Adonis at Byblus, i. 30; myth of, v. 3 _sqq._; Greek worship of, v. 6; in Greek mythology, v. 10 _sqq._; in Syria, v. 13 _sqq._; monuments of, v. 29; in Cyprus, v. 31 _sqq._, 49; identified with Osiris, v. 32; mourning for, at Byblus, v. 38; said to be the fruit of incest, v. 43; his mother Myrrha, v. 43; son of Theias, v. 43 _n._ 4, 55 _n._ 4; the son of Cinyras, v. 49; the title of the sons of Phoenician kings in Cyprus, v. 49; his violent death, v. 55; music in the worship of, v. 55; sacred prostitution in the worship of, v. 57; inspired prophets in worship of, v. 76; human representatives of, perhaps burnt, v. 110; doves burned in honour of, v. 147; personated by priestly kings, v. 223; the ritual of, v. 223 _sqq._; his death and resurrection represented in his rites, v. 224 _sq._, ix. 398; festivals of, v. 224 _sqq._; flutes played in the laments for, v. 225 _n._ 3; the ascension of, v. 225; images of, thrown into the sea or springs, v. 225, 227 _n._ 3, 236; born from a myrrh-tree, v. 227, vi. 110; bewailed by Argive women, v. 227 _n._; analogy of his rites to Indian and European ceremonies, v. 227; his death and resurrection interpreted as representations of the decay and revival of vegetation, v. 227 _sqq._; interpreted as the sun, v. 228; interpreted by the ancients as the god of the reaped and sprouting corn, v. 229; as a corn-spirit, v. 230 _sqq._; hunger the root of the worship of, v. 231; perhaps originally a personification of wild vegetation, especially grass and trees, v. 233; the gardens of, v. 236 _sqq._; rain-charm in the rites of, v. 237; resemblance of his rites to the festival of Easter, v. 254 _sqq._, 306; worshipped at Bethlehem, v. 257 _sqq._; and the planet Venus as the Morning Star, v. 258 _sq._; sometimes identified with Attis, v. 263; swine not eaten by worshippers of, v. 265; rites of, among the Greeks, v. 298; lamented by women at Byblus, vi. 23; and Linus, vii. 216, 258; at Alexandria, vii. 263, ix. 390; and the boar, viii. 22 _sq._; his marriage with Ishtar (Aphrodite), ix. 401. _See also_ Tammuz Adonis and Aphrodite, v. 11 _sq._, 29, 280, xi. 294 _sq._; their marriage celebrated at Alexandria, v. 224; perhaps personated by human couples, ix. 386 —— and Attis identified with Dionysus, vi. 127 _n._ ——, Attis, Osiris, their mythical similarity, v. 6, vi. 201 —— and Osiris, similarity between their rites, vi. 127 —— or Tammuz, ii. 346; the summer lamentations for, iv. 7 —— and Venus (Aphrodite), i. 21, 25, 40, 41 ——, the river, its valley, v. 28 _sqq._; annual discoloration of the, v. 30, 225 Adoption, pretence of birth at, i. 74 _sq._ Adrammelech, burnt sacrifice of children to, iv. 171