DARAMULUN (Australian deity), 27, 66, 71 Darwin, cited, 6 Dasius, story of the martyrdom of, 79, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 121, 182, 185, 298, 301 Davis, Mr. John Moore, on Australian native sacrifice of the first-born, 54 Dawson, Mr. ('Aborigines of Australia'), on native religious worship, 33, 34 Deputy gods, 39 Devils, expulsion of, savage licence following, 187 Diana, grove of (near Aricia): the golden bough in, 207 _et seq._ Diana of the Chersonese, 208 Dieri, the (Central Australian tribe): ancestral spirit worship, 50, 56, 62, 63, 64 Dio Chrysostom, on the festival of Sacæa, 79, 120 and note, 121, 132, 147, 185, 186, 199, 302 Divine scapegoats, 189 _et seq._ Dodge, Colonel, on North American beliefs, 88, 89 Donnelly, Mr. W. A., discovery of stones marked with cup and ring, _&c_, 245, 246 Dos Santos, on Caffre beliefs, 97 and note, 234, 235 Druid: origin of the word, 215 note Druid circles, 242 Druids, gathering mistletoe, 215 Dumbuck (Scotland): marked stones at, 245, 246, 253 Dunbuie (Scotland): stones marked with rings at, 245. 246, 247, 253 Duncan. Hon. L. M.: fire-walking, 277 Dyaks, their superstition regarding new-born children, 261
EABANI (feast of), 164, 165, 166, 178, 180, 181 Eddaic myth of Balder, 213-217 Egyptian Book of the Dead, 72; gods, tombs and mummies, 90; King of Unreason, 105; sacrifice of red-haired men, 128 Ellis, Sir A. B., 13; theory of borrowed gods, 42; on Ashanti harvest festival, 188 Erech, Eabani feast at, 164, 165 Esther, Book of, 147, 180; theories concerning, 161-181 Ethiopian kings of Meroe: worshipped as gods, killed by priests, 96 Evolution of gods, 82 _et seq._ Euhemerism, 90 European influences on savage beliefs, 11 Euthyphro, cited, 59, 60 Everard, Mr. H. S. C, cited, 211 Eyeos, sacrifice of king of, 98, 221 Eyre, Mr., on the Australian blacks' idea of origin of creation, 40, 41 Ezekiel, 151, 176
FARWARDIGAN (Persian feast), 168, 169 Fijian hymns, 72; periods of licence, 195, 196, 198; fire ceremony, 273, 277-283, 288 Fire-walking, 270 _et seq._ First-born, eating the, 54 First-fruits, 267 _et seq._ Fisher's ghost, 54 Fison, Mr. Lorimer, on the emerging of gods from ancestors, 50, 56 Foelsche, Mr., on savage belief in a benevolent creator or demiurge, 57 note, 58 Frazer, Mr. J. G., theories of: comparative study of human beliefs and institutions, 6, 7; religion the despair of magic, 10, 60; magic preceded the invention of god 47; limited definition of religion, 48, 59; the Australians who practise magic have little or no religion, 49-52; on the Jewish Passover, 53; its Australian parallel, 53, 54; speculative generalisations, 55; arbitrary selection of witnesses, 55-58; ascription of wrong beliefs to the Arunta, 61; inadvertent proof that irreligious Australians are religious, 62-65; invented powerful beings, 68; religion, the conciliation of higher powers by prayer and sacrifice, 69; shooting stars, 74; imported religious ideas, 75; origin of the belief in the divinity of Christ, 76-78; use of the legend of Dasius, 79, 109-115; mental prepossession on the Crucifixion, 80; double pairs of divinised human beings, 82; alleged mortality of gods, 85-94; religious regicide, 94-100; annual religious regicide, 101-104; mock kings, 103 _et seq._; persons who suffer for god-man kings, 104-107; survivals of human sacrifice at the Saturnalia, 109-115; modern Carnival, 110, 111; the Greek Cronia, 115-118; the Sacæa, 118-122; again mock kings, 120, 121, 123; attempts to prove the Sacæan criminal divine, 123-140; sacrifice by hanging, 127-132; date of the Sacæa, 135-138; the Sacæan victim, 138; analogies of Zakmuk, Sacæa, and Purim, 141-160; human victims at Purim, 153; connection of Mordecai, Esther, Vashti, and Haman with Babylonian and Elamite gods, 161; the ride of the beardless Persian buffoon, 168, 171, 301-305; festivals of licence, 185-199; divine scapegoat, 189; Calvary, 200-204; the ghastly priest of the grove of Diana, 206-223; the Quiteva, 234; taboo, 268; fire-walking, 270 Fuegian idea on flapper shooting, 267