Music as a means of prophetic inspiration, i. 52 _sq._, 54 _sq._, 74; in exorcism, 54 _sq._; and religion, 53 _sq._ Musquakie Indians, infant burial among the, i. 91 _n._ 3 Mutilation of dead bodies of kings, chiefs, and magicians, ii. 103 _sqq._; to prevent their souls from becoming dangerous ghosts, 188 Mycenae, royal graves at, i. 33, 34 Mycenaean age of Greece, i. 34 Mylasa in Caria, i. 182 _n._ 4 Mylitta, Babylonian goddess, sacred prostitution in her worship, i. 36, 37 _n._ 1 Myrrh or Myrrha, the mother of Adonis, i. 43, 227 _sq._ —— -tree, Adonis born of a, i. 227, ii. 110 Mysore, sacred women in, i. 62 _n._; the Komatis of, 81 _sq._ Mysteries of Sabazius, i. 90 _n._ 4; of Attis, 274 _sq._ Myth and ritual of Attis, i. 263 _sqq._ Myths supposed to originate in verbal misapprehensions or a disease of language, ii. 42 ——, Italian, of kings or heroes begotten by the fire-god, ii. 235 Naaburg, in Bavaria, custom at sowing at, i. 239 “Naaman, wounds of the,” Arab name for the scarlet anemone, i. 226 Nabopolassar, king of Babylon, i. 174 _Naga_, serpent god, i. 81 Naga-padoha, the agent of earthquakes, i. 200 Nahanarvals, a German tribe, priest dressed as a woman among the, ii. 259 Nahr Ibrahim, the river Adonis, i. 14, 28 Namal tribe of West Australia, their belief as to the birth of children, i. 105 Names, royal, signifying relation to deity, i. 15 _sqq._; Semitic personal, indicating relationship to a deity, 51; Hebrew, ending in _-el_ or _-iah_, 79 _n._ 3 Nana, the mother of Attis, i. 263, 269, 281 Nandi, the, of British East Africa, their belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead, i. 82, 85; their ceremony at the ripening of the eleusine grain, ii. 47; boys dressed as women and girls dressed as men at circumcision among the, 263 Nanjundayya, H. V., on serpent worship in Mysore, i. 81 _sq._ Naples, grotto _del cani_ at, i. 205 _n._ 1; custom of bathing on St. John’s Eve at, 246 Narmer, the mace of, ii. 154 National character partly an effect of geographical and climatic conditions, ii. 217 Nativity of the Sun at the winter solstice, i. 303 _sqq._ Natural calendar of the husbandman, shepherd, and sailor, ii. 25 Nature of Osiris, ii. 96 _sqq._ Navel-string of the king of Uganda preserved and inspected every new moon, ii. 147 _sq._ Navel-strings of dead kings of Uganda preserved, ii. 167, 168, 171; ghosts of afterbirths thought to adhere to, 169 _sq._; preserved by the Baganda as their twins and as containing the ghosts of their afterbirths, 169 _sq._ Ndjambi, Njambi, Njame, Zambi, Nyambe, etc., name of the supreme god among various tribes of Africa, ii. 186, with note 5 —— Karunga, the supreme god of the Herero, ii. 186 Nebseni, the papyrus of, ii. 112 Neith or Net, an Egyptian goddess, i. 282 _n._, ii. 51 _n._ 1 Nekht, the papyrus of, ii. 112