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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 08 of 12)

Chapter 29: Index.
By James George Frazer
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The work surveys folk beliefs and rituals that personify crop and wild spirits as animals, tracing associations between vegetation deities (such as Dionysus, Demeter, Attis, Adonis, and Osiris) and forms like goats, bulls, pigs, horses, and birds. It examines sacramental practices—eating the god, first-fruit offerings, and animal-killing rites—alongside propitiation of predators and pests, beliefs in human souls transmigrating into animals, and homoeopathic magic tied to flesh diets. Comparative chapters classify types of animal sacraments and processionary and harvest rites, combining ethnographic examples with interpretive discussion of religious symbolism and agricultural ritual.

Index.

Ab, a Jewish month, i. 259 n. 1
Ababu, a tribe of the Congo, ii. 288
Abchases of the Caucasus, ii. 105, 313
Abdication, temporary, of chief, ii. 66, 68
Aberdeenshire, harvest customs in, i. 158 sqq.
Abipones, the, of Paraguay, i. 308, ii. 140
Acagchemem tribe of California, ii. 170
Achinese, the, i. 315
Acosta, J. de, quoted, i. 171 sq., ii. 86 sqq.
Acropolis of Athens, ii. 40 sq.
Actium, games celebrated at, i. 80, 85
Adair, James, ii. 264
Adeli, the, of the Slave Coast, ii. 116
Adonis, i. 214, 216, 258, 263;
and the boar, ii. 22 sq.
Aegis, ii. 40
Aesculapius at Pergamus, ii. 85
Aeson and Medea, ii. 143
Agbasia, a Ewe god, ii. 59, 60
Agni, Indian god, ii. 120
Agnus castus, i. 116 n. 2
Agricultural year determined by observation of the Pleiades, i. 313 sqq.
Agriculture, magical significance of games in primitive, i. 92 sqq.;
origin of, 128 sq.;
woman's part in primitive, 113 sqq.
Aino, the, ii. 144, 251, their ceremony at eating new millet, 52;
their worship of eagle-owls, eagles, and hawks, 199 sq.;
their propitiation of mice, 278;
their ambiguous attitude towards the bear, 310 sq.;
type of animal sacrament, 312 sq.
—— of Japan, their custom of killing bears ceremonially, ii. 180 sqq.
—— of Saghalien, their bear-festivals, ii. 188 sqq.
Aïsawa or Isowa, order of saints in Morocco, i. 21
Ajumba hunter, ii. 235
A-Kamba, the, ii. 113
Alaskan hunters, ii. 238
Albania, custom as to locusts and beetles in, ii. 279
Alcyonian Lake, the, i. 15
Alder branches, sacrificial, ii. 232
Alectrona, daughter of the Sun, ii. 45
Alfoors of Minahassa, ii. 100
Alligators, souls of dead in, ii. 297
All Souls, Feast of, i. 30
Alur tribe, ii. 214
Alus, custom at, i. 25
Amambwe, the, ii. 287
Amaxosa Caffres, ii. 227
Amazons of Dahomey, ii. 149
Amazulu, the, i. 316
Amboyna, ii. 123
Amedzowe, the spirit land, ii. 105
Amei Awi, i. 93
American Indians, women's agricultural work among the, i. 120 sqq.;
their ceremonies at hunting bears, ii. 224 sqq.;
personification of maize, i. 171 sqq.
Ammon, ram sacrificed to, ii. 41;
the Theban, 172 sq.
Ancestors, prayers to, i. 105;
images of, ii. 53;
offerings to spirits of, 111, 117, 119, 121, 123, 124, 125
Ancestral Contest at the Haloa, i. 61;
at the Eleusinian Games, 71, 74, 77;
at the Festival of the Threshing-floor, 75
Ancient deities of vegetation as animals, ii. 1 sqq.
Andaman Islanders, ii. 164
Andree, Dr. Richard, i. 307
Angamis (Angami), a Naga tribe of Assam, i. 244, ii. 291
Angel dance, the, ii. 328
Angoni, the, ii. 149;
burial custom among the, 99
Anhalt, harvest customs in, i. 226, 233, 279
Animal, corn-spirit as an, i. 270 sqq.;
killing the divine, ii. 169 sqq.;
worshipful, killed once a year and promenaded from door to door, 322
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Animal embodiments of the corn-spirit, on the, i. 303 sqq.
—— form, god killed in, i. 22 sq.
—— god, two types of the custom of killing the, ii. 312 sq.
—— masks worn by Egyptian kings, i. 260 sq.
—— sacrament, types of, ii. 310 sqq.
Animals torn to pieces and devoured raw in religious rites, i. 20 sqq.;
language of, acquired by eating serpent's flesh, ii. 146;
resurrection of, 200 sq., 256 sqq.;
and men, savages fail to distinguish accurately between, 204 sqq.;
wild, propitiation of, by hunters, 204 sqq.;
bones of, not to be broken, 258 sq.;
bones of, not allowed to be gnawed by dogs, 259;
savage faith in the immortality of, 260 sqq.;
transmigration of human souls into, 285 sqq.;
two forms of the worship of, 311;
processions with sacred, 316 sqq.
Anitos, souls of ancestors, ii. 124
Anna Kuari, i. 244
Anointing the body as a means of acquiring certain qualities, ii. 162 sqq.
Antankarana tribe of Madagascar, ii. 290
Anthesteria, the, i. 30 sqq.
Anthropomorphism, i. 212
Antinous, games in honour of, i. 80, 85
Antiquity of the cultivation of the cereals in Europe, i. 79
Antrim, harvest customs in, i. 144, 154 sq.
Ants, superstitious precaution against the ravages of, ii. 276
Apaches, the, ii. 242
Apes, ceremony after killing, ii. 235 sq.
Apis, sacred bull, ii. 34 sqq.
Apollo surnamed Locust and Mildew, ii. 282;
the Mouse, 282 sq.;
Wolfish, 283 sq.
Apollonius of Tyana, ii. 280
Apologies offered by savages to the animals they kill, ii. 215, 217, 218, 221, 222 sqq., 235 sqq., 243
Apple-tree, straw-man placed on oldest, ii. 6
Arabs, ii. 146, 164;
of Moab, harvest custom of the, i. 138
Arawak Indians, ii. 154
Arcturus, i. 47 n. 2, 51, 52
Ardennes, precautions against rats in the, ii. 277
Argyleshire, harvest customs in, i. 155 sq.
Ariadne, Cyprian worship of, i. 209 n. 2
Aricia, many Manii at, ii. 94 sqq.;
sacred grove at, 95
Arician grove, horses excluded from, ii. 40 sqq.
Aristides, the rhetorician, on first-fruit offerings, i. 56;
on Eleusinian Games, 71
Aristotle, Constitution of Athens, i. 79;
on men of genius, ii. 302 n. 5
Arkansas Indians, ii. 134
Arriaga, J. de, i. 173 n.
Art, Demeter and Persephone in, i. 43 sq.
Artemis, Brauronian, ii. 41 n. 3
Artemisia and Mausolus, ii. 158
Artemision, a Greek month, ii. 8
Artificers, worship of the, ii. 60 sq.
Aru Islands, ii. 145
Aryans of Europe, agriculture among the early, i. 129 sq.;
totemism not proved for the, ii. 4
Ash Wednesday, i. 300
Ashantees, the, ii. 149;
their festivals of new yams, 62 sq.
Ashes as manure, i. 117
—— of dead swallowed, ii. 156 sqq.;
smeared on mourner, 164;
of human victim scattered on earth to fertilise it, i. 240;
scattered on fields, 249, 250, 251;
scattered with winnowing-fans, 260, 262