Jasion, 56
Jefferson, 300
Jerome, 140, 146, 154, 155, 160
—— of Prague, 247
Jerusalem, Jesuist life in, 27; patriarchate of, 175, 177; capture of by the Crusaders, 218 sq.; Christians at, 300, 309
Jeschu, 23
Jesseans, 8
Jesuits, in Poland, 263, 276; success of, 276, 292 sq.; decline of, 293–94
Jesus, mythic personality of, 3, 5–15, 17, 20, 21, 28, 33 sq., 36 sq., 40, 59, 76, 77, 92, 93, 94, 100–10, 122, 145, 148, 290
—— and Jesuism, 5, 6–15, 17, 102 sq., 151 sq. See Christ
—— the high-priest, 7
Jews, variant beliefs of, 5, 47, 49 sq.; poverty of, 7; after fall of Temple, 14; mysteries of, 14, 20–24; and Christians, 28 sq., 38, 39, 46 sq., 62, 65, 68, 69, 79, 107, 218, 219, 227, 230, 310; persecutions of by Christians, 155, 161, 168, 173; as slave-dealers, 216; as usurers, 227; in Turkey, 305
Joachim of Flora, 203
John, the disciple, 63 John, Gospel of, 11, 29, 31, 39, 78, 79–80
—— VIII (Pope), 177
—— the Scot, 194–95, 196, 210, 232, 241
—— of Parma, 203
Joseph, Jewish myth of, 19, 38
—— father of Jesus, cult of, 188
Joule, 316
Jovian, 133
Jovinian, 146
Judaism, 5–10, 16, 20 sq., 28, 46 sq., 49 sq., 79
——the Galilean, 50 Jude, Epistle of, 8
Judge of the Dead, the, 57 Judges, Book of, 2
——Bishop, 176
Jumpers, sect of, 309
Jupiter, 37
Justinian, 143, 150, 158, 159, 163, 205, 215, 216; code of, 215, 232
——II, 239
Justin Martyr, 3, 74, 81, 85, 93, 102
Kelvin, 316
Keys of heaven and hell, 58
Khlysti, 309
Kid, sacrament of, 44
Knights Templars, 207, 221, 222–23
——Teutonic order of, 172
Knox, John, 253
Knut, 170
Lagrange, 282
Lalande, 282
Lamb, symbol and sacrament of, 22 sq., 26, 59, 76, 147
La Mettrie, 282
Languedoc, heresy in, 181, 193, 201 sq., 228
Laplace, 282 Lares and Penates, 43–44
Las Casas, 173
Laski, John, 266–67
Last Supper. See Eucharist
Laud, 268
Laurentius Valla, 248
Law, Christian and pagan, 150, 156, 160, 169, 214, 232
Lecky, 300
Leibnitz, 282
Leo I (Pope), 154, 175, 190, 191
——IX (Pope), 178
——the Isaurian, 186–87, 198, 239
Lepers, 263
Lessevich, W., 19 n.
Licinius, 114–18
Lithuania, paganism of, 172
Liturgies, early, 57
Lituus, the, 137
Livonia, Christianity in, 172
Livy, 106
Locke, 284 Logos, doctrine of, 34, 38, 79, 94, 102, 104
——Prayer, the, 62
Louis, son of Charlemagne, 177, 241
——XII, 256
——XIV, 263
Love feasts. See Agapæ
Lübeck, paganism of, 172
Lucian, 86
Lucretius, 127 Luke, Gospel of, 31, 62, 74
Luther and Lutheranism, 212, 247, 249, 250, 253, 257 sq., 265 sq., 270, 271, 326–28, 330, 335–37, 342
Lycurgus, 65
Lyndsay, 274
Macarius, 194
Magic, early Christian, 50, 85, 101, 184, 189
Magnentius, 124
Maia, 38
Manichæism, 1, 55, 75, 97, 101, 123 sq., 136, 143, 144, 145, 156, 191, 192, 197, 201, 209, 228. See Paulicians
Mansfeld, 261
Manuel Comnenus, 243
Marcian, 131
Marcion and Marcionism, 97 sq., 144
Marcus Aurelius, 86, 108, 127, 211 Mark, Gospel of, 4
Mamas, 21
Marsyas, 37
Martianus Capella, 232
Martin of Tours, 137
Martyrs, 31, 83, 110; spurious, 76, 89, 137; heretical, 126
Mary, myth and cult of, 12, 37, 76, 146, 148, 152, 185, 187, 209, 225
——Queen of England, 252
——Queen of Scotland, 253
——Regent of Scotland, 253
Massacres, Christian, 126, 134, 153, 154, 168, 169, 172, 173, 180, 198, 201–202, 218, 219, 227, 256, 257, 269, 311
Materialism, 285
Maternus, 124
Mathematics, Arab, 233–34 Matthew, Gospel of, 4, 5
Matthew of Cracow, 246
Matthias, 260
Maurice, the Emperor, 150
Maxentius, 113–15
Maximian, 111–15
Maximilian, 260
Maximilla and Priscilla, 99
Maximin, 113–15
Maximinus, 108
Maximus, 136
Mazarin, 263
Mazdeism, 38, 50, 58, 94, 123, 132, 191, 198
Medicine, ancient and modern, 102, 158
Menander, 34
Mendicants, religious, 7, 70, 207
Meredith, 300
Messiah, doctrine of, 2, 8, 9, 12, 21, 31, 37, 47, 48, 60
Mexicans, religion of early, 25, 61, 89; slaughter of, 173, 311
Michael the Drunkard, 240
—— the Stammerer, 241
Middleton, 287
Midnight worship, 68, 107, 112, 125
Mill, J. S., 310
Millennium, doctrine of, 97, 179
Milman, cited, 164
Miracles, 11, 30, 36, 73, 88, 184, 186, 187, 190, 199, 224, 225, 287, 290
Miriam, 12
Missionaries, Catholic, 292 sq.; Protestant, 302
Mithra and Mithraism, 7, 18, 21, 22, 23, 36, 37, 38, 51, 57 sq., 69, 79, 82, 107, 123, 133, 138, 175
Mitres, 137
Moawyah, Caliph, 239
Mohammedanism, rise of, 1, 150, 161, 162, 165; influence of, 161, 162, 216, 239; Christian converts to, 244, 303, 305
Moleschott, 285
Molokani, 309
Monarchy, Christianity and, 146, 168 sq., 213, 217
Monasticism, 51, 122, 160–61, 167, 206 sq.
Mongols, tolerance of, 173
Monophysite heresy, 144, 148, 149, 150, 151, 153, 165
Monotheism, pagan, 128, 137; and science, 315
Montanus and Montanism, 67, 97 sq., 112, 123, 144
Moors, persecution of, 173, 193, 229, 230
More, 267
Morone, 272
Mother-Goddesses, 37, 52 sq., 57, 59, 76, 148, 152, 185
Müller of Königsberg, 234
Münzer, 258
Myrrha, 52
—— pagan, 20, 21, 23, 26, 33, 55 sq., 188
—— Christian, 12–14, 19, 28, 32, 67, 72
Mystery-play, the primary, 12–14, 19, 28, 73, 87–88
Myth in history and religion, 1–2, 15, 40
—— and ritual, 24