Pescina in the Abruzzi, Midsummer custom at, i. 246 Pessinus, image of Cybele at, i. 35 _n._ 3; priests called Attis at, 140; local legend of Attis at, 264; image of the Mother of the Gods at, 265; people of, abstain from swine, 265; high-priest of Cybele at, 285 Petrarch at Cologne on St. John’s Eve, i. 247 _sq._ Petrie, Professor W. M. Flinders, on the date of the corn-reaping in Egypt and Palestine, i. 231 _n._ 3; on the Sed festival, ii. 151 _n._ 3, 152 _n._ 3, 154 _sq._; on the marriage of brothers with sisters in Egypt, 216 _n._ 1 Petrified cascades of Hierapolis, i. 207 Petroff, Ivan, on a custom of the Koniags of Alaska, ii. 106 Phamenoth, an Egyptian month, ii. 49 _n._ 1, 130 Phaophi, an Egyptian month, ii. 49 _n._ 1, 94 Pharnace, daughter of Megassares, i. 41 Phatrabot, a Cambodian month, ii. 61 Phidias, his influence on Greek religion, i. 54 _n._ 1 Philadelphia, subject to earthquakes, i. 194 _sq._ Philae, Egyptian relief at, ii. 50 _n._ 5; mystic representation of Osiris in the temple of Isis at, 89; sculptures in the temple of Isis at, 111; the grave of Osiris at, 111; the dead Osiris in the sculptures at, 112 Philo of Alexandria on the date of the corn-reaping, i. 231 _n._ 3 Philocalus, calendar of, i. 303 _n._ 2, 304 _n._ 3, 307 _n._, ii. 95 _n._ 1 Philosophy, school of, at Tarsus, i. 118 Philostephanus, Greek historian, i. 49 _n._ 4 Phoenician temples in Malta, i. 35; sacred prostitution in, 37 —— kings in Cyprus, i. 49 Phoenicians in Cyprus, i. 31 _sq._ Phrygia, Attis a deity of, i. 263; festival of Cybele in, 274 _n._; indigenous race of, 287 Phrygian belief that the god sleeps in winter, ii. 41 —— cap of Attis, i. 279 —— cosmogony, i. 263 _sq._ —— kings named Midas and Gordias, i. 286 Phrygian moon-god, i. 73 —— priests named Attis, i. 285, 287 Phrygians, invaders from Europe, i. 287 _Pietà_ of Michael Angelo, i. 257 Pig’s blood used in exorcism and purification, i. 299 _n._ 2 Pigs sacrificed annually to the moon and Osiris, ii. 131. _See also_ Swine Pillars as a religious emblem, i. 34; sacred, in Crete, 107 _n._ 2 Pindar on the music of the lyre, i. 55; on Typhon, 156 Pine-cones symbols of fertility, i. 278; thrown into vaults of Demeter, 278; on the monuments of Osiris, ii. 110 —— seeds or nutlets used as food, i. 278 —— -tree in the myth and ritual of Attis, i. 264, 265, 267, 271, 277 _sq._, 285, ii. 98 _n._ 5 Marsyas hung on a, i. 288; in relation to human sacrifices, ii. 98 _n._ 5; Pentheus on the, 98 _n._ 5; in the rites of Osiris, 108 Pipiles of Central America expose their seeds to moonlight, ii. 135 Piraeus, processions in honour of Adonis at, i. 227 _n._ Pirates, the Cilician, i. 149 _sq._ _Pitr Pāk_, the Fortnight of the Manes, ii. 60 Pitrè, G., on Good Friday ceremonies in Sicily, i. 255 _sq._ Placenta, Egyptian standard resembling a, ii. 156 _n._ 1 _See also_ Afterbirth.