—— men believed to beget children, i. 91, 264

—— Sea, i. 23

Death in the fire as an apotheosis, i. 179 sq.;

the pollution of, ii. 227 sqq.

—— and resurrection, annual, of gods, i. 6;

of Adonis represented in his rites, 224 sq.;

coincidence between the pagan and the Christian festival of the divine, 308;

of Osiris dramatically represented in his rites, ii. 85 sq.;

of Osiris interpreted as the decay and growth of vegetation, 126 sqq.

December, the twenty-fifth of, reckoned the winter solstice, and the birthday of the Sun, i. 303 sqq.

Decline of the civic virtues under the influence of Oriental religions, i. 300 sq.

Ded or tet pillar, the backbone of Osiris, ii. 108 sq.

Dedicated men and women in Africa, i. 65 sqq.

Dedication of girls to the service of a temple, i. 61 sqq.;

of children to gods, 79

Dee, river, holed stone in the, i. 36 n. 4

Defoe, Daniel, on the Angel of the Plague, i. 24 n. 2

Delos, sacred embassy to, ii. 244

Delphi, Apollo and the Dragon at, ii. 240

Delphinium Ajacis, i. 314 n. 1

Demeter, her sacred caverns, i. 88;

sacred vaults of, 278;

sorrowing for the descent of the Maiden, ii. 41;

the month of, 41;

mysteries of, at Eleusis, 90;

at the well, 111 n. 6;

identified with Isis, 117

—— and ears of corn, i. 166

—— and Poseidon, i. 280

—— and the king's son at Eleusis, i. 180

Denderah, inscriptions at, ii. 11, 86 sqq., 89, 91, 130 n.;

the hall of Osiris at, 110

Derceto, goddess at Ascalon, i. 34 n. 3

Dervishes revered in Syria, i. 77 n. 4;

of Asia Minor, 170

Deucalion at Hierapolis, i. 162 n. 2

Deuteronomic redactor, i. 26 n. 1

Deuteronomy, publication of, i. 18 n. 3

Deutsch-Zepling in Transylvania, rule as to sowing in, ii. 133 n. 3

Dêvadâsî, dancing-girl, i. 63 sq.

Dêvaratiâl, dancing-girl, i. 63

Dew, bathing in the, on Midsummer Eve or Day, i. 246 sq., 248;

a daughter of Zeus and the moon, ii. 137

Diabolical counterfeits, resemblances of paganism to Christianity explained as, i. 302, 309 sq.

Diana, a Mother Goddess, i. 45;

her sanctuary at Nemi, 45

Dianus and Diana, i. 27, 45

Dido flees from Tyre, i. 50;

her traditional death in the fire, 114;

worshipped at Carthage, 114;

meaning of the name, 114 n. 1;

an Avatar of Astarte, 177;

how she procured the site of Carthage, ii. 250

Dinant, feast of All Souls in, ii. 70

Dinkard, a Pahlavi work, ii. 68 n. 2

Dinkas, their belief in serpents as reincarnations [pg 283] of the dead, i. 82 sq.;

on the burial of Osiris, ii. 10 sq.;

on the rise of the Nile, 31 n. 1;

on the date of harvest in Egypt, 32 n. 2;

on Osiris as a sun-god, 120;

on the predominance of women over men in ancient Egypt, 214

Diomede, human sacrifices to, i. 145

Dionysus in form of bull, i. 123;

with vine and ploughman on a coin, 166;

ancient interpretation of, 194, 213;

death, resurrection, and ascension of, 302 n. 4;

torn in pieces, ii. 98;

human sacrifices to, in Chios, 98 sq.;

his coarse symbolism, 113;

identified with Osiris, 113;

race of boys at vintage from his sanctuary, 238;

men dressed as women in the rites of, 258;

the effeminate, 259

Diospolis Parva (How), monument of Osiris at, ii. 110

Diphilus, king of Cyprus, i. 146

Disc, winged, as divine emblem, i. 132

Discoloration, annual, of the river Adonis, i. 30, 225

Discovery of the body of Osiris, ii. 85 sq.

Disease of language the supposed source of myths, ii. 42

Disguises to avert the evil eye, ii. 262;

to deceive dangerous spirits, 262 sq., 263 sq.

Dismemberment of Osiris, suggested explanations of the, ii. 97;

of Halfdan the Black, king of Norway, 100, 102;

of Segera, a magician of Kiwai, 101;

of kings and magicians, and use of their severed limbs to fertilize the country, 101 sq.;

of the bodies of the dead to prevent their souls from becoming dangerous ghosts, 188

Ditino, deified dead kings, ii. 194

Divination at Midsummer, i. 252 sq.

Divining bones, ii. 180, 181

Divinities of the volcano Kirauea, i. 217

Divinity of Semitic kings, i. 15 sqq.;

of Lydian kings, 182 sqq.

Dixmude, in Belgium, feast of All Souls at, ii. 70

Dobrizhoffer, M., on the respect of the Abipones for the Pleiades, i. 258 n. 2

Doctrine of lunar sympathy, ii. 140 sqq.

Dôd, “beloved,” i. 19 n. 2, 20 n. 2

Dog-star. See Sirius

Doliche in Commagene, i. 136

Domaszewski, Professor A., on the rites of Attis at Rome, i. 266 n. 2

Dorasques of Panama, their theory of earthquakes, i. 201

Dos Santos, J., Portuguese historian, on the method adopted by a Caffre king to prolong his life, ii. 222 sq.

Double, the afterbirth or placenta, regarded as a person's double, ii. 169 sq.

—— -headed axe, symbol of Sandan, i. 127;

carried by Lydian kings, 182;

a palladium of the Heraclid sovereignty, 182;

figured on coins, 183 n.

—— -headed eagle, Hittite emblem, i. 133 n.

Doutté, Edmond, on sacred prostitution in Morocco, i. 39 n. 3

Doves burnt in honour of Adonis, i. 126 n. 2, 147

——, sacred, of Aphrodite, i. 33;

or Astarte, 147

Dowries earned by prostitution, i. 38, 59

Dragon slain by Cadmus at Thebes, ii. 241

—— and Apollo, at Delphi, ii. 240

Drama, sacred, of the death and resurrection of Osiris, ii. 85 sq.

Dramas, magical, for the regulation of the seasons, i. 4 sq.

Dramatic representation of the resurrection of Osiris in his rites, ii. 85

Dreams, revelations given to sick people by Pluto and Persephone in, i. 205;

spirits of the dead appear to the living in, ii. 162, 190;

as causes of attempted transformation of men into women, 255 sqq.

Drenching last corn cut with water as a rain-charm, i. 237 sq.

Drinking out of a king's skull in order to be inspired by his spirit, ii. 171

Drought, kings answerable for, i. 21 sq.

Drum, eating out of a, i. 274

Drums, human sacrifice for royal, ii. 223, 225

Duchesne, Mgr. L., on the origin of Christmas, i. 305 n. 4;

on the date of the Crucifixion, 307

Dyaks of Sarawak, their custom of head-hunting, i. 295 sq.

Ea, Babylonian god, i. 9

Eagle to carry soul to heaven, i. 126 sq.;

double-headed, Hittite emblem, 133 n.

Ears of corn, emblem of Demeter, i. 166

Earth as the Great Mother, i. 27

—— and sky, myth of their violent separation, i. 283

——, the goddess, mother of Typhon, i. 156

East, mother-kin and Mother Goddesses in the ancient, ii. 212 sqq.

Easter, gardens of Adonis at, in Sicily, i. 253 sq.;

resemblance of the festival of, to the rites of Adonis, 254 sqq., 306;

the festival of, assimilated to the spring festival of Attis, 306 sqq.;

controversy between Christians and pagans as to the origin of, 309 sq.

“Eater of the Dead,” fabulous Egyptian monster, ii. 14

Eclipse of the moon, Athenian superstition as to an, ii. 141

Eden, the tree of life in, i. 186 n. 4

Edom, the kings of, i. 15;

their bones burned by the Moabites, ii. 104

Edonians in Thrace, Lycurgus king of the, ii. 98, 99

Eesa, a Somali tribe, ii. 246

Effect of geographical and climatic conditions on national character, ii. 217