dead not carried over threshold in, 24; human sacrifices at foundation of houses in, 50 f. Albanians, crossing threshold right foot foremost, 37 f. Alcinoüs, temple palace of, 132, 135. Alee, kissing threshold of tomb of, 124. Alexandri, poem by, regarding foundation sacrifice, 52. Algiers, walls of, laid in blood of Christian captive, 48. Algonquins, prominence of hand among, 84. _ʿAlîyyâ_, symbolic meaning of, 253. Allat, sovereign of Hades, life restored at threshold of, 113 f. Altamash, emperor of India, building mosk, 157. Altar: primitive family, 3; reverence for threshold, 10-25; offering of life on threshold, 16; near door in Mexico, 21; sanctity of threshold as primitive, 22; reference to souls under, 25; saint or ecclesiastic buried under, in Europe, 25; threshold, in Russia, 31 f.; offerings at threshold, in Holland, 33; before door at marriage in Borneo, 34; sacredness of threshold in Scotland, 34; fire taken over threshold among Hindoos, 40 f.; lamb buried under, in Swedish tradition, 56; before Greek houses, 72; at or before threshold, 102, 136; in doorway of temple at Nippur, 111; of burnt offering, blood poured out at, 119; at doorway, in Jerusalem, Phenicia, Phrygia, Aphrodisias, 121; at threshold in Egyptian temple, 126; at Yeha, 131; _lélé_, name for, 150 f. Altar-fire: connecting link between nuptial torch and, 41; crossing, in Russia, 42; references to, 39 f., 99-102, 226. Amara Deva, temple builder, 156. Amara Sinha, temple builder, 156. Amenophis IV. before Aten-ra, 81. America, Central: bridal couple carried over threshold in, 45; blood of sacrificial offerings smeared on doorways in, 73; earliest form of temple in, 144; boys sacrificed in, 145; temples of, 145, 148; nuptial customs of, 196; sculptures indicating covenant rite between first pair in, 202; marriage ceremonies in, 246. America, North: survival of sacrifice in, 8; treading on threshold in, 13; coffin passed out window of house in, 25; window opened and door closed at death in, 25; nailing horseshoes on side-posts of doorway in, 73 f.; symbol of open hands in museums of, 79; red hand among aborigines of, 83 f., 93; laying of corner-stones in, 147; survival of primitive sacredness of threshold in, 147; aborigines of, religious worship of, 148; boundary lines in, 174; symbol of covenant among primitive peoples in, 201; reverence for phallic emblems in, 230. America, South: blood smeared on doorway in, 73; earliest form of temple in, 144; reverence for phallic emblems in, 230; serpent as religious symbol in, 235. America, United States of: vice-consul of, in Egypt, reference to, 7 f.; boundary marks in, 126, 182 f. American Architect, reference to the, 175. American Indians, red-hand symbolism among, 85-93.