Chepera, 384

Cheremiss, Cherkess, Chuwash. See
Tscheremiss, Tscherkess, Tschuwasch
Chibchas, myth of Bachuê, 257; their
priest-king, 275

Chica, offered to the dead, 52
Chicomecoatl, corresponds to the
Corn-Mother, 212-3; her feast, 215;
syncretism in her ritual, 235; differ-
entiated from Xilonen, 239;
"associated" with maize-plant,
252; her procession, 255
Chiefs, taboo in Tahiti and New
Zealand, 62; go to the happy other-
world, 308

Child-birth taboos the mother, 74
Children, taboo at birth, 75; so are
prey of evil spirits, 76; must be
purified, 76; dressed like totem, 103
Chile, grave-posts, 196

Chili, guardian spirits, 184; posses-
sion,' 286; next world, 299;
western world, 306

China, soul invited to return (Li Yun),
46; ancestor-worship, 56; mourners
tabooed, 58; sacrifice in, 147,
148, 149; ancestor worship does
not satisfy the religious instinct in,
198

Choctaws, 251

Christianity, a higher form of mono-
theism than Judaism, 386; sacra-
ment and sacrifice in, 414-5
Christmas, 228

Chryses, 273

Church (the savage), 103

Churching of women, 75

Circumambulation, 210

Cist, 355

Citiaus, 341

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,

to

applied
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

249

Civitas, 374

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;

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

29

Diffusion of myths, 260
Dining-table, etiquette of, 92
Dinkas, do not kill their cows, 116;
their natural affection, 2002
Διόνυσος ἔνδενδρος, 209
Dionysus, syncretised with vegetation-
spirit, 236; in mythology, 255 ff.;
and the ivy, 209; supernatural
powers of his worshippers, 274, 283;
in private mysteries, 342; identified
with Oriental gods in the private
mysteries, 352 ff.

Dionysus Esymnetes, his Aápraž taboo,

60

Δίος κώδιον, 348

Dioscuri, primitive altar of, 132
Disease, savage theory of, 44; remedies
for, 44, 45; sent by spirits, 110;
and as punishment by gods, 111;
cured by spirits of streams and
wells, 232; an occasion for renewing
the bond between gods and man, 237
Disutility, 243

Divination, water used for, 229, 289;
how gods of, arise, 242-3
Divine right, 285
Djinn, 224
Dog-clan, 125

Dogs, reluctance to feed on, 118;
associated with Lares, 187; with
Hecate, ib.; as totem - animal,
devours corpses, 203-4; as totem,
209; ancestor of the Kalang, 253
Doll of sorrow, 49; of dough, 215-6
Dolphin, friendly, 253

eat

Domesticated animals, originally to-
tems, 156; property of the tribe,
157; sacrificed at first rarely, then
more often, 157
Domesticated plants, 210 ff.
Domestication of plants and animals,
the starting point of civilisation,
113; due not to "amusement" but
to totemism, 114, 117; which taught
the savage the lesson of abstinence,
115; reluctance to kill or
domesticated animals survives, 117,
118; domestication the uninten-
tional effect of totemism, 118,
119; geographical distribution of
domesticable animals, 120; domesti-
cation fatal to totemism, ib.
Dough, eaten sacramentally, 215-9
Drama, sacred, in the Eleusinia, 372-3
Dravidians, tree and plant totems, 207
Dreams, how they affect the savage's
conception of personality, 43; as a
means of choosing a guardian spirit,

182

Drömling, 305

Earthly Paradise, 304

Easter, a festival in the primitive
agricultural calendar, 228; rites of
the green corn (or maize) celebrated,
239

Eating an animal to acquire its
qualities, 31; eating earth in honour
of the god, 64; eating fetish, 64;
eating with and of the god, 149,
151; with the god, 157, 158; joint
eating a bond of fellowship with men
and gods, 159, 160; eating con-
stitutes a sacred bond, 330, 369
Eclipses, myths about, 261
Eden, 264

Edgar, King, attacks stone-worship, 143
Egyptians (ancient), 30; blood not to

be shed, 74; totemism, 121 ff.;
cannibalism, 202; kings divine,
275; next world, 302, 309-12;
metempsychosis, 315-7, 319, 320,
322-3. See Aalu, Apepi, Apis,
Batta, Book of the Dead, Calf-god,
Chepera, Ka, Memphis, Mendes,
Meroe, Nut, Osiris, Ra, Sakkarah,
Thebes

Etiquette, 86, 92

Εὐδαίμων, 187
Euripides, 321
Europa, 251

Euryphylus, violated taboo, 60
Everlasting punishment, 375
Evoe Saboe, 340

Evolution, does it apply to religion?
5; E. universal, progress exceptional,
5, 38; applied to religion (or art)
does not involve the inference that
religion (or art) is mere barbarism,
9, 10; and progress not identical,
88; of taboo, 88, 89; in religion,
382, 386-7; not synonymous with
progress, 394-5

Ewe-speaking peoples, believe that the
soul occasionally returns to the
body, 45; tempt the soul of the
deceased to return, 46; funeral
lamentations, 47; ghosts harm
strangers only, 53; sacred python
taboo, 60; sacred python communi-
cates taboo, 63; taboo-days, 65;
royal blood may not be shed, 73;
mourners taboo, 77; lightning-god,
77; mourners, 78, 79; sacrificial
meal, 158; sacrifices to the dead, 195
Experience, sole test of truth in
religion as well as science, 10; did
not teach man what effects he could
and what he could not produce, 33;
not the base of taboo, 85, 87
External world. See World

FABIUS, 209

F

Face, painting of, 350-1
Faculty theory, 401
Fairies, taboo to see, 60
Fairy-tales, reflect primitive man's
ignorance of natural laws, 16; their
origin, 253-4

Faith, the foundation of science as
well as of religion, 10, 17; inter-
woven with every act of reason, 406;
in religion, 407; in science, ib.
Fallacies. See Error

Family, the, a later institution than
the clan, 180, 188; does not come
into existence until after nomad
times, 195

Family affections, strong amongst
savages, 46 ff.; continued in death,
53; and suggest friendly relations
with supernatural spirits, 54, 55
Family gods, 164; how obtained, ib. ;
from the gods of the community,
180; and vice versa, 181; or from
guardian spirits, ib.; amongst
Semites, 186; in Rome, ib.; in
Greece, 187, 188

Fantis attribute their victory over the
Ashantis to a hitherto unknown
god, 21; on ghosts, 49; their con-
federation, 239

Far-off Land, 297 ff.; origin of belief
in, 298-9

Fasting, of mourners, 57, 77; of
mothers after child-birth, 65; to
appease guardian-spirit, 183; in
Eleusinia, 365, 368

Fat substitute for blood, 285
Fatherhood, of God, 108, 109, 139
Fawn-skin, in mysteries, 338, 351
Fear not the only occasion on which
the belief in the supernatural mani-
fests itself, 20 ff.; alleged to be the
"natural "sentiment towards the
dead, 46; of deceased not source of
mourning-taboo, 58; nor of taboo
generally, 80, 81; of spirits, 105;
counteracted by alliance with a god,
105, 106; not the only feeling felt to-
wards spirits, 106; not the origin of
religion, 106, 107, 109; a necessary
element in education, 110; of super-
natural powers, 166; of punishment
indispensable in education, 190; not
the source of the rites of the dead,
192; not the reason why implements
are buried with the deceased, 205;
not the core of worship, 225; of
the supernatural felt by the savage,

233

Feitiços, 166

Feralia, 51

Fetish and idol, 25; eating f., 64
Fetishism, the word feitiço wrongly
applied by the Portuguese to tutelary
deities, 166, 167; extended by De
Brosses to anything worshipped,
167; by Bosman to things known
to be inanimate yet worshipped,
167, 168; now useless for scientific
purposes, 169; idol not an elabor-
ated fetish, ib.; a degeneration of
religion, 247; the outcome of poly-
theism, 389

Fig-trees, sacred, 208

Fiji, affection for dead, 49; the sick
taboo, 69; chiefs taboo, ib. ; mourn.
ing, 80; mutilation in honour of
the dead, 191; priest "possessed,"
274; western world, 306

Filial relation of clansmen to clan-god,
108, 109

Fingers cut off as offerings, 170; cut
off in honour of the dead, 191
Fire, the first, 15; purification by,
365, 368; a genus capable of totem-
istic worship, 229, 230; purificatory
powers of, 230; offerings cast into,
230-1; fires as offerings, 231-2;
passing through, 380; not to be
kindled on taboo days, 65
First-born, sacrifice of, 295-6
Fittest, survival of, 38; to survive not
necessarily the highest, 394-5
Flamen Dialis, 271

Flaminica, 272

Flint implements, their purpose as
certained by Comparative Method,
2, 3; the first ever made, 15
Flood-myths, 262
Florida, 311

Floris Islands, cannibalism, 202
Folk-lore, 268, 369

Food, not inherently taboo, 69; may
be "infected' by mourners and
other tabooed persons, 69, 70; totem
taboo as, 102; survival of the taboo,
118; remnants of, used to injure the
eater, 151; dangerous to others,
154; required by the dead, 194
Forculus, 246

Formalism, 89

Fortunate Isles, 312-3

Fowls, not eaten in England in Cæsar's
time, 117; nor by the Battas,

116

Francis Island, cannibalism, 202
Free will, 402

Friends clansmen, 54

Fumigation of strangers, 71
Functional deities, 246-7

Funeral feasts, 45-7; feasts not
originally acts of worship, 56

Funerals, priests not allowed to attend,
271

Funnel used for conveying blood-offer-
ings, 51, 52

Future state, in Homeric times, 374;
in the Hymn to Demeter, 375
Fuzachagua, 257

G

GABOON negroes, will not part with
their hair, 45

Garments, removed lest they be tabooed,
64, 67, 92; tabooed by mourning, 66
Gautama. See Gotama
Gazelle as totem, 128
Genesis, see Monotheism, 5; does it

say that monotheism was revealed? 7
Genius, no law of its distribution, 94,
396; guardian spirit, 186; associated
with animals, ib.; of Ti. Gracchus,
ib.; man suffers as animal genius
suffers, ib. ; familiar spirit, a survival
of animal genius, 187
Genius tutelaris, 208
Ghab-ghab, 133

Ghonds, tree-burial, 210
Ghosts, feared only if strangers, 53, 54;
not always credited with supernatural
powers, 55; send sickness, 190; do
not acquire supernatural powers until
a relatively late time, 196; not the
original gods, 197-8; linger in neigh-
bourhood of survivors, 298; follow
their favourite occupations in ghost-
land, 303

Ghost-land, belief in, philosophical, 302
Giant who had no heart in his body, 17
Gift-theory of sacrifice, 204-5, 224-5,
330-1, 333

Girls. See Women
Glaucothea, 342
Goats, 351

GOD, name of, taboo, 61; the divine
essence, 311; existence of, denied
by Buddha, 319; the Unknown,
332

Gods, defined, 104; a god fights for
his clan, 108; the god of the com-
munity, 160; gods distinguished
from other supernatural powers, 166;
have a definite circle of worshippers,
169; strange gods, 173 ff.; worship
ceases when clan dissolves, 181;
feast with their worshippers, 194;
killing of the, 216, 255, 291-6;
gods are friendly powers, 225;
themselves the victims offered to
themselves, 231; how their number
was increased, 234, 239; originally
had no proper names, 236; how
affected by polytheism, 242, 249;