sacredness of city gates among, 7; in Turkey, wedding custom among, 30; altars before houses among, 72; doorway ornamented for bride among, 72 f.; appealing to guardian deity at gateway among, 73; smearing side-posts of gateway with magic herbs among, 73; deities of doors and gates among, 97; temple of, developed from dwelling-house, 100; earliest literature of, in reference to threshold, 132; modern Easter observance among, 221. Gregor, Walter, quotation from, 34. Griffis, William Elliot: cited, 20; references to, 101, 104, 230. Grove of trees: sacred landmark of boundary in primitive times, 173 f.; in religious symbolisms, 230. Guardian deity’s protection secured by stepping over threshold, 12. “Guardian of the dwellings of Israel, the,” 69. Guardian of threshold as post of honor, 119 f. Guarding dwelling by placing sacrifices on threshold, 14. Guatemala: blood smeared on doorway in, 73; “the god of houses” in, 98. Guest: adopted by bloody sacrifice at door in Syria and Egypt, 3; welcomed by stepping over blood at door of host, 4; by blood among Arabs of Central Africa, 9; by sacrifice of fowl in Liberia, 9; refusal of welcome to, 217. Guhl and Koner: cited, 40 f., 72, 100. Guzelder, reference to, 190. Gwilt, Joseph: cited, 36. Hades, Babylonian conception of, 113. Hagar: and Holy House, tradition of, 163; Abraham’s visit to home of, 200. Hags kept off by cross drawn on threshold, 18. Hajj procession returning from Meccah, 186. Hakham Bâshi, welcome to, 67. Haleb: reference to, 247; marriage customs among Christians at, 248. Hall of the Two Truths, deceased challenged at entrance to, 129. Hall of Two-fold Maat, place of final judgment, 129. _Hammaqâm_ or place of worship, 160. Hand: stamped on door-lintel in Upper Syria, 28 f.; wrought in silver placed on children’s necks, 76; figure of, similar to five-branched candlestick, 77; as symbol on banner and prayer-rug in Turkey and Persia, 78; as symbol of Siva, the destroyer, 78; as emblem of power in East Indies, 78; inscribed on or above door in ancient Carthage, 78; carved in coral or ivory carried by Jewess, 79; open, made in stone, metal, enamel, or bone, common in ancient Egypt, 79; symbol of open, found above graves near Tunis, 79; symbol of uplifted, in Babylonia, 79 f., Assyria and Phenicia, 80, Egypt, 81, 85, Polynesia, 83, 148, Central America, 148; clasping in covenant in Babylonia, 80; print of, giant Finmac-Coole as signature, 81; of clay impressed on human body among American Indians, 84; print of, as symbol on naked body, 84; of bride traced in ink in covenant in Korea, 93 f.; print of, as signature, 93 f.; of Muhammad signed to certificate of protection, 94. “Hand of might,” red hand as, 75. “Hand of Moses,” red hand called, 77.