Forlong - Rivers of Life

Badri Nát, 354
Bael tree, 47
Baetuli, 101, 102, 104, 106, 162, 164;
Jewish, 179, 187, 282, 477
Bag, 206, 226, 245; Yoni Sack, Pl. V.
1; Asyrian, 345
Bai (snake), 145
Baikal, 353
Balance, 171; Stateru, Capitol, 172
Bala-Rama, 299
Bala, name of Siva, etc., 299, 495
Bal-ak, 296
Baldachino, of snakes, 129; Papal,
321
Baldar, 64, 67, 81, 86, 526
Bali, 411
Balls, games with, 443
Bal-nat, 492
Balthi, 455
Bamian, sculptures of, 229, 260
Banian (Ficus Indica), sketch of, 31,
34, 37; at Alahabad, 38
Banners, 134, 138, 158; see Standard
Baptism, origin of, 54; of Sakti, 63;
of Grace, 68; in Egypt, 76; Hin-
doo, 323; among various peoples,
324, 333; connected with fire, 390,
406, 472.
Bar, and cognates, 358
Barincleus, 358
Barma and elephant worship, 37; and
spirit-worship, 46; pagodas in, 135;
official seal of, 203; bread-makers
of, 302; fire rites in, 326
Barson, 43; rods, 440
Basar, 173, 196, 236, 239, 359, 413
Basil, plant, 53
Basilidans, seat of, 508
Basileus, 94, 135, 203, 254, 257, 260,
295, 320; and cognates, 359; enquiry
as to, 376-8.
Basilica, 359, 369, 376, 380
Básoo-Deva, 145, 148
Baton, 147, 148; Mosaic, 153, 154
(fig.), 172
Battle, gods of, 397, 398, 400
Bay, see Laurel
Bean, Egyptian, 233; phallic, 435, 445
Bedouins, religion of, 536
Beech, 70, 171, 172
Beersheba, oak grove at, 79, 351;
why so called, 368
Beither, as Lightening and Serpent, 255
Bel, 64, 67, 104; and Dragon, 125,
231; terra sancta of, 284
Bela, 500
Belial, 104
Belief, nature of, 6; and authority,
13
Bellerophon and Amazons, 100; and
Chimera, 307
Bells, origin of, 129; Hindoo and
Christian, 130; on tree of life,
201, 214, 222, 232, 282, 299, 343,
348; various names of, 348; in Ireland,
383
Beloochistan, 494, 498
Belphegor, 298, 483, 485
Beltine, in Scotland, and tree worship,
54, 68, 108; fires, 332, 340,
381; fêtes, 443, 448
Beltis, 33
Index.
Belus, temple of, 104, 110; and Kadmus,
177; in Solomon’s temple, 215,
243; oracle of, 283; great progenitor,
312, 329
Benares, lingam of, 320, 386; ancestor-worship
at, 542
Benefit of Clergy, origin of, 57, 171
Beotia, 258, 261, 297, 376, 377
Berith, 173
Bertha, 86, 87
Berti-Koonti, a name of India, 78
Beth, words beginning with, 296
Beth-el, 151, 155, 179, 273, 304
Bethesda, pool of, and tree of life, 90
Beth-gader, 193
Beth-lehem, 160, 191, 273; Indian
form of, 302, 406, 432; valley of,
523
Betyl, Bet-El or Betul, see Bethel
Bhāga, 208, 228; vati, 310, 491
Bhavani, worship of, 42, 206, 234, 258,
520
Bible, Chrisitan, origin and nature of,
16; fate of, 208; impurity of, 238
Bible-makers, worship of, 20, 30
Bibles common to all faiths, 10
Bibliolatry, 10, 13; approximate age
of religion and bibles, 14, 94
Bikshoo, 111
Bilas Topes, 45
Birch, 85, 86
Bird, of Love, 226, 244, see Venus
Bishop, staff of, 166; pallium of, 173
Bivarsap, 101
Blackie, Professor, lines of Lochnell
serpent deity, 288
Blood, worship of, 188; blue, 379
Blue, 58, 107, 139, 171; blood, 379;
see Neel K.
Bo tree, 33; not parent of tree-worship,
36, 38; and symbol-worship,
43, 44, 53
Boat and idol, 80, 109; “country of,”
200, 258, 376, 377
Boaz, 173
Bode (Mercury), offerings to, 8
Bodi tree, 38
Bohemians and hazel, 58
Boko (Teuton), 171, 481
Bona Dea, 38 (note)
Bonfires, 453
Boodha, compared with Christ, 18;
and Banian, 34, 36-8; and Krishna,
86, 99; and serpents, 114, 115; and
education, 138; image of, in Mongol
ark, 152; as a religion founder,
173; foot-print of, 291; and serpent
sons, 321, 338; foot of, 360; death
of, 488, 547
Boodhism, 18; first missionary faith,
19; Lāt of, 37; appropriation of
trees and shrines by, 38; cosmical
genesis of, 39; Amravati tope,
40; related to other faith-streams,
44; Karli temples of, 44; opposi-
tion to the faiths, 48; and relicworship,
46; and ophiolatry, 111;
in Kambodia, 113, 114; spread of,
115; standard books of, 115; bible
of, 117; in Ceylon, 119; and phallic
forms, 206; effect of, 315
Boodhists, 14; proportion to other
551
faiths, 19; and Bo-tree, 44; and
eternity, 23; festivals of, 434-437
Boodh-gaya, groves of, 32, 36
Book and Bacchus, 57, 171
Books, sacred, common to all faiths,
10
Boomi, 205
Boundaries, going the, 481
Box, a phallic wood, 83
Brahm, fountainhead of faiths, 4; two
eternal laws of, 6, 7, 15, 17; Achari,
323; fire-god, 325
Brahma, writer of Vedas, 17; and
Lotus, 48, 49; his address to the
angels, 50, 68, 109; temples to, in
Kashmeer, 111, 113; as Bacchus,
222, 360, 536
Brahmanism, 115; and serpent, 118
Brahmans, 14; proportion of, 19; flesh
and spirits denied to, 42
Bread-giver, 204, 224, 297
Bread-god, 432
Bread-makers, 297, 302
Breath, see Holy Ghost and Eve
Bretany, stone memorials, 290; Pl.
VII. 2; Tamiak tumulus
Britain, shrines of, 278, 284; elemental
faiths in, 292
Britons and ophiolatry, 139
Brooch of Tara, 131
Bubastes, 244
Buccina, 130
Buffalo, Heaven of, 8
Bull, 72, 81, 120, 121, 191, 280, 307,
336; worship, 379
Bulla, 237, 238, 315, 517
Buns, 185, 299, 301, 443, 474
Burns, 451, 481
Bush, burning, 72, 87
Byblus, temple at, 329, 512-17
CADIZ, temple to Herakles, 193, 24
Caduceus of Mercury, 63; idea, 98,
158, 166, 178; origin of, 223, 264, 450
Cahen (or Cohen), 496, 498
Cain, 497; descendants of, 528
Cakes, phallic, 183-6; sacrificial, 301;
to Mithras, 471
Calchas and serpent, 196
Calf, Aaron’s, 190; golden, 213, 216,
459, 469
Calvary, cross of, 75; worshipped,
183, 211
Campus Martius, 369, 370
Canaan, 311, 313, 496
Canaanites, 176; derivation of, 496
Candlemas, 81, 438
Candles, 98, 336, 340; in Christian
Chruch, 436-7
Canute forbids tree worship,. 43,
84; fire worship, 340, 434
Capitoline, 77, 180, 194, 259, 279,
357, 365, 371
Carmel, 193
Carthage, tree idea of, 41; fire offerings,
242; history of, 313
Cashel, crozier of, 97, 253
Casandra and divination, 178
Castor and Pollux, 456
Catacombs, 246, 338, 372, 531
Cathedrals, Norwich, 44; origin of,
104; symbolism of, 122