Heraclids, Lydian dynasty of the, i. 182, 184; perhaps Hittite, 185
Hercules identified with Melcarth, i. 16, 111; slain by Typhon and revived by Iolaus, 111; burnt on Mount Oeta, 111, 116, 211; worshipped at Gades, 112 _sq._; women excluded from sacrifices to, 113 _n._ 1; identified with Sandan, 125, 143, 161; burns himself, 176; worshipped after death, 180; the itch of, 209; his dispute with Aesculapius, 209 _sq._; the patron of hot springs, 209 _sqq._; altar of, at Thermopylae, 210; the effeminate, ii. 257, 258, 259; priest of, dressed as a woman, 258; vernal mysteries of, at Rome, 258; sacrifices to, at Rome, 258 _n._ 5
----, the Lydian, identical with the Cilician Hercules, i. 182, 184, 185
---- with the lion's scalp, Greek type of, i. 117 _sq._
Herero, a Bantu tribe of German South-West Africa, the worship of the dead among the, ii. 185 _sqq._
Hermaphrodite son of Sky and Earth, i. 282 _n._
Hermesianax, on the death of Attis, i. 264 _n._ 4
Herod resorts to the springs of Callirrhoe, i. 214
Herodes Atticus, his benefaction at Thermopylae, i. 210
Herodotus on sanctuary of Aphrodite at Paphos, i. 34; on religious prostitution, 58; on wife of Bel, 71; on Cyrus and Croesus, 174; on the sacrifices of Croesus to Apollo, 180 _n._ 1; on so-called monument of Sesostris, 185; on the festival of Osiris at Sais, ii. 50; on the mourning for Osiris, 86; identifies Osiris with Dionysus, 113 _n._ 2; on the similarity between the rites of Osiris and Dionysus, 127; on human sacrifices offered by the wife of Xerxes, 221
Heroes worshipped in form of animals, i. 139 _n._ 1
Hertz, W., on religious prostitution, i. 57 _n._ 1, 59 _n._ 4
_Hest_, the Egyptian name for Isis, ii. 50 _n._ 4, 115 _n._ 1
Hettingen in Baden, custom at sowing at, i. 239
Hezekiah, King, his reformation, i. 25, 107; date of his reign, 25 _n._ 4
Hide-measured lands, legends as to, ii. 249 _sq._
Hieraconpolis in Egypt, ii. 22 _n._ 1; representations of the Sed festival at, 151
Hierapolis, the Syrian, festival of the Pyre or Torch at, i. 146; sacred doves at, 147; great sanctuary of Astarte at, 269; eunuch priests of Astarte at, 269 _sq._
----, in the valley of the Maeander, cave of Pluto at, i. 206; hot springs at, 206 _sqq._
---- and _Hieropolis_, distinction between, i. 168 _n._ 2