Thermopylae, the Spartans at, i. 197 _n._ 1; the hot springs of, 210 _sqq._ Thesmophoria, i. 43 _n._ 4; sacrifice to serpents at the, 88; pine-cones at the, 278; fast of the women at the, ii. 40 _sq._ Thetis and her infant son, i. 180 Thirty years, the Sed festival held nominally at intervals of, ii. 151 Thonga, Bantu tribe of South Africa, their belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead, i. 82; their presentation of infants to the moon, ii. 144 _sq._; worship of the dead among the, 180 _sq._ —— chiefs buried secretly, ii. 104 _sq._ Thongs, legends as to new settlements enclosed by, ii. 249 _sq._ Thoth, Egyptian god of wisdom, ii. 7, 17; teaches Isis a spell to restore the dead to life, 8; restores the eye of Horus, 17 Thoth, the first month of the Egyptian year, ii. 36, 93 _sqq._ Thracian villages, custom at Carnival in, ii. 99 _sq._ Threshing corn by oxen, ii. 45 Threshold, burial of infants under the, i. 93 _sq._ Thucydides on military music, i. 196 _n._ 3; on the sailing of the fleet for Syracuse, 226 _n._ 4 Θύειν distinguished from ἐναγίζειν, i. 316 _n._ 1 Thunder and lightning, sacrifices to, i. 157; the Syrian, Assyrian, Babylonian, and Hittite god of, 163 _sq._ —— -god of the Hittites, with a bull and an axe as his emblems, i. 134 _sqq._ —— totem, i. 101 Thunderbolt, as emblem of Hittite god, i. 134, 136; as divine emblem, 163 —— and ears of corn, emblem of god Hadad, i. 163 Thurston, Edgar, on dancing-girls in India, i. 62 Thyatira, hero Tyrimnus at, i. 183 _n._ Thymbria, sanctuary of Charon at, i. 205 Tiberius, the Emperor, persecuted the Egyptian religion, ii. 95 _n._ 1 Tibullus, on the rising of Sirius, ii. 34 _n._ 1 Tiele, C. P., on rock-hewn sculptures at Boghaz-Keui, i. 140 _n._ 1; on the death of Saracus, 174 _n._ 2; on Isis, ii. 115; on the nature of Osiris, 126 _n._ 2 Tiger’s ghost, deceiving a, ii. 263 Tiglath-Pileser III., king of Assyria, i. 14, 16, 163 _n._ 3 Tii, Egyptian queen, mother of Amenophis IV., ii. 123 _n._ 1 Tille, A., on beginning of Teutonic winter, ii. 81 _n._ 3 Timber felled in the waning of the moon, ii. 133, 135 _sq._, 137 Timor, theory of earthquakes in, i. 197 Timotheus, on the death of Attis, i. 264 _n._ 4 Tiru-kalli-kundram, dancing-girls at, i. 61 Titane, shrine of Aesculapius at, i. 81 _Tobolbel_, in the Pelew Islands, ii. 266 Tod, J., on rites of goddess Gouri, i. 241 _sq._ Todas of the Neilgherry Hills, custom as to the pollution of death observed by sacred dairyman among the, ii. 228 Togo-land, West Africa, the Ewe people of, i. 282 _n._ 2; the Ho tribe of, ii. 104 Tomb of Midas, i. 286; of Hyacinth, 314 Tombs of the kings of Uganda, ii. 168 _sq._; of kings sacred, 194 _sq._ Tongans, their theory of an earthquake, i. 200 _sq._ Tongue of sacrificial ox cut out, ii. 251 _sq._ Tonquin, annual festival of the dead in, ii. 62 Tophet, at Jerusalem, i. 177