Sacrifices, human, offered at earthquakes, i. 201;

offered to Dionysus, ii. 98 sq.;

at the graves of the kings of Uganda, 168;

to dead kings, 173;

to dead chiefs, 191;

to prolong the life of kings, 220 sq., 223 sqq.

Sadyattes, son of Cadys, viceroy of Lydia, i. 183

Saffron at the Corycian cave, i. 154, 187

Sago, magic for the growth of, ii. 101

Sahagun, B. de, on the ancient Mexican calendar, ii. 28 n.

St. Denys, his seven heads, ii. 12

St. George in Syria, reputed to bestow offspring on women, i. 78, 79, 90;

festival of, and the Parilia, 308, 309

St. John, Sweethearts of, in Sardinia, i. 244 sq.

St. John, Spenser, on reasons for head-hunting in Sarawak, i. 296

St. John's Day or Eve (Midsummer Day or Eve), custom of bathing on, i. 246 sqq.

—— Midsummer festival in Sardinia, i. 244 sq.

—— wort gathered at Midsummer, i. 252 sq.

St. Kilda, All Saints' Day in, ii. 80

St. Luke, the festival of, on October 18th, ii. 55

Saint-Maries, Midsummer custom at, i. 248

S. Martinus Dumiensis, on the date of the Crucifixion in Gaul, i. 307 n.

St. Michael in Alaska, ii. 51

St. Simon and St. Jude's day, October 28th, ii. 74

St. Vitus, festival of, i. 252

Saintonge, feast of All Souls in, ii. 69

Saints as the givers of children to women, i. 78 sq., 91, 109

Sais, the festival of, ii. 49 sqq.

Sakkara, pyramids at, ii. 4

Sal tree, festival of the flower of the, i. 47

Salacia and Neptune, ii. 231, 233

Salamis in Cyprus, human sacrifices at, i. 145;

dynasty of Teucrids at, 145

Salem, Melchizedek, king of, i. 17

Salii, priests of Mars, rule as to their election, ii. 244

Salono, a Hindoo festival, i. 243 n. 1

Salvation of the individual soul, importance attached to, in Oriental religions, i. 300

Samagitians, their annual festival of the dead, ii. 75

Samal, in North-Western Syria, i. 16

Samaria, the fall of, i. 25

Samoa, conduct of the inhabitants in an earthquake, i. 200

Samuel consulted about asses, i. 75;

meaning of the name, 79

—— and Saul, i. 22

San Juan Capistrano, the Indians of, their ceremony at the new moon, ii. 142

Sanda-Sarme, a Cilician king, i. 144

Sandacus, a Syrian, i. 41

Sandan of Tarsus, i. 124 sqq.;

the burning of, 117 sqq., 126;

identified with Hercules, 125, 143, 161;

monument of, at Tarsus, 126 n. 2

—— (Sandon, Sandes), Cappadocian and Cilician god of fertility, i. 125

—— and Baal at Tarsus, i. 142 sq., 161

Sandon, or Sandan, name of the Lydian and Cilician Hercules, i. 182, 184, 185;

a Cilician name, 182

Sandu'arri, a Cilician king, i. 144

Santa Felicita, successor of Mefitis, i. 205

Santiago Tepehuacan, Indians of, their custom at sowing, i. 239;

their annual festival of the dead, ii. 55

Santorin, island of, its volcanic activity, i. 195

Sappho on the mourning for Adonis, i. 6 n. 2

Saracus, last king of Assyria, i. 174

Sarawak, head-hunting in, i. 295 sq.

Sardanapalus, monument of, at Tarsus, i. 126 n. 2;

his monument at Anchiale, 172;

the burning of, 172 sqq.;

the effeminate, ii. 257

—— and Hercules, i. 172 sqq.

Sardes, captured by Cyrus, i. 174;

lion carried round acropolis of, i. 184, ii. 249

Sardinia, gardens of Adonis in, i. 244 sq.

Sargal, in India, gardens of Adonis at, i. 243

Sarpedonian Artemis, i. 167, 171

Sasabonsun, earthquake god of Ashantee, i. 201

Saturn, the husband of Ops, ii. 233

—— and Lua, ii. 233

Saturn's period of revolution round the sun, ii. 151 sq.

Saturnine temperament of the farmer, ii. 218

Sauks, an Indian tribe of North America, effeminate sorcerers among the, ii. 255

Savages lament for the animals and plants which they eat, ii. 43 sq.

Sâwan, Indian month, i. 242

Saxons of Transylvania, harvest custom of the, i. 238

Sayce, A. H., on kings of Edom, i. 16;

on name of David, 19 n. 2

Schäfer, H., on the tomb of Osiris at Abydos, ii. 198 n. 1

Schlanow, in Brandenburg, custom at sowing at, i. 238 sq.

Schloss, Mr. Francis S., on the rule as to the felling of timber in Colombia, ii. 136 n. 4

Schwegler, A., on the death of Romulus, ii. 98 n. 2

Scipio, his fabulous birth, i. 81

Scorpions, Isis and the, ii. 8

Scotland, harvest custom in, i. 237

Scottish Highlanders on the influence of the moon, ii. 132, 134, 140

Scythian king, human beings and horses sacrificed at his grave, i. 293

Scythians, their belief in immortality, i. 294;

their treatment of dead enemies, 294 n. 3

Sea, custom of bathing in the, on St. John's Day or Eve, i. 246, 248

their festivals of the dead, ii. 56 sq.;

effeminate priests or sorcerers among the, 253, 256

—— Dyaks of Sarawak, their reasons for taking human heads, i. 295 sq.

Season of festival a clue to the nature of a deity, ii. 24

Seasons, magical and religious theories of the, i. 3 sq.

Seb (Keb or Geb), Egyptian earth-god, i. 283 n. 3, ii. 6

Secret graves of kings, chiefs, and magicians, ii. 103 sqq.

Sed festival in Egypt, ii. 151 sqq.;

its date perhaps connected with the heliacal rising of Sirius, 152 sq.;

apparently intended to renew the king's life by identifying him with the dead and risen Osiris, 153 sq.

Segera, a sago magician of Kiwai, dismembered after death, ii. 101, 102

Seker (Sokari), title of Osiris, ii. 87

Seler, Professor E., on the ancient Mexican calendar, ii. 28 n.

Seleucus, a grammarian, i. 146 n. 1

—— Nicator, king, i. 151

—— the Theologian, i. 146 n. 1

Self-mutilation of Attis and his priests, i. 265

Seligmann, Dr. C. G., on the five supplementary Egyptian days, ii. 6 n. 3;

on the divinity of Shilluk kings, 161 n. 2;

on custom of putting Shilluk kings to death, 163

Selwanga, python-god of Baganda, i. 86

Semiramis at Hierapolis, i. 162 n. 2;

as a form of Ishtar (Astarte), 176 sq.;

said to have burnt herself, 176 sq.;

the mythical, a form of the great Asiatic goddess, ii. 258

Semites, agricultural, worship Baal as the giver of fertility, i. 26 sq.;

sacred stocks and stones among the, 107 sqq.;

traces of mother-kin among the, ii. 213

Semitic gods, uniformity of their type, i. 119

—— kings, the divinity of, i. 15 sqq.;

as hereditary deities, 51

—— language, Egyptian language akin to the, ii. 161 n. 1

—— personal names indicating relationship to a deity, i. 51

—— worship of Tammuz and Adonis, i. 6 sqq.

Semlicka, festival of the dead among the Letts, ii. 74

Seneca, on the offerings of Egyptian priests to the Nile, ii. 40;

on the marriage of the Roman gods, 231;

on Salacia as the wife of Neptune, 233

Senegal and Niger region of West Africa, belief as to conception without sexual intercourse in, i. 93 n. 2;

myth of marriage of Sky and Earth in the, 282 n. 2

Senegambia, the Mandingoes of, ii. 141

Sennacherib, his siege of Jerusalem, i. 25;

said to have built Tarsus, 173 n. 4

Separation of Earth and Sky, myth of the, i. 283

Serapeum at Alexandria, ii. 119 n.;

its destruction, 217

Serapis, the later form of Osiris, ii. 119 n.;

the rise of the Nile attributed to, 216 sq.;

the standard cubit kept in his temple, 217

Serpent as the giver of children, i. 86;

at rites of initiation, 90 n. 4

—— -god married to human wives, i. 66 sqq.;

thought to control the crops, 67

souls of dead kings incarnate in, ii. 163, 173

Servius, on the death of Attis, i. 264 n. 4;

on the marriage of Orcus, ii. 231;

on Salacia as the wife of Neptune, 233