e, function of, 974

Erythrae, Sibyl of, 937

Eshmun, character of, 764

Eskimo, the animals revered by, 505;
destruction of the soul held by, 46

Essenes, the, 1125

Eternal, a term not found in savage thought, 985

Ethics, relation of, to religion, 1161 ff.

Euhemerism, 359, 382

Europe, Islam in, 1146

Evil, moral, existence of, how treated by religion, 1171

Exogamy, origin of, 429 ff.

Expiation by sacrifice, 1033

Eye, the, palpitation of, omen, 916

Ezekiel, taboos in ritual of, 597

Family, the, Polynesian social unit, 485

Fasting, religious, 204-208

Fate, in Homer and Hesiod, 998

Fates, the, 687

Father, the, perils of, 589

Fathers, the, Hindu and Persian, worship paid to, 371

Feasts, communal, economical function of, 1023;
funeral, origin of, 190 n. 3, 364;
Mithraic, 1043, 1046

Ferryman, souls conducted by, 65

Festivals, licentious, nonreligious, 387;
Priapic, 402;
religious, influence of, 1089

Fetish, definition of, 230 n. 2;
African, cult of, 540

Figures, divine, composite, 725, 861

Fiji, examination of dead in, 78, 81;
extinction of soul held in, 48;
future punishment in, 72;
polypsychism in, 39;
village deities in, 482

Fire, sacredness of, 318 ff.;
theft of, 318 n. 1

Flood, great, stories of, 832

Folk-lore, material of, 859

Folk-tales, scurrilous feature in, 247

Food, sacramental sharing of, 1023

Force, personal, moral, religious conception of, 1158

Form, literary, of myths, 856

Forms, liturgical, symbolical interpretation of, 1061

Fortune, personalized as deity, 702

Fortunes, human, determined on new year's day, 214

Founders, shrines to, 357;
the three great, 1151

Fravashis, the, as guardians, 673

Frazer, J. G., on the death of the god, 1047

Fuegians, fear anger of a supernatural being, 1161

Funerals, buffoonery at, 364 n. 5

Fung-Shui, nature of, 926

Fusion, social, basis of religious unity, 1147

Gad, deity, whether abstract, 699

Gehenna, New Testament conception of, 85

Genealogies, savage and civilized, 840 f.

Genesia, the Greek, 1089

Genesis, book of, accounts of creation in, 830 n. 5;
table of nations in, 841

Genius, the, 672;
resemblance of, to mana, 233;
not a separate personality, 43

Ghosts, Australian belief in, 18;
difference of, from gods, 635;
fear of, 139, 366;
occupations of, 6