i. 131

Twins in war, i. 49 _n._ 3; produced by eating two mice, two bananas, or two grains of millet, i. 118, 145; taboos laid on parents of, i. 262, 263 _sq._; supposed to possess magical powers, especially over the weather and rain, i. 262-269, ii. 183; supposed to be salmon, i. 263; thought to be related to grizzly bears, i. 264 _sq._; thought to be related to apes, i. 265; thought to be the sons of lightning, i. 266; called the children of the sky, i. 267, 268; water poured on graves of, i. 268, iii. 154 _sq._; custom observed by mother of still-born, i. 269 _n._ 1; parents of, thought to be able to fertilize plantain-trees, ii. 102; mothers of, not allowed to go near farm at sowing and reaping, ii. 102 _n._ 1; customs of the Baganda in regard to, ii. 102 _sq._; precautions taken by women at the graves of, v. 93 _n._ 1; precautions against the ghosts of, viii. 98; deemed a great misfortune in Kamtchatka, viii. 173 _n._ 4, ix. 178; crocodiles thought to be born as the twins of human children, viii. 212; Baganda women throw sticks or stones on the graves of, ix. 18

Twins and their afterbirths counted as four children, xi. 162 _n._ 2

——, father of, taboos observed by the, iii. 239 _sq._; his hair shaved and nails cut, iii. 284; no male except the, allowed to enter hut of girl in her seclusion at puberty, x. 24

Two bananas eaten produce twins, i. 145

—— Brothers, ancient Egyptian story of the, xi. 134 _sqq._

—— days, heathen festivals displaced in the Christian calendar by, i. 14

—— -faced statue set up by the mother of still-born twins, i. 269 _n._ 1; mask worn by image of goddess, ix. 287

—— Goddesses, the, Demeter and Persephone at Eleusis, vii. 56, 59, 73, 90

—— grains of millet eaten produce twins, i. 145

—— -headed bust at Nemi, portrait of the King of the Wood, i. 41 _sq._

—— -headed deity on a Cilician coin, v. 165 _sq._

—— mice eaten produce twins, i. 118

Tyana, Hittite monument at, v. 122 _n._ 1

Tybi, an Egyptian month, vi. 98 _n._ 2

Tycoons, the, long the temporal sovereigns of Japan, iii. 19

Tydeus marries the daughter of the king of Argos, ii. 278

Tyers, Lake, in Victoria, reluctance to mention personal names among the blacks about, iii. 321

Tying up the winds in knots, i. 326; the soul to the body, iii. 32 _sq._, 43

Tylon or Tylus, a Lydian hero, v. 183; his death and resurrection, v. 186 _sq._

Tylor, Sir Edward B., on fertilization of date-palm, i. 25 _n._; on magic, i. 53 _n._ 1; on the fire-drill, ii. 208; on Garcilasso’s account of the Peruvian priestesses of fire, ii. 244 _n._ 1; on the association of flints with lightning, ii. 374 _n._ 2; on reincarnation of ancestors, iii. 372 _n._ 1; on fossil bones as a source of myths, v. 157 _sq._; on names for father and mother, v. 281; on a theory of totemism, viii. 298 _n._ 2

Tyndarids (Castor and Pollux) thought to attend the Spartan kings, i. 49

Types of animal sacrament, viii. 310 _sqq._

Typhon, or Set, the brother of Osiris, vi. 6; the sea called the foam of, iii. 10; invoked by his true names, iii. 390; the soul of, in the Great Bear, iv. 5; murders Osiris, vi. 7 _sq._; mangles the body of Osiris, vi. 10, viii. 30; interpreted as the sun, vi. 129; the enemy of Osiris, vii. 262, 263, viii. 100; his injury of the eye of Horus, viii. 30; as a pig or boar, viii, 30, 31, 33, 34; the birth of, ix. 341. _See also_ Set

——, in Greek mythology, slays Hercules, v. 111; Corycian cave of, v. 155 _sq._; his battle with the gods, v. 193, 194; the gods flee before, vii. 18

—— and Zeus, battle of, v. 156 _sq._

Tyre, Melcarth at, v. 16; burning of Melcarth at, v. 110 _sq._; festival of “the awakening of Hercules” at, v. 111; king of, his walk on stones of fire, v. 114 _sq._

——, kings of, their divinity, v. 16; as priests of Astarte, v. 26

—— and Sidon, ix. 17

Tyrie, parish of, in Aberdeenshire, the cutting of the _clyack_ sheaf in,