Coomassie, in Ashantee, i. 201

Copenhagen, bathing on St. John's Eve at, i. 248

Coptic calendar, ii. 6 n. 3

Corea, dance of eunuchs in, i. 270 n. 2

Coreans, their ceremony on the fifteenth day of the moon, ii. 143

Corn sprouting from the dead body of Osiris, ii. 89;

water thrown on the last corn cut, a rain-charm, i. 237 sq.

—— and grapes, symbols of the god of Tarsus, i. 119, 143;

of the god of Ibreez, 121;

figured with double-headed axe on Lydian coin, 183

—— and vine, emblems of the gods of Tarsus and Ibreez, i. 160 sq.

—— -god, Adonis as a, i. 230 sqq.;

Attis as a, 279;

mourned at midsummer, ii. 34;

Osiris as a, 89 sqq., 96 sqq.

—— -reaping in Egypt, Palestine, and Greece, date of the, i. 231 n. 3

—— -sieve, severed limbs of Osiris placed on a, ii. 97

—— -spirit, Tammuz or Adonis as a, i. 230 sqq.;

propitiation of the, perhaps fused with a worship of the dead, 233 sqq.;

represented as a dead old man, ii. 48, 96;

represented by human victims, 97, 106 sq.

—— -stuffed effigies of Osiris buried with the dead as a symbol of resurrection, ii. 90 sq., 114

—— -wreaths as first-fruits, i. 43;

worn by Arval Brethren, i. 44 n.

Coronation, human sacrifices to prolong a king's life at his, ii. 223

Corycian cave, priests of Zeus at the, i. 145;

the god of the, 152 sqq.;

described, 153 sq.;

saffron at the, 187;

name perhaps derived from crocus, 187

Corycus in Cilicia, ruins of, i. 153

Cos, traces of mother-kin in, ii. 259;

Sacred Marriage in, 259 n. 4;

bridegroom dressed as woman in, 260

Cosenza in Calabria, Easter custom at, i. 254

Cotys, king of Lydia, i. 187

Cow, image of, in the rites of Osiris, ii. 50, 84;

Isis represented with the head of a, 50;

thought to be impregnated by moonshine, 130 sq.

—— goddess Shenty, ii. 88

Cows sacred to Isis, ii. 50

Creation of the world thought to be annually repeated, i. 284

Crescent-shaped chest in the rites of Osiris, ii. 85, 130

Crests of the Cilician pirates, i. 149

Crete, sacred trees and pillars in, i. 107 n. 2

Crimea, the Taurians of the, i. 294

Crocodile-shaped hero, i. 139 n. 1

Croesus, king of Lydia, captures Pteria, i. 128;

the burning of, 174 sqq., 179;

his burnt offerings to Apollo at Delphi, 180 n. 1;

dedicates golden lion at Delphi, 184;

his son Atys, 286

Cronion, a Greek month, ii. 238.

Cronus, identified with Phoenician El, i. 166;

castrates his father Uranus and is castrated by his son Zeus, 283;

name applied to winter, ii. 41

Crook and scourge or flail, the emblems of Osiris, ii. 108, 153, compare 20

Crooke, W., on sacred dancing-girls, i. 65 n. 1;

on Mohammedan saints, 78 n. 2;

on infant burial, 93 sq.;

on the custom of the False Bride, ii. 262 n. 2

Crops dependent on serpent-god, i. 67;

human victims sacrificed for the, 290 sq.

Cross-roads, burial at, i. 93 n. 1

Crown-wearer, priest of Hercules at Tarsus, i. 143

Crowns as amulets, ii. 242 sq.;

laid aside in mourning, etc., 243 n. 2

—— of Egypt, the White and the Red, ii. 21 n. 1

Crucifixion of Christ, tradition as to the date of, i. 306

—— of human victims at Benin, i. 294 n. 3;

gentile, at the spring equinox, 307 n.

Crux ansata, the Egyptian symbol of life, ii. 89

Cubit, the standard, kept in the temple of Serapis, ii. 217

Cultivation of staple food in the hands of women (Pelew Islands), ii. 206 sq.

Cumont, Professor Franz, on the taurobolium, i. 275 n. 1;

on the Nativity of the Sun, 303 n. 3;

as to the parallel between Easter and the rites of Attis, 310 n. 1

Customs of the Pelew Islanders, ii. 253 sqq., 266 sqq.

Cuthar, father of Adonis, i. 13 n. 2

Cuttings for the dead, i. 268

Cyaxares, king of the Medes, i. 133 n., 174

Cybele, the image of, i. 35 n. 3;

her cymbals and tambourines, 54;

her lions and turreted crown, 137;

priests of, called Attis, 140;

the Mother of the Gods, 263;

her love for Attis, 263, 282;

her worship adopted by the Romans, 265;

sacrifice of virility to image of, 268;

subterranean chambers of, 268;

orgiastic rites of, 278;

a goddess of fertility, 279;

worshipped in Gaul, 279;

fasts observed by the worshippers of, 280;

a friend of Marsyas, 288;

effeminate priests of, ii. 257, 258

Cybistra in Cappadocia, i. 120, 122, 124

Cymbal, drinking out of a, i. 274

Cymbals in religious music, i. 52, 54

—— and tambourines in worship of Cybele, i. 54

Cynopolis, the cemetery of, ii. 90

Cypriote syllabary, i. 49 n. 7

Cyprus, Phoenicians in, i. 31 sq.;

Adonis in, 31 sqq.;

sacred prostitution in, 36, 50, 59;

Melcarth worshipped in, 117;

human sacrifices in, 145 sq.;

the bearded Venus in, ii. 259 n. 3

Cyril of Alexandria on the festival of Adonis at Alexandria, i. 224 n. 2

Cyrus and Croesus, i. 174 sqq.

Cyzicus, worship of the Placianian Mother at, i. 274 n.

Dacia, hot springs in, i. 213

Dacotas, their theory of the waning moon, ii. 130

Dad pillar. See Ded pillar

Dahomans, their annual festival of the dead, ii. 66

Dahomey, kings of, their human sacrifices, ii. 97 n. 7.

Dairyman, sacred, of the Todas, his custom as to the pollution of death, ii. 228;

bound to live apart from his wife, 229

Dalisandos in Isauria, inscriptions at, ii. 213 n. 1

Damascus, Aramean kings of, i. 15

Damasen, a giant, i. 186

Damatrius, a Greek month, ii. 49 n. 1

Dams in Egypt, the cutting of the, ii. 31 sq., 37 sq., 39 sq.

Dance of eunuchs in Corea, i. 270 n. 2;

on the Congo, 271 n.;

of hermaphrodites in Pegu, 271 n.;

sacred, at the Sed festival, ii. 154;

of king before the ghosts of his ancestor, 192

at festivals of the dead, ii. 52, 53, 55, 58, 59;

at the new moon, 142

Dancing-girls in India, harlots and wives of the gods, i. 61 sqq.

Dañh-gbi, python-god, i. 66

Darmesteter, James, on the Fravashis, ii. 67 n. 2;

his theory as to the date of the Gathas, ii. 84 n.

Dâsî, dancing-girl, i. 63

Dastarkon in Cappadocia, i. 147 n. 3

Dates forbidden to worshippers of Cybele and Attis, i. 280

Daughter of a god, i. 51

David, King, in relation to the old kings of Jerusalem, i. 18 sq.;

his conquest of Ammon, 19;

his taking of a census, 24;

as a harper, 52, 53, 54

—— and Goliath, i. 19 n. 2

—— and Saul, i. 21

Davis, Mr. R. F., on harvest custom in Nottinghamshire, i. 238 n.

Day of Blood in rites of Attis, i. 268, 285

De Plano Carpini, on the funeral customs of the Mongols, i. 293

Dea Dia, a Roman goddess of fertility, ii. 239

Osiris king and judge of the, ii. 13 sq.;

the Egyptian, identified with Osiris, 16;

annual festivals of the, 51 sqq.;

the spirits of the, personated by living men, 52, 53, 58;

magical uses made of their bodies, 100 sqq.;

worship of the, among the Bantu tribes of Africa, 176 sqq.

See also Ancestral spirits

——, reincarnation of the, i. 82 sqq.;

in America, 91;

in Africa, 91 sq.

—— kings and chiefs worshipped in Africa, ii. 160 sqq.;

sacrifices offered to, 162, 166 sq.;

incarnate in animals, 162, 163 sq., 173;

consulted as oracles, 167, 171, 172, 195;

human sacrifices to, 173;

worshipped by the Barotse, 194 sq.