Palestine: spilling water on threshold in, 29; sacrifice at beginning railroad in, 57; blood on lintel, 67; red hand in, 75; hand printed in blue in houses of, 76. Palgrave, William G.: cited, 10. Palm cone, symbolism of, 231. Palmer, Prof. E.H., quotation from, 26. Pan, threshold of grotto of, 115. Pan-kăng, emperor of China, reference to, 157. Paper sprinkled with blood in China, 72. “Parting-stool,” reference to, 142. _Pāsăkha_, meaning of, 208, 210, 266. Paul: with Barnabas at Lystra, 135; his reference to foundations, 162; to Corinthian Christians, 215; on Christian passover, 217; on relation between Christ and his church, 219. Pausanias: cited, 135. Pecos, red-hand symbol in ancient Pueblos of, 87 f. Peepul tree, in Upper India, 156, 259. Peloponnesus and Attica, boundary between, 180. Penates: reference to, 19; of Romans at threshold, 23; appeased by bread and salt, 32; and Lares in Cicero’s time, 41. Pennsylvania: threshold custom in, 21; corner-stone at door in, 55; horseshoes as doorway guards in, 74; stone landmark in, 183. Pennsylvania Magazine of History, reference to, 183. Pensa, marriage customs in, 249. “_Per-ao_” (Pharaoh), meaning of, 103. Pericles building new Propylæa, 158. Perrot and Chipiez: cited, 71, 78, 80, 85, 100, 103, 105, 111, 201, 231, 235; quotation from, 106 f. Persea, reference to, 180. Persepolis, justice at palace gate of, 60. Persia: sacredness of threshold in, 11 f.; sacred passages inscribed over doorways in, 71; banners and prayer-rugs inscribed with open hand in, 78; no temples in ancient, 100; fire-altar on uplifted threshold as place of worship in, 100, 102; veneration for threshold of mosks in, 123 f.; border sacrifices in, 188; shah of, entering Teheran, 189; reverence for phallic emblems in, 230; marriage customs in, 249; phallus represented by boundary posts, 258. Peru: blood smeared on doorway in, 73; stepped pyramid temples in, 111; religions of, and serpent as symbol, 235. _Pesakh_. See _Pāsăkh_. Petrie, Dr. W.M. Flinders: his discovery of ornamental door-jams, 58; reference to, 126. “Petting stone,” at Lindisfarne Abbey, 141. Phallus, reverence for, in Babylonia, Assyria, India, China, Japan, Persia, Phrygia, Phenicia, Egypt, Abyssinia, Greece, Rome, Germany, Scandinavia, France, Spain, Great Britain, North and South America, Islands of the Sea, 230. “Pharaoh,” meaning of, 103. Phenicia: uplifted hand of deities of, 79 f.; prominence of door in, 107; altar at threshold in, 121; indications of presence of deity in, 201; reverence for phallic emblems in, 230; religions of, and serpent as symbol, 235; pine cone symbol in, 257. Philip II. of Spain, reference to, 139. Philistines, sacredness of threshold among, 11 f. Philo Judæus: