Index.
Aban, a Persian month, ii. 68
Abd-Hadad, priestly king of Hierapolis, i. 163 n. 3
Aberdeenshire, All Souls' Day in, ii. 79 sq.
Abi-baal, i. 51 n. 4
Abi-el, i. 51 n. 4
Abi-jah, King, his family, i. 51 n. 2;
“father of
Jehovah,” 51 n. 4
Abi-melech, “father of a king,” i. 51 n. 4
Abi-milk (Abi-melech), king of Tyre, i. 16 n. 5
Abimelech massacres his seventy brothers, i. 51 n. 2
Abipones, of South America, their worship of the Pleiades, i. 258
n. 2
Abraham, his attempted sacrifice of Isaac, ii. 219 n. 1
Abruzzi, gossips of St. John in the, i. 245 n. 2;
marvellous properties attributed to water on St. John's Night in
the, 246;
Easter ceremonies in the, 256;
the feast of All Souls in the, ii. 77 sq.;
rules as to sowing seed and cutting timber in the, 133
n. 3
Abu Rabah, resort of childless wives in Palestine, i. 78, 79
Abydos, head of Osiris at, ii. 11;
the favourite burial-place of the Egyptians, 18 sq.;
tombs of the ancient Egyptian kings at, 19;
the ritual of, 86;
hall of the Osirian mysteries at, 108;
representations of the Sed festival at, 151;
inscriptions at, 153;
temple of Osiris at, 198
Acacia, Osiris in the, ii. 111
Achaia, subject to earthquakes, i. 202
Acharaca, cave of Pluto at, i. 205 sq.
Acilisena, temple of Anaitis at, i. 38
Adad, Syrian king, i. 15;
Babylonian and Assyrian god of thunder and lightning, 163
Adana in Cilicia, i. 169 n. 3
Addison, Joseph, on the grotto dei
cani at Naples, i. 205 n. 1
Adhar, a Persian month, ii. 68
Adom-melech or Uri-melech, king of Byblus, i. 14, 17
Adon, a Semitic title, i. 6
sq., 16 sq., 20, 49 n. 7
Adonai, title of Jehovah, i. 6 sq.
Adoni, “my
lord,” Semitic title, i. 7;
names compounded with, 17
Adoni-bezek, king of Jerusalem, i. 17
Adoni-jah, elder brother of King Solomon, i. 51 n. 2
Adoni-zedek, king of Jerusalem, i. 17
Adonis, myth of, i. 3 sqq.;
Greek worship of, 6;
in Greek mythology, 10 sqq.;
in Syria, 13 sqq.;
monuments of, 29;
in Cyprus, 31 sqq., 49;
identified with Osiris, 32;
mourning for, at Byblus, 38;
said to be the fruit of incest, 43;
his mother Myrrha, 43;
son of Theias, 43 n. 4, 55 n. 4;
the son of Cinyras, 49;
the title of the sons of Phoenician kings in Cyprus, 49;
his violent death, 55;
music in the worship of, 55;
sacred prostitution in the worship of, 57;
inspired prophets in worship of, 76;
human representatives of, perhaps burnt, 110;
doves burned in honour of, 147;
personated by priestly kings, 223;
the ritual of, 223 sqq.;
his death and resurrection represented in his rites, 224
sq.;
festivals of, 224 sqq.;
flutes played in the laments for, 225 n. 3;
the ascension of, 225;
images of, thrown into the sea or springs, 225, 227 n. 3, 236;
born from a myrrh-tree, 227, ii. 110;
bewailed by Argive women, i. 227 n.;
analogy of his rites to Indian and European ceremonies, 227;
his death and resurrection interpreted as representations of the
decay and revival of vegetation, 227 sqq.;
interpreted as the sun, 228;
interpreted by the ancients as the god of the reaped and
sprouting corn, 229;
as a corn-spirit, 230 sqq.;
hunger the root of the worship of, 231;
the gardens of, 236 sqq.;
rain-charm in the rites of, 237;
resemblance of his rites to the festival of Easter, 254
sqq., 306;
worshipped at Bethlehem, 257 sqq.;
and the planet Venus as the Morning Star, 258 sq.;
sometimes identified with Attis, 263;
swine not eaten by worshippers of, 265;
rites of, among the Greeks, 298;
lamented by women at Byblus, ii. 23
Adonis and Aphrodite, i. 11 sq., 29, 280;
their marriage celebrated at Alexandria, 224
—— and Attis identified with Dionysus, ii. 127 n.
—— and Osiris, similarity between their rites, ii. 127
——, Attis, Osiris, their mythical similarity, i. 6, ii. 201
——, the river, its valley, i. 28 sqq.;
annual discoloration of the, 30, 225
Aedepsus, hot springs of Hercules at, i. 211 sq.
Aedesius, Sextilius Agesilaus, dedicates altar to Attis, i. 275
n. 1
Aegipan and Hermes, i. 157
Aelian, on impregnation of Judean maid by serpent, i. 81
Aeneas and Dido, i. 114 n. 1
Aeschylus, on Typhon, i. 156
Aesculapius, in relation to serpents, i. 80 sq.;
reputed father of Aratus, 80 sq.;
his shrines at Sicyon and Titane, 81;
his dispute with Hercules, 209 sq.
Aeson and Medea, i. 181 n. 1
Aetna, Latin poem, i. 221
n. 4
Africa, serpents as reincarnations of the dead in, i. 82
sqq.;
infant burial in, 91 sq.;
reincarnation of the dead in, 91 sq.;
annual festivals of the dead in, ii. 66;
worship of dead kings and chiefs in, 160 sqq.;
worship of ancestral spirits among the Bantu tribes of, 174
sqq.;
inheritance of the kingship under mother-kin in, 211
——, North, custom of bathing at Midsummer among the Mohammedan
peoples of, i. 249
——, West, sacred men and women in, i. 65 sqq.;
human sacrifices in, ii. 99 n. 2
Afterbirths buried in banana groves, i. 93;
regarded as twins of the children, 93;
Shilluk kings interred where their afterbirths are buried, ii.
162
Agbasia, West African god, i. 79
Agdestis, a man-monster in the myth of Attis, i. 269
Agesipolis, King of Sparta, his conduct in an earthquake, i. 196
Agraulus, daughter of Cecrops, worshipped at Salamis in Cyprus,
i. 145, 146
Agricultural peoples worship the moon, ii. 138 sq.
Agriculture, religious objections to, i. 88 sqq.;
in the hands of women in the Pelew Islands, ii. 206 sq.;
its tendency to produce a conservative character, 217
sq.
Ahts of Vancouver Island regard the moon as the husband of the
sun, ii. 139 n. 1
Airi, a deity of North-West India, i. 170
Aiyar, N. Subramhanya, on Indian dancing-girls, i. 63
sqq.
Ajax and Teucer, names of priestly kings of Olba, i. 144
sq., 161
Akhetaton (Tell-el-Amarna), the capital of Amenophis IV., ii.
123 n. 1
Akikuyu of British East Africa, their worship of snakes, i. 67
sq.;
their belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead, 82, 85
Albania, marriage custom in, ii. 246
Albanians of the Caucasus, their worship of the moon, i. 73
Albinoes the offspring of the moon, i. 91
Albiruni, Arab geographer, on the Persian festival of the dead,
ii. 68
Alcman on dew, ii. 137
Aleutians, effeminate sorcerers among the, ii. 254
Alexander Severus, at festival of Attis, i. 273
Alexander the Great expels a king of Paphos, i. 42;
his fabulous birth, 81;
assumes costumes of deities, 165;
sacrifices to Megarsian Athena, 169 n. 3
Alexandrian calendar, used by Plutarch, ii. 84
All Saints, feast of, perhaps substituted for an old pagan
festival of the dead, ii. 82 sq.
All Souls, feast of, ii. 51 sqq.;
originally a pagan festival of the dead, 81;
instituted by Odilo, abbot of Clugny, 82
Allatu, Babylonian goddess, i. 9
Allifae in Samnium, baths of Hercules at, i. 213 n. 2
Almo, procession to the river, in the rites of Attis, i. 273.
Almond causes virgin to conceive, i. 263;
the father of all things, 263 sq.
Alyattes, king of Lydia, i. 133 n. 1
Alynomus, king of Paphos, i. 43
Amambwe, a Bantu tribe of Northern Rhodesia, its head chief
reincarnated in a lion, ii. 193
Amasis, king of Egypt, his body burnt by Cambyses, i. 176
n. 2
Amathus, in Cyprus, Adonis and Melcarth at, i. 32, 117;
statue of lion-slaying god found at, 117
Amatongo, ancestral spirits (Zulu term), i. 74 n. 4, ii. 184
Ambabai, an Indian goddess, i. 243