Index. (continued 3)
Reading edition
Spencer, B., and Gillen, F. J., on Australian belief in conception without sexual intercourse, i. 99
Spermus, king of Lydia, i. 183
Spieth, J., on the Ewe peoples, i. 70 n. 2
Spirit animals supposed to enter women and be born from them, i. 97 sq.
—— -children left by ancestors, i. 100 sq.
Spirits supposed to consort with women, i. 91;
of ancestors in the form of animals, 83;
of forefathers thought to dwell in rivers, ii. 38
—— of dead chiefs worshipped by the whole tribe, ii. 175, 176, 177, 179, 181 sq., 187;
thought to control the rain, 188;
prophesy through living men and women, 192 sq.;
reincarnated in animals, 193.
See also Ancestral spirits
Spring called Persephone, ii. 41
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Springs, worship of hot, i. 206 sqq.;
bathing in, at Midsummer, 246, 247, 248, 249
Staffordshire, All Souls' Day in, ii. 79
Standard, Egyptian, resembling a placenta, ii. 156 n. 1
Stanikas, male children of sacred prostitutes, i. 63
Star of Bethlehem, i. 259
—— of Salvation, i. 258
—— -spangled cap of Attis, i. 284
Steinn in Hringariki, barrow of Halfdan at, ii. 100
Stella Maris, an epithet of the Virgin Mary, ii. 119
Stengel, P., on sacrificial ritual of Eleusis, i. 292 n. 3
Stlatlum Indians of British Columbia respect the animals and plants which they eat, ii. 44
Stocks, sacred, among the Semites, i. 107 sqq.
Stones, holed, custom of passing through, i. 36;
to commemorate the dead, ii. 203
——, sacred, anointed, i. 36;
among the Semites, 107 sqq.;
among the Khasis, 108 n. 1
Strabo, on the concubines of Ammon, i. 72;
on Albanian moon-god, 73 n. 4;
on Castabala, 168 n. 6;
his description of the Burnt Land of Lydia, 193;
on the frequency of earthquakes at Philadelphia, 195;
his description of Rhodes, 195 n. 3;
on Nysa, 206 n. 1;
on the priests of Pessinus, 286
Stratonicea in Caria, eunuch priest at, i. 270 n. 2;
rule as to the pollution of death at, ii. 227 sq.
String music in religion, i. 54
Su-Mu, a tribe of Southern China, said to be governed by a woman, ii. 211 n. 2
Subordination of the individual to the community, the principle of ancient society, i. 300
Substitutes for human sacrifices, i. 146 sq., 219 sq., 285, 289, ii. 99, 221
Succession to the crown under mother-kin (female kinship), i. 44, ii. 18, 210 n. 1
Sudan, the negroes of, their regard for the phases of the moon, ii. 141
Sudanese, their conduct in an earthquake, i. 198
Suffetes of Carthage, i. 116
Sugar-bag totem, i. 101
Suicides, custom observed at graves of, i. 93;
ghosts of, feared, 292 n. 3
Suk, their belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead, i. 82, 85
Sulla at Aedepsus, i. 212
Sumatra, the Bataks of, i. 199, ii. 239;
the Loeboes of, 264
Sumba, East Indian island, annual festival of the New Year and of the dead in, ii. 55 sq.
Sumerians, their origin and civilization, i. 7 sq.
Summer on the Mediterranean rainless, i. 159 sq.
—— called Aphrodite, ii. 41
—— festival of Adonis, i. 226, 232 n.
Sun, temple of the, at Baalbec, i. 163;
Adonis interpreted as the, 228;
the Nativity of the, at the winter solstice, 303 sqq.;
Osiris interpreted as the, ii. 120 sqq.;
called “the eye of Horus,” 121;
worshipped in Egypt, 122, 123 sqq.;
the power of regeneration ascribed to the, 143 n. 4;
salutations to the rising, 193
—— and earth, annual marriage of, i. 47 sq.
—— -god annually married to Earth-goddess, i. 47 sq.;
the Egyptian, ii. 123 sqq.;
hymns to the, 123 sq.
—— -goddess of the Hittites, i. 133 n.
—— the Unconquered, Mithra identified with, i. 304
Superiority of the goddess in the myths of Adonis, Attis, Osiris, ii. 201 sq.;
of goddesses over gods in societies organized on mother-kin, 202 sqq.;
legal, of women over men in ancient Egypt, 214
Supplementary days, five, in the Egyptian year, ii. 6;
in the ancient Mexican year, 28 n. 3;
in the old Iranian year, 67, 68
Supreme gods in Africa, ii. 165, 173 sq., 174, 186, with note 5, 187 n. 1, 188 sq., 190
Swastika, i. 122 n. 1
Sweden, May-pole or Midsummer-tree in, i. 250;
Midsummer bride and bridegroom in, 251;
kings of, answerable for the fertility of the ground, ii. 220;
marriage custom in, to ensure the birth of a boy, 262
“Sweethearts of St. John” in Sardinia, i. 244 sq.
Swine not eaten by people of Pessinus, i. 265;
not eaten by worshippers of Adonis, 265;
not allowed to enter Comana in Pontus, 265.
See also Pigs
Sword, girls married to a, i. 61
Sycamore, effigy of Osiris placed on boughs of, ii. 88, 110;
sacred to Osiris, 110
Syene (Assuan), inscriptions at, ii. 35 n. 1
Symbolism, coarse, of Osiris and Dionysus, ii. 112, 113
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Symmachus, on the festival of the Great Mother, i. 298
Syracuse, the Blue Spring at, i. 213 n. 1
Syria, Adonis in, i. 13 sqq.;
“holy men” in, 77 sq.;
hot springs resorted to by childless women in, 213 sqq.;
subject to earthquakes, 222 n. 1;
the Nativity of the Sun at the winter solstice in, 303;
turning money at the new moon in, ii. 149
Syrian god Hadad, i. 15
—— peasants believe that women can conceive without sexual intercourse, i. 91
—— women apply to saints for offspring, i. 109
—— writer on the reasons for assigning Christmas to the twenty-fifth of December, i. 304 sq.
Tâ-uz (Tammuz), mourned by Syrian women in Harran, i. 230
Taanach, burial of children in jars at, i. 109 n. 1
Tacitus as to German observation of the moon, ii. 141
Taenarum in Laconia, Poseidon worshipped at, i. 203 n. 2
Talaga Bodas, volcano in Java, i. 204
Talbot, P. Amaury, on self-mutilation, i. 270 n. 1
Talismans, crowns and wreaths as, ii. 242 sq.
Tamarisk, sacred to Osiris, ii. 110 sq.
Tami, the, of German New Guinea, their theory of earthquakes, i. 198
Tamil temples, dancing-girls in, i. 61
Tamirads, diviners, i. 42
Tammuz, i. 6 sqq.;
equivalent to Adonis, 6 n. 1;
his worship of Sumerian origin, 7 sq.;
meaning of the name, 8;
“true son of the deep water,” 8, 246;
laments for, 9 sq.;
the month of, 10 n. 1, 230;
mourned for at Jerusalem, 11, 17, 20;
as a corn-spirit, 230;
his bones ground in a mill and scattered to the wind, 230
—— and Ishtar, i. 8 sq.
Tangkul Nagas of Assam, their annual festival of the dead, ii. 57 sqq.
Tanjore, dancing-girls at, i. 61
Tantalus murders his son Pelops, i. 181
Tark, Tarku, Trok, Troku, syllables in names of Cilician priests, i. 144;
perhaps the name of a Hittite deity, 147;
perhaps the name of the god of Olba, 148, 165
Tarkimos, priest of Corycian Zeus, i. 145
Tarkondimotos, name of two Cilician kings, i. 145 n. 2
Tarkuaris, priest of Corycian Zeus, i. 145;
priestly king of Olba, 145
Tarkudimme or Tarkuwassimi, name on Hittite seal, i. 145 n. 2
Tarkumbios, priest of Corycian Zeus, i. 145
Tarsus, climate and fertility of, i. 118;
school of philosophy at, 118;
Sandan and Baal at, 142 sq., 161;
priesthood of Hercules at, 143;
Fortune of the City on coins of, 164;
divine triad at, 171
——, the Baal of, i. 117 sqq., 162 sq.
——, Sandan of, i. 124 sqq.
Tat or tatu pillar. See Ded pillar
Tate, H. R., on serpent-worship, i. 85
Tattoo-marks of priests, i. 74 n. 4
Taurians of the Crimea, their use of the heads of prisoners, i. 294
Taurobolium in the rites of Cybele, i. 274 sqq.;
or Tauropolium, 275 n. 1
Taurus mountains, i. 120
Tears of Isis thought to swell the Nile, ii. 33;
rain thought to be the tears of gods, 33
Tegea, tombstones at, i. 87
Telamon, father of Teucer, i. 145
Tell-el-Amarna letters, i. 16 n. 5, 21 n. 2, 135 n.;
the new capital of King Amenophis IV., ii. 123 n. 1, 124, 125
Tell Ta'annek (Taanach), burial of children in jars at, i. 109 n. 1
Tempe, the Vale of, ii. 240
Temple-tombs of kings, ii. 161 sq., 167 sq., 170 sqq., 174, 194 sq.
Temples of dead kings, ii. 161 sq., 167 sq., 170 sqq., 194 sq.
Tenggereese of Java sacrifice to volcano, i. 220
Tentyra (Denderah), temple of Osiris at, ii. 86
Ternate, the sultan of, his sacrifice of human victims to a volcano, i. 220
Tertullian on the fasts of Isis and Cybele, i. 302 n. 4;
on the date of the Crucifixion, 306 n. 5
Teshub or Teshup, name of Hittite god, i. 135 n., 148 n.
Teso, the, of Central Africa, medicine-men dressed as women among the, ii. 257
Testicles of rams in the rites of Attis, i. 269 n.;
of bull used in rites of Cybele and Attis, 276
Têt, New Year festival in Annam, ii. 62
Tet pillar. See Ded pillar
Teti, king of Egypt, ii. 5
Teucer, said to have instituted human sacrifice, i. 146
—— and Ajax, names of priestly kings of Olba, i. 144 sq., 148, 161
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Teucer, son of Tarkuaris, priestly king of Olba, i. 151, 157
——, son of Telamon, founds Salamis in Cyprus, i. 145
——, son of Zenophanes, high-priest of Olbian Zeus, i. 151
Teucrids, dynasty at Salamis in Cyprus, i. 145
Teutonic year reckoned from October 1st, ii. 81
Thargelion, an Attic month, ii. 239 n. 1
Theal, G. McCall, on the worship of ancestors among the Bantus, ii. 176 sq.
Theban priests, their determination of the solar year, ii. 26
Thebes in Boeotia, stone lion at, i. 184 n. 3;
festival of the Laurel-bearing at, ii. 241
—— in Egypt, temple of Ammon at, i. 72;
the Memnonium at, ii. 35 n.;
the Valley of the Kings at, 90
Theias, a Syrian king, i. 43 n. 4;
father of Adonis, 55 n. 4
Theism late in human history, ii. 41
Theocracy in the Pelew Islands, tendency to, ii. 208
Theopompus on the names of the seasons, ii. 41
Thera, worship of the Mother of the Gods in, i. 280 n. 1
Thermopylae, the Spartans at, i. 197 n. 1;
the hot springs of, 210 sqq.
Thesmophoria, i. 43 n. 4;
sacrifice to serpents at the, 88;
pine-cones at the, 278;
fast of the women at the, ii. 40 sq.
Thetis and her infant son, i. 180
Thirty years, the Sed festival held nominally at intervals of, ii. 151
Thonga, Bantu tribe of South Africa, their belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead, i. 82;
their presentation of infants to the moon, ii. 144 sq.;
worship of the dead among the, 180 sq.
—— chiefs buried secretly, ii. 104 sq.
Thongs, legends as to new settlements enclosed by, ii. 249 sq.
Thoth, Egyptian god of wisdom, ii. 7, 17;
teaches Isis a spell to restore the dead to life, 8;
restores the eye of Horus, 17
Thoth, the first month of the Egyptian year, ii. 36, 93 sqq.
Thracian villages, custom at Carnival in, ii. 99 sq.
Threshing corn by oxen, ii. 45
Threshold, burial of infants under the, i. 93 sq.
Thucydides on military music, i. 196 n. 3;
on the sailing of the fleet for Syracuse, 226 n. 4
Θύειν distinguished from ἐναγίζειν, i. 316 n. 1
Thunder and lightning, sacrifices to, i. 157;
the Syrian, Assyrian, Babylonian, and Hittite god of, 163 sq.
—— -god of the Hittites, with a bull and an axe as his emblems, i. 134 sqq.
—— totem, i. 101
Thunderbolt, as emblem of Hittite god, i. 134, 136;
as divine emblem, 163
—— and ears of corn, emblem of god Hadad, i. 163
Thurston, Edgar, on dancing-girls in India, i. 62
Thyatira, hero Tyrimnus at, i. 183 n.
Thymbria, sanctuary of Charon at, i. 205
Tiberius, the Emperor, persecuted the Egyptian religion, ii. 95 n. 1
Tibullus, on the rising of Sirius, ii. 34 n. 1
Tiele, C. P., on rock-hewn sculptures at Boghaz-Keui, i. 140 n. 1;
on the death of Saracus, 174 n. 2;
on Isis, ii. 115;
on the nature of Osiris, 126 n. 2
Tiger's ghost, deceiving a, ii. 263
Tiglath-Pileser III., king of Assyria, i. 14, 16, 163 n. 3
Tii, Egyptian queen, mother of Amenophis IV., ii. 123 n. 1
Tille, A., on beginning of Teutonic winter, ii. 81 n. 3
Timber felled in the waning of the moon, ii. 133, 135 sq., 137
Timor, theory of earthquakes in, i. 197
Timotheus, on the death of Attis, i. 264 n. 4
Tiru-kalli-kundram, dancing-girls at, i. 61
Titane, shrine of Aesculapius at, i. 81
Tobolbel, in the Pelew Islands, ii. 266
Tod, J., on rites of goddess Gouri, i. 241 sq.
Todas of the Neilgherry Hills, custom as to the pollution of death observed by sacred dairyman among the, ii. 228
Togo-land, West Africa, the Ewe people of, i. 282 n. 2;
the Ho tribe of, ii. 104
Tomb of Midas, i. 286;
of Hyacinth, 314
Tombs of the kings of Uganda, ii. 168 sq.;
of kings sacred, 194 sq.
Tongans, their theory of an earthquake, i. 200 sq.
Tongue of sacrificial ox cut out, ii. 251 sq.
Tonquin, annual festival of the dead in, ii. 62
Tophet, at Jerusalem, i. 177
Toradjas of Central Celebes, their theory of rain, ii. 33
Torres Straits Islands, worship of animal-shaped heroes in the, i. 139 n. 1;
death-dances in the, ii. 53 n. 2
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Totemism in Kiziba, ii. 173, 174 n. 1
Toulon, Midsummer custom at, i. 248 sq.
Town, charm to protect a, ii. 249 sqq.
Tozer, H. F., on Mount Argaeus, i. 191
Traditions of kings torn in pieces, ii. 97 sq.
Tralles in Lydia, i. 38
Transference of Egyptian festivals from one month to the preceding month, ii. 92 sqq.
Transformation of men into women, attempted, in obedience to dreams, ii. 255 sqq.;
of women into men, attempted, 255 n. 1
Transition from mother-kin to father-kin, ii. 261 n. 3
Transylvania, harvest customs among the Roumanians and Saxons of, i. 237 sq.
Travancore, dancing-girls in, i. 63 sqq.
Treason, old English punishment of, i. 290 n. 2
Tree decked with bracelets, anklets, etc., i. 240;
soul of a, in a bird, ii. 111 n. 1
—— of life in Eden, i. 186 n. 4
—— -bearers (Dendrophori) in the worship of Cybele and Attis, i. 266 n. 2, 267
—— -spirit, Osiris as a, ii. 107 sqq.
Trees, spirit-children awaiting birth in, i. 100;
sacrificial victims hung on, 146;
represented on the monuments of Osiris, ii. 110 sq.;
felled in the waning of the moon, 133, 135 sq., 137;
growing near the graves of dead kings revered, 162, 164
—— and rocks, Greek belief as to birth from, i. 107 n. 1
Triad, divine, at Tarsus, i. 171
Trident, emblem of Hittite thunder-god, i. 134, 135;
emblem of Indian deity, 170
Tristram, H. B., on date of the corn-reaping in Palestine, i. 232 n.
Trobriands, the, i. 84
Trokoarbasis, priest of Corycian Zeus, i. 145
Trokombigremis, priest of Corycian Zeus, i. 145
“True of speech,” epithet of Osiris, ii. 21
Trumpets, blowing of, in the rites of Attis, i. 268
Tshi-speaking peoples of the Gold Coast, dedicated men and women among the, i. 69 sq.;
ordeal of chastity among the, 115 n. 2;
their annual festival of the dead, ii. 66 n. 2
Tubilustrium at Rome, i. 268 n. 1
Tulava, sacred prostitution in, i. 63
Tully River, in Queensland, belief of the natives as to conception without sexual intercourse, i. 102
Tum of Heliopolis, an Egyptian sun-god, ii. 123
Turner, George, on sacred stones, i. 108 n. 1
“Turquoise, Mistress of,” at Sinai, i. 53
Tusayan Indians, their custom at planting, i. 239
Tuscany, volcanic district of, i. 208 n. 1
Tusser, Thomas, on planting peas and beans, ii. 134
Twin, the navel-string of the King of Uganda called his Twin, ii. 147
Twins, precautions taken by women at the graves of, i. 93 n. 1
Two-headed deity, i. 165 sq.
Tyana, Hittite monument at, i. 122 n. 1
Tybi, an Egyptian month, ii. 93 n. 2
Tylon or Tylus, a Lydian hero, i. 183;
his death and resurrection, 186 sq.
Tylor, Sir Edward B., on fossil bones as a source of myths, i. 157 sq.;
on names for father and mother, 281
Typhon slays Hercules, i. 111;
Corycian cave of, 155 sq.;
his battle with the gods, 193, 194
—— and Zeus, battle of, i. 156 sq.
——, or Set, the brother of Osiris, ii. 6;
murders Osiris, 7 sq.;
and mangles his body, 10;
interpreted as the sun, 129.
See also Set
Tyre, Melcarth at, i. 16;
burning of Melcarth at, 110 sq.;
festival of “the awakening of Hercules” at, 111;
king of, his walk on stones of fire, 114 sq.
——, kings of, their divinity, i. 16;
as priests of Astarte, 26
Tyrimnus, axe-bearing hero at Thyatira, i. 183 n.
Tyrol, feast of All Souls in the, ii. 73 sq.
Tyropoeon, ravine at Jerusalem, i. 178
Ucayali River, the Conibos of the, i. 198;
their greetings to the new moon, ii. 142
Uganda, the country of the Baganda, ii. 167;
temples of the dead kings of, 167, 168 sq., 170 sqq.;
human sacrifices offered to prolong the lives of the kings of, 223 sqq.
See also Baganda
Uncle, dead, worshipped, ii. 175
——, maternal, in marriage ceremonies in India, i. 62 n. 1
Uncleanness caused by contact with the dead, ii. 227 sqq.
Unconquered Sun, Mithra identified with the, i. 304
Unis, king of Egypt, ii. 5
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Unkulunkulu, “the Old-Old-one,” the first man in the traditions of the Zulus, ii. 182
Unnefer, “the Good Being,” a title of Osiris, ii. 12
“Unspoken water” in marriage rites, ii. 245 sq.
Upsala, human sacrifices in the holy grove at, i. 289 sq., ii. 220;
the reign of Frey at, 100
Up-uat, Egyptian jackal-god, ii. 154
Uranus castrated by Cronus, i. 283
Uri-melech or Adom-melech, king of Byblus, i. 14
Usirniri, temple of, at Busiris, ii. 151
Valesius, on the standard Egyptian cubit, ii. 217 n. 1
Vallabha, an Indian sect, men assimilated to women in the, ii. 254
Valley of Hinnom, sacrifices to Moloch, in the, i. 178
—— of the Kings at Thebes, ii. 90
—— of Poison, in Java, i. 203 sq.
Vancouver Island, the Ahts of, ii. 139 n. 1
Vapours, worship of mephitic, i. 203 sqq.
Varro, on the marriage of the Roman gods, ii. 230 sq., 236 n. 1;
his derivation of Dialis from Jove, 230 n. 2;
on Salacia, 233;
on Fauna or the Good Goddess, 234 n. 4
Vase-painting of Croesus on the pyre, i. 176
Vatican, worship of Cybele and Attis on the site of the, i. 275 sq.
Vegetable and animal life associated in primitive mind, i. 5
Vegetation, mythical theory of the growth and decay of, i. 3 sqq.;
annual decay and revival of, represented dramatically in the rites of Adonis, 227 sqq.;
gardens of Adonis charms to promote the growth of, 236 sq., 239;
Midsummer fires and couples in relation to, 250 sq.;
Attis as a god of, 277 sqq.;
Osiris as a god of, ii. 112, 126, 131, 158
“Veins of the Nile,” near Philae, ii. 40
Venus, the planet, identified with Astarte, i. 258, ii. 35
—— and Vulcan, ii. 231
Venus, the bearded, in Cyprus, ii. 259 n. 3
Vernal festival of Adonis, i. 226
Verrall, A. W., on the Anthesteria, i. 235 n. 1
Vertumnus and Pomona, ii. 235 n. 6
Vestal Virgin, mother of Romulus and Remus, ii. 235
—— Virgins, rule as to their election, ii. 244
Vicarious sacrifices for kings, ii. 220 sq.
Vicarious and nutritive types of sacrifice, ii. 226
Victims, sacrificial, hung on trees, i. 146
Victoria Nyanza Lake, Mukasa the god of the, ii. 257
Victory, temple of, on the Palatine Hill at Rome, i. 265
Viehe, Rev. G., on the worship of the dead among the Herero, ii. 187 n. 1
Vine, the cultivation of, introduced by Osiris, ii. 7, 112
Vintage festival, Oschophoria, at Athens, ii. 258 n. 6
—— rites at Athens, ii. 238
Violets sprung from the blood of Attis, i. 267
Virbius or Dianus at Nemi, i. 45
Virgin, the Heavenly, mother of the Sun, i. 303
—— birth of Perseus, i. 302 n. 4
—— Mary and Isis, ii. 118 sq.
—— Mother, the Phrygian Mother Goddess as a, i. 281
—— mothers, tales of, i. 264;
of gods and heroes, 107
Virginity, sacrifice of, i. 60;
recovered by bathing in a spring, 280
Virgins supposed to conceive through eating certain food, i. 96
Virility, sacrifice of, in the rites of Attis and Astarte, i. 268 sq., 270 sq.;
other cases of, 270 n. 2
Vitrolles, bathing at Midsummer at, i. 248
Viza, in Thrace, Carnival custom at, ii. 91
Volcanic region of Cappadocia, i. 189 sqq.
—— religion, i. 188 sqq.
Volcanoes, the worship of, i. 216 sqq.;
human victims thrown into, 219 sq.
Vosges, the Upper, rule as to the shearing of sheep in, ii. 134 n. 3
—— Mountains, feast of All Souls in the, ii. 69
Votiaks of Russia, annual festivals of the dead among the, ii. 76 sq.
Voyage in boats of papyrus in the rites of Osiris, ii. 88
Vulcan, the fire-god, father of Caeculus, ii. 235
——, the husband of Maia or Majestas, ii. 232 sq.;
his Flamen, 232
—— and Venus, ii. 231
Wabisa, Bantu tribe of Rhodesia, ii. 174
Wabondei, of Eastern Africa, their belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead, i. 82;
their rule as to the cutting of posts for building, ii. 137
Wachsmuth, C., on Easter ceremonies in the Greek Church, i. 254
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Wagogo, the, of German East Africa, their ceremony at the new moon, ii. 143
Wahehe, a Bantu tribe of German East Africa, the worship of the dead among the, ii. 188 sqq.;
their belief in a supreme god Nguruhe, 188 sq.
Wailing of women for Adonis, i. 224
Wajagga of German East Africa, their way of appeasing ghosts of suicides, i. 292 n. 3;
their human sacrifices at irrigation, ii. 38
Wales, All Souls' Day in, ii. 79
Wallachia, harvest custom in, i. 237
Wamara, a worshipful dead king, ii. 174
Waning of the moon, theories to account for the, ii. 130;
time for felling timber, 135 sqq.
War, sacrifice of a blind bull before going to, ii. 250 sq.
—— -dance of king before the ghosts of his ancestors, ii. 192
Warner, Mr., on Caffre ideas about lightning, ii. 177 n. 1
Warramunga of Central Australia, their belief in the reincarnation of the dead, i. 100;
their tradition of purification by fire, 180 n. 2
Warts supposed to be affected by the moon, ii. 149
Water thrown on the last corn cut, a rain-charm, i. 237 sq.;
marvellous properties attributed to, at Midsummer (the festival of St. John), 246 sqq.;
prophetic, drunk on St. John's Eve, 247
—— of Life, i. 9
Waterbrash, a Huzul cure for, ii. 149 sq.
Wave accompanying earthquake, i. 202 sq.
Weaning of children, belief as to the, in Angus, ii. 148
Weavers, caste of, i. 62
Weeks, Rev. J. H., on inconsistency of savage thought, i. 5 n.;
on the names for the supreme god among many tribes of Africa, ii. 186 n. 5
Wellalaick, festival of the dead among the Letts, ii. 74
Wen-Ammon, Egyptian traveller, i. 14, 75 sq.
West, Oriental religions in the, i. 298 sqq.
Westermann, D., on the worship of Nyakang among the Shilluks, ii. 165
Whalers, their bodies cut up and used as charms, ii. 106
Wheat forced for festival, i. 243, 244, 251 sq., 253
—— and barley, the cultivation of, introduced by Osiris, ii. 7;
discovered by Isis, 116
Whip made of human skin used in ceremonies for the prolongation of the king's life, ii. 224, 225
Whitby, All Souls' Day at, ii. 79
White, Rev. G. E., on dervishes of Asia Minor, i. 170
White, Miss Rachel Evelyn (Mrs. Wedd), on the position of women in ancient Egypt, ii. 214 n. 1, 216 n. 1
White the colour of Upper Egypt, ii. 21 n. 1
—— birds, souls of dead kings incarnate in, ii. 162
—— bull, soul of a dead king incarnate in a, ii. 164
—— Crown of Upper Egypt, ii. 20, 21 n. 1;
worn by Osiris, 87
—— roses dyed red by the blood of Aphrodite, i. 226
Whydah, King of, his worship of serpents, i. 67;
serpents fed at, 86 n. 1
Wicked after death, fate of the, in Egyptian religion, ii. 14
Widow-burning in Greece, i. 177 n. 3
Widowed Flamen, the, ii. 227 sqq.
Wiedemann, Professor A., on Wen-Ammon, i. 76 n. 1;
on the Egyptian name of Isis, ii. 50 n. 4
Wigtownshire, harvest custom in, i. 237 n. 4
Wiimbaio tribe of South-Eastern Australia, their medicine-men, i. 75 n. 4
Wilkinson, Sir J. G., on corn-stuffed effigies of Osiris, ii. 91 n. 3
Wilson, C. T., and R. W. Felkin, on the worship of the dead kings of Uganda, ii. 173 n. 2
Winckler, H., his excavations at Boghaz-Keui, i. 125 n., 135 n.
Winged deities, i. 165 sq.
—— disc as divine emblem, i. 132
Winnowing-fans, ashes of human victims scattered by, ii. 97, 106
Winter called Cronus, ii. 41
—— sleep of the god, ii. 41
—— solstice reckoned the Nativity of the Sun, i. 303;
Egyptian ceremony at the, ii. 50
Wissowa, Professor G., on introduction of Phrygian rites at Rome, i. 267 n.;
on Orcus, ii. 231 n. 5;
on Ops and Consus, 233 n. 6;
on the marriage of the Roman gods, 236 n. 1
Wives of dead kings sacrificed at their tombs, ii. 168
Wives, human, of gods, i. 61 sqq., ii. 207;
in Western Asia and Egypt, 70 sqq.
Wiwa chiefs reincarnated in pythons, ii. 193
Wogait, Australian tribe, their belief in conception without cohabitation, i. 103
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Woman feeding serpent in Greek art, i. 87 sq.;
as inspired prophetess of a god, ii. 257
Woman's dress assumed by men to deceive dangerous spirits, ii. 262 sq.
Women pass through holed stones as cure for barrenness, i. 36, with n. 4;
impregnated by dead saints, 78 sq.;
impregnated by serpents, 80 sqq.;
fear to be impregnated by ghosts, 93;
impregnated by the flower of the banana, 93;
excluded from sacrifices to Hercules, 113 n. 1;
their high importance in the social system of the Pelew Islanders, ii. 205 sqq.;
the cultivation of the staple food in the hands of women (Pelew Islands), 206 sq.;
their social importance increased by the combined influence of mother-kin and landed property, 209;
their legal superiority to men in ancient Egypt, 214;
impregnated by fire, 235;
priests dressed as, 253 sqq.;
dressed as men, 255 n. 1, 257;
excluded from sacrifices to Hercules, 258 n. 5;
dressed as men at marriage, 262 sqq.;
dressed as men at circumcision, 263.
See also Barrenness, Childless, and Sacred Women
—— as prophetesses inspired by dead chiefs, ii. 192 sq.;
inspired by gods, 207
——, living, regarded as the wives of dead kings, ii. 191, 192;
reputed the wives of gods, 207
Women's hair, sacrifice of, i. 38
Wororu, man supposed to cause conception in women without sexual intercourse, i. 105
Worship of ancestral spirits among the Bantu tribes of Africa, ii. 174 sqq.;
among the Khasis of Assam, 203
—— of the dead perhaps fused with the propitiation of the corn-spirit, i. 233 sqq.;
among the Bantu tribes, ii. 174 sqq.
—— of dead kings and chiefs in Africa, ii. 160 sqq.;
among the Barotse, 194 sq.;
an important element in African religion, 195 sq.
—— of hot springs, i. 206 sqq.
—— of mephitic vapours, i. 203 sqq.
—— of volcanoes, i. 216 sqq.
Worshippers of Osiris forbidden to injure fruit-trees and to stop up wells, ii. 111
“Wounds between the arms” of Hebrew prophets, i. 74 n. 4
“—— of the Naaman,” Arab name for the scarlet anemone, i. 226
Wreaths as amulets, ii. 242 sq.
Wünsch, R., on the Anthesteria, i. 235 n. 1;
on modern survivals of festivals of Adonis, 246;
on Easter ceremonies in the Greek church, 254 n.
Wyse, W., ii. 35 n. 1, 51 n. 1
Xenophanes of Colophon on the Egyptian rites of mourning for gods, ii. 42, 43
Yam, island of Torres Straits, heroes worshipped in animal forms in, i. 139 n. 1
Yap, one of the Caroline Islands, prostitution of unmarried girls in, ii. 265 sq.
Yarilo, a personification of vegetation, i. 253
Year, length of the solar, determined by the Theban priests, ii. 26
——, the fixed Alexandrian, ii. 28, 49, 92
——, the Celtic, reckoned from November 1st, ii. 81
——, the Egyptian, a vague year, not corrected by intercalation, ii. 24 sq.
—— of God, a Sothic period, ii. 36 n. 2;
began with the rising of Sirius, 35
——, the old Iranian, ii. 67
——, the Julian, ii. 28
——, the Teutonic, reckoned from October 1st, ii. 81
Yehar-baal, king of Byblus, i. 14
Yehaw-melech, king of Byblus, i. 14
Ynglings, a Norse family, descended from Frey, ii. 100
Yombe, a Bantu tribe of Northern Rhodesia, their sacrifice of first-fruits to the dead, ii. 191
Youth restored by the witch Medea, i. 180 sq.
Yucatan, calendar of the Indians of, ii. 28 n.
Yukon River in Alaska, ii. 51
Yungman tribe of Australia, their belief as to the birth of children, i. 101
Yuruks, pastoral people of Cilicia, i. 150 n. 1
Zambesi, the Barotse of the, ii. 193
Zas, name of priest of Corycian Zeus, i. 155
Zechariah, on the mourning of or for Hadadrimmon, i. 15 n. 4;
on wounds of prophet, 74 n. 4
Zekar-baal, king of Byblus, i. 14
Zend-Avesta, on the Fravashis, ii. 67 sq.
Zenjirli in Syria, Hittite sculptures at, i. 134;
statue of horned god at, 163
Zer, old Egyptian king, his true Horus name Khent, ii. 20 n. 1, 154.
See Khent
Zerka, river in Moab, i. 215 n. 1
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Zeus, god of Tarsus assimilated to, i. 119, 143;
Cilician deity assimilated to, 144 sqq., 148, 152;
the flower of, 186, 187;
identified with Attis, 282;
castrates his father Cronus, 283;
the father of dew, ii. 137;
the Saviour of the City, at Magnesia on the Maeander, 238
——, Corycian, priests of, i. 145, 155;
temple of, 155
—— and Hecate at Stratonicea in Caria, i. 270 n. 2, 227
——, Labrandeus, the Carian, i. 182
——, Olbian, ruins of his temple at Olba, i. 151;
his cave or chasm, 158 sq.;
his priest Teucer, 159;
a god of fertility, 159 sqq.
——, Olybrian, i. 167 n. 1
—— Papas, i. 281 n. 2
Zeus and Typhon, battle of, i. 156 sq., 160
Zimmern, H., on Mylitta, i. 37 n. 1
Zimri, king of Israel, burns himself, i. 174 n. 2, 176
Zion, Mount, traditionally identified with Mount Moriah, ii. 219 n. 1
Zoroastrian fire-worship in Cappadocia, i. 191
Zulu medicine-men or diviners, i. 74 n. 4, 75;
their charm to fertilize fields, ii. 102 sq.
Zulus, their belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead, i. 82, 84;
their observation of the moon, ii. 134 sq.;
the worship of the dead among the, 182 sqq.;
their sacrifice of a bull to prolong the life of the king, 222