Stade, Dr. Bernard: cited, 214, 255. Stamboul, sacrifice on threshold of house spared in great fire in, 66 f. Stanitsas, or land divisions among Cossacks, 175 f. Stanley, Henry M.: cited, 86, 174, 182. Stanley, Dean: cited, 222, 268 f. States or nations, boundaries of, 177. Statues in foundations in Rome, 55 f. Stele: memorial of dead inscribed on, 106; monumental, origin of, 107; containing sculptured image of Assyrian king, 115; set up on boundary line, 177; as doorways, 178. Stengel’s _Die griech. Sac._, reference to, 172. Stenin, P. von: cited, 249. Stephens, John L.: cited, 82-84, 146. Stepped pyramid: temples with altar or shrine at summit, 111; in Jacob’s dream at Bethel, 112; of Meydoom in Egypt, 126 f.; reference to, 144; as place of worship, 148. Stepping over: blood on threshold, 4 f., 26, 45 f.; salt on threshold, 5; threshold to insure protection of guardian deity, 12; girdle in marriage among Greeks, 30; threshold, a bride having care to, 36; threshold to prove innocence from crime among Hindoos, 121 f. Stillborn children buried under threshold in Russia, 18. _Stoicheionein_, Greek term for foundation ceremony, 53 f. Stone: sacrificial, laid on summit of Mexican temple, 56; posts most ancient remains of primitive man’s handiwork, 102; pillars marking boundaries of states or nations, 177; upright, significance of, 258. “Stone, Coronation,” in Westminster Abbey, 268. “Stone of desire” at Baveddeen, 125. Stove, Russian household deity located near, 23. Strack, Dr. H.L.: cited, 20, 46, 93. Straw cure for disorder in North Germany, 18. Strean, Dr., quotation from, 21. Stuart, Villiers: cited, 179. “Sublime Porte:” high court of Turkey called, 65; meaning of, 103. Suez Canal, reference to, 180. Sultan: justice administered at gate by, 65; as spiritual father of faithful Muhammadans, 103. Sultan Muhammad II., bloody hand of, stamped on mosk, 77. Sun disk, winged, over doors of temples in Egypt, 127. Sun-god Shamash: and his worshipers with uplifted hands, 80 f.; gates open to allow of daily circuits of, 105. Sun-orb, winged, with serpent, 234. Sunday School Times, The, references to, 260 f. Survivals of threshold covenant in America and Europe, 3, 8, 13, 221. Susa, king rendering justice at palace gate of, 60. Swedish tradition of burial of lamb under altar, 56. Symbol: of feminine in nature, tree or bush, 214; misusing, results of, 229; of evil in religions of Babylonia, Egypt, India, Phenicia, Greece, Mexico, and Peru, 235; of virginity, 243 f. Symbols: buried under foundation-stone, 109; and legends concerning boundary lines, 171 f. Syria: sacrifices on threshold in, 3-5; treading on threshold in, 10; reference to, 11; stepping over sacrifice at threshold in, 26; bride carried across threshold in, 38, 45;