ection of, with myth, 859

Lemuria, the, apotropaic element in, 374;
prohibition of work in, 602

Leto, Titaness, 788 n. 1

License, in festivals, 135, 219;
sexual, adopted by religion, 1163

Life, annihilation of, 46, 51;
identified with breath, 21;
mysteriousness of, 385;
nobility given to, by religion, 1166, 1173;
relation of blood to, 23;
unitary character of, 14

Light, as symbol, 857;
significance of, in myths, 858

Linga, the, worship of, in India, 394

Liver, the, as seat of life, 27;
divination by, 919

Living, the, cult of, 336 ff.

Llew, Celtic deity, 974

Loki, not independent creator of evil, 974;
tricksy traits in, 638 n. 4

Lot, wife of, 288

Lots, divinatory use of, 918

Love, toward the deity, 5;
as a divine personality, 704

Luck, relation of, to magic, 238

Lunation, the, divisions of, 606

Lupercalia, the, purification in, 201

Maccabees, Second, resurrection in, 90

Macrobiotes, 835

Macrobius, on a bisexual cult, 411

Magi, the, Mazdean, 897

Magic, in religion, 1090;
methods of, 886;
no worship in, 888;
relation of, to taboo, 618 f.;
to totemism, 574;
use of, for procuring food, 129 ff.;
when under the ban, 891;
white, 901

Magician, office of, preparation for, 894

Magicians, sometimes political rulers, 898 n. 4

Magna Mater of Pessinus, 291

Maia, conjecture as to origin of, 845

Mamertius, expulsion of, 143

Man, early, logicalness of, 246;
medicine, 493;
prehistoric, whether religious, 12

Mana, definition of, 231-236;
producer of sympathy between all things, 886;
relation of, to taboo, 586;
synonyms of, 231 n. 1

Manichaeism, as a church, 1115;
causes of its success, 978

Mantis, Bushman cult of, 257

_Mantis_, Greek, function of, 931

Marduk, cult of, 758, 990

Marriage, restrictions on, 177 n. 2, 439

Mars, development of, 800;
shield of, 845

Martyr, spirit of, where shown, 1167

Masai, the, two chief gods of, 660

Mashalists, Hebrew, 862 n. 1

Massebas, Canaanite, 293

Masters and servants, exchange of places between, 219

Masturbation, savage practice of, 163 n. 1

Materialism, deistic, 1008

Matter, eternity of, 1005, 1007

Maui, Polynesian, role of, 678

Mazdaism, origin and nature of, 740, 745;
canon of, 1132

Meal, communal, reconciliation of deity by, 1043;
communion in, between