INDEXADONIS.SeeTammuzAgathias (Byzantine poet), cited,130Ahone (aboriginal N. American god),20,39Alatunjas (Arunta headmen),101,259,260,265,267,269Alcheringa (mythical heroic age, or period of fabulous ancestors,of the Arunta),15,251,253,254Alcheringites (fabulous ancestors),251,252Algonquin deity,39Alkna Buma (Arunta clairvoyant), and new-born babies,262Amadhlozi (Zulu ancestral spirits),227,228Anahuac: human sacrifices,193Anaitis (Persian love goddess),119,194Andamanese: religious beliefs,231,232Andouagni (aboriginal Canadian god),10;no form of prayer addressed to10,11,12,21,89Anthropology, present-day neglect of its study,7;errors of the 'higher criticism,'9;gods not addressed in prayer,10,11;conflicting evidence of race beliefs,11;coincidence of testimony,12,13.Seeunder names of tribes and godsArgyllshire: superstition among women connectedwith cup-marked rocks,252,254Arician grove of Diana, the, and its ghastly priest,207et seq.Arthurian legend: the magical sword,211Arunta (tribe of Central Australia), their theory of evolution of ourspecies and the nature of life,15;scope of their ideas,16;practice of magic,46,61,62,65;magical rites to assist the processes of nature,82,83;periods of licence,193,194,196,198;totems,250,251,252;cited,67,68,101,259,263,264,265note,266,267Ashanti: licence at the harvest festival,188,189Asia Minor Greek cities: use of scapegoats in times of calamity,190Astarte (Semitic goddess).SeeIshtarAtahocan (Huron deity),42,89,238,296,297Athenæus, on the Sacæa,119,120,121;cited,132,185,186,195,196Athenian festival of Cronos,116,117Athens: scapegoats killed in times of distress,190Atholl, Earl of (pretender to royalty), mock crowning of,203Atua (Samoan), tree of protection,219Australian blacks: alleged endeavour to delay the course of the sun,3;religious ideas unborrowed,44;attention to the dead,49;Christian Deity identified by them with their own supreme beings,49;religious ideas vary according to fertility of soil,50;invent to please whites,50,51;emergence of gods from ancestors,51;religious beliefs,231,232;engraved churinga and rock paintings,245et seq.;fire ceremony of,271.Seealso under tribal namesAztecs: beliefs,75; human sacrifice at harvest festival,127,173,300BABYLON: annual sacrifice of a criminal proxy king,77;hypothesis of that rite,91,101,103,106Backhouse, Mr. (Quaker), his 'Visit to Australian Colonies,' cited,26Bagolos (tribe): human sacrifices,129Baiame (Pei-a-mei, or Baiamai) (Australian moral creative being),25-32,35,36,39,40,42,43,66,67,89,226,238,297Balder (Scandinavian spirit), the Eddaic myth of,213-217Ballima (Australian spiritual paradise),36,37Banjars (tribe): beat their king till the weather changes,85Barabbas: a counterpart of the sacred Victim,201,303,304Bau (Babylonian goddess),137,138Beiderbecke, Mr., on South African gods,236,237Beiruk, William (Australian black), on Bunjil,34Benares: fire-walking,290,291Benedictine Mission at Nursia,13Bernadette (seeress of Lourdes): fire-handling,272Berosus, quoted, on the Sacæa,119,120,142,144,185,196Birds, wise, Australian and American myth of,24Blackfoot Indians (N. America): religious ideas,295Bluebeard: new version,167Bobowissi (W. African deity),39Bora (Australian initiatory mysteries), women excluded from,30,58,66,71,195Borrowed religion,15et seq.,295Boyma.SeeBaiameBrahan warning to the Mackenzies, superstitious belief,98Brebeuf, Father, on the Oki,19,42Brewin (Kurnai supreme being),27,49,52,53Brinton: etymology of the god Kiehtan,20British Isles: fire-walking,271Brough Smyth, Mr., cited,41,54Bryant's ark,5Buckley (convict), on the Australian ideas of a god,26Bulgaria, Nistinares of: fire-handling,272,283,285,286Bullimah (Australian paradise),36Bull-roarers, (in savage mysteries),65,67,71,248,255Bunjil (Australian god),32,34,41,66Bunyip (fabled Australian monster),26CALICUT(Malabar): religious self-slaughter of the king,98,217Caligula and the priest of Diana,209Callaway, Dr., on Zulu beliefs,97,225,227,228,229,231,232,233,234,237,238Calvary,200et seq.Cambodia: temporary kings,105; period of licence,187Cameron, Mr. A. L. P., on the tribes of New South Wales,70Canadian aboriginal god, Andouagni,10,11,12,21,89Carew, Mr., on fire-walking,283Carnival, destruction of, at end of modern Roman festival,110Catlin, on Mandan Mystery Play of the Flood,23,24Catullus, cited,184Celebes, the: harvest customs,267Cbaka (Zulu king),97,228,229,230Cheviots, the: cup and ring incised on boulders,241Chinese vernal festival of fire,270Chitome (Congo 'pontiff'),133Christ: theories concerning,76,78,79,100,106,110,200,206Christian faith, origin of the,76et seq.Churinga (Australian), wood or stone marked with circles, cups,&c.,244,245,246,247,248,249,251,252,253,254,255Churinga ilkinia, sacred rock-drawing of totem,246,249Coleridge, Hartley, cited,31Collins, Mr. ('New South Wales'), on native use of word 'father,'32Colquhomi, Dr., on fire-walking,282Congo tribes,61; their pontiff not permitted to die a natural death,96,133Craig, Dr. George: fire-walking,275Craig, Dr. W.: fire-walking,275Craigie, Mr. W. A., on the myth of Balder,214Cranz (missionary), on Greenlanders' beliefs,21,87,88Crawford, Mr. Lindsay, cited,57noteCrœsus,129Cronos festival, the,108,109,116,117Crookes, Mr., cited, on fire-walking,286Crookes, Sir William, cited,289Crucifixion, a theory of the,80,103Crystal-gazing,32Ctesias, on the Sacæa,120Cumont, Professor Franz, on the legend of Dasius,112;on the Saturnalia,113,114,115,142;cited,183,298,300'Cup and ring:' a solution,241et seq.Curr, Mr., on Australian native beliefs,51DARAMULUN(Australian deity),27,66,71Darwin, cited,6Dasius, story of the martyrdom of,79,109,110,111,112,113,114,115,121,182,185,298,301Davis, Mr. John Moore, on Australian native sacrifice ofthe first-born,54Dawson, Mr. ('Aborigines of Australia'), on native religious worship,33,34Deputy gods,39Devils, expulsion of, savage licence following,187Diana, grove of (near Aricia): the golden bough in,207et seq.Diana of the Chersonese,208Dieri, the (Central Australian tribe): ancestral spiritworship,50,56,62,63,64Dio Chrysostom, on the festival of Sacæa,79,120and note,121,132,147,185,186,199,302Divine scapegoats,189et seq.Dodge, Colonel, on North American beliefs,88,89Donnelly, Mr. W. A., discovery of stones marked with cup and ring,&c,245,246Dos Santos, on Caffre beliefs,97and note,234,235Druid: origin of the word,215noteDruid circles,242Druids, gathering mistletoe,215Dumbuck (Scotland): marked stones at,245,246,253Dunbuie (Scotland): stones marked with rings at,245.246,247,253Duncan. Hon. L. M.: fire-walking,277Dyaks, their superstition regarding new-born children,261EABANI(feast of),164,165,166,178,180,181Eddaic myth of Balder,213-217Egyptian Book of the Dead,72; gods, tombs and mummies,90;King of Unreason,105; sacrifice of red-haired men,128Ellis, Sir A. B.,13; theory of borrowed gods,42; on Ashanti harvestfestival,188Erech, Eabani feast at,164,165Esther, Book of,147,180; theories concerning,161-181Ethiopian kings of Meroe: worshipped as gods, killed by priests,96Evolution of gods,82et seq.Euhemerism,90European influences on savage beliefs,11Euthyphro, cited,59,60Everard, Mr. H. S. C, cited,211Eyeos, sacrifice of king of,98,221Eyre, Mr., on the Australian blacks' idea of origin of creation,40,41Ezekiel,151,176FARWARDIGAN(Persian feast),168,169Fijian hymns,72; periods of licence,195,196,198; fire ceremony,273,277-283,288Fire-walking,270et seq.First-born, eating the,54First-fruits,267et seq.Fisher's ghost,54Fison, Mr. Lorimer, on the emerging of gods from ancestors,50,56Foelsche, Mr., on savage belief in a benevolent creator or demiurge,57note,58Frazer, Mr. J. G., theories of: comparative study of human beliefsand institutions,6,7;religion the despair of magic,10,60;magic preceded the invention of god47;limited definition of religion,48,59;the Australians who practise magic have little or no religion,49-52;on the Jewish Passover,53; its Australian parallel,53,54;speculative generalisations,55;arbitrary selection of witnesses,55-58;ascription of wrong beliefs to the Arunta,61;inadvertent proof that irreligious Australians are religious,62-65;invented powerful beings,68;religion, the conciliation of higher powers by prayer and sacrifice,69;shooting stars,74; imported religious ideas,75;origin of the belief in the divinity of Christ,76-78;use of the legend of Dasius,79,109-115;mental prepossession on the Crucifixion,80;double pairs of divinised human beings,82;alleged mortality of gods,85-94;religious regicide,94-100;annual religious regicide,101-104;mock kings,103et seq.;persons who suffer for god-man kings,104-107;survivals of human sacrifice at the Saturnalia,109-115;modern Carnival,110,111;the Greek Cronia,115-118;the Sacæa,118-122;again mock kings,120,121,123;attempts to prove the Sacæan criminal divine,123-140;sacrifice by hanging,127-132;date of the Sacæa,135-138; theSacæan victim,138;analogies of Zakmuk, Sacæa, and Purim,141-160;human victims at Purim,153;connection of Mordecai, Esther, Vashti, and Haman with Babylonianand Elamite gods,161;the ride of the beardless Persian buffoon,168,171,301-305;festivals of licence,185-199;divine scapegoat,189;Calvary,200-204;the ghastly priest of the grove of Diana,206-223;the Quiteva,234; taboo,268; fire-walking,270Fuegian idea on flapper shooting,267GASON, Mr., on the beliefs of the Dieri,56,57note; on Mara Mura,62,63German theory of Purim,147Georgia, stone-markings in,243Ghost-worship,31Gilgamesh and Eabani, legend of,164,165,180,181Gillen.SeeSpencer and GillenGingero, king of: killed by kinsmen if wounded in war,96Gods, the evolution of,82et seq.Goethe, and native Australian beliefs,35Gold Coast: savage period of licence,186Goodwin, Mr.: fire-walking,275Gorten, Mr.: fire-walking,292Gounja Ticquoa (Hottentot supreme deity),232Greek religious beliefs paralleled with those of savage races,38;graves of gods,90,93Greenlanders: religious beliefs,87,88Greenway, Mr., on the derivation of Baiame,25;44Greyhair: Zulu superstition concerning,97Grogoragally (Aust. son of god),36,37,39Gudgeon, Colonel: the Te Umuti, or fire-walking,273,274,276,285Günther, Mr., cited,44Guyaquar Indians, human sacrifices by, when sowing,127HADDON, Mr.: New Guinea art,249Haggard, Colonel Andrew, on fire-walking,284,285Haggard, Mr. Rider, cited,228Hale, Mr. Horace, on the Australian god Baiame,25,27,28,29;on Koin,27; cited,43Hall, Mr. S. C.: fire-handling,276Haman: theories concerning,134,161-181Haman (Elamite deity),78Hanging, sacrifice by,77,78,80,127et seq.,138,148,153,175,177,178,189,195,197,199Hartland, Mr., quoted, on savage ideas of superior beings,35,36;