Macrobius, on the mourning Aphrodite, i. 30; on the Egyptian year, ii. 28 _n._ 3; on Osiris as a sun-god, 121; his solar theory of the gods, 121, 128; on the influence of the moon, 132 Madagascar, vicarious sacrifice for a king in, ii. 221; men dressed as women in, 254 Madonna and Isis, ii. 119 Maeander, the valley of the, subject to earthquakes, i. 194; sanctuaries of Pluto in the valley of the, 205, 206 Mafuie, the Samoan god of earthquakes, i. 200 Magarsus in Cilicia, i. 169 _n._ 3 Magic and religion, combination of, i. 4 Magical ceremonies for the regulation of the seasons, i. 3 _sqq._ —— dramas for the regulation of the seasons, i. 4 _sq._ —— uses made of the bodies of the dead, ii. 100 _sqq._ Magnesia, on the Maeander, worship of Zeus at, ii. 238 Mahadeo and Parvati, Indian deities, i. 242, 251 Mahadeva, Indian god, i. 241 Mahdi, an ancient, i. 74 Mahratta, dancing-girls in, i. 62 Maia or Majestas, the wife of Vulcan, ii. 232 _sq._ Maiau, hero in form of crocodile, i. 139 _n._ 1 Maiden, the (Persephone), the descent of, ii. 41 Malagasy use of children of living parents in ritual, ii. 247 Malay Peninsula, the Mentras or Mantras of the, ii. 140 Mallus in Cilicia, deities on coins of, i. 165 _sq._ Malta, bilingual inscription of, i. 16; Phoenician temples of, 35 Mamre, sacred oak or terebinth at, i. 37 _n._ 2 Mandingoes of Senegambia, their attention to the phases of the moon, ii. 141 Maneros, chant of Egyptian reapers, ii. 45, 46 Manes, first king of Lydia, i. 186 _n._ 5 Manetho, on the Egyptian burnt-sacrifice of red-haired men, ii. 97; on Isis as the discoverer of corn, 116; quoted by Diodorus Siculus, 120 Manichaeans, their theory of earthquakes, i. 197 Manichaeus, the heretic, his death, i. 294 _n._ 3 Manipur, the Tangkul Nagas of, ii. 57 _sq._ Mantinea, Poseidon worshipped at, i. 203 _n._ 2 Maori priest catches the soul of a tree, ii. 111 _n._ 1 Marash, Hittite monuments at, i. 173 March, festival of Attis in, i. 267 ——, the twenty-fifth of, tradition that Christ was crucified on, i. 306 Marduk, human wives of, at Babylon, i. 71 Mariette-Pacha, A., on the burial of Osiris, ii. 89 _n._ Marigolds used to adorn tombstones on All Souls’ Day, ii. 71 Marks, bodily, of prophets, i. 74 Marriage as an infringement of old communal rights, i. 40; of the Sun and Earth, 47 _sq._; of women to serpent-god, 66 _sqq._; of Adonis and Aphrodite celebrated at Alexandria, 224; of Sky and Earth, 282 with _n._ 2; of the Roman gods, ii. 230 _sqq._; exchange of dress between men and women at, 260 _sqq._ ——, sacred, of priest and priestess as representatives of deities, i. 46 _sqq._; represented in the rock-hewn sculptures at Boghaz-Keui, 140; in Cos, ii. 259 _n._ 4 —— customs of the Aryan family, ii. 235; use of children of living parents in, 245 _sqq._; to ensure the birth of boys, 262