Africa, serpents as reincarnations of the dead in, i. 82 _sqq._; infant burial in, 91 _sq._; reincarnation of the dead in, 91 _sq._; annual festivals of the dead in, ii. 66; worship of dead kings and chiefs in, 160 _sqq._; supreme gods in, 165, 173 _sq._, 174, 186, with _n._ 5, 187 _n._ 1, 188 _sq._, 190; worship of ancestral spirits among the Bantu tribes of, 174 _sqq._; inheritance of the kingship under mother-kin in, 211 ——, North, custom of bathing at Midsummer among the Mohammedan peoples of, i. 249 ——, West, sacred men and women in, i. 65 _sqq._; human sacrifices in, ii. 99 _n._ 2 Afterbirth or placenta regarded as a person’s double or twin, ii. 169 _sq._ See _also_ Placenta Afterbirths buried in banana groves, i. 93; regarded as twins of the children, 93; Shilluk kings interred where their afterbirths are buried, ii. 162 Agbasia, West African god, i. 79 Agdestis, a man-monster in the myth of Attis, i. 269 Agesipolis, King of Sparta, his conduct in an earthquake, i. 196 Agraulus, daughter of Cecrops, worshipped at Salamis in Cyprus, i. 145, 146 Agricultural peoples worship the moon, ii. 138 _sq._ Agriculture, religious objections to, i. 88 _sqq._; in the hands of women in the Pelew Islands, ii. 206 _sq._; its tendency to produce a conservative character, 217 _sq._ Ahts of Vancouver Island regard the moon as the husband of the sun, ii. 139 _n._ 1 Airi, a deity of North-West India, i. 170 Aiyar, N. Subramhanya, on Indian dancing-girls, i. 63 _sqq._ Ajax and Teucer, names of priestly kings of Olba, i. 144 _sq._, 161 Akhetaton (Tell-el-Amarna), the capital of Amenophis IV., ii. 123 _n._ 1 Akikuyu of British East Africa, their worship of snakes, i. 67 _sq._; their belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead, 82, 85 Alaska, the Esquimaux of, ii. 51; the Koniags of, 106 Albania, marriage custom in, ii. 246 Albanians of the Caucasus, their worship of the moon, i. 73 Albinoes the offspring of the moon, i. 91 Albiruni, Arab geographer, on the Persian festival of the dead, ii. 68 Alcman on dew, ii. 137 Aleutians, effeminate sorcerers among the, ii. 254 Alexander Severus, at festival of Attis, i. 273 Alexander the Great expels a king of Paphos, i. 42; his fabulous birth, 81; assumes costumes of deities, 165; sacrifices to Megarsian Athena, 169 _n._ 3 Alexandria, festival of Adonis at, i. 224; the Serapeum at, ii. 119 _n._, 217 Alexandrian calendar, used by Plutarch, ii. 84 —— year, the fixed, ii. 28, 92; Plutarch’s use of the, 49 All Saints, feast of, perhaps substituted for an old pagan festival of the dead, ii. 82 _sq._ All Souls, feast of, ii. 51 _sqq._; originally a pagan festival of the dead, 81; instituted by Odilo, abbot of Clugny, 82 Allatu, Babylonian goddess, i. 9 Allifae in Samnium, baths of Hercules at, i. 213 _n._ 2 Almo, procession to the river, in the rites of Attis, i. 273.