Vatican Collection, p216

Velleius Paterculus, p205

Venice (St Marks & Byzantium influence), p211, 216

Vienna, p207 

Vignola to Bernini, p197     

Viking Gothic (dominate Gothic feeling), p213  

Vitruvius, p204 

Voluspa (elder Edda), p185
 

W

Watteau, p207 

way, p189, p201  

West Aramean Syrian style, p211

Western Judaism, p209 

Winckelmann (Goethe), p205

Winfried, p187 

Wolfram's Parzeval, p186
wooden architecture…eight-sided tent-roof , p201  

Wotan, p187 

Wurtzberg, p207 

 

X,

 

Y

yin-pi (Spirit Wall) ,  p203

 

Z

Zeuxis, p207 

Decline of the West, Chapter  VI: Makrokosmos: (2)  Apollinian, Faustian and Magian Soul
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