Yam, island of Torres Straits, heroes worshipped in animal forms in, i. 139 _n._ 1 Yap, one of the Caroline Islands, prostitution of unmarried girls in, ii. 265 _sq._ Yarilo, a personification of vegetation, i. 253 Year, length of the solar, determined by the Theban priests, ii. 26 ——, the fixed Alexandrian, ii. 28, 49, 92 ——, the Celtic, reckoned from November 1st, ii. 81 ——, the Egyptian, a vague year, not corrected by intercalation, ii. 24 _sq._ —— of God, a Sothic period, ii. 36 _n._ 2; began with the rising of Sirius, 35 ——, the old Iranian, ii. 67 ——, the Julian, ii. 28 ——, the Teutonic, reckoned from October 1st, ii. 81 Yehar-baal, king of Byblus, i. 14 Yehaw-melech, king of Byblus, i. 14 Ynglings, a Norse family, descended from Frey, ii. 100 Yombe, a Bantu tribe of Northern Rhodesia, their sacrifice of first-fruits to the dead, ii. 191 Youth restored by the witch Medea, i. 180 _sq._ Yucatan, calendar of the Indians of, ii. 28 _n._ Yukon River in Alaska, ii. 51 Yungman tribe of Australia, their belief as to the birth of children, i. 101 Yuruks, pastoral people of Cilicia, i. 150 _n._ 1 Zambesi, the Barotse of the, ii. 193 Zas, name of priest of Corycian Zeus, i. 155 Zechariah, on the mourning of or for Hadadrimmon, i. 15 _n._ 4; on wounds of prophet, 74 _n._ 4 Zekar-baal, king of Byblus, i. 14 _Zend-Avesta_, on the Fravashis, ii. 67 _sq._ Zenjirli in Syria, Hittite sculptures at, i. 134; statue of horned god at, 163 Zer, old Egyptian king, his true Horus name Khent, ii. 20 _n._ 1, 154. _See_ Khent Zerka, river in Moab, i. 215 _n._ 1 Zeus, god of Tarsus assimilated to, i. 119, 143; Cilician deity assimilated to, 144 _sqq._, 148, 152; the flower of, 186, 187; identified with Attis, 282; castrates his father Cronus, 283; the father of dew, ii. 137; the Saviour of the City, at Magnesia on the Maeander, 238 ——, Corycian, priests of, i. 145, 155; temple of, 155 —— and Hecate at Stratonicea in Caria, i. 270 _n._ 2, 227 ——, Labrandeus, the Carian, i. 182 ——, Olbian, ruins of his temple at Olba, i. 151; his cave or chasm, 158 _sq._; his priest Teucer, 159; a god of fertility, 159 _sqq._ ——, Olybrian, i. 167 _n._ 1 —— Papas, i. 281 _n._ 2 Zeus and Typhon, battle of, i. 156 _sq._, 160 Zimmern, H., on Mylitta, i. 37 _n._ 1 Zimri, king of Israel, burns himself, i. 174 _n._ 2, 176 Zion, Mount, traditionally identified with Mount Moriah, ii. 219 _n._ 1 Zoroastrian fire-worship in Cappadocia, i. 191 Zulu medicine-men or diviners, i. 74 _n._ 4, 75; their charm to fertilize fields, ii. 102 _sq._ Zulus, their belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead, i. 82, 84; their observation of the moon, ii. 134 _sq._; the worship of the dead among the, 182 _sqq._; their sacrifice of a bull to prolong the life of the king, 222 FOOTNOTES