Quarrels as result of shaking hands over threshold in Finland, 12. Quarterly Statement of Palestine Exploration Fund, reference to, 29. Queen of Heaven, statue of, in Carthage, 130. Qurân, sentences from: on gates, fountains, bridges, and houses, 70; on houses of worship, 163.
.p2 Rahab, blood-colored thread on house of, 211. Raja Pasupati, reference to, 157. Ralston, W.R.S.: cited, 12, 19, 24, 32, 54 f.; quotation from, 23. Rameses II., reference to, 180. Ram’s horn on door-post in Tell-el-Hesy, 58. Ramsay, Prof. W.M.: cited, 229. Rawlinson, George: cited, 14, 105, 111 f. Rawlinson, Sir Henry C.: cited, 110, 153, 178, 184, 234; quotation from, 167-169. Recognition, Mount of, reference to, 164. Records, Book of, or Shoo King, reference to, 158. Red cloth on altar at marriage, 34. Red hand: as sign of covenant, 74 f.; in Morocco, 74; in Palestine, 74-76; in Turkey, 74, 77; in Babylonia, 75; on lintel, 75; Aryan origin of, 75; among Sephardeem, 76; in Mosk of St. Sophia, 77; in Central America, 81 f.; among aborigines of America, 83; among Dacotahs, Winnebagoes, 84; among Omahas, 85; among Ioways, Sauks, Foxes, Sioux, Arickarees, Cheyennes, Arapahoes, Comanches, Apaches, Jicarillas, and Pueblos, 87; among Pecos, 87 f.; among cliff-dwellers of Chelly Canyon, 87. See, also, _Bloody hand_. Red seal on documents, probable meaning of, 94. Redwan, village of, 190. Refuge, cities of, 151. Remondino, Dr. P.C.: cited, 196. Renouf, Le Page: cited, 128 f., 257. _Rere_, name for altar, 150 f. Réville, Albert: cited, 73, 111, 144 f., 235. Rhodes, doorway marked with honey in, 30. Rice: as offering among Hindoos, 15; on heads of bridal couple among Hindoos, 36; presented to bride in China, 40; as offering at threshold in Japan, 125 f. Richon’s Dic. of Bib. Antiq., reference to, 103. Rig Veda: reference to, 157; on production of sacred fire, 198. Right foot first to cross threshold of mosk, 123. Rio de Padrāo, or Pillar River, 182. Rites: religious, beginning of, 36, 199, 225; and symbols of New Testament, 215. Ritual of Old and New Testament, basis of, 228. Rituals, ecclesiastical, origin of, 226. River of Threshold, 182. Roberts, Joseph: cited, 95, 122. Robes stamped with red hand among American Indians, 83. Rocky Pytho, reference to, 133. Rod at door, stepping over, 123. Rodd, Rennell: cited, 27, 30 f., 38; quotation from, 52 f. Roman: Penates at threshold or hearth, 23; architect on proportions of temple, 36; custom of placing statues under foundations, 55 f.; custom of affixing spoils and trophies of war to lintels, 73; temples, position of altar in, 134; empire, mile-posts in, 176; empire, threshold of, 258. Roman Catholic Church on marriage, 222. Roman Catholic churches, holy water in, in America, 147. Rome: lifting bride over threshold in, 39; bride worshiping at altar-fire in, 41; images under foundations in, 55 f.; “gods of entrances” in, 97; reference to religion of, 97; reverence for phallic emblems in, 230; pine cone found in, 257; ceremonies at founding of, 264 f. Romulus, founder of Rome, 264 f. Rongo, first-born son of Vatea and Papa, reference to, 152. Roscommon, county of, Druidical altar in, 81. Rosenmüller, Ernst F.K.: cited, 78. Roumania, bat and coin under threshold in, 20. Rous’s Archæologia Attica, reference to, 39. Rubbing foreheads on “stone of desire” at Baveddeen, 125. Russia: welcoming guest with bread and salt in, 9; reverence for threshold in, 12; threshold observances in, 18, 31 f.; stillborn children buried under threshold in, 18; sacrifice to “Vodyaour” in, 19; household deity abiding behind stove in, 23; concerning dead and threshold in, 24; marriage custom among Mordvins in, 41; crossing altar-fire in, 42; death following building of new house in, 54; “upper corner” of house sacred in, 54 f.; disputed boundary lines in, 175. Ruth, reference to, 64. Ruthennu, land of the, reference to, 180.