—— hope of immortality centred in Osiris, ii. 15 _sq._, 114, 159 —— kings worshipped as gods, i. 52; the most ancient, buried at Abydos, ii. 19; their oath not to correct the vague Egyptian year by intercalation, 26; perhaps formerly slain in the character of Osiris, 97 _sq._, 102; as Osiris, 151 _sqq._; renew their life by identifying themselves with the dead and risen Osiris, 153 _sq._; born again at the Sed festival, 153, 155 _sq._; perhaps formerly put to death to prevent their bodily and mental decay, 154 _sq._, 156 Egyptian language akin to the Semitic, ii. 161 —— months, table of, ii. 37 _n._ —— myth of the separation of earth and sky, i. 283 _n._ 3 —— people, the conservatism of their character, ii. 217 _sq._; compared to the Chinese, 218 —— reapers, their lamentations and invocations of Isis, i. 232, ii. 45, 117 —— religion, the development of, ii. 122 _sqq._; dominated by Osiris, 158 _sq._ —— standard resembling a placenta, ii. 156 _n._ 1 —— year vague, not corrected by intercalation, ii. 24 _sq._; the sacred, began with the rising of Sirius, 35 Egyptians sacrifice red-haired men, ii. 97, 106; the ancient, question of their ethnical affinity, 161 Ekoi of Southern Nigeria, their custom of mutilating men and women at festivals, i. 270 _n._ 2 El, Phoenician god, i. 13, 16 _n._ 1; identified with Cronus, 166 El-Bùgât, festival of mourning for Tammuz in Harran, i. 230 Elam, the kings of, their bones carried off by Ashurbanipal, ii. 103 _sq._ Eleusis, Demeter and the king’s son at, i. 180; sacrifice of oxen at, 292 _n._ 3; mysteries of Demeter at, ii. 90 Eli, the sons of, i. 76 Elisha prophesies to music, i. 53, 54; finds water in the desert, 53, 75 Ellis, A. B., on sacred prostitution in West Africa, i. 65 _sq._, 69 _sq._; on tattoo marks of priests, 74 _n._ 4; on an ordeal of chastity, 115 Emesa, sun-god Heliogabalus at, i. 35 Empedocles leaps into the crater of Etna, i. 181 Emperor of China, funeral of an, i. 294 Ἐναγίζειν distinguished from θύειν, i. 316 _n._ 1 Enemy, charms to disable an, ii. 252 England, harvest custom in, i. 237; the feast of All Souls in, ii. 78 _sq._ Ennius, on Hora and Quirinus, ii. 233 “Entry of Osiris into the moon,” ii. 130 Enylus, king of Byblus, i. 15 _n._ Ephesus, Artemis of, i. 269; Hecate at, 291; the priesthood of Apollo and Artemis at, ii. 243 _sq._ Epidaurus, Aesculapius at, i. 80 Epiphany, the sixth of January, i. 305 Epirus, the kings of, their bones scattered by Lysimachus, ii. 104 Equinox, the vernal, resurrection of Attis at the, i. 273, 307 _sq._; date of the Crucifixion assigned to the spring equinox, 307; tradition that the world was created at the spring equinox, 307 Erechtheum, sacred serpent in the, i. 87 Erechtheus, king of Athens, his incest with his daughter, i. 44 _n._ 1; his sacred serpent, 87