seasons, 75

Sacrifice,
primitive, generally a meal, 67
in China, 114
Semitic, 164
human (Phenician), 175
human (Israel), 187
human (Icelandic), 265
early Israelite, 183
denounced by O. T. prophets, 193
Jewish, 207
Icelandic, 264
Homeric, 287
Persia, 394

Saussaye, P. D. Chantepie de la, 17

Savage elements in all the great religions, 21

Savages,
their religion falls short of the definition, 8
represent the original state of mankind, 19
mental habits of, 23
all have religion, 25
the religion of, described, 29, _sqq._
their beliefs furnish the elements of the great religions, 63

Schrader (Aryans), 247, 252

Semites, 161
religion of, 162
gods of, 164, 173
goddess of, 99, 165, 219

Seraph, 220

Shin-to, 115

Sin,
Babylon, 103
Israel, 205

Slavs, 256

Smith, Robertson, 61; _Religion of the Semites_, 58, 70, 162

Spencer, Mr. H., 11, 39

Spirit, the great, 36

Spirits,
of dead persons, 33
worship of, the origin of all religion? 38
in Babylonia, 95
in China, 114
in Arabia, 220
in Greece, 275
in Persia, 398

Standing stones, 60

Sun, 30

Sun-gods,
Babylonia, 99
Egypt, 140, 148
Phenician, 176
Arabian, 219

Supreme Being, an object of primitive worship? 36

Survival of savage state in the great religions, 21

Synagogue, 212

Syncretism, of gods in Egypt, 148

Taboo, 72

Taoism, 121

Taylor, Dr. I., 247, 248

Temples,
not primitive, 72
Babylonia, 99
Egyptian, 128, 130, 136
Phenician and Jewish, 178
Greek, 292
Roman, 318, 323

Teraphim, 188

Teutons, 256. See Germans

Thunder, 30, 265, 270

Tiele, Dr. C. P., 15

Totemism, 58, 135, 277

Transmigration, 302, 351, 368

Tree-worship,
primitive, 32, 59, 278
Babylonia, 101
Canaanites, 172
Arabia, 219
Greece, 278

Tribal religion, 57, 77, 427

Tylor, Mr., _Primitive Culture_, 10, 20, 25, 29, 39, 62, 63, 68

Under-world, the,
Babylonia, 100, 102
Egypt, 140, 142, 152

Unity of all religion, 4

Universal deities of the Aryans, 252

Universalism,
in O. T. prophets, 195
in Islam, 240
in Christianity, 419

Urim and Thummim, 188

Vedic hymns, 328

Vedic religion, 324, _sqq._
its gods, 326
is it early or late? 331

Vow, original meaning of, 75

Waitz and Gerland's _Anthropologie der Naturvoelker_, 29

Wellhausen, J., 163, 218

Wells, sacred, 32, 57, 59

Worship,
an essential