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
Karok Indians of California, their lamentations at hewing sacred wood, ii.
47 _sq._
Karunga, the supreme god of the Herero, ii. 186, 187 _n._ 1
_Katikiro_, Baganda term for prime minister, ii. 168
Kayans, their reasons for taking human heads, i. 294 _sq._
Keadrol, a Toda clan, ii. 228
Keb (Geb or Seb), Egyptian earth-god, father of Osiris, i. 6, 283 _n._ 3
_Ḳedeshim_, sacred men, i. 38 _n._, 59, 72, 76, 107;
at Jerusalem, 17 _sq._;
in relation to prophets, 76
_Ḳedeshoth_, sacred women, i. 59, 72, 107
Kemosh, god of Moab, i. 15
Kennett, Professor R. H., on David and Goliath, i. 19 _n._ 2;
on Elisha in the wilderness, 53 _n._ 1;
on _ḳedeshim_, 73 _n._ 1;
on the sacrifice of first-born children at Jerusalem, ii. 219
Kent’s Hole, near Torquay, fossil bones in, i. 153
Keysser, Ch., on belief in conception without sexual intercourse, i. 96
_sq._
Khalij, old canal at Cairo, ii. 38
Khangars of the Central Provinces, India, bridegroom and his father
dressed as women at a marriage among the, ii. 261
Khasi tribes governed by kings, not queens, ii. 210
Khasis of Assam, their system of mother-kin, i. 46, ii. 202 _sq._;
goddesses predominate over gods in their religion, 203 _sq._;
rules as to the succession to the kingship among the, 210 _n._ 1
Khent, early king of Egypt, ii. 154;
his reign, 19 _sq._;
his tomb at Abydos, 19 _sqq._;
his tomb identified with that of Osiris, 20, 197
Khenti-Amenti, title of Osiris, ii. 87, 198 _n._ 2
Khoiak, festival of Osiris in the month of, ii. 86 _sqq._, 108 _sq._
Khyrim State, in Assam, i. 46;
governed by a High Priestess, ii. 203
Kibuka, the war-god of the Baganda, a dead man, ii. 197;
his personal relics preserved at Cambridge, 197
Kidd, Dudley, on the worship of ancestral spirits among the Bantus of
South Africa, ii. 177 _sqq._
King, J. E., on infant burial, i. 91 _n._ 3
King, a masker at Carnival called the, ii. 99
—— of Tyre, his walk on stones of fire, i. 114 _sq._;
of Uganda, his navel-string preserved and inspected every new moon, ii.
147 _sq._
Kings as priests, i. 42;
as lovers of a goddess, 49 _sq._;
held responsible for the weather and the crops, 183;
marry their sisters, 316;
slaughter human victims with their own hands, ii. 97 _n._ 7;
torn in pieces, traditions of, 97 _sq._;
human sacrifices to prolong the life of, 220 _sq._, 223 _sqq._
—— and magicians dismembered and their bodies buried in different parts of
the country to fertilize it, ii. 101 _sq._
——, dead, reincarnate in lions, i. 83 _n._ 1;
worshipped in Africa, 160 _sqq._;
sacrifices offered to, 162, 166 _sq._;
incarnate in animals, 162, 163 _sq._, 173;
consulted as oracles, 167, 171, 172, 195;
human sacrifices to, 173;
worshipped by the Barotse, 194 _sq._
——, divinity of Semitic, i. 15 _sqq._;
divinity of Lydian, 182 _sqq._
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