[737] St. John’s _Life in the Far East_, I., 67. [738] See page 73, _supra_. [739] See page 75, _supra_. [740] Allingham’s _Ballad Book_, p. 6 f. [741] _Todtenbuch_, xvii., 42, 43. [742] Renouf’s _The Relig. of Anc. Egypt_, p. 107. [743] Renouf’s _The Relig. of Anc. Egypt_, p. 107. [744] _Miss. Voyage to So. Pacif. Ocean_, p. 65. [745] See E. R. Smith’s _The Araucanians_, p. 262. [746] Power’s “Tribes of California,” in _Contrib. to No. Am. Ethnol._, III., 247. [747] _Principles of Sociology_, II., 21. [748] 1 Cor. 13 : 11. [749] See note at page 218, _supra_. [750] See pages 65-77, _supra_. [751] 2 Cor. 5 : 17; Eph. 4 : 24; Col. 3 : 9, 10. [752] Angas’s _Savage Life_, I., 114-116. [753] See references to drawing blood from the forehead, at page 86 ff., _supra_. [754] See pages 85-88, _supra_. [755] Ellis’s _Polynesian Researches_, II., 569 f. [756] See Prov. 27 : 9. [757] Cited from Capt. Grant’s description; in Wood’s _Unciv. Races_, I., 440. [758] _Ibid._, II., 81. [759] Williams and Calvert’s _Fiji and Fijians_, p. 35. [760] _Indian Sign Language_, s. v. “Brother.” [761] _Contributions to No. Am. Ethnology_, Vol. III., p. 68. [762] Dodge’s _Our Wild Indians_, page 514 f. [763] Is there any correspondence between this word, _taq’a_, and the Hindoo word _tika_ (the blood-mark on the Rajput chief), referred to at page 137, _supra_? INDEXES. TOPICAL INDEX. Abel, his blood-giving, 210 ff. Abimelech, his covenant: with Abraham, 265; with Isaac, 267 f. Abraham: The friend of God, 215-221; his blood-giving, 217-221; his faith-testing, 224-230; his covenant with Abimelech, 265 f. Adoption, blood used in, 195 f. Ahab’s fate, significance of, 312. Altar, a table of communion, 167, 292 f. Amulet: house of the, 7, 65, 298; of the covenant, 81 f., 83, 232-238. See Phylactery: Token of covenant. Anointing with blood: in Central America, 90 f.; in Arabia, 120; in the Arthurian romance, 120 f.; among the Bheels, 136 f.; among the Caribs, 137 f.; among the Central Africans, 138; among the Chinese, 154; among the North American Indians, 306 f.; among the Australians, 336 f. Antiquity of the blood-covenant, 6, 58 ff., 77 ff., 206, 320. Ark, the, covering record of blood covenant, 298. See Amulet, house of the. Assiratum, its meaning, 63 ff. Avenger of blood. See Goel. Baal-bereeth: god-father in circumcision, 218; god of the covenant, 218, 317. Banquet, connection of, with sacrifice: in China, 148 ff.; in India, 159 ff.; in Babylonia and Assyria, 167; among the Bed´ween, 179 f.; among American Indians, 179 f. Bed´ween Brotherhoods, 9 f. See also Blood-covenant. Belt: royal, of Tahiti, 328; wampum of American Indian, a covenant record, 326 ff.