Mouth-pieces of the deity, 129 Movement, 14 _Muharram_ festival, 211 Music and dance, 7 Musical accompaniment to dancing, 51 ff. _Muzzayîn_, 144 f. Mycenae, 99 Myrtle-boughs, 182 _Mystae_, 123 Mysteries of Demeter, 147 Mystery, 14, 17 Naioth, 108 Nature-magic, 120 _Nebboot_, 204 _Nēbel_, 52 Nĕgrān, date-palm at, worshipped annually, 97 New Guinea, belief of natives of, 1 f. Nilus, 89, 95 _Nobiles_, Roman, funeral procession of, 208 North American Indians, dancing among the, 129 Noṣairis, festival of St Barbe among the, 97 Oak, dance round sacred, 103 Objects of dance coalesce, 20 f. Oceania, aborigines of, 129 Old Testament, dancing spoken of in, 8 f. Olympian dance, 98 Onkelos, Targum of, 141 Orgiastic dance, 122 dance of priests, 126 f. frenzy, 112 Oriental influence on the Romans, 74 Origin of sacred dance, 13 ff. Original object of wedding dances, 185 _Orkēsis Iōnikē_, 68 Orphic mysteries, 125 Osiris, king deified as, 146 Palatine hill, running round, 150 Palestine, peasants of, 145 Pan, 63, 124, 150 Pan’s-pipe, 52 _Panathenaia_, 64 Panopeus, 122 Parnassos, 66, 123 _Pāsaḥ_, 44, 50 f. _Pasâḥu_, 50 Patroclus, 201 Pausanias quoted, 67, 69, 122, 123, 124, 163 Pektides, 117 Peniel, 113, 118 Perambulation, ritual, 95 Persephone, 24, 147 Persian custom of leaping over threshold, 47 Personating the dead, 30, 214 Personation, 25, 148 Philochorus, 147 Philosophy, savage, 218 Phrygia, goddess of, 121 Physcoa, chorus of, 124 Pigs, sacrifice of, 102 Pindar, Pythian Ode quoted, 124 Pine-cone, 121 Pisistratus, 64 Play, human instinct of, 7 Pleiades, worship of, 79 Plutarch, 143 Polynesian dancing, 20 Pompeii, mosaic at, 71 _Porta Carmentalis_, 74 Poseidon, month of, 147 Possession, 122, 128 by spirit of Jahwe, 109 Pottery, Greek, 68 Powers, supernatural, 3 Priests, dancing, 150 orgiastic dance of, 126 Procession, circumambulatory, among the Romans, 100 form of dance, 100 funeral, 199, 202 round altar, 94 corpse, 199 sacred, 150 Processional dance, 36, 54 ff. a normal mode of worship, 81 round camel, 28 Prophets, band of, 108 Hebrew, 33, 38 Israelite, ecstatic dance among the, 109 ff. of Baal, 38 Syrian, 39 the, 32 Propitiation of ghosts, 167 ff. Ptah, 146 Pulu islanders, funeral dance among, 214 Purim, feast of, dancing at the, 144 Pyre, festival of the, 96 threefold procession round, 201 Pyrrhic Dance, 19, 64, 69 Pythaean Apollo, 69 Pythian Ode quoted, 124 Qāsim, 211 Rain charm, 157 f. _Rakâdu_, 81 _Raḳṣ_, 6 _Raḳṣa_ dance, 202 Ramah, 108 _Raqaʿ_, 198 _Rāqad_, 199 Raving in honour of Dionysos, 33 _Raymi_, 129 Reasoning of savages, 15 Religion and magic, 41 connexion of dance with, 69