Fire, purification by, i. 115 _n._ 1, 179 _sqq._; Persian reverence for, 174 _sq._; death in the, as an apotheosis, 179 _sq._; supposed able to impregnate women, ii. 235 Fire, perpetual, in Zoroastrian religion, i. 191; worshipped, 191 _sqq._; in the temples of dead kings, ii. 174 —— -god, the father of Romulus, Servius Tullius, and Caeculus, ii. 235 —— -walk of the king of Tyre, i. 114 _sq._; of priestesses at Castabala, 168 —— -worship in Cappadocia, i. 191 _sq._ Firmicus Maternus, on the mourning for Osiris, ii. 86; on use of a pine-tree in the rites of Osiris, 108 First-born, Semitic sacrifice of the, i. 110; the sacrifice of, at Jerusalem, ii. 219 _sq._ —— -fruits offered to the Baalim, i. 27; offered to the Mother of the Gods, 280 _n._ 1; offered to dead chiefs, ii. 191 Firstlings offered to the Baalim, i. 27 Fish, soul of dead in, i. 95 _sq._ Fison, Rev. Lorimer, on Fijian god of earthquakes, i. 202 _n._; on secret burial of chiefs in Fiji, ii. 105 Flail or scourge, an emblem of Osiris, ii. 108, 153; for collecting incense, 109 _n._ 1 Flamen forbidden to divorce his wife, ii. 229; of Vulcan, 232 —— Dialis, the widowed, ii. 227 _sqq._; forbidden to touch a dead body, but allowed to attend a funeral, 228; bound to be married, 229 —— Dialis and Flaminica, i. 45 _sq._; assisted by boy and girl of living parents, ii. 236 Flamingoes, soul of a dead king incarnate in, ii. 163 Flaminica and her husband the Flamen Dialis, i. 45 _sq._, ii. 236 Flax, omens from the growth of, i. 244 Flower of the banana, women impregnated by the, i. 93 “—— of Zeus,” i. 186, 187 Flowers and leaves as talismans, ii. 242 _sq._ Flute, skill of Marsyas on the, i. 288 —— music, its exciting influence, i. 54 —— -players dressed as women at Rome, ii. 259 _n._ 3 Flutes played in the laments for Tammuz, i. 9; for Adonis, 225 _n._ 3 Food, virgins supposed to conceive through eating certain, i. 96; as a cause of conception in women, 96, 102, 103, 104, 105 Foreigners as kings, i. 16 _n._ Fortuna Primigenia, goddess of Praeneste, daughter of Jupiter, ii. 234 Fortune of the city on coins of Tarsus, i. 164; the guardian of cities, 164 Fossil bones in limestone caves, i. 152 _sq._; a source of myths about giants, 157 _sq._ Foucart, P., identifies Dionysus with Osiris, ii. 113 _n._ 3 Four-handed Apollo, ii. 250 _n._ 2 Fowler, W. Warde, on the celibacy of the Roman gods, ii. 230, 232 _n._ 1, 234 _n._, 236 _n._ 1 Fra Angelico, his influence on Catholicism, i. 54 _n._ 1 France, harvest custom in, i. 237; timber felled in the wane of the moon in, ii. 136 _Fratres Arvales_, ii. 239 Fravashis, the souls of the dead in the Iranian religion, ii. 67 _n._ 2, 68 French peasants regulate their sowing and planting by the moon, ii. 133 _n._ 3, 135 Frey, the Scandinavian god of fertility, ii. 100 _sq._ Frigento, Valley of Amsanctus near, i. 204