Anje-a, a mythical being who brings children to women, i. 103 Anklets made of human sinews worn by king of Uganda, ii. 224 _sq._ Ankole, in Central Africa, the Bahima of, ii. 190 Anna, sister of Dido, i. 114 _n._ 1 Annam, offerings to the dead in spring in, i. 235 _n._ 1; annual festivals of the dead in, ii. 62 _sqq._ Annual death and resurrection of gods, i. 6 Anointing as a ceremony of consecration, i. 21 _n._ 2 and 3, 68, 74 —— sacred stones, custom of, i. 36 Antelopes, soul of a dead king incarnate in, ii. 163 _Anthesteria_, festival of the dead at Athens, i. 234 _sq._ Antigonus, King, i. 212 Antimachia in Cos, priest of Hercules at, ii. 258 Antioch, destroyed by an earthquake, i. 222 _n._ 1; festival of Adonis at, 227, 257 _sq._ Antiochus, Greek calendar of, i. 303 _n._ 3 Antwerp, feast of All Souls in, ii. 70 Anubis, Egyptian jackal-headed god, ii. 15, 18 _n._ 3, 22 _n._ 2; finds the body of Osiris, 85 Apameia, worship of Poseidon at, i. 195 Aphaca in Syria, sanctuary of Astarte at, i. 28, 259; meteor as signal for festival at, 259 Aphrodite, her sacred doves, i. 33, 147; sanctuary of, at Paphos, 33 _sqq._; the month of, 145; her blood dyes white roses red, 226; name applied to summer, ii. 41 —— and Adonis, i. 11 _sq._, 29, 280; their marriage celebrated at Alexandria, 224 —— and Cinyras, i. 48 _sq._ —— and Pygmalion, i. 49 _sq._ —— of the Lebanon, the mourning, i. 29 _sq._ Apinagos Indians of Brazil, their dances and presentation of children to the moon, ii. 145 _sqq._ Apis, sacred Egyptian bull, ii. 11, 119 _n._; mourning for the death of, i. 225; held to be an image of the soul of Osiris, ii. 130 Apollo, the friend of Cinyras, i. 54; music in the worship of, 54 _sq._; reputed father of Augustus, 81; the Catalonian, 147 _n._ 3; his musical contest with Marsyas, 288; purified at Tempe, ii. 240 —— and Artemis, their priesthood at Ephesus, ii. 243 _sq._ —— and Marsyas, i. 55 —— at Delphi, sacrifices of Croesus to, i. 180 _n._ 1; and the Dragon at Delphi, ii. 240 —— of the Golden Sword, i. 176 —— the Four-handed, ii. 250 _n._ 2 Apotheosis by being burnt alive, i. 179 _sq._ Appian, on the costume of a priest of Isis, ii. 85 _n._ 3 Apples forbidden to worshippers of Cybele and Attis, i. 280 _n._ 7 Apuleius, on the worship of Isis, ii. 119 _n._ Arab name for the scarlet anemone, i. 226 Arabic writer on the mourning for Tá-uz (Tammuz) in Harran, i. 230 Arabs resort to the springs of Callirrhoe in Moab, i. 215 _sq._ —— of Moab, their custom at harvest, ii. 48, 96; their remedies for ailments, 242 Aratus of Sicyon, deemed a son of Aesculapius, i. 81 Araucanian Indians of South America eat fruit of Araucanian pine, i. 278 _n._ 2 Araunah, the threshing-floor of, i. 24 Arcadians sacrifice to thunder and lightning, i. 157 Archigallus, high-priest of Attis, i. 268, 279; prophesies, 271 _n._ Arctic origin, alleged, of the Aryans, i. 229 _n._ 1