[375]_Ibid._ p. 259. [376]Tille, _op. cit._ chap. viii. [377]Tille, _op. cit._ p. 220. [378]_Ibid._ p. 221. [379]_Ibid._ p. 226. [380]Folkard, _op. cit._ pp. 352, 353. [381]Mannhardt I. p. 242. [382]Tille, _op. cit._ p. 244. [383]Tille, _op. cit._ p. 249. [384]_Ibid._ p. 250. [385]Mannhardt I. p. 241. [386]Mannhardt, _Germanische Mythen_ (Berlin, 1858), p. 470, note. [387]Tille, _op. cit._ p. 220. [388]Mannhardt I. p. 244. INDEX A Acacia, the, 11, 39, 40, 45 Accadians, the, 2, 4, 6, 111, 133 Acis, metamorphosis of, 81 Adonis, 11, 75, 81, 159 Aesculapius, laurel sacred to, 37 Alexander the Great, and the flower-maidens, 60; and the Persian tree-oracles, 99 Ama-ravati, Buddhist sculptures at, 14 Ambrosia, 126 America, tree-worship in, 16, 17 Amrita, 125 Aphrodite, 30, 32, 46, 81, 88; apples sacred to, 37; myrtle sacred to, 37 Apollo, 47, 76, 98, 99; and Daphne, 77; laurel sacred to, 36, 47, 50, 77 Apples, sacred to Aphrodite, 37; of Hesperides, 119 Arabia, the _Jinni_ of, 24, 52, 54, 94; tree-oracles in, 99, 102; tree-worship in, 45 _Argo_, oracular beam of the, 98 Armenia, tree-oracles in, 99; use of branches in, 49 Artemis, 49, 76; a vegetation deity, 29, 88; sacred tree of, 45, 49 _Ashêra_, the, 8, 88, 96 Assyria, tree-worship in, 5, 6, 88 Astarte, 8, 30, 87; the cypress sacred to, 40 Athena, 152; the olive sacred to, 38 Athens, festivals at, 48, 151 Atlantis, the lost, 139 Atlas, Mount, 110, 119, 135, 136 Attis, a tree-god, 11, 75, 80, 81, 154, 159 Auxerre, sacred tree of, 20 Avalon, the isle of, 140 B Babylonia, tree-worship in, 6; mountain worship in, 112; world-tree of, 111 Banian, the, 42, 64, 76 Basil, Holy, of India, 43 Baucis and Philemon, metamorphosis of, 79 Bavaria, Whitsuntide custom in, 159 Beech, the sacred, 46 Bharhut, Buddhist sculptures at, 15, 40, 42 Bo-tree, the, 40, 116 Bodhi-trees of the Buddhas, 40 Borneo, tree-worship in, 16 Bötticher, general conclusion of, regarding tree-worship, 21 Brahma, 14, 43, 115 Branches forced into flower at Christmas, 170; religious use of, 13, 36, 37, 38, 47, 48, 91 Brittany, use of laurel branch in, 91 Buddhas, the Bodhi-trees of the, 40 Buddhism, tree-worship and, 14, 40, 110, 116, 142 Burma, tree worship in, 16; tree-spirits of, 65