Sun represented by a bull, 71 _sq._; represented as a man with a bull’s head, 75; eclipses of the, beliefs and practices as to, 73 _n._2, 77; sacrifice of firstborn children to the, 183 _sq._; called “the golden swing in the sky,” 279 Sun and Moon, mythical and dramatic marriage of, 71, 73 _sq._, 78, 87 _sq._, 92, 105 Sunday of the Rose, 222 _n._1 Supply of kings, 134 _sqq._ Supreme Beings, otiose, in Africa, 19 _n._ Swabia, Whitsuntide mummers in, 207; Shrovetide or Lenten ceremonies in, 230, 233 Sweden, May Day in, 254 Swedish kings, traces of nine years’ reign of, 57 _sq._ Swing in the Sky, the Golden, description of the sun, 279 Swinging as a ceremony or magical rite, 150, 156 _sq._, 277 _sqq._; on hooks run through the body, Indian custom, 278 _sq._; as a mode of inspiration, 280; as a festal rite in modern Greece, Spain, and Italy, 283 _sq._ Swords, golden, 75 Syene, 144 _n._2 Syntengs of Assam, 55 Syro-Macedonian calendar, 116 _n._1 Tahiti, remarkable rule of succession in, 190 Tahitians, their notions as to eclipses of the sun and moon, 73 _n._2 Tailltiu or Tailltin, the fair of, 99, 101 Takilis or Carrier Indians, succession to the soul among the, 199 Talos, a bronze man, perhaps identical with the Minotaur, 74 _sq._ Tammuz or Adonis, 7 Tara, pagan cemetery at, 101 Tarahumares, the, of Mexico, 62 Taui Islanders, 61 Tchiglit Esquimaux, the, 65 Tel-El-Amarna tablets, 170 _n._5 Teltown, the fair at, 99 Tempe, the Vale of, 81 Temporary kings, 148 _sqq._ Tenedos, sacrifice of infants to Melicertes in, 162 Tengaroeng in Borneo, swinging at, 280, 281 _Thalavettiparothiam_, a custom observed in Malabar, 52 _sq._ Thamus, an Egyptian pilot, 6 Thebes, festival of the Laurel-Bearing at, 78 _sq._, 88 _sq._ Theopompus, 95 Theseus and Ariadne, 75 Thiodolf, the poet, 161 Thracians, funeral games held by the, 96; their contempt of death, 142 Throne, reverence for the, 51 Thüringen, Whitsuntide mummers in, 208; Carrying out Death in, 235 _sq._ Tiamat and Marduk, 105 _sq._, 107 _sq._ Tiberius, his enquiries as to the death of Pan, 7; his attempt to put down Carthaginian sacrifices of children, 168 Tilton, E. L., 232 Time, Greek and Latin modes of reckoning intervals of, 59 Timoleon, funeral games in his honour, 94 Tinneh Indians, the, 65, 278 Tirunavayi temple, 49 Tlachtga, pagan cemetery at, 101 Toboongkoos, mock human sacrifices among the, 219 _Todtenstein_, 264 Tonquinese custom of catching the soul of the dying, 200 Tooth of dead king kept, 203 Tophet, 169, 170, 171 Torres Straits, funeral custom in, 92 _sq._ Totemism of the Dinka, 30 _sq._; possible trace of Latin, 186 _n._4; the source of a particular type of folk-tales, 129 _sqq._ Totems, sacrifices to, 31; stories told to account for the origin of, 129 Toumou, Egyptian god, 5 Transformations into animals, 82 _sqq._