The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12)

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his discovery of the Ten Lost Tribes in America, viii. 264 _n._ 4

Adaklu, Mount, in West Africa, evils sent away to, ix. 135 _sq._, 206 _sq._

Adam, man in Lent called, ix. 214

—— and Eve, suggested explanation of their aprons of fig-leaves, ix. 259 _n._ 3

—— of Bremen, on the thunder-god Thor, ii. 364

Adams, J., on divinity of king of Benin, i. 396

Adana in Cilicia, v. 169 _n._ 3

Adar, a Jewish month, vii. 259 _n._ 1, ix. 361, 394, 397, 398, 415

Adder stones among the Celts, x. 15

Addison, Joseph, on the Italian opera, ii. 299; on the grotto _dei cani_ at Naples, v. 205 _n._ 1; on witchcraft in Switzerland, xi. 42 _n._ 2

Adelaide tribe of South Australia, namesakes of the dead change their names in the, iii. 355

Adeli, the, of the Slave Coast, their festival of new yams, viii. 116

Adhar, a Persian month, vi. 68

Adivi or forest Gollas of Southern India, seclusion of women at childbirth among the, iii. 149 _sq._

Adom-melech or Uri-melech, king of Byblus, v. 14, 17

_Adon_, a Semitic title, v. 6 _sq._, 16 _sq._, 20, 49 _n._ 7

Adonai, title of Jehovah, v. 6 _sq._

Adoni, “my lord,” Semitic title, v. 7; names compounded with, v. 17

Adoni-bezek, king of Jerusalem, v. 17

Adoni-jah, elder brother of King Solomon, v. 51 _n._ 2

Adoni-zedek, king of Jerusalem, v. 17

Adonis at Byblus, i. 30; myth of, v. 3 _sqq._; Greek worship of, v. 6; in Greek mythology, v. 10 _sqq._; in Syria, v. 13 _sqq._; monuments of, v. 29; in Cyprus, v. 31 _sqq._, 49; identified with Osiris, v. 32; mourning for, at Byblus, v. 38; said to be the fruit of incest, v. 43; his mother Myrrha, v. 43; son of Theias, v. 43 _n._ 4, 55 _n._ 4; the son of Cinyras, v. 49; the title of the sons of Phoenician kings in Cyprus, v. 49; his violent death, v. 55; music in the worship of, v. 55; sacred prostitution in the worship of, v. 57; inspired prophets in worship of, v. 76; human representatives of, perhaps burnt, v. 110; doves burned in honour of, v. 147; personated by priestly kings, v. 223; the ritual of, v. 223 _sqq._; his death and resurrection represented in his rites, v. 224 _sq._, ix. 398; festivals of, v. 224 _sqq._; flutes played in the laments for, v. 225 _n._ 3; the ascension of, v. 225; images of, thrown into the sea or springs, v. 225, 227 _n._ 3, 236; born from a myrrh-tree, v. 227, vi. 110; bewailed by Argive women, v. 227 _n._; analogy of his rites to Indian and European ceremonies, v. 227; his death and resurrection interpreted as representations of the decay and revival of vegetation, v. 227 _sqq._; interpreted as the sun, v. 228; interpreted by the ancients as the god of the reaped and sprouting corn,