his death and resurrection interpreted as the decay and growth of vegetation, 126 _sqq._; his body broken into fourteen parts, 129; interpreted as the moon by some of the ancients, 129; reigned twenty-eight years, 129; his soul thought to be imaged in the sacred bull Apis, 130; identified with the moon in hymns, 131; represented wearing on his head a full moon within a crescent, 131; distinction of his myth and worship from those of Adonis and Attis, 158 _sq._; his dominant position in Egyptian religion, 158 _sq._; the origin of, 158 _sqq._; his historical reality asserted in recent years, 160 _n._ 1; his temple at Abydos, 198; his title Khenti-Amenti, 198 _n._ 2; compared to Charlemagne, 199; the question of his historical reality left open, 199 _sq._; his death still mourned in the time of Athanasius, 217; his old type better preserved than those of Adonis and Attis, 218 Osiris, Adonis, Attis, their mythical similarity, i. 6, ii. 201 —— and Adonis, similarity between their rites, ii. 127 —— and Dionysus, similarity between their rites, ii. 127 —— and the moon, ii. 129 _sqq._ “—— of the mysteries,” ii. 89 —— -Sep, title of Osiris, ii. 87 Ostrich-feather, king of Egypt supposed to ascend to heaven on an, ii. 154, 155 Otho, the emperor, addicted to the worship of Isis, ii. 118 _n._ 1 Oulad Abdi, Arab tribe of Morocco, i. 39 _n._ 3 Oura, ancient name of Olba, i. 148, 152 Ourwira, theory of earthquakes in, i. 199 Ovambo, the, of German South-West Africa, their ceremony at the new moon, ii. 142; the worship of the dead among the, 188 Ovid, on the story of Pygmalion, i. 49 _n._ 4 Owl regarded as the guardian spirit of a tree, ii. 111 _n._ 1 Ox substituted for human victim in sacrifice, i. 146; embodying corn-spirit sacrificed at Athens, 296 _sq._; black, used in purificatory ceremonies after a battle, ii. 251 _sq._ Ozieri, in Sardinia, St. John’s festival at, i. 244 Pacasmayu, the temple of the moon at, ii. 138 Padmavati, an Indian goddess, i. 243 Pagan origin of the Midsummer festival (festival of St. John), i. 249 _sq._ Paganism and Christianity, their resemblances explained as diabolic counterfeits, i. 302, 309 _sq._ Παῖς ἀμφιθαλής, a boy whose parents are both alive, ii. 236 _n._ 2 Palatinate, the Upper, the feast of All Souls in, ii. 72 Palestine, religious prostitution in, i. 58; date of the corn-reaping in, 232 _n._ Palestinian Aphrodite, i. 304 _n._ Palestrina, the harmonies of, i. 54 Pampa del Sacramento, Peru, earthquakes in, i. 198 Pampas, bones of extinct animals in the, i. 158 Pamyles, an Egyptian, ii. 6 Pandharpur, in the Bombay Presidency, i. 243 Panaghia Aphroditessa at Paphos, i. 36 Panku, a being who causes earthquakes, i. 198 Papas, a name for Attis, i. 281, 282 Paphlagonian belief that the god is bound fast in winter, ii. 41