---- Women as representatives of the Corn-goddess, i. 125
Olympiads, beginning of reckoning by, i. 82
Onitsha, on the Niger, ii. 58; funeral custom at, 98 _sq._
Oraons, human sacrifices among the, i. 244 _sq._; of Bengal, ii. 117
Organs of generation, male and female, cakes in shape of, i. 62; effigies of male, 12, 26, 29
Origin of agriculture, i. 128 _sq._; of astronomy, 307
Orinoco, Indians of the, i. 124, 310, ii. 150, 236
Osiris, i. 214, 215, 259 _sqq._; his relation to Dionysus, 3, 32; human sacrifices at grave of, 260; black and green, 263; key to mysteries of, 263; and the pig, ii. 24 _sqq._; in relation to sacred bulls, 34 _sqq._; false graves of, 100; his missing member, 264
Ostiaks, their ceremonies at killing bears, ii. 222 _sq._
Otter's head, Aino custom as to eating, ii. 144
Otters, their bones not allowed to be gnawed by dogs, ii. 239
Ovambo, the, ii. 71; their worship of the dead, 109 _sq._
Ox, corn-spirit as, i. 288 _sqq._; killed on harvest field, 290; slaughtered at threshing, 291 _sq._; sacrificed at the _Bouphonia_, ii. 5; as representative of the corn-spirit, 9 _sqq._; effigy of, broken as a spring ceremony in China, 10 _sqq._; Bechuana sacrifice of a black, 271; sacrificed to boa-constrictor, 290
---- -stall (Bucolium) at Athens, i. 30 _sq._
Palenques, the, of South America, ii. 221
Papuans, the, i. 123, ii. 145; their belief in the transmigration of souls, 295
_Paradoxurus_, souls of dead in various species of, ii. 294
Pardon of animal asked before killing it, ii. 183
Paris protected against dormice and serpents, ii. 281
Partridge, transmigration of sinner into, ii. 299
---- tribes, animal sacraments among, ii. 313
Pawnees, human sacrifices among the, i. 238 _sq._
Peacock as a totem, ii. 29; transmigration of sinner into, 299
---- Islands, burial custom in the, ii. 98
Pelops at Olympia, ii. 85; his restoration to life, 263
Pembrokeshire, harvest customs in, i. 142 _sqq._; cutting "the neck" in, 267; hunting the wren in, ii. 320
Permanence of simpler forms of religion, ii. 335
Persephone, mother of Zagreus by Zeus, i. 12; rape of, 36; a personification of the corn, 39 _sq._; in art, 43 _sq._; the descent of, 46, ii. 17; associated with the ripe ears of corn, 58; in Greek art, 88 _sq._