Uganda, charms on threshold and door in, 15. Unchastity atoned for by sprinkling blood on threshold among Dyaks, 20. _Ungere_, Latin for “to anoint,29 #$2#. United States: “Christening” a ship in, 8; high thresholds in houses of, 12; stepping over cracks in pavements in, 13; Bible and salt carried over threshold in, 21; lifting bride over threshold in, 44; situation of front door in, 55; foundation sacrifice in, 57; horseshoes on door-posts in, 73 f.; survivals of primal sacredness of threshold in, 147 f.; boundary marks in, 182; sacredness of threshold among Scandinavians of, 259. Unleavened bread, feast of, 216. _Unxor_, meaning of Latin word, 29. Uplifted hand: in Carthage, 78; in Tunis, 78 f.; represented among deities of Babylonia, Assyria, Phenicia, and Egypt, 79 f.; in seal of Ur-Gur, earliest ruler of “Ur of the Chaldees,” 80; gods Sin, Shamash, and Asshur, with, 80; Babylonian king recognized by, 80; Amenophis IV. before Aten-ra with, 81; Abraham with, 82; Psalmist’s reference to, 82; Isaiah’s reference to God’s, 82; Assyrian and Hebrew words for swearing by, 83; in judicial oath, 83; found on stepped pyramid temples of Polynesia, 83; power imparted to Egyptian king by touch of, 85; in South Sea Islands, 148. Uplifted threshold, 144. Upsal, wedding customs in old temple of, 140. “Ur of the Chaldees:” uplifted hand in seal of earliest ruler of, 80; temple at, 153; Abraham at, 160. Ur-Gur, with uplifted hands before moon-god Sin, 80. Usurtasen III., King: cited, 179. _Uxor_, meaning of Latin word, 29.