Isis, sister and wife of Osiris, ii. 6 _sq._; date of the festival of, 26 _n._ 2, 33; as a cow or a woman with the head of a cow, i. 50, ii. 50, 85, 88 _n._ 1, 91; invoked by Egyptian reapers, i. 232, ii. 45, 117; in the form of a hawk, 8, 20; in the papyrus swamps, 8; in the form of a swallow, 9; at Byblus, 9 _sq._; at the well, 9, 111 _n._ 6; her search for the body of Osiris, 10, 50, 85; recovers and buries the body of Osiris, 10 _sq._; mourns Osiris, 12; restores Osiris to life, 13; her tears supposed to swell the Nile, 33; her priest wears a jackal's mask, 85 _n._ 3; decapitated by her son Horus, 88 _n._ 1; her temple at Philae, 89, 111; her many names, 115; sister and wife of Osiris, 116; a corn-goddess, 116 _sq._; her discovery of wheat and barley, 116; identified with Ceres, 117; identified with Demeter, 117; as the ideal wife and mother, 117 _sq._; refinement and spiritualization of, 117 _sq._; popularity of her worship in the Roman empire, 118; her resemblance to the Virgin Mary, 118 _sq._; Sirius her star, 34 _sq._, 152
Isis and the king's son at Byblus, i. 180; and the scorpions, ii. 8
Iswara or Mahadeva, an Indian god, i. 241, 242
Italian myths of kings or heroes begotten by the fire-god, ii. 235
Italy, hot springs in, i. 213; divination at Midsummer in, 254
Itongo, an ancestral spirit (Zulu term, singular of Amatongo), ii. 184 _n._ 2, 185
Ivy, sacred to Attis, i. 278; sacred to Osiris, ii. 112
Jablonski, P. E., on Osiris as a sun-god, ii. 120
Jackal's mask worn by priest of Isis, 11, 85 _n._ 3
Jamblichus on insensibility to pain as sign of inspiration, i. 169; on the purifying virtue of fire, 181
January, the sixth of, reckoned in the East the Nativity of Christ, i. 304
Japan, annual festival of the dead in, ii. 65
Jastrow, Professor M., on the festival of Tammuz, i. 10 _n._ 1; on the character of Tammuz, 230 _n._
Java, conduct of natives in an earthquake, i. 202 _n._ 1; the Valley of Poison in, 203 _sq._; worship of volcanoes in, 220 _sq._
Jawbone, the ghost of the dead thought to adhere to the, ii. 167 _sq._
---- and navel-string of Kibuka, the war-god of the Baganda, ii. 197
Jawbones, lower, of dead kings of Uganda preserved and worshipped, ii. 167 _sq._, 169 _sq._, 171 _sq._; the ghosts of the kings supposed to attach to their jawbones, 169