Oath, uplifted hand in judicial, 83. Obelisk, symbol of Baal, 214. Oberea, queen of Otaheite, 250 f. Offerings: at threshold, 28, 118 f.; to local divinity at threshold-laying, 95; for dead pictured on stele of Middle Empire of Egypt, 106. _Ohel_, applied to private tent and to sacred tabernacle, 101. Ohnefalach-Richter, reference to, 231. Old Empire of Egypt: false door in early tombs of, 106; temples of, 155. Old Testament and New: waters of life in, 115; rites and symbols of, 215. Oldest member of household first to enter new house, 54. Olympian games, references to, 7, 263. Olympus, House of Zeus, 132. _Om mani padme Hūm_, 199. Omaha chief, burial of, 85 f. Ophites, teaching of, 239. Oracle at Delphi, 236. Oran buried alive in foundation of cathedral in Iona, 50. Orestes and Neoptolemus at Delphi, 134. Oriental: sovereigns and boundaries, 177; Christians, covenanting at threshold among, 221; figures of speech obscured by literalism of Western mind, 238. Orissa, importance of threshold in marriage in, 39. Orme, R.: cited, 94. Osiris: annual feast in honor of, 14 f.; references to, 106, 115, 128 f., 179; door of gateway, 127. “_Ostium_” defined, 200. Otaheite, primitive threshold in, 250. Ovid: cited, 172 f. Owens, J.G.: cited, 21. Oxford, Penn., stone landmark at, 183.