Aulus Gellius on the influence of the moon, ii. 132 Aun, or On, King of Sweden, sacrifices his sons to Odin, ii. 220 Aunis, feast of All Souls in, ii. 69 _sq._ Aurelia Aemilia, a sacred harlot, i. 38 Aurohuacas, Indians of Colombia, i. 23 _n._ 2 Aust, E., on the marriage of the Roman gods, ii. 236 _n._ 1 Australia, belief as to the reincarnation of the dead in, i. 99 _sqq._ Australian aborigines, their preparation for marriage, i. 60; their belief in conception without sexual intercourse, 99 _sqq._; their cuttings for the dead, 268 Austria, leaping over Midsummer fires in, i. 251 “Awakening of Hercules,” festival at Tyre, i. 111 Awemba, Bantu tribe of Rhodesia, ii. 174; their worship of ancestral spirits, 175; their prayers to dead kings before going to war, 191 _sq._ Axe, emblem of Hittite god of thundering sky, i. 134; as divine emblem, 163; symbol of Asiatic thunder-god, 183 ——, double-headed, symbol of Sandan, i. 127; carried by Lydian kings, 182; a palladium of the Heraclid sovereignty, 182; figured on coins, 183 _n._ Ba-bwende, a tribe of the Congo, i. 271 _n._ Ba-sundi, a tribe of the Congo, i. 271 _n._ Baal, Semitic god, i. 15, 16; royal names compounded with, 16; as the god of fertility, 26 _sq._; conceived as god who fertilizes land by subterranean water, 159 —— and Sandan at Tarsus, i. 142 _sq._, 161 —— of the Lebanon, i. 32 —— of Tarsus, i. 117 _sqq._, 162 _sq._ Baalath or Astarte, i. 26, 34 —— and Baal, i. 27 —— Gebal, i. 14 Baalbec, i. 28; sacred prostitution at, 37; image of Hadad at, 163 Baalim, firstlings and first-fruits offered to the, i. 27; called lovers, 75 _n._ Babylon, early kings of, worshipped as gods, i. 15; worship of Mylitta at, 36; religious prostitution at, 58; human wives of Marduk at, 71; sanctuary of Serapis at, ii. 119 _n._ Babylonia, worship of Tammuz in, i. 6 _sqq._; the moon-god took precedence of the sun-god in ancient, ii. 138 _sq._ Babylonian hymns to Tammuz, i. 9 Bacchanals tear Pentheus in pieces, ii. 98 Bacchic orgies suppressed by Roman government, i. 301 _n._ 2 Bacchylides as to Croesus on the pyre, i. 175 _sq._ Backbone of Osiris represented by the _ded_ pillar, ii. 108 _sq._ Baden, feast of All Souls in, ii. 74 Baethgen, F., on goddess ’Hatheh, i. 162 _n._ 2 Baganda, their worship of the python, i. 86; rebirth of the dead among the, 92 _sq._; their theory of earthquakes, 199; their presentation of infants to the new moon, ii. 144, 145; ceremony observed by the king at new moon, 147; their worship of dead kings, 167 _sqq._; their veneration for the ghosts of dead relations, 191 _n._ 1; their pantheon, 196; human sacrifices offered to prolong the life of their kings, 223 _sqq._ Bagishu (Bageshu) of Mount Elgon, reincarnation of the dead among the, i. 92