Attica, traces of female kinship in, ii. 284; tradition of sexual communism in, ii. 284; Sacred Ploughings in, iii. 108; summer festival of Adonis in, v. 226; Flowery Dionysus in, vii. 4; time of threshing in, viii. 4; the killing of an ox formerly a capital crime in, viii. 6; vintage custom in, viii. 133 Atticus, his villa on the Quirinal, ii. 182 _n._ 1 Attis, vii. 2, 14, 214; priests of Cybele called, v. 140, 285, 287; sometimes identified with Adonis, v. 263; myth and ritual of, v. 263 _sqq._; beloved by Cybele, v. 263, 282; legends of his death, v. 264; his legend at Pessinus, v. 264; his self-mutilation, v. 264 _sq._; and the pine-tree, v. 264, 265, 267, 271, 277 _sq._, 285, vi. 98 _n._ 5; his eunuch priests, v. 265, 266; festival of his death and resurrection in March, v. 267 _sqq._, 272 _sq._, 307 _sq._; violets sprung from the blood of, v. 267; the mourning for, v. 272; bath of bull’s blood in the rites of, v. 274 _sqq._; mysteries of, v. 274 _sq._; as a god of vegetation, v. 277 _sqq._, 279; as the Father God, v. 281 _sqq._; identified with Zeus, v. 282; as a sky-god, v. 282 _sqq._; emasculation of, suggested explanation of myth, v. 283; his star-spangled cap, v. 284; identified with Phrygian moon-god Men Tyrannus, v. 284; human representatives of, v. 285 _sqq._; his relation to Lityerses, vii. 255 _sq._; killed by a boar, viii. 22 Attis, Adonis, Osiris, their mythical similarity, v. 6, vi. 201 —— and Cybele (Mother of the Gods), i. 18, 21, 40, 41; perhaps personated by human couples, ix. 386 Attiuoindarons, Indian tribe of Canada, their custom of resuscitating the dead in their namesakes, iii. 366 _sq._ Attraction and repulsion in the physical universe, viii. 303 _sqq._ _Atua_, Polynesian term for god or guardian-spirit, i. 387 _n._ 1, viii. 153, 156; ancestral spirit, iii. 134, 265 Atys, son of Croesus, his death, v. 286 Atys, early king of Lydia, v. 286 Aubrey, John, on soul-cakes, vi. 78; on sin-eating, ix. 43 _sq._; on the Midsummer fires, x. 197 Aucas (Araucanians), their custom of bleeding themselves to relieve fatigue, ix. 12. _See_ Araucanians Auch, the archbishop of, i. 232 _sq._ Aufkirchen in Bavaria, burning the Easter Man at, x. 144 Augsburg, harvest custom near, vii. 298 Augur’s staff at Rome, iii. 313 August, procession of wicker giants in, xi. 36 —— 1st, Festival of the Cross on the, x. 220 —— 6th, festival of St. Estapin, xi. 188 ——, the Ides (13th) of, Diana’s day, i. 12, 14-17 —— 15th, the day of the Assumption of the Virgin, i. 14-16 —— 18th, feast of Florus and Laurus, x. 220