Axe, emblem of Hittite god of thundering sky, i. 134; as divine emblem, 163; symbol of Asiatic thunder-god, 183
----, double-headed, symbol of Sandan, i. 127; carried by Lydian kings, 182; a palladium of the Heraclid sovereignty, 182; figured on coins, 183 _n._
Ba-bwende, a tribe of the Congo, i. 271 _n._
Ba-sundi, a tribe of the Congo, i. 271 _n._
Baal, Semitic god, i. 15, 16; royal names compounded with, 16; as the god of fertility, 26 _sq._; conceived as god who fertilizes land by subterranean water, 159
---- and Sandan at Tarsus, i. 142 _sq._, 161
Baalbec, i. 28; sacred prostitution at, 37; image of Hadad at, 163
Baalim, firstlings and first-fruits offered to the, i. 27; called lovers, 75 _n._
Babylon, early kings of, worshipped as gods, i. 15; worship of Mylitta at, 36; religious prostitution at, 58; human wives of Marduk at, 71; sanctuary of Serapis at, ii. 119 _n._
Babylonia, worship of Tammuz in, i. 6 _sqq._; the moon-god took precedence of the sun-god in ancient, ii. 138 _sq._
Bacchanals tear Pentheus in pieces, ii. 98
Bacchic orgies suppressed by Roman government, i. 301 _n._ 2
Bacchylides as to Croesus on the pyre, i. 175 _sq._
Backbone of Osiris represented by the _ded_ pillar, ii. 108 _sq._
Baethgen, F., on goddess 'Hatheh, i. 162 _n._ 2
Baganda, their worship of the python, i. 86; rebirth of the dead among the, 92 _sq._; their theory of earthquakes, 199; their presentation of infants to the new moon, ii. 144, 145; ceremony observed by the king at new moon, 147; their worship of dead kings, 167 _sqq._; their veneration for the ghosts of dead relations, 191 _n._ 1; their pantheon, 196; human sacrifices offered to prolong the life of their kings, 223 _sqq._
Bagishu (Bageshu) of Mount Elgon, reincarnation of the dead among the, i. 92
Bagobos of the Philippine Islands, their theory of earthquakes, i. 200; of Mindanao, their custom of hanging and spearing human victims, 290 _sq._
Baharutsis, a Bantu tribe of South Africa, ii. 179
Bahima, their belief as to dead kings and chiefs, i. 83 _n._ 1
---- of Ankole in Central Africa, their worship of the dead, ii. 190 _sq._; their belief in a supreme god Lugaba, 190
Baigas, Dravidian tribe of India, their objection to agriculture, i. 89