The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12)Frazer, James George
Religion
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12)
Frazer, James George
Magic; Mythology; Religion; Superstition
Anubis, Egyptian jackal-headed god, vi. 15, 18 _n._ 3, 22 _n._ 2;
represented by a masked man, ii. 133;
finds the body of Osiris, vi. 85;
personated by a priest wearing the mask of a dog or a jackal, vi. 85
_n._ 3
Anula tribe of Northern Australia, their disposal of foreskins at
circumcision, i. 95;
burial customs of the, i. 102 _sq._;
their way of stopping rain, i. 253;
their mode of making rain, i. 287 _sq._;
their rites of initiation, xi. 235
Anyanja of British Central Africa, their dread of menstruous women, x. 81
_sq._
Anzikos, the, of West Africa, iii. 271
Aola, village of Guadalcanar, viii. 126
Apaches, the, iii. 182, 183, x. 21;
their way of procuring rain, i. 306;
avoidance of wife’s mother among the, iii. 85;
custom observed by them on the war-path, iii. 160;
purify themselves after the slaughter of foes, iii. 184;
keep their names from strangers, iii. 325, 328;
propitiated the animal gods before hunting deer, antelope, or elk, viii.
242;
use of bull-roarers among the, xi. 230 _n._
_Apachitas_, heaps of stones in Peru, ix. 9
Apala cured by Indra in the Rigveda, xi. 192
Apamea in Syria, Alcibiades of, iv. 5 _n._ 3;
worship of Poseidon at, v. 195
Ape in homoeopathic magic, i. 156;
a Batta totem, xi. 223.
_See also_ Apes
Apepi, Egyptian fiend, i. 67
Apes, thought to be related to twins, i. 265;
voices of, imitated as a charm, ii. 23;
ceremony of Yuracares after killing, viii. 235 _sq._
Aphaca in Syria, sanctuary of Astarte at, v. 28, 259;
meteor as signal for festival at, v. 259
Ap-hi, Abchase god of thunder and lightning, ii. 370
Aphrodite, represented as mother of Demetrius Poliorcetes, i. 391;
the grave of, iv. 4;
human sacrifices to, iv. 166 _n._ 1;
her sacred doves, v. 33, 147;
sanctuary of, at Paphos, v. 33 _sqq._;
the month of, v. 145;
her blood dyes white roses red, v. 226;
name applied to summer, vi. 41
—— and Adonis, i. 25, v. 11 _sq._, 29, 280, ix. 386, xi. 294 _sq._;
their marriage celebrated at Alexandria, v. 224
—— Askraia, i. 26
—— and Cinyras, v. 48 _sq._
—— of the Lebanon, the mourning, v. 29 _sq._
—— the Oriental, ix. 369 _n._ 1
—— and Pygmalion, v. 49 _sq._
Aphtha or thrush transferred to a frog, ix. 50
Api, female hippopotamus goddess of Egypt, ii. 133
Apinagos Indians of Brazil, their dances and presentation of children to
the moon, vi. 145 _sqq._
Apis, sacred Egyptian bull, vi. 11, 119 _n._, viii. 34 _sqq._, ix. 217;
mourning for the death of, v. 225;
held to be an image of the soul of Osiris, vi. 130;
drowned in a holy spring, viii. 36;
not suffered to outlive a certain term of years, viii. 173
Apodtho, the ancestor of all men, iii. 79
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