nths how named by, 213

Natchez, the, sun-cult of, 710

Naturalism, 1158

Navahos, the, creative beings of, 639, 645

Nazirite, the, restrictions on, 597

Ndengei, other-world god, 680

Necessity, Plato's conception of, 1001

Necromancy, Hebrew, 377

Neith, inscription in temple of, 729

Nemi, priest of, 274

Neptunus, 802

New Testament, Satan in, 689

Nicknames, supposed origin of totemism, 557

Nightmare, as ghost, 61 n. 4

Nikkal, Panjab god, 337

Niobe, relation of, to stone-cult, 288

Nose, the, boring through septum of, 151

Obelisks, Egyptian, function of, 299

Odin, humanization of, 358;
self-immolation of, 1048

Offerings, cannibal, 1027;
unbloody, placatory virtue of, 1038

Officer, French, worshiped after death, 351

Ogboni, the, police role of, 531

Old Testament, the, conception of sacrifice in, 1037;
kings in, not deified, 343;
stars and planets in, 716

Olympus, as council-house, 305

On, seat of worship of Ra, 727

Ophites, the, 693

Optimism, religious, ethical value of, 1173

Oracles, 927 ff.; Sibylline, Jewish, 939 f.

Ordeals, 308, 924 f.

Order, Chinese stress on, 747

Organization, churchly, Hindu approach to, 1118;
nontotemic, 526;
religious, Jewish capacity for, 995;
social, of animals, 242;
theistic, Greek, 997

Osiris, death of, 283;
myth of, 958;
mythical biography of, 728

Paintings, totemic, 117

Palmistry, 917

Pan, development of, 773 f.

Panbabylonianism, 866 f.

Pantheism, ethical, difficulties of, 1005;
Hindu, 705

Pantheon, Greek, 767;
Roman, 796;
Yoruban, 678

Paradise, earthly, 835

Parentalia, the, 374

Patriarch, the, jealousy of, 432

Patron, divine, of individual, 550

Pausanias, local cults described by, 651

Pele, nature of, 890

Pelews, the, theistic material of, 484

Persecution, religious, 1163

Persia, abstract gods of, 763;
Babism in, at the present day, 1120

Peru, cult of, compared with Chinese, 993;
functions of priests in, 1075;
gods of, 665;
negation of religious freedom in, 1117;
sun-cult of, 711

Pesah, Hebrew ceremony of, 144

Peter, Apocalypse of, future punishment in, 86

Phallicism, 388 ff.

Pharmakos, the, expulsion of, 143

Philo, allegorical interpretation of, 863;
combination of Platonism and Judaism by, 1104;
description of the Therapeutae by, 1124

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