—— -spangled cap of Attis, i. 284 Steinn in Hringariki, barrow of Halfdan at, ii. 100 _Stella Maris_, an epithet of the Virgin Mary, ii. 119 Stengel, P., on sacrificial ritual of Eleusis, i. 292 _n._ 3 Stlatlum Indians of British Columbia respect the animals and plants which they eat, ii. 44 Stocks, sacred, among the Semites, i. 107 _sqq._ Stones, holed, custom of passing through, i. 36; to commemorate the dead, ii. 203 ——, sacred, anointed, i. 36; among the Semites, 107 _sqq._; among the Khasis, 108 _n._ 1 Strabo, on the concubines of Ammon, i. 72; on Albanian moon-god, 73 _n._ 4; on Castabala, 168 _n._ 6; his description of the Burnt Land of Lydia, 193; on the frequency of earthquakes at Philadelphia, 195; his description of Rhodes, 195 _n._ 3; on Nysa, 206 _n._ 1; on the priests of Pessinus, 286 Stratonicea in Caria, eunuch priest at, i. 270 _n._ 2; rule as to the pollution of death at, ii. 227 _sq._ String music in religion, i. 54 Su-Mu, a tribe of Southern China, said to be governed by a woman, ii. 211 _n._ 2 Subordination of the individual to the community, the principle of ancient society, i. 300 Substitutes for human sacrifices, i. 146 _sq._, 219 _sq._, 285, 289, ii. 99, 221 Succession to the crown under mother-kin (female kinship), i. 44, ii. 18, 210 _n._ 1 Sudan, the negroes of, their regard for the phases of the moon, ii. 141 Sudanese, their conduct in an earthquake, i. 198 _Suffetes_ of Carthage, i. 116 Sugar-bag totem, i. 101 Suicides, custom observed at graves of, i. 93; ghosts of, feared, 292 _n._ 3 Suk, their belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead, i. 82, 85 Sulla at Aedepsus, i. 212 Sumatra, the Bataks of, i. 199, ii. 239; the Loeboes of, 264 Sumba, East Indian island, annual festival of the New Year and of the dead in, ii. 55 _sq._ Sumerians, their origin and civilization, i. 7 _sq._ Summer on the Mediterranean rainless, i. 159 _sq._ —— called Aphrodite, ii. 41 —— festival of Adonis, i. 226, 232 _n._ Sun, temple of the, at Baalbec, i. 163; Adonis interpreted as the, 228; the Nativity of the, at the winter solstice, 303 _sqq._; Osiris interpreted as the, ii. 120 _sqq._; called “the eye of Horus,” 121; worshipped in Egypt, 122, 123 _sqq._; the power of regeneration ascribed to the, 143 _n._ 4; salutations to the rising, 193 —— and earth, annual marriage of, i. 47 _sq._ —— -god annually married to Earth-goddess, i. 47 _sq._; the Egyptian, ii. 123 _sqq._; hymns to the, 123 _sq._ —— -goddess of the Hittites, i. 133 _n._ —— the Unconquered, Mithra identified with, i. 304 Superiority of the goddess in the myths of Adonis, Attis, Osiris, ii. 201 _sq._; of goddesses over gods in societies organized on mother-kin, 202 _sqq._; legal, of women over men in ancient Egypt, 214