Supplementary days, five, in the Egyptian year, ii. 6; in the ancient Mexican year, 28 _n._ 3; in the old Iranian year, 67, 68 Supreme gods in Africa, ii. 165, 173 _sq._, 174, 186, with note 5, 187 _n._ 1, 188 _sq._, 190 _Swastika_, i. 122 _n._ 1 Sweden, May-pole or Midsummer-tree in, i. 250; Midsummer bride and bridegroom in, 251; kings of, answerable for the fertility of the ground, ii. 220; marriage custom in, to ensure the birth of a boy, 262 “Sweethearts of St. John” in Sardinia, i. 244 _sq._ Swine not eaten by people of Pessinus, i. 265; not eaten by worshippers of Adonis, 265; not allowed to enter Comana in Pontus, 265. _See also_ Pigs Sword, girls married to a, i. 61 Sycamore, effigy of Osiris placed on boughs of, ii. 88, 110; sacred to Osiris, 110 Syene (Assuan), inscriptions at, ii. 35 _n._ 1 Symbolism, coarse, of Osiris and Dionysus, ii. 112, 113 Symmachus, on the festival of the Great Mother, i. 298 Syracuse, the Blue Spring at, i. 213 _n._ 1 Syria, Adonis in, i. 13 _sqq._; “holy men” in, 77 _sq._; hot springs resorted to by childless women in, 213 _sqq._; subject to earthquakes, 222 _n._ 1; the Nativity of the Sun at the winter solstice in, 303; turning money at the new moon in, ii. 149 Syrian god Hadad, i. 15 —— peasants believe that women can conceive without sexual intercourse, i. 91 —— women apply to saints for offspring, i. 109 —— writer on the reasons for assigning Christmas to the twenty-fifth of December, i. 304 _sq._ Tâ-uz (Tammuz), mourned by Syrian women in Harran, i. 230 Taanach, burial of children in jars at, i. 109 _n._ 1 Tacitus as to German observation of the moon, ii. 141 Taenarum in Laconia, Poseidon worshipped at, i. 203 _n._ 2 Talaga Bodas, volcano in Java, i. 204 Talbot, P. Amaury, on self-mutilation, i. 270 _n._ 1 Talismans, crowns and wreaths as, ii. 242 _sq._ Tamarisk, sacred to Osiris, ii. 110 _sq._ Tami, the, of German New Guinea, their theory of earthquakes, i. 198 Tamil temples, dancing-girls in, i. 61 Tamirads, diviners, i. 42 Tammuz, i. 6 _sqq._; equivalent to Adonis, 6 _n._ 1; his worship of Sumerian origin, 7 _sq._; meaning of the name, 8; “true son of the deep water,” 8, 246; laments for, 9 _sq._; the month of, 10 _n._ 1, 230; mourned for at Jerusalem, 11, 17, 20; as a corn-spirit, 230; his bones ground in a mill and scattered to the wind, 230 —— and Ishtar, i. 8 _sq._ Tangkul Nagas of Assam, their annual festival of the dead, ii. 57 _sqq._ Tanjore, dancing-girls at, i. 61 Tantalus murders his son Pelops, i. 181 Tark, Tarku, Trok, Troku, syllables in names of Cilician priests, i. 144; perhaps the name of a Hittite deity, 147; perhaps the name of the god of Olba, 148, 165 Tarkimos, priest of Corycian Zeus, i. 145 Tarkondimotos, name of two Cilician kings, i. 145 _n._ 2 Tarkuaris, priest of Corycian Zeus, i. 145; priestly king of Olba, 145