Ghost of afterbirth thought to adhere to navel-string, ii. 169 _sq._ Ghosts thought to impregnate women, i. 93; of the dead personated by living men, ii. 52, 53, 58 Giants, myths of, based on discovery of fossil bones, i. 157 _sq._ —— and gods, their battle, i. 157 Giaour-Kalesi, Hittite sculptures at, i. 138 _n._ Gilbert Islands, sacred stones in the, i. 108 _n._ 1 Gill, Captain W., on a tribe in China governed by a woman, ii. 211 _n._ 3 Gilyaks of the Amoor eat nutlets of stone-pine, i. 278 _n._ 2 Ginzel, Professor F. K., on the rise of the Nile, ii. 31 _n._ 1 Giraffes, souls of dead kings incarnate in, ii. 162 Glaucus, son of Minos, restored to life, i. 186 _n._ 4 Goat sacrificed by being hanged, i. 292 God, children of, i. 68; sons of, 78 _sqq._; the physical fatherhood of, 80 _sq._; gardens of, 123, 159 ——, the burning of a, i. 188 _sq._; the hanged, 288 _sqq._ —— of earthquakes, i. 194 _sqq._ Godavari District, Southern India, i. 95 Goddess, identified with priestess, i. 219; superiority of the, in the myths of Adonis, Attis, Osiris, ii. 201 _sq._ Goddesses, Cilician, i. 161 _sqq._; place infant sons of kings on fire to render them immortal, 180; of fertility served by eunuch priests, 269 _sq._; their superiority over gods in societies organized on mother-kin, ii. 202 _sqq._; the development of, favoured by mother-kin, 259 Gods, annual death and resurrection of, i. 6; personated by priests, 45, 46 _sqq._; married to sisters, 316; their human wives, ii. 207; made by men and worshipped by women, 211 —— and giants, the battle of, i. 157 Gold Coast of West Africa, the Tshi-speaking peoples of the, i. 69 Golden Flower, the Feast of the, i. 185 —— Sea, the, i. 150 Golgi in Cyprus, i. 35 Goliath and David, i. 19 _n._ 2 Gonds, ceremony of bringing back souls of the dead among the, i. 95 _sq._ Good Friday, effigies and sepulchres of Christ on, i. 254 _sqq._ —— Goddess (_Bona Dea_), her relationship to Faunus, ii. 234 Goowoong Awoo, volcano, children sacrificed to, i. 219 Gordias and Midas, names of Phrygian kings, i. 286 Gordon, E. M., on infant burial, i. 94 _sq._; on the festival of the dead in Bilaspore, ii. 60 Gouri, an Indian goddess of fertility, i. 241 _sq._ Gournia in Crete, prehistoric shrine at, i. 88 _n._ 1 Grandmother, title of an African priest, ii. 255 —— Earth thought to cause earthquakes, i. 198 Grandparents, dead, worshipped, ii. 175 Grapes as divine emblem, i. 165 Grave of Osiris, ii. 10 _sq._; human victims sacrificed at the, 97 —— shrines of Shilluk kings, ii. 161 _sq._; of dead kings, 194 _sq._ Graves, milk offered at, i. 87; childless women resort to, in order to ensure offspring, 96; illuminated on All Souls’ Day, ii. 72 _sq._, 74; the only places of sacrifice in the country of the Wahehe, 190 —— of kings, chiefs, and magicians kept secret, ii. 103 _sqq._; human sacrifices at, 168