Communal rights over women, i. 40, 61 _n._ Compromise of Christianity with paganism, parallel with Buddhism, i. 310 _sqq._ Conception, supposed, without sexual intercourse, i. 91, 93 _n._ 2, 264; in women supposed to be caused by food, 96, 102, 103, 104, 105. _See also_ Impregnation Conceptional animals and plants as causes of pregnancy in women, i. 97 _sq._, 104 _sq._ Concubines, human, of the god Ammon, i. 72 Conder, C. R., on “holy men” in Syria, i. 77 _n._ 4; on turning money at the new moon, ii. 149 _n._ 2 Condylea in Arcadia, sacred grove of Artemis at, i. 291 Cone, image of Astarte, i. 14 Cones as emblems of a goddess, i. 34 _sqq._; votive, found in Babylonia, 35 _n._ 5 Confession of the dead, the Egyptian, ii. 13 _sq._ Confucianism, ii. 160 Congo, burial of infants on the, i. 91; priest dressed as a woman on the, ii. 254 _sq._ Conibos Indians of the Ucayali River, their theory of earthquakes, i. 198 Conical stone as divine emblem, i. 165, 166 Constantine destroys temple of Astarte, i. 28; suppresses sacred prostitution, 37; removes standard cubit from the Serapeum, ii. 216 _sq._ Consus and Ops, ii. 233 _n._ 6 Contest for the throne of Egypt, traditions of a, ii. 17 _sq._ Cook, A. B., i. 49 _n._ 6; on name of priest of Corycian Zeus, 155 _n._ 1; on the death of Romulus, ii. 98 _n._ 2; on the festival of Laurel-bearing at Thebes, 241 _n._ 3; on traces of mother-kin in the myth and ritual of Hercules, 259 _n._ 4 Coomassie, in Ashantee, i. 201 Copenhagen, bathing on St. John’s Eve at, i. 248 Coptic calendar, ii. 6 _n._ 3 Corea, dance of eunuchs in, i. 270 _n._ 2 Coreans, their ceremony on the fifteenth day of the moon, ii. 143 Corn sprouting from the dead body of Osiris, ii. 89; water thrown on the last corn cut, a rain-charm, i. 237 _sq._ —— and grapes, symbols of the god of Tarsus, i. 119, 143; of the god of Ibreez, 121; figured with double-headed axe on Lydian coin, 183 —— and vine, emblems of the gods of Tarsus and Ibreez, i. 160 _sq._ —— -god, Adonis as a, i. 230 _sqq._; Attis as a, 279; mourned at midsummer, ii. 34; Osiris as a, 89 _sqq._, 96 _sqq._ —— -reaping in Egypt, Palestine, and Greece, date of the, i. 231 _n._ 3 —— -sieve, severed limbs of Osiris placed on a, ii. 97 —— -spirit, Tammuz or Adonis as a, i. 230 _sqq._; propitiation of the, perhaps fused with a worship of the dead, 233 _sqq._; represented as a dead old man, ii. 48, 96; represented by human victims, 97, 106 _sq._ —— -stuffed effigies of Osiris buried with the dead as a symbol of resurrection, ii. 90 _sq._, 114 —— -wreaths as first-fruits, i. 43; worn by Arval Brethren, i. 44 _n._ Coronation, human sacrifices to prolong a king’s life at his, ii. 223 Corycian cave, priests of Zeus at the, i. 145; the god of the, 152 _sqq._; described, 153 _sq._; saffron at the, 187; name perhaps derived from crocus, 187