Eating the bodies of aged relations, custom of, 14 Echinadian Islands, 6 Eclipse of the sun and moon, belief of the Tahitians as to, 73 _n._2; practice of the Chilcotin Indians at an, 77 Ecliptic perhaps mimicked in dances, 77 Effigies of Carnival, 222 _sqq._; of Shrove Tuesday, 227 _sqq._; of Death, 233 _sqq._, 246 _sqq._; seven-legged, of Lent in Spain and Italy, 244 _sq._; of Winter burnt at Zurich, 260 _sq._; of Kupalo, Kostroma, and Yarilo in Russia, 262 _sq._ Effigy, human sacrifices carried out in, 217 _sqq._ Egbas, the, 41 Egypt, temporary kings in Upper, 151 _sq._; mock human sacrifices in ancient, 217 Egyptian gods, mortality of the ancient, 4 _sqq._; influence on Christian doctrine of the Trinity, 5 _n._3; kings called bulls, 72; trinities of gods, 5 _n._3 Eimine Ban, an Irish abbot, 159 _n._1 Eldest sons sacrificed for their fathers, 161 _sqq._ Elliot, R. H., 136 Emain, fair at, 100 Embalming as a means of prolonging the life of the soul, 4 Encheleans, the, 84 Endymion at Olympia, 90; his tomb at Olympia, 287 English middle class, their clinging to life, 146 Ἐννέωρος βασίλευε, 70 _n._3 Eponymate, the Assyrian, 116 _sq._ Eponymous magistrates, 117 _n._1 Equinox, the spring, custom of swinging at, 284; drama of Summer and Winter at the spring, 257 Erechtheum, the, 87 Erechtheus or Erichthonius in relation to the sacred serpent on the Acropolis, 86 _sq._; voluntary death of the daughters of, 192 _n._3 Ergamenes, king of Meroe, 15 Erichthonius, 86. _See_ Erechtheus Erigone, her suicide by hanging, 281 _sq._ Erzgebirge, Shrovetide custom in the, 208 _sq._ Esagil, temple of Marduk at Babylon, 113 Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, 116 Esquimaux, suicide among the, 43; their magical ceremony in autumn, 259 Esthonian belief as to falling stars, 66 _sq._; celebration of St. John’s Day, 280; custom on Shrove Tuesday, 233, 252 _sq._ Esthonians, their ideas of shooting stars, 63 Ethiopia, kings of, chosen for their beauty, 38 _sq._ Ethiopian kings of Meroe put to death, 15 Etruscan ceremony at founding cities, 157 Euphorion of Chalcis, Greek author, 143, 144 Europa, her wanderings, 89; and Zeus, 73 European beliefs as to shooting stars, 66 _sqq._; fear of death, 135 _sq._, 146 Evans, Sebastian, 122 _n._1 Eve, Easter, in Albania, 265 Eve of St. John (Midsummer Eve), Russian ceremony on, 262 Ewe negroes, the, 61 Expiation for killing sacred animals, 216 _sq._ Eyeo, kings of, put to death, 40 _sq._ Ezekiel, on the sacrifice of the firstborn, 171 _sq._ E-zida, the temple of Nabu, 110 Fairs of ancient Ireland, 99 _sqq._ Fashoda, the capital of the Shilluk kings, 18, 19, 21, 24 Father god succeeded by his divine son, 5 Fazoql or Fazolglou, kings of, put to death, 16 Fear of death entertained by the European races, 135 _sq._, 146 “Feeding the dead,” 102 _Feriae Latinae_, 283 Feronia, a Latin goddess, 186 _n._4