Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, their annual festival of the dead, ii. 54 Pumi-yathon, king of Citium and Idalium, i. 50 Punjaub, belief in the reincarnation of infants in the, i. 94 Puppet substituted for human victim, i. 219 _sq._ Purification by fire, i. 115 _n._ 1, 179 _sqq._; by pig’s blood, 299 _n._ 2; of Apollo at Tempe, ii. 240 _sq._ Purificatory ceremonies after a battle, ii. 251 _sq._ Pyanepsion, an Athenian month, ii. 41 Pygmalion, king of Citium and Idalium in Cyprus, i. 50 ——, king of Cyprus, i. 41, 49 ——, king of Tyre, i. 50 —— and Aphrodite, i. 49 _sq._ Pymaton of Citium, i. 50 _n._ 2 Pyramid Texts, ii. 4 _sqq._, 9 _n._; intended to ensure the life of dead Egyptian kings, 4 _sq._; Osiris and the sycamore in the, 110; the mention of Khenti-Amenti in the, 198 _n._ 2 Pyramus, river in Cilicia, i. 165, 167, 173 Pyre at festivals of Hercules, i. 116; at Tarsus, 126; of dead kings at Jerusalem, 177 _sq._ —— or Torch, name of great festival at the Syrian Hierapolis, i. 146 Pythian games, their period, ii. 242 _n._ 1 Python worshipped by the Baganda, i. 86 —— -god, human wives of the, i. 66 Pythons worshipped in West Africa, i. 83 _n._ 1; dead chiefs reincarnated in, ii. 193 “Quail-hunt,” legend on coins of Tarsus, i. 126 _n._ 2 Quails sacrificed to Hercules (Melcarth), i. 111 _sq._; migration of, 112 Quatuordecimans of Phrygia celebrate the Crucifixion on March 25th, i. 307 _n._ Queen of Egypt the wife of Ammon, i. 72 —— of Heaven, i. 303 _n._ 5; incense burnt in honour of the, 228 Queensland, aborigines of, their beliefs as to the birth of children, i. 102 _sq._ Quirinus and Hora, ii. 233 Ra, the Egyptian sun-god, ii. 6, 8, 12; identified with many originally independent local deities, 122 _sqq._ Rabbah, captured by David, i. 19 Rabbis, burnings for dead Jewish, i. 178 _sq._ Rain procured by bones of the dead, i. 22; excessive, ascribed to wrath of God, 22 _sq._; instrumental in rebirth of dead infants, 95; regarded as the tears of gods, ii. 33; thought to be controlled by the souls of dead chiefs, 188 —— -charm in rites of Adonis, i. 237; by throwing water on the last corn cut, 237 _sq._ —— -god represented with tears running from his eyes, ii. 33 _n._ 3 Rainbow totem, i. 101 Rainless summer on the Mediterranean, i. 159 _sq._ Rajaraja, king, i. 61 Rajputana, gardens of Adonis in, i. 241 _sq._ Rambree, sorcerers dressed as women in the island of, ii. 254 Rameses II., his treaty with the Hittites, i. 135 _sq._; his order to the Nile, ii. 33 Ramman, Babylonian and Assyrian god of thunder, i. 163 _sq._ Rams, testicles of, in the rites of Attis, i. 269