Isis, sister and wife of Osiris, ii. 6 _sq._; date of the festival of, 26 _n._ 2, 33; as a cow or a woman with the head of a cow, i. 50, ii. 50, 85, 88 _n._ 1, 91; invoked by Egyptian reapers, i. 232, ii. 45, 117; in the form of a hawk, 8, 20; in the papyrus swamps, 8; in the form of a swallow, 9; at Byblus, 9 _sq._; at the well, 9, 111 _n._ 6; her search for the body of Osiris, 10, 50, 85; recovers and buries the body of Osiris, 10 _sq._; mourns Osiris, 12; restores Osiris to life, 13; her tears supposed to swell the Nile, 33; her priest wears a jackal’s mask, 85 _n._ 3; decapitated by her son Horus, 88 _n._ 1; her temple at Philae, 89, 111; her many names, 115; sister and wife of Osiris, 116; a corn-goddess, 116 _sq._; her discovery of wheat and barley, 116; identified with Ceres, 117; identified with Demeter, 117; as the ideal wife and mother, 117 _sq._; refinement and spiritualization of, 117 _sq._; popularity of her worship in the Roman empire, 118; her resemblance to the Virgin Mary, 118 _sq._; Sirius her star, 34 _sq._, 152 Isis and the king’s son at Byblus, i. 180; and the scorpions, ii. 8 Iswara or Mahadeva, an Indian god, i. 241, 242 Italian myths of kings or heroes begotten by the fire-god, ii. 235 Italy, hot springs in, i. 213; divination at Midsummer in, 254 Itch of Hercules, i. 209 Itongo, an ancestral spirit (Zulu term, singular of Amatongo), ii. 184 _n._ 2, 185 Ivy, sacred to Attis, i. 278; sacred to Osiris, ii. 112 Jablonski, P. E., on Osiris as a sun-god, ii. 120 Jackal-god Up-uat, ii. 154 Jackal’s mask worn by priest of Isis, 11, 85 _n._ 3 Jamblichus on insensibility to pain as sign of inspiration, i. 169; on the purifying virtue of fire, 181 January, the sixth of, reckoned in the East the Nativity of Christ, i. 304 Janus in Roman mythology, ii. 235 _n._ 6 —— -like deity on coins, i. 165 Japan, annual festival of the dead in, ii. 65 Jars, children buried in, i. 109 _n._ 1 Jason and Medea, i. 181 _n._ 1 Jastrow, Professor M., on the festival of Tammuz, i. 10 _n._ 1; on the character of Tammuz, 230 _n._ Java, conduct of natives in an earthquake, i. 202 _n._ 1; the Valley of Poison in, 203 _sq._; worship of volcanoes in, 220 _sq._ Jawbone, the ghost of the dead thought to adhere to the, ii. 167 _sq._ —— and navel-string of Kibuka, the war-god of the Baganda, ii. 197 Jawbones, lower, of dead kings of Uganda preserved and worshipped, ii. 167 _sq._, 169 _sq._, 171 _sq._; the ghosts of the kings supposed to attach to their jawbones, 169 Jâyi or Jawâra, festival in Upper India, i. 242 _Jebel Hissar_, Olba, i. 151 Jehovah in relation to thunder, i. 22 _n._ 3; in relation to rain, 23 _n._ 1 Jensen, P., on rock-hewn sculptures at Boghaz-Keui, i. 137 _n._ 4; on Hittite inscription, 145 _n._ 2; on the Syrian god Hadad, 163 _n._ 3