UBEBE (Zulu native), on his race's beliefs, 230, 231
Ukoto (Zulu native), on his race's beliefs, 228, 229
Ulangeni (Zulu native): repudiates idea of borrowed
Hottentot deity, 231, 232
Umdabuko (Zulu creator), 229, 230
Umdali (Kaffir creator), 232
Umhlanga (Zulu), bed of reeds whence man sprung, 230
Umpengula Mbandi (Zulu native), on native beliefs, 228, 229,
230, 232, 238
Umvelingangi (Zulu deity), 225, 228
Unkulunkulu (Zulu deity), 89, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231,
233, 235, 236, 238
Unyoro, the king of: not allowed by his wives a natural death, 96
Upolu (Samoan Islands): sacred tree asylums for criminals, 219
Urabunna (tribe of Central Australia), 16
Urkus (savage tribe), 58
Uthlanga (Zulu source of being), 230
Utikxo (Zulu deity), 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 230, 238
VASHTI, theories concerning, 78, 161, 171, 175, 177, 178, 180
Vave (Samoan god), 219
Vegetation, gods of, 5, 206 _et seq._
Virbius (deity of vegetation), 139
Virgil, his golden bough, 207 _et seq._
Virginia: aborigines' chief god Okki, 19
Volsunga Saga: the magical sword, 207, 211
WAITZ, Dr.: on Australian religious customs, 30;
rejects the hypothesis of Australian borrowed beliefs, 43, 44;
quoted, 232
Walking through fire, 270 _et seq._
Wallace, Sir William: mock crowning, 203
Warramunga (Australian tribe): sacred rock-drawing, 246
Wathi Wathi (New South Wales tribe),
religious beliefs, 70, 72, 74
Way of Souls, the, 72, 73
Wellhausen, Dr.: on the Jewish exile, 181
West Africa, taboo in, 259;
human sacrifices, 128
Wilson, Professor Daniel, on cups and rings, 243, 244
Winslow, quoted, on Kiehtan (New England native deity), 20, 38
Wiraijuri (Australian tribe), beliefs of, 66
Witchcraft. _See_ Magic
Woiworung dirge, a, 41
Women debarred from the mysteries, 27, 33, 52, 71
XERXES (the king in Book of Esther), 148, 161, 167
YERRUNTHALLY (Queensland tribe): idea of shooting stars, 74
Ynglinga Saga, the, 214
ZAGMUK, Zakmuk (Babylonian festival), details and theories concerning,
118, 137, 141-144, 145-160, 162, 163, 164, 165, 179, 181, 301
Zeus, grave of, 90, 93; 157
Zoganes (Babylonian slave-lord), theories concerning, 124, 125, 130,
139, 185, 186, 195, 196, 197, 198
Zulus: ghost worshippers, 31;
religious beliefs, 97;
period of licence, 188, 195;
harvest custom, 267.
_See_ under tribal names
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