—— kings and chiefs worshipped in Africa, ii. 160 _sqq._; sacrifices offered to, 162, 166 _sq._; incarnate in animals, 162, 163 _sq._, 173; consulted as oracles, 167, 171, 172, 195; human sacrifices to, 173; worshipped by the Barotse, 194 _sq._ —— men believed to beget children, i. 91, 264 —— Sea, i. 23 Death in the fire as an apotheosis, i. 179 _sq._; the pollution of, ii. 227 _sqq._ —— and resurrection, annual, of gods, i. 6; of Adonis represented in his rites, 224 _sq._; coincidence between the pagan and the Christian festival of the divine, 308; of Osiris dramatically represented in his rites, ii. 85 _sq._; of Osiris interpreted as the decay and growth of vegetation, 126 _sqq._ December, the twenty-fifth of, reckoned the winter solstice, and the birthday of the Sun, i. 303 _sqq._ Decline of the civic virtues under the influence of Oriental religions, i. 300 _sq._ _Ded_ or _tet_ pillar, the backbone of Osiris, ii. 108 _sq._ Dedicated men and women in Africa, i. 65 _sqq._ Dedication of girls to the service of a temple, i. 61 _sqq._; of children to gods, 79 Dee, river, holed stone in the, i. 36 _n._ 4 Defoe, Daniel, on the Angel of the Plague, i. 24 _n._ 2 Delos, sacred embassy to, ii. 244 Delphi, Apollo and the Dragon at, ii. 240 _Delphinium Ajacis_, i. 314 _n._ 1 Demeter, her sacred caverns, i. 88; sacred vaults of, 278; sorrowing for the descent of the Maiden, ii. 41; the month of, 41; mysteries of, at Eleusis, 90; at the well, 111 _n._ 6; identified with Isis, 117 —— and ears of corn, i. 166 —— and Poseidon, i. 280 —— and the king’s son at Eleusis, i. 180 Denderah, inscriptions at, ii. 11, 86 _sqq._, 89, 91, 130 _n._; the hall of Osiris at, 110 Derceto, goddess at Ascalon, i. 34 _n._ 3 Dervishes revered in Syria, i. 77 _n._ 4; of Asia Minor, 170 Deucalion at Hierapolis, i. 162 _n._ 2 Deuteronomic redactor, i. 26 _n._ 1 Deuteronomy, publication of, i. 18 _n._ 3 Deutsch-Zepling in Transylvania, rule as to sowing in, ii. 133 _n._ 3 _Dêvadâsî_, dancing-girl, i. 63 _sq._ _Dêvaratiâl_, dancing-girl, i. 63 Dew, bathing in the, on Midsummer Eve or Day, i. 246 _sq._, 248; a daughter of Zeus and the moon, ii. 137 Diabolical counterfeits, resemblances of paganism to Christianity explained as, i. 302, 309 _sq._ Diana, a Mother Goddess, i. 45; her sanctuary at Nemi, 45 Dianus and Diana, i. 27, 45 Dido flees from Tyre, i. 50; her traditional death in the fire, 114; worshipped at Carthage, 114; meaning of the name, 114 _n._ 1; an Avatar of Astarte, 177; how she procured the site of Carthage, ii. 250 Dinant, feast of All Souls in, ii. 70 _Dinkard_, a Pahlavi work, ii. 68 _n._ 2 Dinkas, their belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead, i. 82 _sq._; pour milk on graves, 87 Dio Chrysostom, on the people of Tarsus, i. 118; on pyre at Tarsus, 126 _n._ 1