Sirius (the Dog-star), observed by Egyptian astronomers, ii. 27; called Sothis by the Egyptians, 34; date of its rising in ancient Egypt, 34; heliacal rising of, on July 20th, 34 _n._ 1, 93; its rising marked the beginning of the sacred Egyptian year, 35; its rising observed in Ceos, 35 _n._ 1; sacrifices offered at its rising on the top of Mount Pelion, 36 _n._ —— the star of Isis, ii. 34, 119; in connexion with the Sed festival, 152 _sq._ Sis in Cilicia, i. 144 Sister of a god, i. 51 Sisters, kings marry their, i. 316 Sizu in Cilicia, i. 144 Skin, bathing in dew at Midsummer as remedy for diseases of the, i. 247, 248; of ox stuffed and set up, 296 _sq._; body of Egyptian dead placed in a bull’s, ii. 15 _n._ 2; of sacrificial victim used in the rite of the new birth, 155 _sq._ Skinner, Principal J., on the burnt sacrifice of children, ii. 219 Skins of human victims, uses made of, i. 293; of horses stuffed and set up at graves, 293, 294 Skull, drinking out of a king’s, in order to be inspired by his spirit, ii. 171 Sky conceived by the Egyptians as a cow, i. 283 _n._ 3 —— and earth, myth of their violent separation, i. 283 —— -god, Attis as a, i. 282 _sqq._; married to Earth-goddess, 282, with _n._ 2; mutilation of the, 283 Slaughter of prisoners often a sacrifice to the gods, i. 290 _n._ 2 Slave Coast of West Africa, sacred men and women on the, i. 65, 68; Ewe-speaking peoples of the, 83 _n._ 1 Slaves, sacred, in Western Asia, i. 39 _n._ 1 Slaying of the Dragon by Apollo at Delphi, ii. 240 _sq._ Sleep of the god in winter, ii. 41 Smell, evil, used to avert demons, ii. 261 Smeroe, Mount, volcano in Java, i. 221 Smith, George Adam, on fertility of Bethlehem, i. 257 _n._ 3 Smith, W. Robertson, on the date of the month Tammuz, i. 10 _n._ 1; on anointing as consecration, 21 _n._ 3; on Baal as god of fertility, 26 _sq._; on caves in Semitic religion, 169 _n._ 3; on Tophet, 177 _n._ 4; on the predominance of goddesses over gods in early Semitic religion, ii. 213; on the sacrifice of children to Moloch, 220 _n._ 1 Smoking as a mode of inducing inspiration, ii. 172 Snake-entwined goddess found at Gournia, i. 88 Snakes as fathers of human beings, i. 82; fed with milk, 84 _sqq._ _See also_ Serpents Snorri Sturluson, on the dismemberment of Halfdan the Black, ii. 100 Sobk, a crocodile-shaped Egyptian god, identified with the sun, ii. 123 _Sochit_ or _Sochet_, epithet of Isis, ii. 117 Society, ancient, built on the principle of the subordination of the individual to the community, i. 300 Socrates (church historian) on sacred prostitution, i. 37 _n._ 2 Söderblom, N., on an attempted reform of the old Iranian religion, ii. 83 _n._ 2 Sodom and Gomorrah, the destruction of, i. 222 _n._ 1 Soerakarta, district of Java, conduct of natives in an earthquake, i. 202 _n._ 1 Sokari (Seker), a title of Osiris, ii. 87