Forlong - Rivers of Life

558
Love, star of, 72; goddess of, 86;
principle of, 87; as woman,
127
Lucian, on Dea Syria, 516 sqq.
Ludwig, King, and fir tree, 85
Lugos, tree, 47
Lukanthropy, 546
Luna, 119; crescent, 122; on Siva,
216; fête, 458; and Lunus, 481
Lunars, Indian, 492
Lunatic, derivation of, 272
Lykeng, age of, 14
Lykurgus, laws of, 347
Lyre, Apollo and, 127; and tortoise,
169
MACCABEES, 222
Madonna, 86; del Sacco, 226; and
child, 254, 304, 335; at Naples,
397, 511
Magdalene, and Martha, 456
Magh, in Irish words, 385
Magi, similarity of to Druids, 43;
French, 65; Paradise of, 88; ma-
gis rod of, 193; who and what,
328, 385, 431; names of, 508
Mahadeva, 22, 33, 35; of Egypt, 56;
seat of, 66, 67; and cedar and palm,
71, 104; common form of, 91;
worship of, 118; or Sri-linga, etc.,
120; eastern, etc., 121; drawing
of Indian copperplate of, 122; symbol
of, 123, 148; the anointed, 150;
Jewish, 179, 210; of Central India,
189, 222, 250, 264, 265, 302, 309;
Omphe, a, 270; Christians, 282; a
Pallladium, 318, 334; god of riches,
363
Mahaffey quotes, 435
Maha-Rajas, Krishna, 200, 249, 460
Maha-Rana of Oodepore, descent of,
28
Maha-Vilepoor, bas relief of, 117
Mahomed, 14; staff, 89, 115; religious
founder, 179; tenets, 506
Mahomedans, anthropopathism of, 9;
Koran, 14; proportion of, to other
faiths, 19; and Lote, 59; tree and
idol worship among, 88; dome of,
122; and Jewish Lingam, 162;
Fish nymph of, 230; and human
sacrifices, 242; tombstones of, 337;
and footprints, 363, 399, 504; festivals
of, 425; and civilization,
507
Male, symbol of, 110, 127, 129, 187,
192, 233
Malekites, 529, see Molek
Malta, ruins of, 279; temple krendi,
Pl. V., 6; Goza, Lingam, and Yoni,
Pl. VI., 5
Mama (or Ana), 433
Mamojee, worship of, 71; skech of,
72, 292, 305
Mamre, oak of, 43, 56, 65, 67, 71; oak
of, Saracene belief as to, 89, 153,
351
Man, origin of, 25; in phallic group,
133; on ark of Philæ, 192; origin
of, 355
Mandragora (Atropa), 51
Mandrake, 51, 52, 171
Rivers of Life, or Faiths of Man in all Lands.
Manes, and mana, etc., 389, 544
Manes (Persian), and ophiolatry, 274
Mango, ‘apple’ of India, 54
Manna, 151, 160, 161, 164, 174, 191,
210
Manning (Cadl.) and Romish Church,
147
Manoo, 147, 148
Mantra, era, 27
Margosa tree, 54
Mariolatry, 9, 86, 94, 99, 118, 211, 277
Maroot, 27, 28
Mars, and mistletoe, 81; phallic, 133,
sign of, 170; on Campus Martius,
370
Marseilles, temple of Baal at, 523
Martand, ruins of, 489
Martu, and its monuments, 314
Mary, myrrh sacred to, 53, 58; and
Netpe, 78; head dress of, 85-87;
emblem of, 145, 147; de Navicella,
201, 202, 235, 277, 315; shoe of,
360-362, 413, 417; ascent of, 458;
Asyrian, 522; as Isis, Pl. V.-2
Masjeeda, 206
Mass, 509
Massacres common to all religions, 10
Matter, root of word, 226, 453, 482,
537
Matronalia, 438
Matsebos, 160-169; worship of, 187,
210, 364, 397
May, fire in, 332, 33, 381, 382, 391;
fetes in, 447, time of bastards, 451,
460
Maya (Maiya), Queen of Heaven, 17;
water the sign of, 22, 27, 29; crown
of, 45; and olive, 71; bird of, 82;
symbols of, 84-86; universal worship
of, 87, 109; chinese in sea of
serpents, 116; boat of, 130; and
Vishnoo, 145, 147; Chinese, 202;
Jewish, 215, 216, 244; Indian
marble figure of, 250, 265; nature
of, 277, 284, 315, 330, 343, 345, 346
Mayor, derivation of, 448; election of,
460
Maypole, decoration, 43; its emblems,
84; Amergau, 227, 298; history
of, 448, 449; see Pyramid
Mebaser, 197
Medes and Persians, laws of, 7
Media, and ophiolatry, 100
Mediator (Mesites), 334, 388
Medre-Nak, 430
Medusa, head of, 195, 224
Meka, black stone of, 103; shrine of,
181, 365, 369
Melchisedec, 188, 519
Memnon, statue of, 270, 303
Memra, 74
Menhir, 303
Meni (moon), 338
Mercury, offerings to, 8; or Toth,
40; in Arabia, 62; wings of, 131,
245; rod of, 264; and Caduceus,
450, see Caduceus
Mermaid, Cloufert, 247, 358
Meroo, germ of Lotus, 49; and Moriah,
162, 182, 183, 189, 194, 22, 355,
367
Mesopotamia, ophiolatry in, 127
Messiah, general expectation of, 9
(note); and palm, 63; name of
Maha Deva , 150, 270, 293; derivation
of, 334; solar ancestry of, 416
Metele, serpent of, 184
Methidy tree, 43
Methuselah, age of, 188
Mexico, and spirit worship, 9; and
serpent, 94; Tonakatl-Koatl of,
143; sacrifice (human) in, 242
Micah, and phallism, 211
Michael, archangel, 282; St., cave of,
283, 44; mount of St., Land’s End,
45, 46, 460
Midsummer, fêtes in, 452
Milkom, 213, 214, 330, 520
Minerva, representative plants, 57,
87; clothed, 125; root of, 148; and
balance, 173; gorgon of, 202, 319;
and gallus, 384, 453
Mines, or Minos, 148
Minotaur, 379
Miphletzeth, 209, 298
Miracles common to all faiths, 10,
364; solar derivation of, 417; early
Christian, 505, 547
Miriam, 162
Mirror, Egyptian, and woman, 216,
330, 348
Mishna, age of, 14
Misrains, Jewish sect, 239
Missal, 507, 509
Missionary work in India, 11
Mistletoe, 80
Mithras, 109, 129, 176, 228, 254, 274,
287; cakes offered to, 301, 304; and
fire-worship, 325; and Christ, 364,
379, 404, 414; fall of, 451, 459;
history of, 470; names of, 471; and
cave, 483, 484, 487, 491; and Serapis,
506; at Rome, 509, 510
Moabites, genealogy of, 164; old
faiths of, 175, 520, 529
Moabite Stone, translation of, 531
Molok, 160, 163, 198, 210; offerings
to, 221, 242, 325, 330, 455; inquiry
as to, 518; offerings to, 520-529;
processions to, 530
Monastery, Brazen, 35
Moonje-bandhan, 324
Monkeys, 27, 373
Monolith worship, 380, 383, 477
Monotheism, miraculous, 9; Mahomedan,
117; Jewish, 160; of Jews,
162, 164, 201, 483; Arabian, 506
Mons Veneris, 183
Monstrance, 196, 203, 334
Months, table of, 421, 422, 424; early
names of, 428, 430
Mooltan (El), solar names of, 491
Moon and ark, 65; tree of, 88; and
Noah, 148; conjoined with Sun, 184
Morbihan, 284
Moriah, Mount, 160, 162, 182, 183,
194, 211, bird’s eye view of, 218,
219, 353, 414, temple on, 488
Morrice dancers, 84, 449
Mosk, orthodox, with ficus, palm,
and cedar, 71; of Omar, 181, 182,
189; altar of, 206
Moses, worship of, 20; and horns, 48;
demi-god, 118; phallism of, 138;