—— of Egypt worshipped as gods, i. 52; buried at Abydos, ii. 19; perhaps formerly slain in the character of Osiris, 97 _sq._, 102; as Osiris, 151 _sqq._; renew their life by identifying themselves with the dead and risen Osiris, 153 _sq._; born again at the Sed festival, 153, 156 _sq._; perhaps formerly put to death to prevent their bodily and mental decay, 154 _sq._, 156 Kings, Hebrew, traces of divinity ascribed to, i. 20 _sqq._ ——, Shilluk, put to death before their strength fails, ii. 163 —— of Sweden answerable for the fertility of the ground, ii. 220; their sons sacrificed, 51 Kingship at Rome a plebeian institution, i. 45; under mother-kin, rules as to succession to the, ii. 210 _n._ 1; in Africa under mother-kin inherited by men, not women, 211 Kingsley, Miss Mary H., on secret burial of chief’s head, ii. 104 _Kinnor_, a lyre, i. 52 Kirauea, volcano in Hawaii, i. 216 _sq._; divinities of, 217; offerings to, 217 _sqq._ Kiriwina, one of the Trobriand Islands, annual festival of the dead in, i. 56; snakes as reincarnations of the dead in, 84; presentation of children to the full moon in, ii. 144 Kiwai, an island off New Guinea, magic for the growth of sago in, ii. 101 Kiziba, a district of Central Africa, dead kings worshipped in, ii. 173 _sq._; totemism in, 173 Klamath Indians of Oregon, their theory of the waning moon, ii. 130 Kocchs of North-Eastern India, succession to husband’s property among the, ii. 215 _n._ 2 Kois of Southern India, infant burial among the, i. 95 Komatis of Mysore, their worship of serpents, i. 81 _sq._ Koniags of Alaska, their magical uses of the bodies of the dead, ii. 106 Konkaus of California, their dance of the dead, ii. 53 _Kosio_, a dedicated person, i. 65, 66, 68 Kosti, in Thrace, carnival custom at, ii. 99 _sq._ Kotas, a tribe of Southern India, their priests not allowed to be widowers, ii. 230 Kretschmer, Professor P., on native population of Cyprus, i. 145 _n._ 3; on Cybele and Attis, 287 _n._ 2 Krishna, Hindoo god, ii. 254 Kuar, an Indian month, ii. 144 Kubary, J., on the system of mother-kin among the Pelew Islanders, ii. 204 _sqq._ Kuinda, Cilician fortress, i. 144 _n._ 1 Kuki-Lushai, men dressed as women to deceive dangerous ghosts or spirits among the, ii. 263 Kuklia, Old Paphos, i. 33, 36 Kundi in Cilicia, i. 144 Kupalo, figure of, passed across fire at Midsummer, i. 250 _sq._; a deity of vegetation, 253 Kupole’s festival at Midsummer in Prussia, i. 253 Labraunda in Caria, i. 182 _n._ 4 _Labrys_, Lydian word for axe, i. 182 Laconia, subject to earthquakes, i. 203 _n._ 2 Lactantius, on the rites of Osiris, ii. 85 Lagash in Babylonia, i. 35 _n._ 5 Lago di Naftia in Sicily, i. 221 _n._ 4 Lagrange, Father M. J., on the mourning for Adonis as a harvest rite, i. 231 Laguna, Pueblo village of New Mexico, ii. 54 _n._ 2