Arician grove, the sacred, i. 20, 22, ii. 115, ix. 274, 305; horses excluded from, i. 20, viii. 40 _sqq._; ritual of, iv. 213; perhaps the scene of a common harvest celebration, viii. 44; said to have been founded by Manius, viii. 95; the Midsummer festival of fire in, xi. 285; the priest of, a personification of an oak-spirit, xi. 285. _See also_ Nemi Arician priesthood, ix. 305 —— slope, the, i. 4 _n._ 5 Aries, the constellation, the sun in, ix. 361 _n._ 1, 403 Arikara Indians, their rule as to breaking marrow bones, i. 115 _sq._; their preparation for war by fasting and lacerating themselves, iii. 161 Ariminum, triumphal arch of Augustus at, xi. 194 _n._ 4 Aristeas of Proconnesus, his soul as a raven, iii. 34 Aristides, the rhetorician, on first-fruit offerings, vii. 56; on Eleusinian Games, vii. 71 Aristomenes, Messenian hero, his fabulous birth, v. 81 Aristophanes, Strepsiades in, i. 285; on the Spartan envoy, v. 196 _n._ 4; on Hercules as patron of hot springs, v. 209 Aristotelian philosophy, revival of the, v. 301 Aristotle, on death at ebb-tide, i. 167; on the marriage of the Queen to Dionysus, ii. 137; his _Constitution of Athens_, ii. 137 _n._ 1, vii. 79; on the political institutions of Cyprus, v. 49 _n._ 7; on earthquakes, v. 211 _n._ 3; on the trial of lifeless objects by the King at Athens, viii. 5 _n._ 1; on men of genius, viii. 302 _n._ 5; his statement of the principle of the survival of the fittest, viii. 306 Arizona, the aridity of, i. 306; the Moquis of, iii. 228; mock human sacrifices in, iv. 215; the Pueblo Indians of, vii. 312; and New Mexico, use of bull-roarers in, xi. 230 _n._, 231 Arjun and Draupadi, ii. 306 Arkansas Indians, their offerings of first-fruits to the Master of Life, viii. 134 Arkon, in Rügen, sacred shrine at, ii. 241 _n._ 4 Arks, sacred, of the Cherokees, x. 11 _sq._ Armadillos not to be shot with poisoned arrows, i. 116 _Armengols_, in the Pelew Islands, vi. 265 Armenia, rain-making in, i. 275 _sq._, 277, 282, 285; rain-charm by means of pebbles in, i. 305; rain-charms by means of rocks in, i. 306; the Paulicians of, i. 407; barren fruit-trees threatened in, ii. 22; new fire after a death in, ii. 267 _n._ 4; worship of Anaitis in, ii. 282 _n._ 3, ix. 369 _n._ 1; sacred prostitution of girls before marriage in, v. 38, 58; sticks or stones piled on scenes of violent death in, ix. 15; were-wolves in, x. 316; sick people creep through cleft trees in, xi. 173 Armenian charms by means of knots and locks, iii. 308 —— church, the day of the Virgin in the, i. 16; bonfires at Candlemas in the, x. 131 —— custom as to extracted teeth, i. 182 —— idea of the sun as a wheel, x. 334 _n._ 1