Food, virgins supposed to conceive through eating certain, i. 96; as a cause of conception in women, 96, 102, 103, 104, 105
Fortuna Primigenia, goddess of Praeneste, daughter of Jupiter, ii. 234
Fortune of the city on coins of Tarsus, i. 164; the guardian of cities, 164
Fossil bones in limestone caves, i. 152 _sq._; a source of myths about giants, 157 _sq._
Foucart, P., identifies Dionysus with Osiris, ii. 113 _n._ 3
Fowler, W. Warde, on the celibacy of the Roman gods, ii. 230, 232 _n._ 1, 234 _n._, 236 _n._ 1
Fra Angelico, his influence on Catholicism, i. 54 _n._ 1
France, harvest custom in, i. 237; timber felled in the wane of the moon in, ii. 136
Fravashis, the souls of the dead in the Iranian religion, ii. 67 _n._ 2, 68
French peasants regulate their sowing and planting by the moon, ii. 133 _n._ 3, 135
Frey, the Scandinavian god of fertility, ii. 100 _sq._
Frigento, Valley of Amsanctus near, i. 204
Frodsham, Dr., on belief in conception without sexual intercourse, i. 103 _n._ 3
Fruit-trees, worshippers of Osiris forbidden to injure, ii. 111
---- rites of the Egyptians a copy of those performed over Osiris, ii. 15; of Osiris, described in the inscription of Denderah, 86 _sqq._
Furness, W. H., on the prostitution of unmarried girls in Yap, ii. 266
Gaboon, Mpongwe kings of the, ii. 104; negroes of the, regulate their planting by the moon, ii. 134
Gades (Cadiz), worship of Hercules (Melcarth), at, i. 112 _sq._; temple of Melcarth at, ii. 258 _n._ 5
Galelareese of Halmahera, as to human sacrifices to volcanoes, i. 220
Gallas, their worship of serpents, i. 86 _n._ 1
Galli, the emasculated priests of Attis, i. 266, 283
Galton, Sir Francis, on the vale of the Adonis, i. 29
Game with fruit-stones played by kings of Uganda, ii. 224
Gardens of Adonis, i. 236 _sqq._; charms to promote the growth of vegetation, 236 _sq._, 239; in India, 239 _sqq._; in Bavaria, 244; in Sardinia, 244 _sq._; in Sicily, 245; at Easter, 253 _sq._
Gardner, Professor E. A. on date of the corn-reaping in Greece, i. 232 _n._
Garstang, Professor J., on sculptures at Ibreez, i. 122 _n._ 1, 123 _n._ 2; on Hittite sculptures at Boghaz-Keui, 133 _n._, 135 _n._; on Arenna, 136 _n._ 1; on Syrian god Hadad, 163 _n._ 3
_Gathas_, a part of the _Zend-Avesta_, ii. 84 _n._