Hyacinthia, the festival of Hyacinth, i. 314 _sq._ Hyacinthius, a Greek month, i. 315 _n._ Hybristica, an Argive festival, ii. 259 _n._ 3 Hygieia, the goddess, i. 88 _n._ 1 Hymns to Tammuz, i. 9; to the sun-god, ii. 123 _sq._ Hyria in Cilicia, i. 41 Ibani of the Niger delta, their sacrifices to prolong the lives of kings and others, ii. 222 Ibans or Sea Dyaks, their worship of serpents, i. 83. _See_ Sea Dyaks Ibn Batuta, Arab traveller, on funeral of emperor of China, i. 293 _sq._ Ibreez in Southern Cappadocia, i. 119 _sqq._; village of, 120 _sq._; Hittite sculptures at, 121 _sqq._ ——, the god of, i. 119 _sqq._; his horned cap, 164 Idalium in Cyprus, i. 50; bilingual inscription of, 49 _n._ 7; Melcarth worshipped at, 117 Ideals of humanity, two different, the heroic and the saintly, i. 300; great religious, a product of the male imagination, ii. 211 Ideler, L., on the date of the introduction of the fixed Alexandrian year, ii. 28 _n._ 1; on the Sothic period, 37 _n._ Ignorance of paternity, primitive, i. 106 _sq._ Il Mayek clan of the Njamus, their supposed power over irrigation water and the crops, ii. 39 Ilium, animals sacrificed by hanging at, i. 292 Illumination, nocturnal, at festival of Osiris, ii. 50 _sq._; of graves on All Souls’ Day, 72 _sq._, 74 Ilpirra of Central Australia, their belief in the reincarnation of the dead, i. 99 Images of Osiris made of vegetable mould, ii. 85, 87, 90 _sq._, 91 Immortality, Egyptian hope of, centred in Osiris, ii. 15 sq., 90 _sq._, 114, 159 Impregnation of women by serpents, i. 80 _sqq._; by the dead, 91; by ghosts, 93; by the flower of the banana, 93; supposed, through eating food, 96, 102, 103, 104, 105; by fire, ii. 235. _See also_ Conception —— of Isis by the dead Osiris, ii. 8, 20 —— without sexual intercourse, belief in, i. 96 _sqq._ Incense burnt at the rites of Adonis, i. 228; burnt in honour of the Queen of Heaven, 228; collected by a flail, ii. 109 _n._ 1 Incest with a daughter in royal families, reported cases of, i. 43 _sq._ Inconsistency of common thought, i. 4 Increase of the moon the time for increasing money, ii. 148 _sq._ India, sacred women (dancing-girls) in, i. 61 _sqq._; impregnation of women by stone serpents in, 81 _sq._; burial of infants in, 93 _sq._; gardens of Adonis in, 239 _sqq._; eunuchs dedicated to a goddess in, 271 _n._; drinking moonlight as a medicine in, ii. 142 Indian ceremonies analogous to the rites of Adonis, i. 227 —— prophet, his objections to agriculture, i. 88 _sq._