The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Golden Bough (Third Edition, Vol. 6 of 12) by James George Frazer

Owl regarded as the guardian spirit of a tree, ii. 111 n. 1

Ox substituted for human victim in sacrifice, i. 146;

embodying corn-spirit sacrificed at Athens, 296 sq.;

black, used in purificatory ceremonies after a battle, ii. 251 sq.

Ozieri, in Sardinia, St. John's festival at, i. 244

Pacasmayu, the temple of the moon at, ii. 138

Padmavati, an Indian goddess, i. 243

Pagan origin of the Midsummer festival (festival of St. John), i. 249 sq.

Paganism and Christianity, their resemblances explained as diabolic counterfeits, i. 302, 309 sq.

Παῖς ἀμφιθαλής, a boy whose parents are both alive, ii. 236 n. 2

Palatinate, the Upper, the feast of All Souls in, ii. 72

Palestine, religious prostitution in, i. 58;

date of the corn-reaping in, 232 n.

Palestinian Aphrodite, i. 304 n.

Palestrina, the harmonies of, i. 54

Pampa del Sacramento, Peru, earthquakes in, i. 198

Pampas, bones of extinct animals in the, i. 158

Pamyles, an Egyptian, ii. 6

Pandharpur, in the Bombay Presidency, i. 243

Panaghia Aphroditessa at Paphos, i. 36

Panku, a being who causes earthquakes, i. 198

Papas, a name for Attis, i. 281, 282

Paphlagonian belief that the god is bound fast in winter, ii. 41

Paphos in Cyprus, i. 32 sqq.;

sanctuary of Aphrodite at, 32 sqq.;

founded by Cinyras, 41

Papyrus of Nebseni, ii. 112;

of Nekht, 112

—— swamps, Isis in the, ii. 8

Parilia and the festival of St. George, i. 308

Parr, Thomas, i. 56

Parvati or Isa, an Indian goddess, i. 241, 242

Pasicyprus, king of Citium, i. 50 n. 2

Patagonia, funeral customs of Indians of, i. 294

Patagonians, effeminate priests or sorcerers among the, ii. 254

Paternity, primitive ignorance of, i. 106 sq.;

unknown in primitive savagery, 282

—— and maternity of the Roman deities, ii. 233 sqq.

Paton, W. R., on modern Greek feast of All Souls in May, ii. 78 n. 1

Patrae, Laphrian Artemis at, i. 126 n. 2

Payne, E. J., on the origin of moon-worship, ii. 138 n. 2

Pegasus and Bellerophon, i. 302 n. 4

Pegu, dance of hermaphrodites in, i. 271 n.

Peking, Ibn Batuta at, i. 289

Pélé, goddess of the volcano Kilauea in Hawaii, i. 217 sqq.

Pelew Islanders, their system of mother-kin, ii. 204 sqq.;

predominance of goddesses over gods among them, 204 sqq.;

customs of the, 253 sqq.

—— Islands and the ancient East, parallel between, ii. 208;

prostitution of unmarried girls in, 264 sq.;

custom of slaying chiefs in the, 266 sqq.

Pelion, Mount, sacrifices offered on the top of, at the rising of Sirius, ii. 36 n.

Peloponnese, worship of Poseidon in, i. 203

Pelops restored to life, i. 181

Peneus, the river, at Tempe, ii. 240

Pennefather River in Queensland, belief of the natives as to the birth of children, i. 103

Pentheus, king of Thebes, rent in pieces by Bacchanals, ii. 98

Peoples of the Aryan stock, annual festivals of the dead among the, ii. 67 sqq.

Pepi the First, ii. 5;

his pyramid, 4 n. 1

Perasia, Artemis, at Castabala, i. 167 sqq.

Peregrinus, his death in the fire, i. 181

Perga in Pamphylia, Artemis at, i. 35

Periander, tyrant of Corinth, his burnt sacrifice to his dead wife, i. 179

Perigord, rolling in dew on St. John's Day in, i. 248

Peritius, month of, i. 111

Perpetual holy fire in temples of dead kings, ii. 174

—— fires worshipped, i. 191 sqq.

Perrot, G., on rock-hewn sculptures at Boghaz-Keui, i. 138 n.

Persea-trees in the rites of Osiris, ii. 87 n. 5;

growing over the tomb of Osiris, 88

Persephone, name applied to spring, ii. 41

—— and Aphrodite, their contest for Adonis, i. 11 sq.

—— and Pluto, temple of, i. 205

Perseus, the virgin birth of, i. 302 n. 4

Persian reverence for fire, i. 174 sq.

—— festival of the dead, ii. 68

Persian fire-worship and priests, 191

Personation of gods by priests, i. 45, 46 sqq.

Peru, earthquakes in, i. 202;

sacrifice of sons in, ii. 220 n. 4

Peruvian Indians, their theory of earthquakes, i. 201

Pescara River, in the Abruzzi, i. 246

Pescina in the Abruzzi, Midsummer custom at, i. 246

Pessinus, image of Cybele at, i. 35 n. 3;

priests called Attis at, 140;

local legend of Attis at, 264;

image of the Mother of the Gods at, 265;

people of, abstain from swine, 265;

high-priest of Cybele at, 285

Petrarch at Cologne on St. John's Eve, i. 247 sq.

Petrie, Professor W. M. Flinders, on the date of the corn-reaping in Egypt and Palestine, i. 231 n. 3;

on the Sed festival, ii. 151 n. 3, 152 n. 3, 154 sq.;

on the marriage of brothers with sisters in Egypt, 216 n. 1

Petrified cascades of Hierapolis, i. 207

Petroff, Ivan, on a custom of the Koniags of Alaska, ii. 106

Phamenoth, an Egyptian month, ii. 49 n. 1, 130

Phaophi, an Egyptian month, ii. 49 n. 1, 94

Pharnace, daughter of Megassares, i. 41

Phatrabot, a Cambodian month, ii. 61

Phidias, his influence on Greek religion, i. 54 n. 1

Philadelphia, subject to earthquakes, i. 194 sq.

Philae, Egyptian relief at, ii. 50 n. 5;

mystic representation of Osiris in the temple of Isis at, 89;

sculptures in the temple of Isis at, 111;

the grave of Osiris at, 111;

the dead Osiris in the sculptures at, 112

Philo of Alexandria on the date of the corn-reaping, i. 231 n. 3

Philocalus, calendar of, i. 303 n. 2, 304 n. 3, 307 n., ii. 95 n. 1

Philosophy, school of, at Tarsus, i. 118

Philostephanus, Greek historian, i. 49 n. 4

Phoenician temples in Malta, i. 35;

sacred prostitution in, 37

—— kings in Cyprus, i. 49

Phoenicians in Cyprus, i. 31 sq.

Phrygia, Attis a deity of, i. 263;

festival of Cybele in, 274 n.;

indigenous race of, 287

Phrygian belief that the god sleeps in winter, ii. 41

—— cap of Attis, i. 279

—— cosmogony, i. 263 sq.

—— kings named Midas and Gordias, i. 286

Pigs sacrificed annually to the moon and Osiris, ii. 131.