[390] Spencer and Gillen, _The Native Tribes of Central Australia_, pp. 505 ff. (1899). [391] Lumholtz, _Unknown Mexico_, I. pp. 384 ff. (1903). [392] _ERE_, IV. 481 _a_. [393] _ERE_, IV. 416 _b_. [394] See on this the present writer’s _Immortality and the Unseen World_, p. 180. INDEX Aaron, 161 Ab, feast of, 143 _Abel-meḥolah_, 142 Abijah, 92 Absorbing the god, 25 Abydos, royal tombs at, 203 Achna, Kybele _temenos_ at, 99 Air a means of lustration, 99 Altar, dance round, 91 f. procession round, 94 Amalekites, David’s attack on the, 48 Amathus, 70 _Ambarvalia_, 100, 149 Ancestor-worship, 131 dancing connected with, 195 Animals, belief in descent from, 18, 78 holy, 166 imitated in dance, 18 sacred, 166 Animistic stage, 14 Aphrodite, 98 Aphrodite-Ariadne, 70 Apis festivals, 60 Apollo, 7, 63, 68, 74, 120 Apollo Karneios, 69 Apollo, Pythaean, 69 Apollonius Rhodius, 201 Apuleius, 118 Apuleius’ account of sacred dance, 61 f. Arabi Pasha, 115 Arabs, 193 ancient, 116 _cultus_ of the, 49, 94 wedding dance among the, 181 mourning rite among the, 202 song round well of, 89 Arāwaks, funeral dance among the, 212 f. procession round corpse of, 201 Archigallus, 127 Ares, 63 Argonauts, 201 Ariadne, 70 Ariadne’s Dance, 27, 69, 71 f. Aristomenes, 163 Aristophanes, _Frogs_ quoted, 123 Aristotle, 14 Ark, 36, 54, 94 _Arkteia_, 68, 102 Artemis, 19, 63, 66, 102 Brauronian ceremonies of, 68 Caryatis, 67 Koruthalia, 66 worship of, 67 Artemis-Kybele, groves of, 99 Arunta of Central Australia, 169 funeral dance among the, 216 Arval Brothers, 149 Ashantees, 170 Ashdod, 47 Ashkenazic Jews, 198 Asiatic peoples, sacred dance among, 76 _Asiph_, 140 Asshurbanipal, inscription of, 58 Assyrian festivals, 58 procession, 58 sacred dance, 6 Athena, 19, 64, 120 Athens, 123 Atonement, day of, 143 _Atrium_, 208 Attic women dancing in honour of Dionysos, 123 Attis, worship of, 126, 127 Baal, 38 Marqôd, 19, 56 of dancing, 56 prophets of, 111, 113, 131 f. “Baby Jesus”, 23 Babylonian festivals, 57 hymns, 58 Bacchanalian assemblies, 124 Bacchantes, 121, 124 Bagobos of Mindanao, 103 _Bāmāh_, 108 Bambaras of Senegambia, 145 Barges, procession of, 62 Basket, 60 Baskets dancing, 67 Bear dance, 68, 102 Bechuanas, marriage dance among the, 181 Bedouin Arabs, 193 dance among the, 56 f. Benihassan, inscription on tomb at, 203 Benjamites, 142 Bēs, 60 Bēsa, 61 Bethel, 38 _Bharang_, 211 Bheels, marriage dance among the, 181 Blood, flowing of during dance, 213 Bodo-priest, 27, 128 Boghazkeui, rock-inscription at, 59, 109 Bond of life, 200 Bondas, funeral dance among, 213 Bones venerated, 210 Book of the Dead, the, 11 Brahman worship, 77