Nemi, Dianus and Diana at, i. 45 Nephthys, Egyptian goddess, sister of Osiris and Isis, ii. 6; mourns Osiris, 12 Neptune and Salacia, ii. 231, 233 Nerio and Mars, ii. 232 New birth through blood in the rites of Attis, i. 274 _sq._; savage theory of, 299; of Egyptian kings at the Sed festival, ii. 153, 155 _sq._ —— Britain, theory of earthquakes in, i. 201 —— Guinea, German, the Kai of, i. 96; the Tami of, 198 —— Mexico, the Pueblo Indians of, ii. 54 —— moon, ceremonies at the, ii. 141 _sqq._ —— World, bathing on St. John’s Day in the, i. 249; All Souls’ Day in the, ii. 80 —— Year’s Day, festival of the dead on, ii. 53, 55, 62, 65 —— Zealand, Rotomahana in, i. 207, 209 _n._ Newberry, Professor P. E., on Osiris as a cedar-tree god, ii. 109 _n._ 1 Newman, J. H., on music, i. 53 _sq._ Ngai, God, i. 68 Ngoni, their belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead, i. 82 Nguruhi, the supreme god of the Wahehe, ii. 188 _sq._ Niambe, the supreme god of the Barotse, ii. 193 Nias, conduct of the natives of, in an earthquake, i. 201 _sq._; head-hunting in, 296 _n._ 1 Nicaragua, Indians of, sacrifice human victims to volcanoes, i. 219 Nietzold, J., on the marriage of brothers with sisters in ancient Egypt, ii. 216 _n._ 1 Nigmann, E., on the religion of the Wahehe, ii. 188 _sq._ Nikunau, one of the Gilbert Islands, sacred stones in, i. 108 _n._ 1 Nile, the rise and fall of the, ii. 30 _sqq._; rises at the summer solstice in June, 31 _n._ 1, 33; commanded by the King of Egypt to rise, 33; thought to be swollen by the tears of Isis, 33; gold and silver thrown into the river at its rising, 40; the rise of, attributed to Serapis, 216 _sq._ ——, the “Bride” of the, ii. 38 Nilsson, Professor M. P., on custom of sacred prostitution, i. 37 _n._ 2, 57 _n._ 1, 58 _n._ 2; on the sacrifice of a bull to Zeus, ii. 239 _n._ 1 Nineveh, the end of, i. 174 Njamus, the, of British East Africa, their sacrifices at irrigation channels, ii. 38 _sq._ Normandy, rolling in dew on St. John’s Day in, i. 248 Northern Territory, Australia, beliefs as to the birth of children in the, i. 103 _sq._ Nottinghamshire, harvest custom in, i. 238 _n._ November, festivals of the dead in, ii. 51, 54, 69 _sqq._; the month of sowing in Egypt, 94 Novitiate of priests and priestesses, i. 66, 68 Nullakun tribe of Australia, their belief as to the birth of children, i. 101 Nut, Egyptian sky-goddess, mother of Osiris, i. 283 _n._ 3, ii. 6, 16; in a sycamore tree, 110 Nutlets of pines used as food, i. 278 _n._ 2 Nutritive and vicarious types of sacrifice, ii. 226 Nyakang, the first of the Shilluk kings, worshipped as the god of his people, ii. 162 _sqq._; incarnate in various animals, 163 _sq._; his mysterious disappearance, 163; his graves, 163, 166; historical reality of, 164, 166 _sq._; his relation to the creator Juok, 164 _sq._; compared to Osiris, 167