Athyr, Egyptian month, ii. 8, 41, 49 _n._ 1; Osiris murdered on the seventeenth day of, 8, 84; festival of Osiris in the month of, 84 _sqq._, 91
Atonga, tribe of Lake Nyassa, their theory of earthquakes, i. 199
Attica, summer festival of Adonis in, i. 226
Attis, priests of Cybele called, i. 140; sometimes identified with Adonis, 263; myth and ritual of, 263 _sqq._; beloved by Cybele, 263, 282; legends of his death, 264; his legend at Pessinus, 264; his self-mutilation, 264 _sq._; and the pine-tree, 264, 265, 267, 271, 277 _sq._, 285, ii. 98 _n._ 5; his eunuch priests, i. 265, 266; festival of his death and resurrection in March, 267 _sqq._, 272 _sq._, 307 _sq._; violets sprung from the blood of, 267; the mourning for, 272; bath of bull's blood in the rites of, 274 _sqq._; mysteries of, 274 _sq._; as a god of vegetation, 277 _sqq._, 279; as the Father God, 281 _sqq._; identified with Zeus, 282; as a sky-god, 282 _sqq._; emasculation of, suggested explanation of myth, 283; his star-spangled cap, 284; identified with Phrygian moon-god Men Tyrannus, 284; human representatives of, 285 _sqq._; title borne by priests of Cybele, 285, 287
----, Adonis, Osiris, their mythical similarity, i. 6, ii. 201
Atys, son of Croesus, his death, i. 286; early king of Lydia, 286
Augustine on the effeminate priests of the Great Mother, i. 298; on the heathen origin of Christmas, 305; on the discovery of corn by Isis, ii. 116; on Salacia as the wife of Neptune, 233
Augustodunum (Autun), worship of Cybele at, i. 279
Aulus Gellius on the influence of the moon, ii. 132
Aun, or On, King of Sweden, sacrifices his sons to Odin, ii. 220
Aunis, feast of All Souls in, ii. 69 _sq._
Aurohuacas, Indians of Colombia, i. 23 _n._ 2
Aust, E., on the marriage of the Roman gods, ii. 236 _n._ 1
Australia, belief as to the reincarnation of the dead in, i. 99 _sqq._
Australian aborigines, their preparation for marriage, i. 60; their belief in conception without sexual intercourse, 99 _sqq._; their cuttings for the dead, 268
Austria, leaping over Midsummer fires in, i. 251
"Awakening of Hercules," festival at Tyre, i. 111
Awemba, Bantu tribe of Rhodesia, ii. 174; their worship of ancestral spirits, 175; their prayers to dead kings before going to war, 191 _sq._