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
Hogarth, D. G., on relics of paganism at Paphos, i. 36;
on the Corycian cave, 155 _n._;
on Roman remains at Tarsus, 172 _n._ 1
Hogs sacrificed to goddess of volcano, i. 218 _sq._
Hollis, A. C., on serpent-worship of the Akikuyu, i. 67 _sq._;
on serpent-worship, 84 _sq._
“Holy men” in Syria, i. 77 _sq._
Hommel, Professor F., on the Hittite deity Tarku, i. 147 _n._ 3
Honey and milk offered to snakes, i. 85
Honey-cakes offered to serpent, i. 87
Hope of immortality, the Egyptian, centred in Osiris, ii. 15 _sq._, 90
_sq._, 114, 159
Hopladamus, a giant, i. 157 _n._ 2
Hora and Quirinus, ii. 233
Horkos, the Greek god of oaths, ii. 231 _n._ 5
Horned cap worn by priest or god, i. 123;
of Hittite god, 134
—— god, Hittite and Greek, i. 123
—— lion, i. 127
Horns, as a religious emblem, i. 34;
worn by gods, 163 _sq._
—— of a cow worn by Isis, ii. 50
Horses sacrificed for the use of the dead, i. 293 _sq._;
Lycurgus, king of the Edonians, torn in pieces by, ii. 98
Horus, the four sons of, in the likeness of hawks, ii. 22;
decapitates his mother Isis, 88;
the eye of, 121 with _n._ 3
—— of Edfu identified with the sun, ii. 123
—— the elder, ii. 6
—— the younger, son of Isis and the dead Osiris, ii. 8, 15;
accused by Set of being a bastard, 17;
his combat with Set, 17;
his eye destroyed by Set and restored by Thoth, 17;
reigns over the Delta, 17
Hose, Ch., and McDougall, W., on head-hunting in Borneo, i. 295 _n._ 1
Hosea on religious prostitution, i. 58;
on the Baalim, 75 _n._;
on the prophet as a madman, 77
Hot springs, worship of, i. 206 _sqq._;
Hercules the patron of, 209 _sqq._;
resorted to by childless women in Syria, 213 _sqq._
Huligamma, Indian goddess, eunuchs dedicated to her, i. 271 _n._
Human representatives of Attis, i. 285 _sqq._
—— sacrifice, substitutes for, i. 146 _sq._, 285, 289, ii. 99, 221
—— sacrifices in worship of the moon, i. 73;
to the Tauric Artemis, 115;
to Diomede at Salamis, 145;
offered at earthquakes, 201;
offered at irrigation channels, ii. 38;
of the kings of Ashantee and Dahomey, 97 _n._ 7;
offered to Dionysus, 98 _sq._;
offered by the Mexicans for the maize, 107;
at the graves of the kings of Uganda, 168;
to dead kings, 173;
to dead chiefs, 191;
to prolong the life of kings, 220 _sq._, 223 _sqq._
Human victims thrown into volcanoes, i. 219 _sq._;
uses made of their skins, 293;
as representatives of the corn-spirit, ii. 97, 106 _sq._;
killed with hoes, spades, and rakes, 99 _n._ 2
Hunger the root of the worship of Adonis, i. 231
Hurons, their burial of infants, i. 91
Huzuls of the Carpathians, their theory of the waning moon, ii. 130;
their cure for water-brash, 149 _sq._
Hyacinth, son of Amyclas, killed by Apollo, i. 313;
his flower, 313 _sq._;
his tomb and festival, 314 _sq._;
an aboriginal deity, 315 _sq._;
his sister Polyboea, 316;
perhaps a deified king of Amyclae, i. 316 _sq._
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