Israelite prophets, 38 Israelites and the nations of antiquity, 85 dancing, 7 religious uniqueness of, sometimes exaggerated, 31 f. sacred dance among the, 31 ff. stage of culture of the, 8 f. Italian god of vegetation, 27 Jacob, 113, 118 Jahwe, 33, 36, 38, 54, 93, 94 possession by spirit of, 109 Jephthah, 141, 162 Jewish custom, post-biblical, 9 maidens, dance of, 143 Jews, Ashkenazic, 198 of post-biblical times, marriage dance among the, 181 f. of the Caucasus, marriage dance among the, 183 Sephardic, 198 _Juno Regina_, 74 _Kaaba_, 49, 95, 115 _Kailang Nāg_, 133 Kamtchatka, 18 Kangaroo-dances, 18 Kayans of Sarāwak, 28, 102, 106 _Ḳazir_, 140 Kazwini, 90 Killing a god in animal form, 165 King’s week, 178 _Kinnôr_, 52 Knossos, dancing-floor in, 70 Kol tribes of Chota Nagpur, 210 Kore, 147 Korybantes, 121 Kouretes, 125 Kûkubûry, 116 _Kumbâz_, 180 Kybele, 121, 126, 127 Kybele-_temenos_, 99 Labyrinth, 27, 69 f. Lacedaemonians, 67, 163 Laconia, 67 Lameness simulated in dance, 111 f. Lares, 149 Latona, 68, 69 Lattuka, negro tribe in Soudan, 205 f. Law, the, 32 Leaping high to make crops grow, 150 over threshold, 47 Leukosia, 98 Limping dance, 87 at sunrise, 113 of Syrian origin, 114 step, 38, 51 Lucian, 96, 147 on dancing, 64 _Lupercalia_, 101, 149 f. _Luperci_, 101 Lustration by air, 99 by fire, 99 Lycosura, 147 Lycurgus, the son of, 201 Madagascar, ancient natives of, 170 Madonna and Child, 23 Maenads, 11, 121 ff., 125 Magic and religion, 41 circle, 28, 94 to keep in angry spirits, 206 dance, 160, 171 imitative, 3, 23, 28, 183 sympathetic, 24, 28 vegetation, 149 Magna Mater, 126 Maidens’ chorus, 66 Makarakâ, negro tribe in Soudan, 206 Malayans, wedding dance among the, 186 _Malbûs_, 116 Mana, conception of, 3, 17 Mandan Indians, dancing among the, 189 Maoris, funeral dance among the, 212 war dance among the, 130 Maquarri dance, 212 Marduk, 57 Marqôd, Baal, 81 Marriage by capture, 180 fruitful, by means of dance, 1, 191 procession, 178, 186 rite, 28 state, dangers on entering, 28 f. Mars, 149 Masked men and women, dancing, 148 Masks, 151 f., 208 May day, 47 May-pole, 103, 172 _Mazzôth_, 140 Medicine women, 130 Melanesians of British New Guinea, funeral dance among, 212 Mephibosheth, 111 Messenians, 67 Mexican Indians, beliefs of, 84 Michal, 54 Mindanao, 103 Minerva, 150 Minotaur, 71 f. Miriam, 161 Mizpah, 141 Moon-worshippers, 153 Mopsus, 201 _Mormodellick_, 79 Morning Star, worship of, 95 Moroccans, wedding rite among the, 184, 186, 190 Mosaic legislation, 34 Mother and son, 125 Mourners disguised, 205 Mourning rite, dancing as a, why not mentioned in O.T., 194 f.