Melicertes, a form of Melcarth, i. 113 Melite in Phthia, i. 291 Melito on the father of Adonis, i. 13 _n._ 2 Memnonium at Thebes, ii. 35 _n._ Memorial stones, ii. 203 Memphis, head of Osiris at, ii. 11; oath of the kings of Egypt at, 24; festival of Osiris in the month of Khoiak at, 108; Apis the sacred bull of, 119 _n._; the sanctuary of Serapis at, 119 _n._ Men, make gods, ii. 211; dressed as women at marriage, 262 _sqq._; dressed as women to deceive dangerous spirits, 262 _sq._; dressed as women at circumcision, 263 —— and women inspired by the spirits of dead kings and chiefs, ii. 171, 172, 192 _sq._ —— “of God,” prophets, i. 76 Men Tyrannus, Phrygian moon-god, i. 284; custom as to pollution of death at his shrine, ii. 227 Mentras or Mantras of the Malay Peninsula, their tradition as to primitive man, ii. 140 Mephitic vapours, worship of, i. 203 _sqq._ Mercurial temperament of merchants and sailors, ii. 218 Mesha, king of Moab, i. 15; sacrifices his first-born, 110 Messiah, “the Anointed One,” i. 21 Meteor as signal for festival, i. 259 Metharme, daughter of Pygmalion, i. 41 _Methide_ plant growing over grave of Osiris, ii. 111 Mexican calendar, its mode of intercalation, ii. 28 _n._ 3 Mexicans, their human sacrifices for the maize, ii. 107 Mexico, rule as to the felling of timber in, ii. 136 Meyer, Professor Eduard, on prophecy in Canaan, i. 75 _n._ 5; on the Hittite language, 125 _n._; on costume of Hittite priest or king, 133 _n._, 141 _n._ 1; on the rock-hewn sculptures of Boghaz-Keui, 133 _n._; on Anubis at Abydos, ii. 18 _n._ 3; on the hawk as an Egyptian emblem, 22 _n._ 1; on the date of the introduction of the Egyptian calendar, 36 _n._ 2; on the nature of Osiris, 126 _n._ 2; on the relation of Byblus to Egypt, 127 _n._ 1; on the Lycian language, 213 _n._ 1 Michael Angelo, the Pietà of, i. 257 Michaelmas, 29th September, ii. 74 Midas, the tomb of, i. 286 —— and Gordias, names of Phrygian kings, i. 286 Midsummer, old heathen festival of, in Europe and the East, i. 249 _sq._; divination at, 252 _sq._ —— bathing, pagan origin of the custom, i. 249 —— Bride and Bridegroom in Sweden, i. 251 —— Day or Eve, custom of bathing on, i. 246 _sqq._ —— fires and couples in relation to vegetation, i. 250 _sq._; leaping over the fires to make flax or hemp grow tall, 251 Milcom, the god of Ammon, i. 19 Milk, serpents fed with, i. 84 _sqq._, 87; offered at graves, 87 Mill, women mourning for Tammuz eat nothing ground in a mill, i. 230 Milne, Mrs. Leslie, on the Shans, ii. 136 Milton on the laments for Tammuz, i. 226 _n._ Minoan age of Greece, i. 34 Minucius Felix on the rites of Osiris, ii. 85 _n._ 3 Miraculous births of gods and heroes, i. 107 “Mistress of Turquoise,” goddess at Sinai, i. 35 Mitani, ancient people of Northern Mesopotamia, i. 135 _n._