The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 06 of 12)Frazer, James George
Religion
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 06 of 12)
Frazer, James George
Magic; Mythology; Religion; Superstition
Eregli (the ancient Cybistra) in Cappadocia, i. 120, 122
Eresh-Kigal, Babylonian goddess, i. 9
_Erica_-tree, Osiris in the, ii. 9, 108, 109
Eriphyle, the necklace of, i. 32 _n._ 2
Erman, Professor A., on Anubis at Abydos, ii. 18 _n._ 3;
on corn-stuffed effigies of Osiris, 91;
on the development of Egyptian religion, 122 _n._ 2
_Erme_ or _Nenneri_, gardens of Adonis in Sardinia, i. 244
Eshmun, Phoenician deity, i. 111 _n._ 6
Esne, the festal calendar of, ii. 49 _sq._
Esquimaux of Alaska, their annual festival of the dead, i. 51 _sq._
Esthonian peasants regulate their sowing and planting by the moon, ii. 135
Esthonians, their ceremony at the new moon, ii. 143
Eternal life, initiate born again to, in the rites of Cybele and Attis, i.
274 _sq._
Etesian winds, i. 35 _n._ 1
Etna, Mount, Typhon buried under, i. 156, 157;
the death of Empedocles on, 181;
the ashes of, 194;
offerings thrown into the craters of, 221
Euboea subject to earthquakes, i. 211;
date of threshing in, 232 _n._;
harvest custom in, 238
Eudoxus, on the Egyptian festivals, ii. 35 _n._ 2
Eunuch, priests of the Mother Goddess, i. 206;
in the service of Asiatic goddesses of fertility, 269 _sq._;
in various lands, 270 _n._ 2;
of Attis tattooed with pattern of ivy, 278;
of Cybele, ii. 258
Eunuchs, dances of, i. 270 _n._ 2, 271 _n._;
dedicated to a goddess in India, 271 _n._;
sacred, at Hierapolis-Bambyce, their rule as to the pollution of death,
ii. 272
Euripides on the death of Pentheus, ii. 98 _n._ 5
Europe, custom of showing money to the new moon in, ii. 148 _sq._
Eusebius on sacred prostitution, i. 37 _n._ 2, 73 _n._ 1
Euyuk in Cappadocia, Hittite palace at, i. 123, 132, 133 _n._;
bull worshipped at, 164
Evadne and Capaneus, i. 177 _n._ 3
Evil Eye, boys dressed as girls to avert the, ii. 260;
bridegroom disfigured in order to avert the, 261;
disguises to avert the, 262
Ewe farmers fear to wound the Earth goddess, i. 90
—— people of Togo-land, their belief in the marriage of Sky with Earth, i.
282 _n._ 2
—— speaking peoples of the Slave Coast, sacred prostitution among the, i.
65 _sq._;
worship pythons, 83 _n._ 1
Exchange of dress between men and women in rites, ii. 259 _n._ 3;
at marriage, 260 _sqq._;
at circumcision, 263
Exogamous clans in the Pelew Islands, ii. 204
Exorcism by means of music, i. 54 _sq._
Expiation for homicide, i. 299 _n._ 2;
Roman, for prodigies, ii. 244
Eye as a symbol of Osiris, ii. 121;
of sacrificial ox cut out, 251 _sq._
—— of Horus, ii. 17, 121 with _n._ 3
——, the Evil, boys dressed as girls to avert the, ii. 260;
bridegroom disfigured in order to avert, 261
Eyes of the dead, Egyptian ceremony of opening the, ii. 15
Ezekiel on the mourning for Tammuz, i. 11, 17, 20;
on the Assyrian cavalry, 25 _n._ 3;
on the king of Tyre, 114
False Bride, custom of the ii. 262 _n._ 2
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