Gods, annual death and resurrection of, i. 6; personated by priests, 45, 46 _sqq._; married to sisters, 316; their human wives, ii. 207; made by men and worshipped by women, 211
Gold Coast of West Africa, the Tshi-speaking peoples of the, i. 69
Gonds, ceremony of bringing back souls of the dead among the, i. 95 _sq._
Good Friday, effigies and sepulchres of Christ on, i. 254 _sqq._
---- Goddess (_Bona Dea_), her relationship to Faunus, ii. 234
Goowoong Awoo, volcano, children sacrificed to, i. 219
Gordias and Midas, names of Phrygian kings, i. 286
Gordon, E. M., on infant burial, i. 94 _sq._; on the festival of the dead in Bilaspore, ii. 60
Gouri, an Indian goddess of fertility, i. 241 _sq._
Gournia in Crete, prehistoric shrine at, i. 88 _n._ 1
Grandmother, title of an African priest, ii. 255
---- Earth thought to cause earthquakes, i. 198
Grave of Osiris, ii. 10 _sq._; human victims sacrificed at the, 97
---- shrines of Shilluk kings, ii. 161 _sq._; of dead kings, 194 _sq._
Graves, milk offered at, i. 87; childless women resort to, in order to ensure offspring, 96; illuminated on All Souls' Day, ii. 72 _sq._, 74; the only places of sacrifice in the country of the Wahehe, 190
---- of kings, chiefs, and magicians kept secret, ii. 103 _sqq._; human sacrifices at, 168
"Great burnings" for kings of Judah, i. 177 _sq._
---- Marriage, annual festival of the dead among the Oraons of Bengal, ii. 59
---- men, history not to be explained without the influence of, i. 311 _n._ 2; great religious systems founded by, ii. 159 _sq._; their influence on the popular imagination, 199
---- Mother, popularity of her worship in the Roman empire, i. 298 _sq._
---- religious systems founded by individual great men, ii. 159 _sq._; religious ideals a product of the male imagination, 211
Greece, date of the corn-reaping in, i. 232 _n._; modern, marriage customs in, ii. 245 _sq._
Greek belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead, i. 86 _sq._
---- Church, ceremonies on Good Friday in the, i. 254
---- feast of All Souls in May, ii. 78 _n._ 1
---- gods, discrimination of their characters, i. 119
---- notion as to birth from trees and rocks, i. 107 _n._ 1; of the noxious influence of moonshine on children, ii. 148
---- purification for homicide, i. 299 _n._ 2