Antwerp, Feast of All Souls in, vi. 70; wicker giants at, xi. 35 _sq._
Anu, Babylonian god, visit of Ishtar to, ix. 399 _n._ 1
Anubis, Egyptian jackal-headed god, vi. 15, 18 _n._ 3, 22 _n._ 2; represented by a masked man, ii. 133; finds the body of Osiris, vi. 85; personated by a priest wearing the mask of a dog or a jackal, vi. 85 _n._ 3
Anula tribe of Northern Australia, their disposal of foreskins at circumcision, i. 95; burial customs of the, i. 102 _sq._; their way of stopping rain, i. 253; their mode of making rain, i. 287 _sq._; their rites of initiation, xi. 235
Anyanja of British Central Africa, their dread of menstruous women, x. 81 _sq._
Apaches, the, iii. 182, 183, x. 21; their way of procuring rain, i. 306; avoidance of wife’s mother among the, iii. 85; custom observed by them on the war-path, iii. 160; purify themselves after the slaughter of foes, iii. 184; keep their names from strangers, iii. 325, 328; propitiated the animal gods before hunting deer, antelope, or elk, viii. 242; use of bull-roarers among the, xi. 230 _n._
_Apachitas_, heaps of stones in Peru, ix. 9
Apala cured by Indra in the Rigveda, xi. 192
Apamea in Syria, Alcibiades of, iv. 5 _n._ 3; worship of Poseidon at, v. 195
Ape in homoeopathic magic, i. 156; a Batta totem, xi. 223. _See also_ Apes
Apes, thought to be related to twins, i. 265; voices of, imitated as a charm, ii. 23; ceremony of Yuracares after killing, viii. 235 _sq._
Aphaca in Syria, sanctuary of Astarte at, v. 28, 259; meteor as signal for festival at, v. 259
Ap-hi, Abchase god of thunder and lightning, ii. 370
Aphrodite, represented as mother of Demetrius Poliorcetes, i. 391; the grave of, iv. 4; human sacrifices to, iv. 166 _n._ 1; her sacred doves, v. 33, 147; sanctuary of, at Paphos, v. 33 _sqq._; the month of, v. 145; her blood dyes white roses red, v. 226; name applied to summer, vi. 41
—— and Adonis, i. 25, v. 11 _sq._, 29, 280, ix. 386, xi. 294 _sq._; their marriage celebrated at Alexandria, v. 224
—— of the Lebanon, the mourning, v. 29 _sq._
Aphtha or thrush transferred to a frog, ix. 50
Api, female hippopotamus goddess of Egypt, ii. 133
Apinagos Indians of Brazil, their dances and presentation of children to the moon, vi. 145 _sqq._