Kings as priests, i. 42; as lovers of a goddess, 49 _sq._; held responsible for the weather and the crops, 183; marry their sisters, 316; slaughter human victims with their own hands, ii. 97 _n._ 7; torn in pieces, traditions of, 97 _sq._; human sacrifices to prolong the life of, 220 _sq._, 223 _sqq._
---- and magicians dismembered and their bodies buried in different parts of the country to fertilize it, ii. 101 _sq._
----, dead, reincarnate in lions, i. 83 _n._ 1; worshipped in Africa, 160 _sqq._; sacrifices offered to, 162, 166 _sq._; incarnate in animals, 162, 163 _sq._, 173; consulted as oracles, 167, 171, 172, 195; human sacrifices to, 173; worshipped by the Barotse, 194 _sq._
----, divinity of Semitic, i. 15 _sqq._; divinity of Lydian, 182 _sqq._
---- of Egypt worshipped as gods, i. 52; buried at Abydos, ii. 19; perhaps formerly slain in the character of Osiris, 97 _sq._, 102; as Osiris, 151 _sqq._; renew their life by identifying themselves with the dead and risen Osiris, 153 _sq._; born again at the Sed festival, 153, 156 _sq._; perhaps formerly put to death to prevent their bodily and mental decay, 154 _sq._, 156
Kings, Hebrew, traces of divinity ascribed to, i. 20 _sqq._
----, Shilluk, put to death before their strength fails, ii. 163
---- of Sweden answerable for the fertility of the ground, ii. 220; their sons sacrificed, 51
Kingship at Rome a plebeian institution, i. 45; under mother-kin, rules as to succession to the, ii. 210 _n._ 1; in Africa under mother-kin inherited by men, not women, 211
Kingsley, Miss Mary H., on secret burial of chief's head, ii. 104
Kirauea, volcano in Hawaii, i. 216 _sq._; divinities of, 217; offerings to, 217 _sqq._
Kiriwina, one of the Trobriand Islands, annual festival of the dead in, i. 56; snakes as reincarnations of the dead in, 84; presentation of children to the full moon in, ii. 144
Kiwai, an island off New Guinea, magic for the growth of sago in, ii. 101
Kiziba, a district of Central Africa, dead kings worshipped in, ii. 173 _sq._; totemism in, 173
Klamath Indians of Oregon, their theory of the waning moon, ii. 130
Kocchs of North-Eastern India, succession to husband's property among the, ii. 215 _n._ 2
Kois of Southern India, infant burial among the, i. 95