—— Tullius, begotten by the fire-god, ii. 235

Sesostris, so-called monument of, i. 185

Set, or Typhon, brother of Osiris, ii. 6;

murders Osiris, 7 sq.;

accuses Osiris before the gods, 17;

brings a suit of bastardy against Horus, 17;

his combat with Horus, 17;

reigns over Upper Egypt, 17;

torn in pieces, 98.

See also Typhon

Sety I., King of Egypt, ii. 108

Shamash, Babylonian sun-god, his human wives, i. 71

—— Semitic god, i. 16 n. 1

Shamashshumukin, King of Babylon, burns himself, i. 173 sq., 176

Shammuramat, Assyrian queen, i. 177 n. 1

Shans of Burma, their theory of earthquakes, i. 198;

cut bamboos for building in the wane of the moon, ii. 136

Shark-shaped hero, i. 139 n. 1

Sheaf, the first cut, ii. 239

Sheep to be shorn when the moon is waxing, ii. 134;

to be shorn in the waning of the moon, 134 n. 3

Sheitan dere, the Devil's Glen, in Cilicia, i. 150

Shenty, Egyptian cow-goddess, ii. 88

Shifting dates of Egyptian festivals, ii. 24 sq.

Shilluk kings put to death before their strength fails, ii. 163

Shilluks, their worship of dead kings, ii. 161 sq.;

their worship of Nyakang, the first of the Shilluk kings, 162 sqq.

Shoulders of medicine-men especially sensitive, i. 74 n. 4

Shouting as a means of stopping earthquakes, i. 197 sqq.

Shropshire, feast of All Souls in, ii. 78

Shu, Egyptian god of light, i. 283 n. 3

Shuswap Indians of British Columbia eat nutlets of pines, i. 278 n. 2

Siam, catafalque burnt at funeral of king of, i. 179;

annual festival of the dead in, ii. 65

Siao, children sacrificed to volcano in, i. 219

Sibitti-baal, king of Byblus, i. 14

Sibyl, the Grotto of the, at Marsala, i. 247

Sibylline Books, i. 265

Sicily, Syrian prophet in, i. 74;

fossil bones in, 157;

hot springs in, 213;

gardens of Adonis in, 245, 253 sq.;

divination at Midsummer in, 254;

Good Friday ceremonies in, 255 sq.

Sick people resort to cave of Pluto, i. 205 sq.

Sicyon, shrine of Aesculapius at, i. 81

Sidon, kings of, as priests of Astarte, i. 26

Siem, king, among the Khasis of Assam, ii. 210 n. 1

Sigai, hero in form of shark, i. 139 n. 1

Sihanaka, the, of Madagascar, funeral custom of the, ii. 246

Sinai, “Mistress of Turquoise” at, i. 35

Sinews of sacrificial ox cut, ii. 252

Sins, the remission of, through the shedding of blood, i. 299

Sinsharishkun, last king of Assyria, i. 174

Sipylus, Mother Plastene on Mount, i. 185

Siriac or Sothic period, ii. 36

Sirius (the Dog-star), observed by Egyptian astronomers, ii. 27;

called Sothis by the Egyptians, 34;

date of its rising in ancient Egypt, 34;

heliacal rising of, on July 20th, 34 n. 1, 93;

its rising marked the beginning of the sacred Egyptian year, 35;

its rising observed in Ceos, 35 n. 1;

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

—— the star of Isis, ii. 34, 119;

in connexion with the Sed festival, 152 sq.

Sis in Cilicia, i. 144

Sister of a god, i. 51

Sisters, kings marry their, i. 316

Sizu in Cilicia, i. 144

Skin, bathing in dew at Midsummer as remedy for diseases of the, i. 247, 248;

of ox stuffed and set up, 296 sq.;

body of Egyptian dead placed in a bull's, ii. 15 n. 2;

of sacrificial victim used in the rite of the new birth, 155 sq.

Skinner, Principal J., on the burnt sacrifice of children, ii. 219

Skins of human victims, uses made of, i. 293;

of horses stuffed and set up at graves, 293, 294

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

Sky conceived by the Egyptians as a cow, i. 283 n. 3

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

—— -god, Attis as a, i. 282 sqq.;

married to Earth-goddess, 282, with n. 2;

mutilation of the, 283

Slaughter of prisoners often a sacrifice to the gods, i. 290 n. 2

Slave Coast of West Africa, sacred men and women on the, i. 65, 68;

Ewe-speaking peoples of the, 83 n. 1

Slaves, sacred, in Western Asia, i. 39 n. 1

Slaying of the Dragon by Apollo at Delphi, ii. 240 sq.

Sleep of the god in winter, ii. 41

Smell, evil, used to avert demons, ii. 261

Smeroe, Mount, volcano in Java, i. 221

Smith, George Adam, on fertility of Bethlehem, i. 257 n. 3

Smith, W. Robertson, on the date of the month Tammuz, i. 10 n. 1;

on anointing as consecration, 21 n. 3;

on Baal as god of fertility, 26 sq.;

on caves in Semitic religion, 169 n. 3;

on Tophet, 177 n. 4;

on the predominance of goddesses over gods in early Semitic religion, ii. 213;

on the sacrifice of children to Moloch, 220 n. 1

Smoking as a mode of inducing inspiration, ii. 172

Snake-entwined goddess found at Gournia, i. 88

Snakes as fathers of human beings, i. 82;

fed with milk, 84 sqq.

See also Serpents

Snorri Sturluson, on the dismemberment of Halfdan the Black, ii. 100

Sobk, a crocodile-shaped Egyptian god, identified with the sun, ii. 123

Sochit or Sochet, epithet of Isis, ii. 117

Society, ancient, built on the principle of the subordination of the individual to the community, i. 300

Socrates (church historian) on sacred prostitution, i. 37 n. 2

Söderblom, N., on an attempted reform of the old Iranian religion, ii. 83 n. 2

Sodom and Gomorrah, the destruction of, i. 222 n. 1

Soerakarta, district of Java, conduct of natives in an earthquake, i. 202 n. 1

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

Sol invictus, i. 304 n. 1

Solanum campylanthum, ii. 47

Solomon, King, puts Adoni-jah to death, i. 51 n. 2

——, the Baths of, i. 78;

in Moab, 215 sq.

Solstice, the summer, the Nile rises at the, ii. 31 n. 1, 33

——, the winter, reckoned the Nativity of the Sun, i. 303;

Egyptian ceremony at, ii. 50

Somali, marriage custom of the, ii. 246, 247

Son of a god, i. 51

Sons of God, i. 78 sqq.

Sophocles on the burning of Hercules, i. 111

Sorcerers or priests, order of effeminate, ii. 253 sqq.

Sorrowful One, the vaults of the, ii. 41

Sothic or Siriac period, ii. 36

Sothis, Egyptian name for the star Sirius, ii. 34.

See Sirius

Soul of a tree in a bird, ii. 111 n. 1;

of the rice in the first sheaf cut, 239

“—— of Osiris,” a bird, ii. 110

—— -cakes eaten at the feast of All Souls in Europe, ii. 70, 71 sq., 73, 78 sqq.

“Souling,” custom of, on All Souls' Day in England, ii. 79

“—— Day” in Shropshire, ii. 78

Souls of the dead, reincarnation of the, i. 91 sqq.;

brought back among the Gonds, 95 sq.

——, feasts of All, ii. 51 sqq.

South Slavs, devices of women to obtain offspring, i. 96;

marriage customs of, ii. 246

Sowers and ploughmen drenched with water as a rain-charm, i. 238 sq.

Sowing, Prussian custom at, i. 238 sq.;

rites of, ii. 40 sqq.

—— and ploughing, ceremony of, in the rites of Osiris, ii. 87, 90, 96;

and planting, regulated by the phases of the moon, 133 sqq.

Sozomenus, church historian, on sacred prostitution, i. 37

Spain, bathing on St. John's Eve in, i. 248

Sparta destroyed by an earthquake, i. 196 n. 4

Spartans, their attempt to stop an earthquake, i. 196

—— their flute-band, i. 196

—— their uniform red, i. 196

—— at Thermopylae, i. 197 n. 1

—— their regard for the full moon, ii. 141