The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 06 of 12)Frazer, James George
Religion
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 06 of 12)
Frazer, James George
Magic; Mythology; Religion; Superstition
Buru, East Indian island, use of oil as a charm in, i. 21 _n._ 2
Busiris, backbone of Osiris at, ii. 11;
specially associated with Osiris, 18;
the ritual of, 86;
rites of Osiris at, 87 _sq._;
festival of Osiris in the month of Khoiak at, 108;
temple of Usirniri at, 151
Busiro, the district containing the graves and temples of the kings of
Uganda, ii. 168, 169, 224
Bustard totem, i. 104
Buto, city in Egypt, ii. 10
Butterflies, soul of a dead king incarnate in, ii. 164
Byblus, Adonis at, i. 13 _sqq._;
the kings of, 14 _sqq._;
mourning for Adonis at, 38;
religious prostitution at, 58;
inspired prophets at, 75 _sq._;
festival of Adonis at, 225;
Osiris and Isis at, ii. 9;
the queen of, 9;
Osiris associated with, 22 _sq._, 127;
its relation to Egypt, 127 _n._ 1
Byrsa, origin of the name, ii. 250
Cadmus turned into a snake, i. 86 _sq._;
perhaps personated by the Laurel-bearer at Thebes, ii. 241
——, Mount, i. 207
Cadys, a Lydian, i. 183
Caeculus, son of the fire-god Vulcan, ii. 235
Caesar introduces the Julian calendar, ii. 37;
as to German observation of the moon, 141
Caffre purificatory ceremonies after a battle, ii. 251 _sq._
Cairo, ceremony of cutting the dams at, ii. 38, 39 _sq._
Calabar district, heads of chiefs buried secretly in the, ii. 104
Calabria, Easter custom in, i. 254
Calauria, Poseidon worshipped in, i. 203 _n._ 2
Calendar, the natural, ii. 25
——, the Alexandrian, used by Plutarch, ii. 84
——, the Coptic, ii. 6 _n._ 3
——, the Egyptian, ii. 24 _sqq._;
date of its introduction, 36 _n._ 2
—— of the Egyptian farmer, ii. 30 _sqq._
—— of Esne, ii. 49 _sq._
—— of the Indians of Yucatan, ii. 28 _n._
——, the Julian, ii. 93 _n._ 1
—— of the ancient Mexicans, its mode of intercalation, ii. 28 _n._ 3
—— of Philocalus, i. 303 _n._ 2, 304 _n._ 3, ii. 95 _n._ 1
Calendars, the Roman Rustic, ii. 95 _n._ 1
California, the Karok Indians of, ii. 47;
the Indians of, their annual festivals of the dead, 52 _sq._
Californian Indians eat pine nuts, i. 278 _n._ 2;
their notion that the owl is the guardian of the “California big tree,”
ii. 111 _n._ 1
Callaway, Rev. Henry, on the worship of the dead among the Zulus, ii. 184
_sq._
Callirrhoe, the springs of, in Moab, i. 214 _sqq._
Calpurnius Piso, L., on the wife of Vulcan, ii. 232 _sq._
Calycadnus River, in Cilicia, i. 167 _n._ 2
Camasene and Janus, ii. 235 _n._ 6
Cambodia, annual festival of the dead in, ii. 61 _sq._
Cambridge, personal relics of Kibuka, the war-god of the Baganda,
preserved at, ii. 197
Cambyses, king of Persia, his treatment of Amasis, i. 176 _n._ 2
Cameroon negroes, expiation for homicide among the, i. 299 _n._ 2
Camul, custom as to hospitality in, i. 39 _n._ 3
Canaanite kings of Jerusalem, i. 17
Canathus, Hera’s annual bath in the spring of, i. 280
Candaules, king of Lydia, i. 182, 183
Canicular year, a Sothic period, ii. 36 _n._ 2
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