Mori, a district of Central Celebes, belief of the natives as to a spirit in the moon, ii. 139 _n._ Moriah, Mount, traditionally identified with Mount Zion, ii. 219 _n._ 1 Morning Star, appearance of, perhaps the signal for the festival of Adonis, i. 258 _sq._ Morocco, custom of prostitution in an Arab tribe in, i. 39 _n._ 3 Morrison, Rev. C. W., on belief of Australian aborigines as to childbirth, i. 103 _n._ 3 Mostene in Lydia, double-headed axe at, i. 183 _n._ Mota, belief as to conception in women in, i. 97 _sq._ “Mother” and “Father” as epithets applied to Roman goddesses and gods, ii. 233 _sqq._ ——, dead, worshipped, ii. 175, 185 —— Earth, festival in her honour in Bengal, i. 90; fertilized by Father Sky, myth of, 282 —— Goddess of Western Asia, sacred prostitution in the worship of the, i. 36; lions as her emblems, 137, 164; her eunuch priests, 206; of Phrygia conceived as a Virgin Mother, 281 —— -kin, succession in royal houses with, i. 44; trace of, at Rome and Nemi, 45; among the Khasis of Assam, 46, ii. 202 _sqq._; among the Hittites, traces of, i. 141 _sq._; and Mother Goddesses, ii. 201 _sqq._, 212 _sqq._; and father-kin, 202, 261 _n._ 3; favours the superiority of goddesses over gods in religion, 202 _sqq._, 211 _sq._; its influence on religion, 202 _sqq._; among the Pelew Islanders, 204 _sqq._; does not imply that government is in the hands of women, 208 _sqq._; among the Melanesians, 211; in Africa, 211; in Lycia, 212 _sq._; in ancient Egypt, 213 _sqq._; traces of, in Lydia and Cos, 259; favours the development of goddesses, 259. _See also_ Female kinship —— of a god, i. 51, 52 —— of the gods, first-fruits offered to the, i. 280 _n._ 1; popularity of her worship in the Roman Empire, 298 _sq._ —— Plastene on Mount Sipylus, i. 185 “Mother’s Air,” a tune on the flute, i. 288 “Mothers of the Clan” in the Pelew Islands, ii. 205, 206 Motlav, belief as to conception in women in, i. 98 Mournful character of the rites of sowing, ii. 40 _sqq._ Mourning for Attis, i. 272; for the corn-god at midsummer, ii. 34 —— costume of men in Lycia, ii. 264; perhaps a mode of deceiving the ghost, 264 Mouth of the dead, Egyptian ceremony of opening the, ii. 15 Moylar, male children of sacred prostitutes, i. 63 Mpongwe kings of the Gaboon, buried secretly, ii. 104 _Mugema_, the earl of Busiro, ii. 168 Mukasa, the chief god of the Baganda, probably a dead man, ii. 196 _sq._; gives oracles through a woman, 257 _Mukuru_, an ancestor (plural _Ovakuru_, ancestors), ii. 185 _sq._ Müller, Professor W. Max, on Hittite name for god, i. 148 _n._ Mundas of Bengal, gardens of Adonis among the, i. 240 Mungarai, Australian tribe, their belief in the reincarnation of the dead, i. 101 Murder of children to secure their rebirth in barren women, i. 95 Murli, female devotee, i. 62