Astarte at Byblus, i. 13 _sq._; and the _asherim_, 18; kings as priests of, 26; at Paphos, 33 _sqq._; doves sacred to, 147; identified with the planet Venus, 258; of the Syrian Hierapolis served by eunuch priests, 269 _sq._; called by Lucian the Assyrian Hera, 280 _n._ 5; the Heavenly Goddess, 303; the planet Venus her star, ii. 35 —— Aphrodite, i. 304 _n._ Asteria, mother of the Tyrian Hercules (Melcarth), i. 112 Astyages, king of the Medes, i. 133 _n._ 1 _Asvattha_ tree, i. 82 Atargatis, Syrian goddess, i. 34 _n._ 3, 137; worshipped at Hierapolis-Bambyce, 162 _sq._; derivation of the name, 162; her husband-god, 162 _sq._ Ates, a Phrygian, i. 286 Athamas, the dynasty of, i. 287 Athanasius, on the mourning for Osiris, ii. 217 ’Atheh, Cilician goddess, i. 162 Athena, temple of, at Salamis in Cyprus, i. 145; and hot springs, 209, 210 ——, Magarsian, a Cilician goddess, i. 169 _n._ 3 —— Sciras, sanctuary of, ii. 238 Athenian boys, race of, at the vintage, ii. 238; boy carrying an olive-branch in procession, 238 Athenians, their superstition as to an eclipse of the moon, ii. 141 Athens, sacred serpent at, i. 87; the Commemoration of the Dead at, 234; sacrifice of an ox at, 296 _sq._; marriage custom at, ii. 245 Athribis, heart of Osiris at, ii. 11 Athyr, Egyptian month, ii. 8, 41, 49 _n._ 1; Osiris murdered on the seventeenth day of, 8, 84; festival of Osiris in the month of, 84 _sqq._, 91 Atonga, tribe of Lake Nyassa, their theory of earthquakes, i. 199 Attica, summer festival of Adonis in, i. 226 Attis, priests of Cybele called, i. 140; sometimes identified with Adonis, 263; myth and ritual of, 263 _sqq._; beloved by Cybele, 263, 282; legends of his death, 264; his legend at Pessinus, 264; his self-mutilation, 264 _sq._; and the pine-tree, 264, 265, 267, 271, 277 _sq._, 285, ii. 98 _n._ 5; his eunuch priests, i. 265, 266; festival of his death and resurrection in March, 267 _sqq._, 272 _sq._, 307 _sq._; violets sprung from the blood of, 267; the mourning for, 272; bath of bull’s blood in the rites of, 274 _sqq._; mysteries of, 274 _sq._; as a god of vegetation, 277 _sqq._, 279; as the Father God, 281 _sqq._; identified with Zeus, 282; as a sky-god, 282 _sqq._; emasculation of, suggested explanation of myth, 283; his star-spangled cap, 284; identified with Phrygian moon-god Men Tyrannus, 284; human representatives of, 285 _sqq._; title borne by priests of Cybele, 285, 287 ——, Adonis, Osiris, their mythical similarity, i. 6, ii. 201 Atys, son of Croesus, his death, i. 286; early king of Lydia, 286 Aubrey, John, on soul-cakes, ii. 78 Augustine on the effeminate priests of the Great Mother, i. 298; on the heathen origin of Christmas, 305; on the discovery of corn by Isis, ii. 116; on Salacia as the wife of Neptune, 233 Augustodunum (Autun), worship of Cybele at, i. 279 Augustus reputed a son of Apollo, i. 81