Serpents reputed the fathers of human beings, i. 80 _sqq._; as embodiments of Aesculapius, 80 _sq._; worshipped in Mysore, 81 _sq._; as reincarnations of the dead, 82 _sqq._; fed with milk, 84 _sqq._, 87; thought to have knowledge of life-giving plants, 186; souls of dead kings incarnate in, ii. 163, 173 Servius, on the death of Attis, i. 264 _n._ 4; on the marriage of Orcus, ii. 231; on Salacia as the wife of Neptune, 233 —— Tullius, begotten by the fire-god, ii. 235 Sesostris, so-called monument of, i. 185 Set, or Typhon, brother of Osiris, ii. 6; murders Osiris, 7 _sq._; accuses Osiris before the gods, 17; brings a suit of bastardy against Horus, 17; his combat with Horus, 17; reigns over Upper Egypt, 17; torn in pieces, 98. _See also_ Typhon Sety I., King of Egypt, ii. 108 Shamash, Babylonian sun-god, his human wives, i. 71 —— Semitic god, i. 16 _n._ 1 Shamashshumukin, King of Babylon, burns himself, i. 173 _sq._, 176 Shammuramat, Assyrian queen, i. 177 _n._ 1 Shans of Burma, their theory of earthquakes, i. 198; cut bamboos for building in the wane of the moon, ii. 136 Shark-shaped hero, i. 139 _n._ 1 Sheaf, the first cut, ii. 239 Sheep to be shorn when the moon is waxing, ii. 134; to be shorn in the waning of the moon, 134 _n._ 3 _Sheitan dere_, the Devil’s Glen, in Cilicia, i. 150 Shenty, Egyptian cow-goddess, ii. 88 Shifting dates of Egyptian festivals, ii. 24 _sq._ Shilluk kings put to death before their strength fails, ii. 163 Shilluks, their worship of dead kings, ii. 161 _sq._; their worship of Nyakang, the first of the Shilluk kings, 162 _sqq._ Shoulders of medicine-men especially sensitive, i. 74 _n._ 4 Shouting as a means of stopping earthquakes, i. 197 _sqq._ Shropshire, feast of All Souls in, ii. 78 Shu, Egyptian god of light, i. 283 _n._ 3 Shuswap Indians of British Columbia eat nutlets of pines, i. 278 _n._ 2 Siam, catafalque burnt at funeral of king of, i. 179; annual festival of the dead in, ii. 65 Siao, children sacrificed to volcano in, i. 219 Sibitti-baal, king of Byblus, i. 14 Sibyl, the Grotto of the, at Marsala, i. 247 Sibylline Books, i. 265 Sicily, Syrian prophet in, i. 74; fossil bones in, 157; hot springs in, 213; gardens of Adonis in, 245, 253 _sq._; divination at Midsummer in, 254; Good Friday ceremonies in, 255 _sq._ Sick people resort to cave of Pluto, i. 205 _sq._ Sicyon, shrine of Aesculapius at, i. 81 Sidon, kings of, as priests of Astarte, i. 26 _Siem_, king, among the Khasis of Assam, ii. 210 _n._ 1 Sigai, hero in form of shark, i. 139 _n._ 1 Sihanaka, the, of Madagascar, funeral custom of the, ii. 246 Sinai, “Mistress of Turquoise” at, i. 35 Sinews of sacrificial ox cut, ii. 252 Sins, the remission of, through the shedding of blood, i. 299 Sinsharishkun, last king of Assyria, i. 174 Sipylus, Mother Plastene on Mount, i. 185 Siriac or Sothic period, ii. 36