Associations, religious, 331 ff.
Assyria, sacred trees, 208

Astarte, associated with swine, 128;
idol of, 139
Atargatis, 128

Athênê, sacred olive of, 208; priestess
of, 271

Athens, sacred olive of, 208

Atiu Islanders, eat not with strangers,

71

Atonement for sin, 160, 161

Attendants, slaughtered at grave, 200
Attention, unequally distributed over
field of consciousness, 8, 34; "move-
ment of att." a factor in animism, 22
Australian black men, belief as to
erysipelas, 23; make the sun stand
still, 24; name of dead taboo, 61;
eat not with strangers, 71; mothers
taboo after child-birth, 74, 75;
mourning, 79; terror of taboo, 83;
puberty ceremonies, 103, 104; muti-
lation, 170; blood-offerings to the
dead, 191, 193; their natural affec-
tion and moral character, 2002;
sacred trees, 208. See Victoria
Aygnan, 308

Aztecs, blood-offerings to the dead,
191; grave-posts, 196. See Mexico

Birth, of Iacchus, 373
Birth-trees, 207

Black art, 166

Blemish, physical, requires death of
divine king, 279; deprecated in
priest, 289

Blest, Islands of the, 313

Blood, taboo, 59, 67 73, 74; so may
not be shed, 74; nor allowed to
touch the ground, 75; shedder of
blood "unclean," 75; used for puri-
fication, 76; of clan communicated
at crises to individual clansmen, 103,
104; sap of plants serves for blood,
115; the same blood flows in the
veins of all the clan, 130, and of all
the totem-species, ib. ; is the spirit
of the species, 131; and is shed to
procure a theophany, ib. ; and taboos
the spot, which is therefore marked,
ib.; dashed on altar of evil spirits,
175; of clan applied to clansman at
birth, puberty, marriage, death, 192;
extended as an offering from animal
to cereal deities, 219, 220; repre-
sented by fat or oil, 285; by sap of
tree, 286; drinking, cause of inspira-
tion, 286, 293, 296; ceases to be
an adequate means of communion,
329

Blood-covenant, 97 ff.; originally only
between tribes, 99; later between
individuals, 142; sacrifice originally
a, 147; between clan and clan-
god, 170; between individuals, ib. ;
between individual and clan-god,
170-3

Blood-feud, 54, 97, 122

Blood-letting, as a protection against
foreigners, 71

Blood-offerings, to the dead, 51, 52;
as a means of commendation to the
gods, 170 ff., 220;' in worship of
unattached spirits, 174; to guardian
spirits, 182; at the grave, 191, not
due to fear but desire to revivify the
deceased, 190-2; in the Eleusinia,
365, 380

Blood-relationship, necessary bond of
nomad but not of settled life, 120
Bloodshed, evaded, 292

Blood-tie, bond of society, 54, 330;
broken down, 376
Bobowissi, a general deity, 163; chief
god of Fanti confederation, 239

Bolotu, 308

Buffalo, totem, 103

Buhuitihu, 176

Bulgarians, funeral feasts, 51
Bulls, sacrificed to rivers, 230

Burats, their remedies for disease,
441

Burial, in house, 49, 50; of bad people,
50; of totem animals, 126; its
object isolation of the corpse, which
is taboo, 204; effected by suspension,
ib. See Cremation, Inhumation
Burmah, outcasts taboo, 69
Burning, to avoid bloodshed, 73, 74
Burnt-offering, subsequent to growth
of the conception of a piaculum,
160-1; facilitates syncretism, 236
Buryats, corpse of Shaman taboo, 76
Butler, Bp., 46, 152
Butterfly, as totem, 243

C

CAIRNS, which mark graves come to be
regarded as altars, 196
Calamity, due to sin, 160
Caldwell, Bp., 174–6
Calendar, the agricultural, 225-8
Calf-god, 122

Calicut, kings of, 279
Cambodia, 275, 280

Canada, Indians of, totems and
tattooing, 182

Cañari Indians, myth, 257-8, 260
Cannibalism, rarely religious in in-
tention, 201; practiced on aliens,
201, on kinsmen, 202; latter implies
no disrespect, nor prevents ancestor-
worship, 203; but aims at keeping
the good qualities of the deceased
within the clan, 203

Cape Coast natives discover Djwi-
j'ahnu, 20, 21
Cardea, 246

Caribs, name of dead taboo, 61;
property taboo, 72; mourners fast,
78; fasted after a birth, 75; then
purified child, 76; their canni-
balism, 201

Caste, based on taboo, 73

Catal (the), burn the good, bury the
bad, 50

Categorical Imperative, 85

Cattle, not eaten by pastoral peoples,
116. See Domesticated Animals
Caucasus, "dwarf-houses" in, 50
Causation, savage theory of, 31;
animistic, 206; universality of,
284; man's belief in, inherent and
undemonstrated, 404

Celebes, the Topantunuasu remedy
for disease, 45; mothers taboo
after child-birth, 74. See Minahassa
Celts, 313

Ceos, funeral law, 77

Ceram, hair may not be cut in, 45
Cereal deities, generally feminine, why,

240

Clallam, ordination, 288
Clan, bound by blood-tie, 54; whole
clan must partake of sacrificial meal,
147; when clan dissolves its worship
ceases, 181; named after its totem,
209

Clan-god, leader in war and father of
the clan, 153

Clansmen, eaten, 201-2;= fellow-
worshippers, 327

Clay, cleansing by, 339, 348-51, 355
Clement, 346, 414

Clothes, best, 66. See Garments
Cochin-China, piaculum, 161
Cockaigne, 305, 312-3
Cockle, as totem, 153

Coercion, not applied by man to the
gods, 42; not applied by man to
supernatural powers, 105, 168, 183;

anti-religious and therefore not the
source of religion, 233

Colour, taboo-colours, white, 65, 66,
79; red, 67, 349

Columbia (Indians of), totems, 102;
suspension burial, 204
Comitium, 305, 307

Communion, with dead and with
supernatural powers, 56; is the
object of the sacrificial meal, 152;
effected by physical assimilation
of the supernatural qualities of the
divine animal, 152, 153; with plant-
totems, 214-9; with tree-totems,
220-2; "satanic imitation of,'
288; condition of future happiness,
326, 376; followed on sacrifice,
412. See Sacrament

Community, the only religious, origin-
ally the State, 328-9
Comparative Method, applied to
institutions, is based on resemblances
between the institutions of different
peoples, 2, 3; but also implies
difference, 3; is employed to estab-
lish those differences, 4; and to
trace their succession (i.e. their
history and evolution), 4
Compurgation, origin of, 64, 65
Concomitant Variations, Method of,
used by savages, 29
Concordia, 246

Confarreatio, 330

Confirmation, in "the savage church,"
103

Confucius, 198, 199; communion with,
148

Congo, remedies for disease, 44;
welcome the dead, 48; blood-
covenant, 98; cannibalism, 201
Connla, adventures of, 313
Conopas, 184
Conscience, 343

Consciousness, facts of the religious,
394; the external, 408; attempts to
reconcile the facts of the external
and internal, 410
Consecration, of kings, 285
Contagion of taboo, 65. See Infection
Contamination, of tree and plant

worship, 215-6. See Syncretism
Continuity, Law of, holds of science, 28
Continuum of religious evolution, 8; of
the evolution of science, 10; in
religion, 393-4

Corn, not to be ground on taboo-days,
65; as totem, 364; ear of, exhibited
in the Eleusinia, 372, 381; sheaf of,
in the Eleusinia and the Feast of
Unleavened Bread, 385
Corn-baby, how made, 212
Corn-goddess, 241