Sea, custom of bathing in the, on St. John’s Day or Eve, i. 246, 248 —— Dyaks or Ibans of Borneo, their worship of serpents, i. 83; their festivals of the dead, ii. 56 _sq._; effeminate priests or sorcerers among the, 253, 256 —— Dyaks of Sarawak, their reasons for taking human heads, i. 295 _sq._ Season of festival a clue to the nature of a deity, ii. 24 Seasons, magical and religious theories of the, i. 3 _sq._ Seb (Keb or Geb), Egyptian earth-god, i. 283 _n._ 3, ii. 6 Secret graves of kings, chiefs, and magicians, ii. 103 _sqq._ Sed festival in Egypt, ii. 151 _sqq._; its date perhaps connected with the heliacal rising of Sirius, 152 _sq._; apparently intended to renew the king’s life by identifying him with the dead and risen Osiris, 153 _sq._ Segera, a sago magician of Kiwai, dismembered after death, ii. 101, 102 Seker (Sokari), title of Osiris, ii. 87 Seler, Professor E., on the ancient Mexican calendar, ii. 28 _n._ Seleucus, a grammarian, i. 146 _n._ 1 —— Nicator, king, i. 151 —— the Theologian, i. 146 _n._ 1 Self-mutilation of Attis and his priests, i. 265 Seligmann, Dr. C. G., on the five supplementary Egyptian days, ii. 6 _n._ 3; on the divinity of Shilluk kings, 161 _n._ 2; on custom of putting Shilluk kings to death, 163 Selwanga, python-god of Baganda, i. 86 Semiramis at Hierapolis, i. 162 _n._ 2; as a form of Ishtar (Astarte), 176 _sq._; said to have burnt herself, 176 _sq._; the mythical, a form of the great Asiatic goddess, ii. 258 Semites, agricultural, worship Baal as the giver of fertility, i. 26 _sq._; sacred stocks and stones among the, 107 _sqq._; traces of mother-kin among the, ii. 213 Semitic gods, uniformity of their type, i. 119 —— kings, the divinity of, i. 15 _sqq._; as hereditary deities, 51 —— language, Egyptian language akin to the, ii. 161 _n._ 1 —— personal names indicating relationship to a deity, i. 51 —— worship of Tammuz and Adonis, i. 6 _sqq._ _Semlicka_, festival of the dead among the Letts, ii. 74 Seneca, on the offerings of Egyptian priests to the Nile, ii. 40; on the marriage of the Roman gods, 231; on Salacia as the wife of Neptune, 233 Senegal and Niger region of West Africa, belief as to conception without sexual intercourse in, i. 93 _n._ 2; myth of marriage of Sky and Earth in the, 282 _n._ 2 Senegambia, the Mandingoes of, ii. 141 Sennacherib, his siege of Jerusalem, i. 25; said to have built Tarsus, 173 _n._ 4 Separation of Earth and Sky, myth of the, i. 283 Serapeum at Alexandria, ii. 119 _n._; its destruction, 217 Serapis, the later form of Osiris, ii. 119 _n._; the rise of the Nile attributed to, 216 _sq._; the standard cubit kept in his temple, 217 Serpent as the giver of children, i. 86; at rites of initiation, 90 _n._ 4 —— -god married to human wives, i. 66 _sqq._; thought to control the crops, 67