ADONIS. _See_ Tammuz Agathias (Byzantine poet), cited, 130 Ahone (aboriginal N. American god), 20, 39 Alatunjas (Arunta headmen), 101, 259, 260, 265, 267, 269 Alcheringa (mythical heroic age, or period of fabulous ancestors, of the Arunta), 15, 251, 253, 254 Alcheringites (fabulous ancestors), 251, 252 Algonquin deity, 39 Alkna Buma (Arunta clairvoyant), and new-born babies, 262 Amadhlozi (Zulu ancestral spirits), 227, 228 Anahuac: human sacrifices, 193 Anaitis (Persian love goddess), 119, 194 Andamanese: religious beliefs, 231, 232 Andouagni (aboriginal Canadian god), 10; no form of prayer addressed to 10, 11, 12, 21, 89 Anthropology, 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. _See_ under names of tribes and gods Argyllshire: superstition among women connected with cup-marked rocks, 252, 254 Arician grove of Diana, the, and its ghastly priest, 207 _et seq._ Arthurian legend: the magical sword, 211 Arunta (tribe of Central Australia), their theory of evolution of our species 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, 265 note, 266, 267 Ashanti: licence at the harvest festival, 188, 189 Asia Minor Greek cities: use of scapegoats in times of calamity, 190 Astarte (Semitic goddess). _See_ Ishtar Atahocan (Huron deity), 42, 89, 238, 296, 297 Athenæus, on the Sacæa, 119, 120, 121; cited, 132, 185, 186, 195, 196 Athenian festival of Cronos, 116, 117 Athens: scapegoats killed in times of distress, 190 Atholl, Earl of (pretender to royalty), mock crowning of, 203 Atua (Samoan), tree of protection, 219 Australian 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, 245 _et seq._; fire ceremony of, 271. _See_ also under tribal names Aztecs: beliefs, 75; human sacrifice at harvest festival, 127, 173, 300