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
Christian, F. W., on the prostitution of unmarried girls in Yap, ii. 265
_sq._
Christian festivals displace heathen festivals, i. 308
Christianity and paganism, their resemblances explained as diabolical
counterfeits, i. 302, 309 _sq._
Christians and pagans, their controversy as to Easter, i. 309 _sq._
Christmas, festival of, borrowed from the Mithraic religion, i. 302
_sqq._;
the heathen origin of, 305
Chu-en-aten, name assumed by King Amenophis IV., ii. 124
Chukchees of North-Eastern Asia, effeminate sorcerers among the, ii. 256
_sq._
Cicero at Cybistra, i. 122 _n._ 3;
corresponds with Cilician king, 145 _n._ 2
Cilicia, male deity of, assimilated to Zeus, i. 118 _sq._;
kings of, their affinity to Sandan, 144;
the Assyrians in, 173
——, Western or Rugged, described, i. 148 _sqq._;
fossils of, 152 _sq._
Cilician deity assimilated to Zeus, i. 144 _sqq._, 148, 152
—— Gates, pass of the, i. 120
—— goddesses, i. 161 _sqq._
—— gods, the burning of, i. 170 _sq._
—— pirates, i. 149 _sq._
—— priests, names of, i. 144
Cincius Alimentus, L., on Maia as the wife of Vulcan, ii. 232
Cinyrads, dynasty of the, i. 41 _sqq._
Cinyras, the father of Adonis, i. 13, 14, 49;
king of Byblus, 27;
founds sanctuary of Astarte, 28;
said to have instituted religious prostitution, 41, 50;
his daughters, 41, 50;
his riches, 42;
his incest, 43;
wooed by Aphrodite, 48 _sq._;
meaning of the name, 52;
the friend of Apollo, 54;
legends of his death, 55
Ciotat in Provence, bathing at Midsummer at, i. 248
Circumcision, exchange of dress between men and women at, ii. 263
Citium (Chittim), in Cyprus, i. 31, 50
Civilization, ancient, undermined by Oriental religions and other causes,
i. 299 _sqq._
Claudianus, Lucius Minius, i. 164
Claudius, the Emperor, and the rites of Attis, i. 266
Claudius Gothicus, the Emperor, i. 266 _n._ 2
Clavigero, on the Mexican calendar, ii. 28 _n._
Cleomenes, King of Sparta, and serpents, i. 87
Cleon of Magnesia at Gades, i. 113
Climatic and geographical conditions, their effect on national character,
ii. 217
Clymenus, king of Arcadia, his incest, i. 44 _n._ 1
Cnossus in Crete, prehistoric palace at, i. 34
Cochinchina, annual festival of the dead in, ii. 65
Cock as emblem of a priest of Attis, i. 279
Codrington, Dr. R. H., on mother-kin in Melanesia, ii. 211
Coimbatore, dancing-girls at, i. 62
Coincidence between the Christian and the heathen festivals of the divine
death and resurrection, i. 308 _sq._
Cologne, Petrarch at, on St. John’s Eve, i. 247 _sq._
Colombia, rule as to the felling of timber in, ii. 136
Comana, in Cappadocia, i. 136 _n._ 1
—— in Pontus, worship of goddess Ma at, i. 39;
swine not allowed to enter, 265 _n._ 1
——, the two cities, i. 168 _n._ 6
Commemoration of the Dead at Athens, i. 234
Commodus, conspiracy against, i. 273;
addicted to the worship of Isis, ii. 118
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