Indians of tropical America represent the rain-god weeping, ii. 33 _n._ 3; of California, their annual festivals of the dead, 52 _sq._; of Brazil attend to the moon more than to the sun, 138 _n._; of San Juan Capistrano, their ceremony at the new moon, 142; of the Ucayali River in Peru, their greeting to the new moon, 142; of North America, effeminate sorcerers among the, 254, 255 _sq._ Infant sons of kings placed by goddesses on fire, i. 180 Infants buried so as to ensure their rebirth, i. 91, 93 _sqq._; burial of, at Gezer, 108 _sq._ Influence of great men on the popular imagination, ii. 199; of mother-kin on religion, 202 _sqq._ Ingarda tribe of West Australia, their belief as to the birth of children, i. 104 Ingleborough in Yorkshire, i. 152 Inheritance of property under mother-kin, rules of, ii. 203 _n._ 1 Injibandi tribe of West Australia, their belief as to the birth of children, i. 105 Insect, soul of dead in, i. 95 _sq._, ii. 162 Insensibility to pain as a sign of inspiration, i. 169 _sq._ Inspiration, insensibility to pain as sign of, i. 169 _sq._; savage theory of, i. 299 ——, prophetic, under the influence of music, i. 52 _sq._, 54 _sq._, 74; through the spirits of dead kings and chiefs, ii. 171, 172, 192 _sq._ Inspired men and women in the Pelew Islands, ii. 207 _sq._ Intercalation introduced to correct the vague Egyptian year, ii. 26, 27, 28; in the ancient Mexican calendar, ii. 28 _n._ 3 _Inuus_, epithet applied to Faunus, ii. 234 _n._ 3 Invisible, charm to make an army, ii. 251 Iolaus, friend of Hercules, i. 111 Iranian year, the old, ii. 67 Iranians, the old, their annual festival of the dead (Fravashis), ii. 67 _sq._ Ireland, sacred oaks in, i. 37 _n._ 2 Irle, J., on the religion of the Herero, ii. 186 _sq._ Iron not allowed to touch Atys, i. 286 _n._ 5 Irrigation in ancient Egypt, ii. 31 _sq._; rites of, in Egypt, 33 _sqq._; sacrifices offered in connexion with, 38 _sq._ Isa or Parvati, an Indian goddess, i. 241 Isaac, Abraham’s attempted sacrifice of, ii. 219 _n._ 1 Isaiah, on the king’s pyre in Tophet, i. 177, 178; possible allusion to gardens of Adonis in, 236 _n._ 1; on dew, 247 _n._ 1 Ishtar, great Babylonian goddess, i. 8, 20 _n._ 2; in relation to Tammuz, 8 _sq._ —— (Astarte) and Mylitta, i. 36, 37 _n._ 1