Arenna or Arinna, i. 136 _n._ 1; the sun-goddess of, 136 Arensdorf, custom at sowing in, i. 239 Argaeus, Mount, in Cappadocia, i. 190 _sq._ Argive brides wore false beards, ii. 260 —— women bewail Adonis, i. 227 _n._ Aristomenes, Messenian hero, his fabulous birth, i. 81 Aristophanes, on the Spartan envoy, i. 196 _n._ 4; on Hercules as patron of hot springs, 209 Aristotelian philosophy, revival of the, i. 301 Aristotle on the political institutions of Cyprus, i. 49 _n._ 7; on earthquakes, 211 _n._ 3 _Armengols_, in the Pelew Islands, ii. 265 Armenia, sacred prostitution of girls before marriage in, i. 38, 58 Armenians, their festivals of the dead, ii. 65 _sq._; their opinion of the baleful influence of the moon on children, 148 Arrian on Attis, i. 282 Artemis at Perga, i. 35; name given by Greeks to Asiatic Mother Goddesses, 169 —— and Apollo, their priesthood at Ephesus, ii. 243 —— of Ephesus served by eunuch priests, i. 269 —— the Hanged, i. 291 ——, Laphrian, at Patrae, i. 126 _n._ 2 ——, Perasian, at Castabala, i. 115, 167 _sqq._ ——, Sarpedonian, in Cilicia, i. 167, 171 —— Tauropolis, i. 275 _n._ 1 ——, the Tauric, human sacrifices to the, i. 115 Artemision, a Greek month, ii. 239 _n._ 1 Arunta of Central Australia, their belief in the reincarnation of the dead, i. 99, 100 Arval Brethren, their wreaths of corn, i. 44 _n._; a Roman college of priests, ii. 239 Aryan family, marriage customs of the, ii. 235 Aryans, their alleged Arctic origin, i. 229 _n._ 1; annual festivals of the dead among the, ii. 67 _sqq._ Aryenis, daughter of Alyattes, i. 133 _n._ 1 Ascalon, the goddess Derceto at, i. 34 _n._ 3 Ascension of Adonis, i. 225 Ashantee, human sacrifices at earthquakes in, i. 201; kings of, their human sacrifices, ii. 97 _n._ 7 _Asherim_, sacred poles, i. 18, 18 _n._ 2, 107, 108 Ashes of human victims scattered by winnowing-fans, ii. 97, 106 Ashtoreth (Astarte), i. 18 _n._ 2 _See_ Astarte Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria, i. 144; confused with the legendary Sardanapalus, 173 _sq._; carries off the bones of the kings of Elam, ii. 103 Ashvin, an Indian month, i. 243 Asia Minor, priestly dynasties of, i. 140 _sq._; subject to volcanic forces, 190; subject to earthquakes, 202 Asiatic goddesses of fertility served by eunuch priests, i. 269 _sq._ Asopus, the river, i. 81 “A-souling,” custom of, in England, ii. 79 Aspalis, a form of Artemis, i. 292 Assam, the Khasis of, i. 46, ii. 202 _sqq._; the Tangkul Nagas of, ii. 57 _sqq._ Assumption of the Virgin and the festival of Diana, i. 308, 309 Assyrian cavalry, i. 25 _n._ 3 Assyrians in Cilicia, i. 173