Cymbals in religious music, i. 52, 54 —— and tambourines in worship of Cybele, i. 54 Cynopolis, the cemetery of, ii. 90 Cypriote syllabary, i. 49 _n._ 7 Cyprus, Phoenicians in, i. 31 _sq._; Adonis in, 31 _sqq._; sacred prostitution in, 36, 50, 59; Melcarth worshipped in, 117; human sacrifices in, 145 _sq._; the bearded Venus in, ii. 259 _n._ 3 Cyril of Alexandria on the festival of Adonis at Alexandria, i. 224 _n._ 2 Cyrus and Croesus, i. 174 _sqq._ Cyzicus, worship of the Placianian Mother at, i. 274 _n._ Dacia, hot springs in, i. 213 Dacotas, their theory of the waning moon, ii. 130 _Dad_ pillar. _See_ _Ded_ pillar Dahomans, their annual festival of the dead, ii. 66 Dahomey, kings of, their human sacrifices, ii. 97 _n._ 7. Dairyman, sacred, of the Todas, his custom as to the pollution of death, ii. 228; bound to live apart from his wife, 229 Dalisandos in Isauria, inscriptions at, ii. 213 _n._ 1 Damascus, Aramean kings of, i. 15 Damasen, a giant, i. 186 Damatrius, a Greek month, ii. 49 _n._ 1 Dams in Egypt, the cutting of the, ii. 31 _sq._, 37 _sq._, 39 _sq._ Dance of eunuchs in Corea, i. 270 _n._ 2; on the Congo, 271 _n._; of hermaphrodites in Pegu, 271 _n._; sacred, at the Sed festival, ii. 154; of king before the ghosts of his ancestor, 192 Dances, religious, i. 61, 65, 68; at festivals of the dead, ii. 52, 53, 55, 58, 59; at the new moon, 142 Dancing-girls in India, harlots and wives of the gods, i. 61 _sqq._ Dañh-gbi, python-god, i. 66 Darmesteter, James, on the Fravashis, ii. 67 _n._ 2; his theory as to the date of the _Gathas_, ii. 84 _n._ _Dâsî_, dancing-girl, i. 63 Dastarkon in Cappadocia, i. 147 _n._ 3 Dates forbidden to worshippers of Cybele and Attis, i. 280 Daughter of a god, i. 51 David, King, in relation to the old kings of Jerusalem, i. 18 _sq._; his conquest of Ammon, 19; his taking of a census, 24; as a harper, 52, 53, 54 —— and Goliath, i. 19 _n._ 2 —— and Saul, i. 21 Davis, Mr. R. F., on harvest custom in Nottinghamshire, i. 238 _n._ Day of Blood in rites of Attis, i. 268, 285 De Plano Carpini, on the funeral customs of the Mongols, i. 293 Dea Dia, a Roman goddess of fertility, ii. 239 Dead, Festival of the, in Java, i. 220; worship of the, perhaps fused with the propitiation of the corn-spirit, 233 _sqq._; cuttings for the, 268; Osiris king and judge of the, ii. 13 _sq._; the Egyptian, identified with Osiris, 16; annual festivals of the, 51 _sqq._; the spirits of the, personated by living men, 52, 53, 58; magical uses made of their bodies, 100 _sqq._; worship of the, among the Bantu tribes of Africa, 176 _sqq._ _See also_ Ancestral spirits ——, reincarnation of the, i. 82 _sqq._; in America, 91; in Africa, 91 _sq._