Athens, barrow of Hippolytus at, i. 25; sacred new fire brought from Delphi to, i. 32 _sq._; King and Queen at, i. 44 _sq._; stone of swearing at, i. 160; the Eudanemi at, i. 325 _n._ 1; titular king at, ii. 1; marriage of Dionysus at, ii. 136 _sq._; sacred marriage of Zeus and Hera at, ii. 143 _n._ 1; female kinship at, ii. 277; sacred spots struck by lightning at, ii. 361; sacrificial hearth of Lightning Zeus at, ii. 361; kings at, iii. 21 _sq._; ritual of cursing at, iii. 75; Athena served by maidens on the Acropolis at, iii. 227 _n._; Mid-summer rites of Adonis at, iv. 7; the Laurel-bearing Apollo at, iv. 79 _n._ 3; funeral games at, iv. 96; hand of suicide cut off at, iv. 220 _n._; sacred serpent at, v. 87; the Commemoration of the Dead at, v. 234; sacrifice of an ox at, v. 296 _sq._; marriage custom at, vi. 245; Dionysus of the Black Goatskin at, vii. 17; Queen of, married to Dionysus, vii. 30 _sq._; sacred ceremony of ploughing at, vii. 31; the Prytaneum at, vii. 32; sanctuary of Green Demeter at, vii. 42, 89 _n._ 2; first-fruits of the corn sent to, vii. 51, 56, 71; called “the Metropolis of the Corn,” vii. 58; Demeter worshipped as Fruit-bearer at, vii. 63 _n._ 14; sanctuary of Earth the Nursing-Mother at, vii. 89 _n._ 2; Sacred Ploughing at, vii. 108 _n._ 4, 109 _n._ 1; annual sacrifice of a goat on the Acropolis of, viii. 41; ceremony of killing a wolf at, viii. 221; the Lyceum at, viii. 283, 284; fever transferred to pillar at, ix. 53; Cronus and the Cronia at, ix. 351 _sq._; ceremony of the new fire at Easter in, x. 130 Athis, in Normandy, Christmas bonfires at, x. 266 Athletic competitions among harvesters, vii. 76 _sq._ Athos, Mount, mistletoe at, xi. 319, 320 _n._ Athribis, heart of Osiris at, vi. 11 Athyr, Egyptian month, vi. 8, 41, 49 _n._ 1; Osiris murdered on the seventeenth day of, vi. 8, 84; festival of Osiris in the month of, vi. 84 _sqq._, 91 Atkhans, the, of the Aleutian Islands, transference of sin to weeds among, ix. 3 Atkinson, J. C., on the treatment of the placentas of mares, i. 199 Atlas, Berbers of the Great, ix. 178 Atlatatonan, Mexican goddess of lepers, ix. 292; woman annually sacrificed in the character of, ix. 292 Atomic disintegration, viii. 305 Atonement for slain animals, iii. 207; to animals for wrong done to them, viii. 310 _sq._ _See also_ Expiation Atonement, the Jewish day of, ix. 210 Atonga, the, of British Central Africa, their custom after a death, iii. 286; tribe of Lake Nyassa, their theory of earthquakes, v. 199 Atrae, city in Mesopotamia, x. 82 Atreus, king of Mycenae, ii. 279 —— and Thyestes, i. 365 Attacking the wind, i. 327 _sqq._ Attacks on kings permitted, iv. 22, 48 _sqq._ Attic months lunar, vii. 52