Diodorus Siculus, on worship of Poseidon in Peloponnese, i. 203; on the burial of Osiris, ii. 10 _sq._; on the rise of the Nile, 31 _n._ 1; on the date of harvest in Egypt, 32 _n._ 2; on Osiris as a sun-god, 120; on the predominance of women over men in ancient Egypt, 214 Diomede, human sacrifices to, i. 145 Dionysus in form of bull, i. 123; with vine and ploughman on a coin, 166; ancient interpretation of, 194, 213; death, resurrection, and ascension of, 302 _n._ 4; torn in pieces, ii. 98; human sacrifices to, in Chios, 98 _sq._; his coarse symbolism, 113; identified with Osiris, 113; race of boys at vintage from his sanctuary, 238; men dressed as women in the rites of, 258; the effeminate, 259 Diospolis Parva (How), monument of Osiris at, ii. 110 Diphilus, king of Cyprus, i. 146 Disc, winged, as divine emblem, i. 132 Discoloration, annual, of the river Adonis, i. 30, 225 Discovery of the body of Osiris, ii. 85 _sq._ Disease of language the supposed source of myths, ii. 42 Disguises to avert the evil eye, ii. 262; to deceive dangerous spirits, 262 _sq._, 263 _sq._ Dismemberment of Osiris, suggested explanations of the, ii. 97; of Halfdan the Black, king of Norway, 100, 102; of Segera, a magician of Kiwai, 101; of kings and magicians, and use of their severed limbs to fertilize the country, 101 _sq._; of the bodies of the dead to prevent their souls from becoming dangerous ghosts, 188 _Ditino_, deified dead kings, ii. 194 Divination at Midsummer, i. 252 _sq._ Divining bones, ii. 180, 181 Divinities of the volcano Kirauea, i. 217 Divinity of Semitic kings, i. 15 _sqq._; of Lydian kings, 182 _sqq._ Dixmude, in Belgium, feast of All Souls at, ii. 70 Dobrizhoffer, M., on the respect of the Abipones for the Pleiades, i. 258 _n._ 2 Doctrine of lunar sympathy, ii. 140 _sqq._ _Dôd_, “beloved,” i. 19 _n._ 2, 20 _n._ 2 Dog-star. _See_ Sirius Doliche in Commagene, i. 136 Domaszewski, Professor A., on the rites of Attis at Rome, i. 266 _n._ 2 Dorasques of Panama, their theory of earthquakes, i. 201 Dos Santos, J., Portuguese historian, on the method adopted by a Caffre king to prolong his life, ii. 222 _sq._ Double, the afterbirth or placenta, regarded as a person’s double, ii. 169 _sq._ —— -headed axe, symbol of Sandan, i. 127; carried by Lydian kings, 182; a palladium of the Heraclid sovereignty, 182; figured on coins, 183 _n._ —— -headed eagle, Hittite emblem, i. 133 _n._ Doutté, Edmond, on sacred prostitution in Morocco, i. 39 _n._ 3 Doves burnt in honour of Adonis, i. 126 _n._ 2, 147 ——, sacred, of Aphrodite, i. 33; or Astarte, 147 Dowries earned by prostitution, i. 38, 59 Dragon slain by Cadmus at Thebes, ii. 241 —— and Apollo, at Delphi, ii. 240 Drama, sacred, of the death and resurrection of Osiris, ii. 85 _sq._ Dramas, magical, for the regulation of the seasons, i. 4 _sq._