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Prague, and serpent-worship, 99
Prajapati, 326
Prakriti, 214, 237, 271
Prayaga tree, 38, 89
Prayer, see Iô, Iô.
Priapus, 176; simularcum of, 209,
222; worship of, 276, 295, 298,
299, 303; derivation of, 350; Persian,
485; and Serapis, 502, 503,
512, 533
Priests and civilisation, 12; malpractices
of, 239; name for all, 300;
Irish, 385; and solar symbolism,
474; of Serapis, 505; Palatine,
528; and immortality, 540
Principles (first), and serpents, 139
Probate, root of, 504
Prometheus, 69; legend of, 108, 140,
374
Proserpine, and plants, 57, 89; and
balance, 171, 239, 329; and sun,
407
Prostitution, practices akin to, 243,
301
Protogonus, origin of, 304, 469
Prutaneia, 182, 325, 372, 396, 400
Prutanus, 298, 341; and repasts,
399
Ptha, 272, 294, 303, 365
Pudendum, 173; muliebre, 214, 237,
238, 248: root of, 298
Pulpit, 346
Punning, 287; Greek, 296, 546
Pur, words connected with, 295, 297;
and Puer, 298
Pur-polis, 482
Pur-tor, 325; Moslem, 336, 338, 341,
359, 379
Pyramid, and tree, 74; on Maypole,
84, 134, 165, 183; Indian wheat,
196, 279; and Pyrolatry, 325, 477
Pyrrhic dance, origin of, 300
Pythagoras, maxim of, 15; rank of,
178
Pythia, 267; oracle of, 397
Python, 95; solar, 101, 104, 106;
head of, 120; heated air, 123; and
Apollo, 125, 126; male and female,
131, 133, 141; etymology of, 145,
234; sacrifices to, 241; and
Themis, 245, 252, 257, 260, 264,
267, 274, 287; words connected
with, 295; origin of term, 320, 376,
477; Pythoness, 66, 241, 268
Pyx, 196
QUEEN OF HEAVEN, 17, 200, 203, 214,
244, 263, 335, 362, 469, 482
Queen, root of, 163
Quercus, see Oak
Quirinal, 185, 332, 393
Quirinalia, 332
Quiris, 185; worship of, 332;
etymology of, 392, 393, 464, 497,
547
Quiver, 97, 127
R, symbol for, in ancient tongues, 55,
134, 135
Ra, the Sun, 17, 55, 235, 295, 341,
511
Radha, 50
Index.
Ragendralala Mitra, on Orissa temples,
etc., quoted, 275
Rahoo, 254, 255
Rainbow, 107, 109, 110
Raja, meaning of, 56
Raja Naga, 113, 115; Pak-ang-ba,
119
Rajpootana, Lingam-worship in, 47,
248-50
Rakshasa, 495
Ram, incarnation of Vishnoo, 27; and
Venus, 207; and spear, 240, 404,
405, 411, 500
Rama, 55, 101, 179, 486, 490, 495, 500
Rambakia, 495
Rameses, 55, 408
Raphael, 282
Ras-Jatra, 460
Rationalism, 13
Ráwana, of Ceylon, 100, 146
Redeemer, general expectation of, 9
Redemption, origin of idea, 204, 293
Regeneration, how obtained, 68,
293
Relic-worship, and Boodhism, 46
Religion, progression of, 9; true, what,
15; common principles of all, 9,
59; defined, 20, 410; phallism basis
of all, 144; development of, 165;
ephemeral nature of all, 256, 257;
defined, 410; among savage tribes,
536; what, 538
Remus (urius) 393
Renpu, 521
Repasts, religious, 399; eucharistic,
413
Rephan (or Rephaim), 518, 519, 521,
522, 524
Rephidim, 231
Resurrection, 540; Herschell on, 543
Revelation, modern, 6 (note); primitive,
what, 9 (note)
Revivals, religious, 243
Rhea, Egyptian, 78, 104; in temple of
Belus, 126, 139, 141, 147, 178
Rheda, 442
Rhodes, colossus of, 276
Righteousness, Sun of, 81, 82, 83, 139,
171, 192, 196, 198, 202, 286, 293,
362, 403, 404, 413, 440, 442; son of,
451, 508, 519, 531
Right-hand, sect, 141, 181, 210, 385
Rig-Veda, and theism, 21, 55
Rimmon, goddess of Damascus, 55; in
Indian temples, 56, 214
Rock, Ossian’s idea of, 92, 103; Jewish,
151, 270
Rod, serpent idea of, 63; of Moses,
89; budding, 121; phallic, 153-6,
172; wonder-working, 193, 210
Rogation day, 451
Rome, tree serpent shrine at, 91; and
serpent, 95, 96; and phallism, 134;
ancient faiths in, 221, 239, 240;
phallic hills at, 357, 366-9; fire-worship
at, 325, 387-391, 394, 395;
army of, 400; worship at, 431; and
fêtes at, 434; in may, 447; at June
fêtes, 454; church of, chief objects,
palm day processions, 138; the bride
of its archbishop, 147; symbolic
hats of, 183; pyx and monstrance
561
of, 196; and elements, 203; and
sun, 408; functions of, 412; and
Index Expurgatorius, 506, 507
Romulus, 365-7, 371, 393, 547
Roodra, 17, 117; worship of, and
words connected with, 276, 405
Roostum, 101
Roots, importance of investigating,
257, 293; common to Egypt, Arabia,
and Asia, 308
Rose, worship of, 58; the Fran, 86
Rowan, tree, in Scotland, 54
Ruach and Rool, 33, 49; and ark, 109;
serpent, 145, 345, 365, 469
Rudder, 131, 185
Rush-bearing, 460
Russia, Skoptsi sect of, 143; fire rites
in, 331
SABAGRÆ, 492
Sabaoth, 164, 274
Sabbatarian, 113, 119
Sabbath, 274, 442
Sabeanism, 113; and Jews, 164, 212,
217, 315, 330, 410; in England, 475,
492, 518
Sabines, rape of, 250; who, 332, 366,
370, 393
Sacerdos Magnus, 147
Sacrament with Homa, 42; solemn
Indian, 303; Greek, 399
Sacred books common to all faiths, 10
Sacrifices, human, 9, 10, 107; place of,
190; nature of, to Jehovah, 194;
supreme, 199; to various deities,
241; human, 242; in sexual union,
s. 275; human, 2904; great, 316; by
Persians, &c., 354; of Abram, 530
Saints, of Christian Kalendar, 461
Sakoth Benoth, 459
Sakti, female energy, 27; what, 63,
72, 107, 110, 131, 147, 156; and
David, 193, 198, 203, 206, 214;
rites, 243, 277, 519
Sakya, 179
Salacia, 22, 58, 138, 202, 237, 250, 283,
305
Salem, 189
Salii, and shields, 131; and fire, 394
Saltatory, one, 439
Samaritan, cross, 65; temples, 163
Samba, 491
Samagitæ, and serpent, 99
Samoodra, 215
Samson, exploits of, 157, 486
Samuel, 118; and stone circles, 193
Samurch, the tree, 63
Sanchi, 66, 117
Sangha Mita, and Ceylon fig tree, 37
Sankhya, 227
Sanyásis, 54, 338, 481
Sar, 104, 290, 297; on. 301, 308, 464,
496; Sar-on, 465, 496
Sarah, and palm, fig. 63, 64, 464,
465
Sar-an-dip, 355
Sarasvati, 277
Sardinia, worship, 37; tomb, Pl.
VIII.
Sarmatia, and serpent, 99
Sarpas, 120
Sarx, 197, 236