iving by promoting supply of food, 283;
cause earthquakes, 286, 288;
as patrons of hunting and other departments, 287;
die the second death, 287;
turn into animals, 287;
turn into ant-hills, 287;
of warriors invoked by warriors, 288;
invoked by warriors, farmers, fowlers, fishermen, etc., 288 _sqq._;
of men may grow into gods, 289 _sq._;
of the dead in the form of serpents, 300;
driven away, 305, 306, 323, 356 _sqq._, 396, 399, 415;
cause all sorts of misfortunes, 306 _sq._;
call for vengeance, 310, 468;
sacrifices to, 328;
of power and ghosts of no account, distinction between, 345 _sq._;
of the recent dead most powerful, 346;
prayers to, 348;
of land and sea, 348;
food offered to, 348 _sq._;
live in islands, 350, 353;
live underground, 353 _sq._;
worshipful, 362 _sq._;
public and private, 367, 369 _sq._;
first-fruits offered to, 368 _sq._, 373 _sq._;
warlike, 370;
of gardens, 371;
human sacrifices to, 371 _sq._;
incarnate in sharks, 373;
sacrifices to, at planting, 375;
sanctuaries of, 377 _sq._;
incarnate in animals, 379 _sq._;
envious of the living, 381;
carry off souls, 383;
in stones, 383 _sq._;
inspiration by means of, 389 _sq._;
killed, 415 _sq._;
dazed, 416;
prevented from returning to the house, 455 _sq._;
unmarried, hard fate of, 464

Ghosts and spirits, distinction between, in Central Melanesia, 343, 363;
regulate the weather, 384 _sq._

---- of women dying in childbed, special fear of, 458 _sqq._;
special treatment of, 358.
_See also_ Dead _and_ Spirits

Giant, mythical, thought to appear annually with the south-east monsoon,
255

Gifford, Lord, 2, 3

Girdle made from hair of dead, 138

Gnanji, the, of Central Australia, 92

Goat in story of the origin of death, 64

God, the question of his existence, 2;
defined, 9 _sq._;
knowledge of, how acquired, 11 _sqq._;
inferred as a cause, 22 _sq._;
and the origin of death, 61 _sqq._;
in form of serpent, 445, 462

Gods created by man in his own likeness, 19 _sq._;
of nature, 20;
human, 20, 23 _sqq._;
unknown among aborigines of Australia, 91;
often developed out of ghosts, 289 _sq._;
ancestors worshipped as, 340, 369;
ancestral, sacrifice of foreskins to, 427;
ancestral, libations to, 438;
two classes of, in Fiji, 440

---- and spirits, no certain demarcation between, 441

Goldie, Rev. Hugh, 52

Good crops given by gho