Oak, sacred, at Delphi, 80 _sq._; effigy of Death buried under an, 236 Oak branches, Whitsuntide mummer swathed in, 207 —— -leaves, crown of, 80 _sqq._ Oath by the Styx, 70 _n._1 Octennial cycle based on an attempt to harmonise lunar and solar time, 68 _sq._ —— tenure of the kingship, 58 _sqq._ Odin, 13; legend of the deposition of, 56; sacrifice of king’s sons to, 57; human sacrifices to, 160 _sq._, 188 Oedipus, legend of, 193 Oenomaus at Olympia, 91 Oesel, island of, 66 Old Man, name of the corn-spirit, 253 _sq._ —— people killed, 11 _sqq._ —— Wives, the Day of the, 241 —— Woman, Sawing the, a ceremony in Lent, 240 _sqq._; name applied to the corn-spirit, 253 _sq._ Oldenberg, Professor H., 122 _n._2 Oleae, the, at Orchomenus, 163, 164 Olive crown at Olympia, 91 Olympia, tombs of Pelops and Endymion at, 287 Olympiads based on the octennial cycle, 90 Olympic festival based on the octennial cycle, 89 _sq._; based on astronomical, not agricultural considerations, 105 —— games said to have been founded in honour of Pelops, 92 —— stadium, the, 287 —— victors regarded as embodiments of Zeus, 90 _sq._, or of the Sun and Moon, 91, 105 Omen-birds, stories of their origin, 126, 127 _sq._ On or Aun, king of Sweden, 57, 160 _sq._, 188 Opheltes at Nemea, 93 Ophites, the, 5 _n._3 Oracular springs, 79 _sq._ Orchomenus in Boeotia, human sacrifice at, 163 _sq._ Ordeal by poison, fatal effects of, 197 Orestes, flight of, 213 Origen, on the Holy Spirit, 5 _n._3 Orion the soul of Horus, 5 _Ororo_, 24 Osiris, the mummy of, 4 Otho, suicide of the Emperor, 140 Ox-blood, bath of, 201 Oxen sacrificed instead of human beings, 166 _n._1 Palermo, ceremony of “Sawing the Old Woman” at, 240 Palm Sunday, “Sawing the Old Woman” on, 243 Palodes, 6 Pan, death of the Great, 6 _sq._ Panebian Libyans, their custom of cutting off the heads of their dead kings, 202 Papuans, the, of Doreh Bay in New Guinea, 287 Parker, Professor E. H., 146 _n._1 Parkinson, John, 112 _sq._ Parrots’ eggs, a signal of death, 40 _sq._ Parsons, Harold G., 203 _n._5 Parthenon, eastern frieze of the, 89 _n._5 Pârvatî and Siva, marriage of the images of, 265 _sq._ Pasiphae identified with the moon, 72 —— and the bull, 71 “Pass through the fire,” meaning of the phrase as applied to the sacrifice of children, 165 _n._3, 172 Passier, kings of, put to death, 51 _sq._ Passover, tradition of the origin of the, 174 _sqq._ Pau Pi, an effigy of the Carnival, 225 Pausanias, King, funeral games in his honour, 94 Payagua Indians, 12 Payne, E. J., 69 _n._2 Paxos, 6 _Peking Gazette_, 274, 275 Pelops worshipped at Olympia, 92, 104; sacred precinct of, 104, 287 —— and Hippodamia at Olympia, 91 Penance for the slaughter of the dragon, 78 Peregrinus, his death by fire, 42 Persia, temporary kings in, 157 _sqq._ Personification of abstract ideas not primitive, 253