Acosta, J. de, early Spanish historian of Peru and Mexico, ix. 276 _n._ 1; on the Peruvian Mother of the Maize, vii. 171 _sq._; on the sacramental eating of bread among the ancient Mexicans, viii. 86 _sqq._; on the annual expulsion of evils in Peru, ix. 131 _n._; on Aztec custom of sacrificing human representatives of the gods, ix. 275 _sqq._; on the sacrifice of the human representative of Quetzalcoatl, ix. 281 _sqq._ Acre, in Syria, residence of the head of the Babites, i. 402 Acropolis of Athens, the sacred serpent on the, iv. 86 _sq._; Sacred Ploughing at foot of the, vii. 108 _n._ 4, 109 _n._ 1; annual sacrifice of a goat on the, viii. 41 Actium, games celebrated at, vii. 80, 85 Acts, tabooed, iii. 101 _sqq._ Açvina, an Indian month, iv. 124 Adad, Syrian king, v. 15; Babylonian and Assyrian god of thunder and lightning, v. 163 Adad-Nirari, king of Assyria, ix. 370 _n._ 1 Adair, James, on the self-inflicted mortifications of the Creek Indians in war, iii. 161 _sqq._; on the refusal of American Indians to taste blood, iii. 240; on Indian belief in homoeopathic magic of animal flesh, viii. 139; on American Indian custom of cutting out the sinew of the thigh of deer, viii. 264; his discovery of the Ten Lost Tribes in America, viii. 264 _n._ 4 Adaklu, Mount, in West Africa, evils sent away to, ix. 135 _sq._, 206 _sq._ Adam, man in Lent called, ix. 214 —— and Eve, suggested explanation of their aprons of fig-leaves, ix. 259 _n._ 3 —— of Bremen, on the thunder-god Thor, ii. 364 Adams, J., on divinity of king of Benin, i. 396 Adana in Cilicia, v. 169 _n._ 3 Adar, a Jewish month, vii. 259 _n._ 1, ix. 361, 394, 397, 398, 415 Adder stones among the Celts, x. 15 Addison, Joseph, on the Italian opera, ii. 299; on the grotto _dei cani_ at Naples, v. 205 _n._ 1; on witchcraft in Switzerland, xi. 42 _n._ 2 Adelaide tribe of South Australia, namesakes of the dead change their names in the, iii. 355 Adeli, the, of the Slave Coast, their festival of new yams, viii. 116 Adhar, a Persian month, vi. 68 Adivi or forest Gollas of Southern India, seclusion of women at childbirth among the, iii. 149 _sq._ Adom-melech or Uri-melech, king of Byblus, v. 14, 17 _Adon_, a Semitic title, v. 6 _sq._, 16 _sq._, 20, 49 _n._ 7 Adonai, title of Jehovah, v. 6 _sq._ Adoni, “my lord,” Semitic title, v. 7; names compounded with, v. 17 Adoni-bezek, king of Jerusalem, v. 17 Adoni-jah, elder brother of King Solomon, v. 51 _n._ 2 Adoni-zedek, king of Jerusalem, v. 17