Marriages of brothers with sisters in ancient Egypt, ii. 214 _sqq._; their intention to keep the property in the family, 215 _sq._ Mars, the father of Romulus and Remus, ii. 235 —— and Bellona, ii. 231 —— and Nerio, ii. 232 Marsala in Sicily, Midsummer customs at, i. 247 Marseilles, Midsummer custom at, i. 248 _sq._ Marshall, Mr. A. S. F., on the felling of timber in Mexico, ii. 136 _n._ 3 Marsyas, his musical contest with Apollo and his death, i. 288 _sq._; perhaps a double of Attis, 289 —— and Apollo, i. 55 ——, the river, i. 289 Martin, M., on the cutting of peat in the Hebrides, ii. 138 Masai, of East Africa, their belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead, i. 82, 84; their ceremonies at the new moon, ii. 142 _sq._ —— boys wear female costume at circumcision, ii. 263 —— rule as to the choice of a chief, ii. 248 Masnes, a giant, i. 186 _Masoka_, the spirits of the dead, ii. 188 _sq._ Maspero, Sir Gaston, edits the Pyramid Texts, ii. 4 _n._ 1; on the nature of Osiris, 126 _n._ 2 Masquerade at the Carnival in Thrace, ii. 99 _sq._ Masquerades at festivals of the dead, ii. 53 Massacres for sick kings of Uganda, ii. 226 Massaya, volcano in Nicaragua, human victims sacrificed to, i. 219 _Massebah_ (plural _masseboth_), sacred stone or pillar, i. 107, 108 Maternal uncle in marriage ceremonies in India, i. 62 _n._ 1 Maternity and paternity of the Roman deities, ii. 233 _sqq._ “Matriarchate,” i. 46 Maui, Fijian god of earthquakes, i. 202 _n._ Maundrell, H., on the discoloration of the river Adonis, i. 225 _n._ 4 Maury, A., on the Easter ceremonies compared with those of Adonis, i. 257 _n._ 1 Maximus Tyrius, on conical image at Paphos, i. 35 _n._ May, modern Greek feast of All Souls in May, ii. 78 _n._ 1 —— Day, ceremony at Meiron in Galilee on the eve of, i. 178 —— -pole or Midsummer-tree in Sweden and Bohemia, i. 250 Medea and her magic cauldron, i. 180 _sq._ Medicine-men of Zulus, i. 74 _n._ 4; of Wiimbaio, 75 _n._ 4 Mefitis, Italian goddess of mephitic vapours, i. 204, 205 Megalopolis, battle of gods and giants in plain of, i. 157 Megassares, king of Hyria, i. 41 Meiners, C., on purification by blood, i. 299 _n._ 2 Meiron, in Galilee, burnings for dead Jewish Rabbis at, i. 178 _sq._ Mela’s description of the Corycian cave, i. 155 _n._, 156 Melanesia, belief in conception without sexual intercourse in, i. 97 _sq._ Melanesian magicians buried secretly, ii. 105 Melanesians, mother-kin among the, ii. 211; of New Britain, their use of flowers and leaves as talismans, 242 _sq._ Melcarth, the god of Tyre, identified with Hercules, i. 16, 111; worshipped at Amathus in Cyprus, 32, 117; the burning of, 110 _sqq._; worshipped at Gades, 112 _sq._, ii. 258 _n._ 5 Melchizedek, king of Salem, i. 17 _Melech_ and Moloch, ii. 219 _sq._ Meles, king of Lydia, banished because of a dearth, i. 183; causes lion to be carried round acropolis, 184