Wisconsin, sacredness of threshold among Scandinavians in, 259. Witham in Essex, marriage custom at, 140. “Witness Heap” of covenant between Jacob and Laban, 171. Woman: buried in foundation of bridge of Arta, 52; four ages of, symbolized among American Indians, 89 f.; recognized as primitive altar, 197; form of, pattern of altar form, 197; and door in Hebrew Scriptures, 253; in Arabic and German, 256. Wood, Edward J.: cited, 31, 44, 131, 138, 140-142; quotation from, 139. Wood-apple as witness of marriage, 259. Woolwas, betrothal custom at threshold among, 34. Worms, door of synagogue in, 144. Worship: at door in Egypt, 127 f.; covenant, spirit of all true, 221; origin of rites of, 226; phallic, perversion of purer idea, 230; Hindoo, mode of, 236; of serpent in Bangalore, 258 f. Wright, Julia McNair: cited, 24. Ximenez, Francisco, missionary: cited, 73, 98. Yama as first man and first priest in India, 99. Yarriba, survival of foundation-laying in blood in, 51 f. Yawning on threshold unpropitious, 11. Yeha, monoliths in front of temple at, 131. Yemen, marriage ceremonies in, 248. Yezidis: kissing doorway of temple among, 116; reference to, 190. _Yoni_, doorway of physical life, 198. Yü, Chinese for threshold, 256. Yucatan, doorways inscribed with red hand in, 81 f. Yuhlui, tutelar god of threshold in China, 95 f. Zabû, King, reference to, 154. Zamzam, sacred spring at Meccah, 163. _Zariru_, Babylonian gate plated with metal called, 111. Zedekiah, king of Judah, sitting in gate of Benjamin, 64. Zephaniah: his curse on Assyria, and his reference to “drought in thresholds,” 115; foretelling punishment on those that leap over threshold, 117. Zeus: House of, on Olympus, 132; reference to, concerning boundary lines, 171; image of, as boundary landmark, 172. Ziggurat, early form of temple, 229. Zindero, bloody threshold offering in, 8 f. Zinga, boundaries in, 174. Zion, laying foundation stone in, 162. Zuñi Indians, red hand among, 91. SCRIPTURAL INDEX. GENESIS.