viii. 257;

their practice of bleeding themselves to relieve fatigue, ix. 13; seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 57 _sq._

—— of Peru threaten the thunder-god, ii. 183 _n._ 2

Yuruks, pastoral people of Cilicia, v. 150 _n._ 1

Zabern, in Alsace, May-trees at, ii. 64; the goat or fox at threshing at, vii. 287, 297

_Zadrooga_, Servian house-community, x. 259

Zafimanelo, the, of Madagascar, their seclusion at eating, iii. 116

Zagreus, a form of Dionysus, murdered by the Titans, vii. 12 _sq._

Zakmuk or Zagmuk, the Babylonian festival of the New Year, iv. 110 _sq._, 113, 115 _sq._, ix. 356 _sqq._

—— and the Sacaea, iv. 113, 115 _sqq._, ix. 355 _sqq._, 399, 402

Zambesi, the River, the Angoni to the north of, i. 291, iii. 174; short-handled hoes used by Caffres above the, vii. 116; the Makanga of the, viii. 287; belief in transmigration among the Caffres of the, viii. 289; Sena-speaking people to the north of the, ix. 7; heaps of sticks and stones to which passers-by add on the, ix. 11

——, the Lower, rain-maker at Boroma on, iii. 259

——, the Upper, the Barotse of, i. 310 _n._ 7, 392, vi. 193, x. 28; the Maraves or Zimbas of, i. 393 _n._ 2, viii. 111; tribes of, their belief in the homoeopathic magic of a flesh diet, viii. 141

Zanzibar, custom at sowing in, vii. 233

Zaparo Indians of Ecuador, their belief in the homoeopathic magic of animal flesh, viii. 139

Zapotecs of Mexico, their harvest customs, vii. 174 _sq._; their belief that their lives were bound up with those of animals, xi. 212

——, the pontiff of the, rule of continence observed by, iii. 6 _sq._; not allowed to set foot on ground, iii. 6, x. 2; the sun not allowed to shine on him, iii. 6, x. 19

_Zaramamas_, Maize-mothers, name given to certain maize-stalks or stones carved in the likeness of maize-cobs among the Indians of Peru, vii. 173 _n._

Zas, name of priest of Corycian Zeus, v. 155

Zealand, the Rye-beggar at harvest in, vii. 231; treatment of strangers at the madder-harvest in, vii. 231

Zechariah on the mourning of or for Hadadrimmon, v. 15 _n._ 4; on wounds of prophet, v. 74 _n._ 4

Zekar-baal, king of Byblus, v. 14

Zela in Pontus, priestly kings at, i. 47; Anaitis and the Sacaea at, ix. 370, 372, 373, 421 _n._ 1; Omanos and Anadates at, ix. 373 _n._ 1

Zemis of Assam, parents named after their children among the, iii. 333

Zemmur, the, of Morocco, their Midsummer custom, x. 215

Zend-Avesta, the, on cut hair and nails, iii. 277; on the Fravashis, vi. 67 _sq._

Zengwih, in Burma, priestly king near, iii. 237

Zenjirli in Syria, Hittite sculptures at, v. 134; statue of horned god at, v. 163

Zer, old Egyptian king, his true Horus name Khent, vi. 20 _n._ 1, 154. _See_ Khent

Zerdusht and Isfendiyar, story of, in Firdusi’s _Epic of Kings_, x. 104

Zerka, river in Moab, the ancient Callirrhoe, v. 215 _n._ 1

Zeus, at Panamara in Caria, sacrifice of men’s hair to, i. 29; mated with Artemis, i. 36; Spartan kings descended from, i. 48; Castor and Pollux the sons of, i. 49; rids himself of his love for Hera, i. 161; rain made by, i. 285; the priest of, makes rain by an oak branch, i. 309; mimicked by King Salmoneus, i. 310; crowned with chaplet of oak leaves at Dodona, ii. 177; Greek kings called, ii. 177, 361; at Olympia, the sacred white poplar of, ii. 220; priests of, at Dodona, ii. 248; Spartan kings sacrifice to, ii. 264; as god of the oak, the rain, the thunder, and the sky, ii. 358 _sqq._; his oracular oak at Dodona, ii. 358; prayed to for rain by the Greeks, ii. 359; father of Aeacus, ii. 359; the sign-giving, on Mount Parnes, ii. 360; his resemblance to Donar and Thor, ii. 364; his resemblance to Perun and Perkunas, ii. 365, 367; as sky-god, ii. 374; his sanctuary on Mount Lycaeus, iii. 88; the fleece of, Διὸς κώδιον, iii. 312 _n._ 3; the grave of, in Crete, iv. 3; oracular cave of, on Mount Ida in Crete, iv. 70; father of Minos, iv. 70; festival of, on Mount Lycaeus, iv. 70 _n._ 1; his transformations into animals, iv. 82 _sq._; the Olympic victors regarded as embodiments of, iv. 90 _sq._; swallows his wife Metis, iv. 192; saved by a trick from being swallowed by his father Cronus, iv. 192; his marriage with his sister Hera, iv. 194; god of Tarsus assimilated to, v. 119, 143; Cilician deity assimilated to, v. 144 _sqq._, 148, 152; the flower of, v. 186, 187; identified with Attis, v. 282; castrates his father Cronus, v. 283; the father of dew, vi. 137; the Saviour of the City, at Magnesia on the Maeander, vi. 238; his intrigue with Persephone, vii. 12; father of Dionysus by Demeter, vii. 12, 14, 66; said to have transferred the sceptre to the young Dionysus, vii. 13; said to have swallowed the heart of Dionysus, vii. 14; his intrigue with Demeter, vii. 66; his temple at Olympia, viii. 85; his appearance to Hercules in the shape of a ram, viii. 172; cake with twelve knobs offered to, ix. 351; an upstart at Olympia, ix. 352; identified with the Babylonian Bel, ix. 389; and his sacred oak at Dodona, xi. 49 _sq._; wood of white poplar used at Olympia in sacrificing to. xi. 90 _n._ 1, 91 _n._ 7

Zeus, Corycian, priests of, v. 145, 155; temple of, v. 155

—— and Cronus, ii. 323

—— and Danae, how he visited her in a shower of gold, x. 74

—— and Demeter, viii. 9; their marriage perhaps dramatically celebrated in the Eleusinian mysteries, ii. 138 _sq._, vii. 65 _sqq._

—— the Descender, places struck by lightning consecrated to, ii. 361

——, Dictaean, his sacred precinct in Crete, ii. 122

—— and Dione at Dodona, ii. 189, 381

—— and Europa, iv. 73

—— the Fly-catcher, viii. 282

——, the Fruitful One, ii. 360

——, Heavenly, at Sparta, i. 47

—— and Hecate at Stratonicea in Caria, v. 270 _n._ 2, 227

—— and Hephaestus, x. 136

—— and Hera, sacred marriage of, ii. 140 _sq._, 142 _sq._, 359, iv. 91; sacrifices for rain to, ii. 360

—— and Hercules, viii. 172

—— the Husbandman, ii. 360

—— Labrandeus, the Carian, v. 182

—— Lacedaemon, at Sparta, i. 47

——, Laphystian, his sanctuary at Alus, iv. 161; associated with human sacrifices, iv. 162, 163, 164, 165, vii. 25; his sanctuary on Mount Laphystius, iv. 164

—— the Leader, Spartan king sacrifices to, ii. 264

——, Lightning, the hearth of, at Athens, i. 33, ii. 361

——, Lycaean, on Mount Lycaeus, human sacrifices to, ix. 353, 354

——, Olbian, ruins of his temple at Olba, in Cilicia, v. 151; his cave or chasm, v. 158 _sq._; his priest Teucer, v. 159; a god of fertility, v. 159 _sqq._

——, Olybrian, of Anazarba in Cilicia, v. 167 _n._ 1

——, Olympian, his temple at Athens, ix. 351

——, Panhellenian, at Aegina, ii. 359

—— Papas, in Phrygia, v. 281 _n._ 2

——, Pelorian, in Thessaly, ix. 350

—— Polieus in Cos, ox sacrificed to, viii. 5 _n._ 2; on the Acropolis of Athens, viii. 5, 7

——, Rainy, the birthplace of, ii. 360; sacrifices for rain to, ii. 360

——, Showery, on Hymettus, ii. 360

—— Sosipolis at Magnesia on the Maeander, ox sacrificed to, viii. 7

—— Subterranean, vii. 66, viii. 9; sacrifices for the crops offered to, at Myconus, vii. 66

Zeus, surnamed Thunderbolt at Olympia and elsewhere, ii. 361

—— and Typhon, battle of, v. 156 _sq._, 160

——, surnamed Underground, Greek ploughman’s prayer to, vii. 45, 50

——, the Wolf-god, on the Wolf-mountain (Mount Lycaeus) in Arcadia, transformation of men into were-wolves at his festival, iv. 83

Zileh, the modern successor of Zela, ix. 370 _n._ 2

Zimbales, a province of the Philippines, superstition as to a parasitic plant in, xi. 282 _n._ 1

Zimbas or Muzimbas, of South-East Africa, regard their king as a god, i. 392

—— or Maraves offer the first-fruits to the spirits of the dead, viii. 111

Zimmer, H., on the Picts, ii. 286 _n._ 2

Zimmern, Professor H., as to the myth celebrated at the Babylonian Zakmuk, iv. 111 _n._ 1; on Mylitta, v. 37 _n._ 1; as to Nabu and Marduk, ix. 358 _n._; on the distinction of Sacaea from Zakmuk, ix. 359 _n._ 1; on the derivation of the name Purim, ix. 361 _n._ 4; on the principal personages in the Book of Esther, ix. 406 _n._ 2

Zimri, king of Israel, burns himself, v. 174 _n._ 2, 176

Zion, Mount, traditionally identified with Mount Moriah, vi. 219 _n._ 1

Zoganes, temporary king at Babylon, put to death after a reign of five days, iv. 114, ix. 355, 357, 365, 368, 369, 387, 388, 406

Zoilus, priest of Dionysus at Orchomenus, iv. 163

Zombo-land, traps to catch the devil in, iii. 69 _n._ 4

Zonares, on the triumphal crowns, ii. 175 _n._ 1

Zoroaster, gods worshipped by the Persians before, ix. 389; on the uncleanness of women at menstruation, x. 95

Zoroastrian fire-worship in Cappadocia, v. 191

Zoznegg, in Baden, Easter fires at, x. 145

Zulu custom of putting the king to death when his strength failed, viii. 68

—— fancy as to eating forehead and eyebrow of enemy, viii. 152

—— hunters, their use of magic knots, iii. 306

—— king, dance of the, viii. 66

—— kings put to death, iv. 36 _sq._

—— language, its diversity, iii. 377

—— medicine-men or diviners, their shoulders sensitive to the Amatongo (ancestral spirits), v. 74 _n._ 4, 75; their charm to fertilize fields, vi. 102 _sq._

—— women may not utter their husbands’ names, iii. 333

Zululand, rain-making by means of the dead in, i. 286; children buried to the neck as a rain-charm in, i. 302 _sq._; hoes used by women in, vii. 116

Zulus, use made by them of twins in war, i. 49 _n._ 3; foods tabooed among the, i. 118 _sq._; employ pregnant women to grind corn, i. 140; their contagious magic of footprints, i. 212; their belief as to twins, i. 268; their rain-making by means of a “heaven-bird,” i. 302; their superstition as to reflections in water, iii. 91; names of chiefs and kings tabooed among the, iii. 376 _sq._; their belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead, v. 82, 84; their observation of the moon, vi. 134 _sq._; the worship of the dead among the, vi. 182 _sqq._; their sacrifice of a bull to prolong the life of a king, vi. 222; women’s part in agriculture among the, vii. 113 _sq._; their fences to keep wild boars from gardens, viii. 32; their festival of first-fruits, viii. 64 _sqq._; eat leopards, lions, etc., in order to become brave like the beasts,