Hamilcar, his self-sacrifice at the battle of Himera, i. 115 _sq._; worshipped at Carthage, 116; burns himself, 176; worshipped after death, 180 Hamilton, Alexander, on dance of hermaphrodites in Pegu, i. 271 _n._ Hamilton, Professor G. L., i. 57 _n._ 1 Hammurabi, the code of, i. 71 _n._ 3, 72 _n._ 1 Handel, the harmonies of, i. 54 Hanged god, the, i. 288 _sqq._ Hanging as a mode of sacrifice, i. 289 _sqq._ Hannah, the prayer of, i. 79 Hannibal, his prayers to Melcarth, i. 113; his retirement from Italy, 265 Hanway, J., on worship of perpetual fires at Baku, i. 192 Harmonia, the necklace of, i. 32 _n._ 2; turned into a snake, 86 _sq._ Harold the Fair-haired, ii. 100 _n._ 2 Harp, the music of the, in religion, i. 52 _sqq._ Harpalyce, her incest with her father, i. 44 _n._ 1 Harpocrates, the younger Horus, ii. 8, 9 _n._ Harran, mourning of women for Tammuz in, i. 230 Harrison, Miss J. E., on the hyacinth (_Delphinium Ajacis_), i. 314 _n._ 1 Hartland, E. S., on the reincarnation of the dead, i. 91 _n._ 3; on primitive paternity, 106 _n._ 1 Harvest, rites of, ii. 45 _sqq._; annual festival of the dead after, 61; new corn offered to dead kings or chiefs at, 162, 166, 188; prayers to the spirits of ancestors at, 175 _sq._; sacrifices to dead chiefs at, 191 —— in Egypt, the date of, ii. 32 —— custom of throwing water on the last corn cut as a rain-charm, i. 237 _sq._; of the Arabs of Moab, ii. 48, 96 Hathor, Egyptian goddess, ii. 9 _n._ Hattusil, king of the Hittites, i. 135 _Havamal_, how Odin learned the magic runes in the, i. 290 Hawaii, the volcano of Kirauea in, i. 216 _sqq._ Hawes, Mrs., on date of the corn-reaping in Crete, i. 232 _n._ Hawk, Isis in the form of a, ii. 8; the sacred bird of the earliest Egyptian dynasties, 21 _sq._; epithet regularly applied to the king of Egypt, 22 —— -town (Hieraconpolis) in Egypt, ii. 21 _sq._ Hawks carved on the bier of Osiris, ii. 20 Hazael, king of Damascus, i. 15 “Head-Feast” among the Dyaks of Borneo, i. 295 _sq._ —— -hunting in Borneo, i. 294 _sqq._ Heads of dead chiefs cut off and buried secretly, ii. 104 ——, human, thought to promote the fertility of the ground and of women, i. 294 _sqq._; used as guardians by Taurians and tribes of Borneo, 294 _sqq._ Heathen festivals displaced by Christian, i. 308 —— origin of Midsummer festival (festival of St. John), i. 249 _sq._ Heavenly Virgin or Goddess, mother of the Sun, i. 303 Hebrew kings, traces of their divinity, i. 20 _sqq._ —— names ending in _-el_ or _-iah_, i. 79 _n._ 3 —— prophecy, the distinctive character of, i. 75 Hebrew prophets, their resemblance to those of Africa, i. 74 _sq._ Hebrides, peats cut in the wane of the moon in the, ii. 137 _sq._ Hecaerge, an epithet of Artemis, i. 292 Hecate at Ephesus, i. 291; sometimes identified with Artemis, 292 _n._ —— and Zeus worshipped at Stratonicea, ii. 227 Hecatombeus, a Greek month, i. 314