Mithra, Persian deity, popularity of his worship in the Roman Empire, i. 301 _sq._; identified with the Unconquered Sun, 304 Mithraic religion a rival to Christianity, i. 302; festival of Christmas borrowed from it, 302 _sqq._ Miztecs of Mexico, their annual festival of the dead, ii. 54 _sq._ Mnevis, sacred Egyptian bull, ii. 11 Moa, theory of earthquakes in, i. 198 Moab, Mesha, king of, i. 15; the wilderness of, 52 _sq._; the springs of Callirrhoe in, 214 _sqq._ ——, Arabs of, their custom at harvest, ii. 48, 96; their remedies for ailments, 242 Moabite stone, the inscription on the, i. 15 _n._ 3, 20 _n._ 2, 163 _n._ 3 Moabites burn the bones of the kings of Edom, ii. 104 Models in cardboard offered to the dead instead of the things themselves, ii. 63 _sq._ Mohammedan peoples of North Africa, their custom of bathing at Midsummer, i. 249 —— saints as givers of children, i. 78 _n._ 2 Mohammedanism, ii. 160 Mohammedans of Oude, their mode of drinking moonshine, ii. 144 Moire, sister of Tylon, i. 186 Moloch, meaning of the name, i. 15; sacrifices of first-born children to, 178; the king, ii. 219 _sqq._ —— and _Melech_, ii. 219 _sq._ Mommsen, Th., on the date of the festival of Osiris at Rome, ii. 95 _n._ 1 Mongols, funeral customs of the, i. 293 Monmouthshire, All Souls’ Day in, ii. 79 Monomotapa, a Caffre king, his way of prolonging his life, ii. 222 _sq._ Montanists, their view as to the date of Creation, i. 307 _n._ 2 Months, the Egyptian, table of, ii. 37 _n._ Moon, human victims sacrificed to the, i. 73; albinoes thought to be the offspring of the, 91; popularly regarded as the cause of growth and decay, ii. 132, 138; practical rules based on a theory of the influence of the, 132 _sqq._, 140 _sqq._; popularly regarded as the source of moisture, 137 _sq._; worshipped by the agricultural Indians of tropical America, 138 _sq._; viewed as the husband of the sun, 139 _n._; Athenian superstition as to an eclipse of the, 141; children presented to the, 144 _sqq._; thought to have a harmful influence on children, 148 ——, the new, ceremonies at, ii. 141 _sqq._; dances at, 142; custom of showing money to, or turning it in the pocket, 148 _sq._ ——, the waning, theories to explain, ii. 130; thought to be broken or eaten up, 130 —— Being of the Omahas, ii. 256 ——, the infant god, ii. 131, 153 —— -god conceived as masculine, i. 73; inspiration by the, 73; in ancient Babylonia, ii. 138 _sq._ Moonshine drunk as a medicine in India, ii. 144; thought to be beneficial to children, ii. 144 Móooi, Tongan god who causes earthquakes, i. 201 Moore, G. F., on the burnt sacrifice of children, ii. 219 _n._ 1 Moravia, the feast of All Souls in, ii. 73 Moret, Alexandre, on Amenophis IV., ii. 123 _n._ 1; on the Sed festival, 155 _sq._