Hehn, V., on derivation of name Corycian, i. 187 _n._ 6 Helen of the Tree, worshipped in Rhodes, i. 292 Heliacal rising of Sirius, ii. 152 Helice, in Achaia, destroyed by earthquake, i. 203; Poseidon worshipped at, 203 _n._ 2 Heliodorus, on the priesthood of Apollo and Artemis at Ephesus, ii. 243 _sq._ Heliogabalus, sun-god at Emesa, i. 35; his sacrifice of children of living parents, ii. 248 Heliopolis (Baalbec), in Syria, i. 163 _n._ 2; sacred prostitution at, 37, 58 Heliopolis (the Egyptian), trial of the dead Osiris before the gods at, ii. 17 Hepding, H., on Attis, i. 263 _n._ 1; on Catullus’s poem _Attis_, 270 _n._ 2; on the bath of Cybele’s image, 280 Hephaestus and hot springs, i. 209 Heqet, Egyptian frog-goddess, ii. 9 _n._ Hera’s marriage with Zeus, i. 280 Heraclids, Lydian dynasty of the, i. 182, 184; perhaps Hittite, 185 Hercules identified with Melcarth, i. 16, 111; slain by Typhon and revived by Iolaus, 111; burnt on Mount Oeta, 111, 116, 211; worshipped at Gades, 112 _sq._; women excluded from sacrifices to, 113 _n._ 1; identified with Sandan, 125, 143, 161; burns himself, 176; worshipped after death, 180; the itch of, 209; his dispute with Aesculapius, 209 _sq._; the patron of hot springs, 209 _sqq._; altar of, at Thermopylae, 210; the effeminate, ii. 257, 258, 259; priest of, dressed as a woman, 258; vernal mysteries of, at Rome, 258; sacrifices to, at Rome, 258 _n._ 5 —— and the lion, i. 184 —— and Omphale, i. 182, ii. 258 —— and Sardanapalus, i. 172 _sqq._ ——, the Lydian, identical with the Cilician Hercules, i. 182, 184, 185 —— with the lion’s scalp, Greek type of, i. 117 _sq._ Hereditary deities, i. 51 Herefordshire, soul-cakes in, ii. 79 Herero, a Bantu tribe of German South-West Africa, the worship of the dead among the, ii. 185 _sqq._ Hermaphrodite son of Sky and Earth, i. 282 _n._ Hermaphrodites, dance of, i. 271 _n._ Hermes and Aegipan, i. 157 Hermesianax, on the death of Attis, i. 264 _n._ 4 Hermus, river, i. 185, 186 Herod resorts to the springs of Callirrhoe, i. 214 Herodes Atticus, his benefaction at Thermopylae, i. 210 Herodotus on sanctuary of Aphrodite at Paphos, i. 34; on religious prostitution, 58; on wife of Bel, 71; on Cyrus and Croesus, 174; on the sacrifices of Croesus to Apollo, 180 _n._ 1; on so-called monument of Sesostris, 185; on the festival of Osiris at Sais, ii. 50; on the mourning for Osiris, 86; identifies Osiris with Dionysus, 113 _n._ 2; on the similarity between the rites of Osiris and Dionysus, 127; on human sacrifices offered by the wife of Xerxes, 221 Heroes worshipped in form of animals, i. 139 _n._ 1 Hertz, W., on religious prostitution, i. 57 _n._ 1, 59 _n._ 4 Hesse, custom at ploughing in, i. 239 _Hest_, the Egyptian name for Isis, ii. 50 _n._ 4, 115 _n._ 1 Hettingen in Baden, custom at sowing at, i. 239