Καρκώ, 592.
Karmanor, ix, 113.
καρποῦν, v, 126.
καταδεῖν, κατάδεσμος, κατάδεσις in magic, ix, 107; 604.
καθάρματα given up to the spirits, ix, 88 (cf. 81).
Kathartic practices, etc., v, 36; 180; vi, 18; vii, 15; 294 f.; 302; 378; 582; 585; 589 f.
κάθαρσις μανίας (music), ix, 19; (of Pythagoreans), xi, 48; by Melampous, 287; Bakis, 294; Orphic, 338 f.; 343; Empedokles, xi, 85; Plato, 470.
καθέδραι, festival of Souls, v, 86.
κάτοχος, of magic, ix, 107.
κάτοχοι, κατοχή, κατέχεσθαι, of “possession”, viii, 24, 44.
Kattadias (Devil-priests of Ceylon), viii, 55.
Kaunians, v, 99.
Kekrops, iii, 41.
Keos, funeral ordinance from, v, 42, 52, 56, 74, 76-7, 87, 92, 135.
κῆρες = souls, i, 10; v, 100; ix, 92.
Kerkops (Pythagorean), x, 7; 597.
Key, keeper of, in Hades, vii, 13.
Kikones of the Odyssey, 42.
Kimon as Hero, 129.
Kissing the hand to a grave, xiv, ii, 26–7.
κλειδοῦχοι θεοί, 247.
Kleisthenes, 124.
Kleitos, 58.
Kleobis and Biton, xiv, ii, 148.
Kleombrotos, xiv, 3.
Kleomedes (Hero), 129; xiv, ii, 114.
Kleomenes as Hero, xiv, ii, 59.
Klymenos = Hades, v, 8, 18; reduced to rank of Hero, iii, 34.
Kore, 160; v, 11; 219 f.; 224; xiv, ii, 146.
Koronis, iii, 56.
Korybantism, viii, 36, 52; 286 f.
Kos (Ge), v, 16.
Kotytto, 336.
Kouretes, v, 167.
κωλύματα, magic spells, ix, 81.
Kragos, iii, 30.
Krantor, xiv, 1.
Krataiis, 593.
Krates (Cynic), v, 34.
Kratinos, vii, 17.
Kratippos, 512.
κρείττονες = the dead, v, 65, 110, 117.
Krinagoras, vi, 22.
Kritias, Sisyphos, x, 54.
Kritolaos, xiv, 32.
Krokos, iii, 43.
Kronos, ruler in Elysium, 76.
Kybele, 257; viii, 32, 43, 55; 286 f.; ix, 56; xiv, ii, 174.
Kychreus (πυχρείδης ὄφις), iv, 129.
Kydas, ix, 66.
Kyffhäuser, legend of, 93; xiv, ii, 112.
Kylon, at Athens, ix, 120.
Kyme, criminal law of, v, 145.
Kypria, 64.
Labyadai, their funeral ordinance in Delphi, v, 52, 85, 128.
Lamentation disturbs the dead, v, 49.
Lanterns, feast of in Japan, v, 99.
Laodike, iii, 6.
Lar familiaris and Lares at Rome, v, 132.
Latinus, translation of, xiv, ii, 110.
Laurel, drives away ghosts, v, 95.
Law, unwritten, 163, 426; xii, 94.
Lebadeia, 90 f., 95; iii, 26; v, 19, 133; xiv, ii, 104.
Lectisternia, iii, 26; iv, 16.
Lekythoi, v, 38; 169; 170; 237.
Lemnos, feast of the dead in, ix, 76.
Lemuria in Rome, v, 99.
Leonidas (as Hero), iv, 20; 528.
Leosthenes (Hero), vii, 5; xiv, ii, 59.
Lethe, vii, 21; xii, 37; and Mnemosyne, fountains of, xiv, ii, 151.
Leto, iii, 46.
Leuke, I. of Achilles, 65, 66; xiv, ii, 102; Cliff of, ib.
Leukothea: see Ino.
Lie, justification of, xii, 72.
Life, 3, 31; repudiation of, viii, 75; only lent, xiv, ii, 161; 505; Water of life, xiv, ii, 151–2; Future Life, 236 f.; see Hades and Ways.
Lightning sanctifies its victim, iii, 39; 100; v, 68; ix, 127; xii, 54; xiv, ii, 154; 581 f.
Linos, iii, 43.
Lobeck, 222.
Local deities and their cults, 25 f.; 27.
Lokroi, criminal law of, v, 145.
Lot, oracles received by means of (Delphi), 290.
λουτροφόροι, 587.
Lucian, iii, 28; 236; de Luctu, xiv, ii, 2; Philops., xiv, ii, 87, 144; ix, 96.
Lucretius, 505.
Lydia, v, 167.
Lying-in-state of the dead, 165.
Lykaios, Zeus, v, 170.
Lykas (Hero), iv, 114.
Lykia, imprecatory tablets from graves in, 553.
Lykian language, iv, 99.
Lykourgos, King of Edonians, ix, 3; in Sparta worshipped as Hero and God, 132; sanctified by lightning, 581.
Lyric poetry of the Greeks, 157; 411 f.
Lysander as Hero, 531.
Lysimachos (Hero), xiv, ii, 67.
λύσιος Διόνυσος, ix, 21; λύσιοι θεοί, x, 50.
λύσις of the soul, x, 61, 66; xiii, 67.
Mâ, worshipped with ecstatic cult, viii, 43, 55.
Macedonians, viii, 31.
Machaon and Podaleirios, iv, 92.
Macriani, xiv, ii, 112.
Madness cured by magic, ix, 19, 81; cf. Mental diseases.
Magical papyri, xiv, ii, 144; 589; 592; 604; cf. Defixiones.
Magicians, among savage peoples, 261 f.; Greek, 294 f., 298 f.; xi, 58; 533 f.; 604.
Mahâbhârata, iii, 3.
μαινάς, 256.
μακαρίτης (of the dead), vii, 10; xiv, ii, 31.
μακάρων νῆσοι: see Islands of the Blest.
μανία, divine, 255 f.; 286 f.; in the worship of Dionysos, 282 f.
Manichaeans, x, 83.
Mankind, origin of, according to the Orphics, 341 f.; generations (Ages) of, in Hesiod, 67 f.
μάντεις, ix, 41 f.; as magicians, ix, 68.
Mantiké (inspired prophecy), 260, 289 f.
Marathon, iv, 84; 136; Grave of the dead at, xiv, ii, 37.
Marjoram, kathartic, apotropaic uses of, v, 36.
Maron (Hero), xiv, ii, 41.
Massagetai, 259.
Materialism, 385.
“Matriarchy,” not Greek, xii, 75.
Medea translation of, xiv, ii, 99; (v, 169).
Medicine men (North American Indians), 262; ix, 68, 117; dance of the Winnebago, viii, 55.
μέγαρα, iii, 7.
μειλίχοι θεοί, v, 168; Διόνυσος μειλίχιος, ix, 21.
Melesagoras, ix, 58.
Memnon, 64 f.
Menelaos (translation of), 55 f.; iv, 2; ii, 21.
Menestheus, iv, 100.
Mental diseases, origin and cure of, 286 f.; ix, 19, 81.
Metal, noise of, drives away ghosts, i, 72; ix, 83; see Iron, Bronze.
μετεμψύχωσις, x, 84; see Transmigration.
Metrodoros, allegorical interpretation of mythology, vi, 23.
Metrodoros (Epicurean), xiv, 85, 86, 97.
μὴ φῦναι, xii, 10.
μήνιμα θεῶν, v, 148; ἀλιτηρίων, v, 176.
μιάστωρ, v, 178.
Michael, the Archangel, iv, 96.
Midas, 412.
Mid-day, spectres appearing at, ix, 96; xiv, ii, 41; 592 f.
Migrations, Greek, 27, 155, 161, 284.
Milky Way (abode of the souls), ix, 111; xii, 44.
Miltiades, as Hero, iv, 20.
Mimnermos, xii, 7.
Mind, 5, 29 f., 383, 387, 493 f.
Mingrelians, i, 30.
Minos (and Zeus, in Crete), 96; Judge in Hades, vii, 13.
Minyas, vii, 3; 237, 238, 282.
Miracle, 254; xiv, ii, 40–1, 45, 70; 537; desire for in later ages of antiquity, 546 f.
Missions, sent out from Eleusis, 161.
Mithras, Mysteries of, xiv, ii, 144, 153, 172, 174.
Mitylene, funeral ordinance of, v, 54.
Mitys, iv, 118.
μνήμη (Empedokles and Pythagorean), xi, 96; and λήθη in Hades (Pindar), xii, 37; xiv, ii, 151.
Mnemosyne, xii, 37; xiv, ii, 151.
μοῖρα, 29.
Moon and stars inhabited by souls, x, 75; xi, 116; xiv, 53.
Morality, 40; 228; 294 f.; 302; 376.
Μορμολύκη, Μορμώ, vii, 25; 592.
Moschion, x, 54.
Moses, ii, 18; xiv, ii, 109.
Motes in the sunbeam = Souls (Pythagoras), xi, 40; Emped. xi, 101.
Mountains, legends about, 263; viii, 68.
Mourning, period of, 167.
Mousaios, x, 70.
μύχιοι θεοί, iii, 35.
μυεῖν, vi, 16.
Murderer, excluded from religious worship, vi, 17.
Murder, action for, religious sense of, 180 f.; expiation of, 174 f., 138; xii, 34, 40.
Murder trials; see Homicide.
Music in Dionysiac worship, 257; as a cure for Korybantic frenzy and other diseases, 286 f.; ix, 19; xi, 48.
Mutterrecht, not Greek, xii, 75.
Mutilation of the dead, 582 f.
Mykonos (cult of Chthonic Zeus), v, 3, 7, 16.
Myrtle sacred to χθόνιοι, iv, 21; v, 40, 61.
Mysians, x, 78.
Mysteries: see Eleusinian M.; Orphic, 343 f.; Samothracian, vi, 34; (see also Isis and Mithras).
Mysticism, 225 f., 254 f., 262, 291 f., 344; xiii, 75, 104; xiv, 1.
Myth, allegorical interpretation of, vi, 23.
Name, calling the dead by, 42, 527; of Hero used in sacrificing, iv, 62; in invocation of avenging spirits, 604.
Nameless Gods, iv, 62; Heroes, 126 f.; 529; xiv, ii, 61, 63.
Namnites in Gaul, viii, 55.
Narcissus (Orphic?), x, 29.
νάρθηξ, viii, 22.
National Heroes: see ἀρχηγοί.
“Nature,” religion of, 223 f.
Naulochos (Hero), xiv, ii, 74.
Nectar, 58.
nefasti dies, v, 158.
Negro tribes, i, 34; v, 110; 271.
Nekyia of the Odyssey, 32 f.; iii, 8; 237 f.; 240 f.; 2nd Nekyia, i, 62, 65; N. in other epics, 237 f., (see Descents); on vases, vii, 27.
νεκύσια, v, 92.
Nemea, iv, 22.
νεμέσεια, νέμεσις, Νέμεσις, v, 91.
Neoplatonic writers, x, 27, 29, 38; 596 f.
Neoptolemos, translation of, xiv, ii, 99.
Nero, translated (Antichrist), xiv, ii, 113.
Neurotic diseases, cure of, 286 f.
New Zealand (method of burial), v, 67.
Nightmare, ix, 102; xiv, ii, 86.
Nine, sanctity of number, v, 84; xiii, 45; xiv, ii, 154.
Noise of bronze or iron drives away ghosts, i, 72; v, 167; ix, 83.
Nostoi, 66 f.
Novel (Greek, etc.), iv, 134; xiv, ii, 87.
Novemdialia: festival in Rome, v, 84.
νοῦς, in Anaxagoras, 387 f.; in Aristotle, 493 f.; cf. 383.
Numbers (Pythagorean mystical theory of), x, 9.
Nyktelios, Nyktelia, viii, 28; 285; ix, 36.
νυμφόληπτος, ix, 63.
ἐκ νυμφῶν κάτοχος, ix, 58.
Nymphs, agents of Translation, xiv, ii, 105.
Oath, religio-juristic significance of, 41 f.; v, 156; 238; xi, 77; xii, 40.
Oath-breaking punished in Hades; see Perjury.
Oath taken by both parties in a suit, v, 156.
Obolos for the ferryman of the dead: see Charon.
Ocrisia, v, 132.