Placianian Mother, a form of Cybele, worshipped at Cyzicus, i. 274 _n._ Plastene, Mother, on Mount Sipylus, i. 185 Plato, on gardens of Adonis, i. 236 _n._ 1 Plautus on Mars and Nerio, ii. 232 Pleiades worshipped by the Abipones, i. 258 _n._ 2; the setting of, the time of sowing, ii. 41 Pliny, on the date of harvest in Egypt, ii. 32 _n._ 2; on the influence of the moon, 132; on the grafting of trees, 133 _n._ 3; on the time for felling timber, 136 _n._ Plotinus, the death of, i. 87 Ploughing, Prussian custom at, i. 238; and sowing, ceremony of, in the rites of Osiris, ii. 87 Ploughmen and sowers drenched with water as a rain-charm, i. 238 _sq._ Plutarch on the double-headed axe of Zeus Labrandeus, i. 182; on the myth of Osiris, ii. 3, 5 _sqq._; on Harpocrates, 9 _n._; on Osiris at Byblus, 22 _sq._; on the rise of the Nile, 31 _n._ 1; on the mournful character of the rites of sowing, 40 _sqq._; his use of the Alexandrian year, 49, 84; on an Egyptian ceremony at the winter solstice, 50 _n._ 4; on the date of the death of Osiris, 84; on the festival of Osiris in the month of Athyr, 91 _sq._; on the dating of Egyptian festivals, 94 _sq._; on the rites of Osiris, 108; on the grave of Osiris, 111; on the similarity between the rites of Osiris and Dionysus, 127; on the Flamen Dialis, 229 _sq._; on the Flaminica Dialis, 230 _n._ 2 Pluto, the breath of, i. 204, 205; places or sanctuaries of, 204 _sqq._; cave and temple of, at Acharaca, 205 _Plutonia_, places of Pluto, i. 204 Pollution of death, ii. 227 _sqq._ Polo, Marco, on custom of people of Camul, i. 39 _n._ 3 Polyboea, sister of Hyacinth, i. 314, 316; identified with Artemis or Persephone, 315 Polyidus, a seer, i. 186 _n._ 4 Polynesian myth of the separation of earth and sky, i. 283 Pomegranate causes virgin to conceive, i. 263, 269 Pomegranates forbidden to worshippers of Cybele and Attis, i. 280 _n._ 7 Pomona and Vertumnus, ii. 235 _n._ 6 Pompey the Great, i. 27 Pondomisi, a Bantu tribe of South Africa, ii. 177 Pontiffs, the Roman, their mismanagement of the Julian calendar, ii. 93 _n._ 1; celebrated the marriage of Orcus, 231 Pontus, sacred prostitution in, i. 39, 58 Populonia, a Roman goddess, ii. 231 Port Darwin, Australia, i. 103 Porta Capena at Rome, i. 273 Poseidon the Establisher or Securer, i. 195 _sq._; the earthquake god, 195, 202 _sq._ —— and Demeter, i. 280 Possession of priest or priestess by a divine spirit, i. 66, 68 _sq._, 72 _sqq._; by the spirits of dead chiefs, ii. 192 _sq._ Potniae in Boeotia, priest of Dionysus killed at, ii. 99 _n._ 1 Pots of Basil on St. John’s Day in Sicily, i. 245 Potter in Southern India, custom observed by a, i. 191 _n._ 2 Potters in Uganda bake their pots when the moon is waxing, ii. 135 Praeneste, Fortuna Primigenia, goddess of, ii. 234; founded by Caeculus, 235 Prague, the feast of All Souls in, ii. 73