Birth: representation in Mbari Houses, 15, 24, 51; due to Jujus, 60. Blood and Fertility, 102, 128-9. Burial. _See_ Death. C Chief of town, must be priest of Ale, 12. Child birth, tabus re, 63. Coiffure, representations in Mbari Houses, 15, 41. Cooking cones. _See_ Eku, 82 _et seq._ Copulation: method of, 24-5; with the dead, 132; unnatural, 33-6; tabus re, 32-3, 121 _et seq._; and cults of Earth Goddess and Thunder God, 15, 48. Crocodile, depicted on Ikoro drum etc., 4, 7, 9. Cult, yam, 99 _et seq._ _See_ Fertility. D Dance, at Elele, 116 _et seq._ Death, tabus re, 62-4. Drum, the Great, 1 _et seq._ E Earth. _See_ Goddess. Spousals with Sky, 61. Egyptians, Ancient, 75; Legend re Horus, 85. Ekkpahian, sub-tribe of, Ibo, and unnatural copulation, 34-6. Ekoi, Semi-Bantu tribe, 65, 79. Eku, phallic figures, 82 _et seq._ Eleche, Priest of Aya-Eke yam cult, 104 _et seq._ Elele, Ikwerri Ibo town, home of Aya-Eke Yam cult, 103. Etche, sub-tribe of Ibo, builders of Mbari Houses, 12, 20, 23, 40 _et seq._ Ethnological Sketch by P. Amaury Talbot, v. F Farms, 99. _See_ Fertility. Fertility: of farms, 50, 99 _et seq._; of farms and flocks, 36, 113; and Jujus, _see_ Ibudu, 65 _et seq._; linked with priest, 103; desire for, 133; and blood, 128-9. _See_ Ancestors, also Earth Goddess, esp. 40-1, 48, 60. Frazer, Sir James, 85. Fruitfulness. _See_ Fertility. G Genital Organs, 65-6, 70, 5-6. _See_ Phallic, Symbols. Ghosts. _See_ Ancestors. Girls, and initiatory ceremonies, 14, 82 _et seq._ God, of Lightning and Thunder, Amade Onhia or Amad’ongha, 52 _et seq._; and Mbari shrine, 12, 20-1, 27, 30-1, 40, 43; symbols, 47; signs of, 57; his ‘Palms’, 46; his Priest, 49, 56; and witchcraft, 57, 136. God, Sky, 52 _et seq._, 61. Goddess, Earth, 9, 52 _et seq._; the coming of, 135; and Mbari shrines, 12, 16, 21, 26, 30, 40; and Ancestors, 120 _et seq._; and witchcraft, 136. H Head-Dresses: of Obukere Society, 37-8; representation in Mbari Houses, _see_ Coiffure. Horn of Plenty, 9. I Ibibio Tribe, 64-5, 85. Ibo Tribe: v. Ibodo, Etche Ibo town, 42, 44. Ibudu, phallic pillars, 65 _et seq._ Ikoro Drum, 2 _et seq._ Initiatory ceremonies, feminine. _See_ Girls. Intercourse. _See_ Copulation. J Jekri, sub-tribe of Yoruba, Tabus re copulation, 124. Johnston, Sir Harry, 56. Jujus, and Fertility of human beings, 60, 65. K Kalabari, sub-tribe of Ijaw, v, 56; and double Ibudu, 77-8. L Lightning: and trees, 58; God of, _see_ God. M Marriage: among Okrikans, 120; ideal, 89; betrothed girls, 82 _et seq._
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