Corycus in Cilicia, ruins of, i. 153 Cos, traces of mother-kin in, ii. 259; Sacred Marriage in, 259 _n._ 4; bridegroom dressed as woman in, 260 Cosenza in Calabria, Easter custom at, i. 254 Cotys, king of Lydia, i. 187 Cow, image of, in the rites of Osiris, ii. 50, 84; Isis represented with the head of a, 50; thought to be impregnated by moonshine, 130 _sq._ —— goddess Shenty, ii. 88 Cows sacred to Isis, ii. 50 Creation of the world thought to be annually repeated, i. 284 Crescent-shaped chest in the rites of Osiris, ii. 85, 130 Crests of the Cilician pirates, i. 149 Crete, sacred trees and pillars in, i. 107 _n._ 2 Crimea, the Taurians of the, i. 294 Crocodile-shaped hero, i. 139 _n._ 1 Croesus, king of Lydia, captures Pteria, i. 128; the burning of, 174 sqq., 179; his burnt offerings to Apollo at Delphi, 180 _n._ 1; dedicates golden lion at Delphi, 184; his son Atys, 286 Cronion, a Greek month, ii. 238. Cronus, identified with Phoenician El, i. 166; castrates his father Uranus and is castrated by his son Zeus, 283; name applied to winter, ii. 41 Crook and scourge or flail, the emblems of Osiris, ii. 108, 153, compare 20 Crooke, W., on sacred dancing-girls, i. 65 _n._ 1; on Mohammedan saints, 78 _n._ 2; on infant burial, 93 _sq._; on the custom of the False Bride, ii. 262 _n._ 2 Crops dependent on serpent-god, i. 67; human victims sacrificed for the, 290 _sq._ Cross-roads, burial at, i. 93 _n._ 1 Crown-wearer, priest of Hercules at Tarsus, i. 143 Crowns as amulets, ii. 242 _sq._; laid aside in mourning, etc., 243 _n._ 2 —— of Egypt, the White and the Red, ii. 21 _n._ 1 Crucifixion of Christ, tradition as to the date of, i. 306 —— of human victims at Benin, i. 294 _n._ 3; gentile, at the spring equinox, 307 _n._ _Crux ansata_, the Egyptian symbol of life, ii. 89 Cubit, the standard, kept in the temple of Serapis, ii. 217 Cultivation of staple food in the hands of women (Pelew Islands), ii. 206 _sq._ Cumont, Professor Franz, on the _taurobolium_, i. 275 _n._ 1; on the Nativity of the Sun, 303 _n._ 3; as to the parallel between Easter and the rites of Attis, 310 _n._ 1 Customs of the Pelew Islanders, ii. 253 _sqq._, 266 _sqq._ Cuthar, father of Adonis, i. 13 _n._ 2 Cuttings for the dead, i. 268 Cyaxares, king of the Medes, i. 133 _n._, 174 Cybele, the image of, i. 35 _n._ 3; her cymbals and tambourines, 54; her lions and turreted crown, 137; priests of, called Attis, 140; the Mother of the Gods, 263; her love for Attis, 263, 282; her worship adopted by the Romans, 265; sacrifice of virility to image of, 268; subterranean chambers of, 268; orgiastic rites of, 278; a goddess of fertility, 279; worshipped in Gaul, 279; fasts observed by the worshippers of, 280; a friend of Marsyas, 288; effeminate priests of, ii. 257, 258 Cybistra in Cappadocia, i. 120, 122, 124 Cymbal, drinking out of a, i. 274