i. 249

—— saints as givers of children, i. 78 _n._ 2

Mohammedanism, ii. 160

Mohammedans of Oude, their mode of drinking moonshine, ii. 144

Moire, sister of Tylon, i. 186

Moloch, meaning of the name, i. 15; sacrifices of first-born children to, 178; the king, ii. 219 _sqq._

—— and _Melech_, ii. 219 _sq._

Mommsen, Th., on the date of the festival of Osiris at Rome, ii. 95 _n._ 1

Mongols, funeral customs of the, i. 293

Monmouthshire, All Souls’ Day in, ii. 79

Monomotapa, a Caffre king, his way of prolonging his life, ii. 222 _sq._

Montanists, their view as to the date of Creation, i. 307 _n._ 2

Months, the Egyptian, table of, ii. 37 _n._

Moon, human victims sacrificed to the, i. 73; albinoes thought to be the offspring of the, 91; popularly regarded as the cause of growth and decay, ii. 132, 138; practical rules based on a theory of the influence of the, 132 _sqq._, 140 _sqq._; popularly regarded as the source of moisture, 137 _sq._; worshipped by the agricultural Indians of tropical America, 138 _sq._; viewed as the husband of the sun, 139 _n._; Athenian superstition as to an eclipse of the, 141; children presented to the, 144 _sqq._; thought to have a harmful influence on children, 148

——, the new, ceremonies at, ii. 141 _sqq._; dances at, 142; custom of showing money to, or turning it in the pocket, 148 _sq._

——, the waning, theories to explain, ii. 130; thought to be broken or eaten up, 130

—— Being of the Omahas, ii. 256

——, the infant god, ii. 131, 153

—— -god conceived as masculine, i. 73; inspiration by the, 73; in ancient Babylonia, ii. 138 _sq._

Moonshine drunk as a medicine in India, ii. 144; thought to be beneficial to children, ii. 144

Móooi, Tongan god who causes earthquakes, i. 201

Moore, G. F., on the burnt sacrifice of children, ii. 219 _n._ 1

Moravia, the feast of All Souls in, ii. 73

Moret, Alexandre, on Amenophis IV., ii. 123 _n._ 1; on the Sed festival, 155 _sq._

Mori, a district of Central Celebes, belief of the natives as to a spirit in the moon, ii. 139 _n._

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

Morning Star, appearance of, perhaps the signal for the festival of Adonis, i. 258 _sq._

Morocco, custom of prostitution in an Arab tribe in, i. 39 _n._ 3

Morrison, Rev. C. W., on belief of Australian aborigines as to childbirth, i. 103 _n._ 3

Mostene in Lydia, double-headed axe at, i. 183 _n._

Mota, belief as to conception in women in, i. 97 _sq._

“Mother” and “Father” as epithets applied to Roman goddesses and gods, ii. 233 _sqq._

——, dead, worshipped, ii. 175, 185

—— Earth, festival in her honour in Bengal, i. 90; fertilized by Father Sky, myth of, 282

—— Goddess of Western Asia, sacred prostitution in the worship of the, i. 36; lions as her emblems, 137, 164; her eunuch priests, 206; of Phrygia conceived as a Virgin Mother, 281

—— -kin, succession in royal houses with, i. 44; trace of, at Rome and Nemi, 45; among the Khasis of Assam, 46, ii. 202 _sqq._; among the Hittites, traces of, i. 141 _sq._; and Mother Goddesses, ii. 201 _sqq._, 212 _sqq._; and father-kin, 202, 261 _n._ 3; favours the superiority of goddesses over gods in religion, 202 _sqq._, 211 _sq._; its influence on religion, 202 _sqq._; among the Pelew Islanders, 204 _sqq._; does not imply that government is in the hands of women, 208 _sqq._; among the Melanesians, 211; in Africa, 211; in Lycia, 212 _sq._; in ancient Egypt, 213 _sqq._; traces of, in Lydia and Cos, 259; favours the development of goddesses, 259. _See also_ Female kinship

—— of a god, i. 51, 52

—— of the gods, first-fruits offered to the, i. 280 _n._ 1; popularity of her worship in the Roman Empire, 298 _sq._

—— Plastene on Mount Sipylus, i. 185

“Mother’s Air,” a tune on the flute, i. 288

“Mothers of the Clan” in the Pelew Islands, ii. 205, 206

Motlav, belief as to conception in women in, i. 98

Mournful character of the rites of sowing, ii. 40 _sqq._

Mourning for Attis, i. 272; for the corn-god at midsummer, ii. 34

—— costume of men in Lycia, ii. 264; perhaps a mode of deceiving the ghost, 264

Mouth of the dead, Egyptian ceremony of opening the, ii. 15

Moylar, male children of sacred prostitutes, i. 63

Mpongwe kings of the Gaboon, buried secretly, ii. 104

_Mugema_, the earl of Busiro, ii. 168

Mukasa, the chief god of the Baganda, probably a dead man, ii. 196 _sq._; gives oracles through a woman, 257

_Mukuru_, an ancestor (plural _Ovakuru_, ancestors), ii. 185 _sq._

Müller, Professor W. Max, on Hittite name for god, i. 148 _n._

Mundas of Bengal, gardens of Adonis among the, i. 240

Mungarai, Australian tribe, their belief in the reincarnation of the dead,