between God and worshipper, 189;
Mithras as, 151;
Saviour as, 162

Medicine-king, as +theos+, 25, 152;
powers of, 25

Megethos, 142

Meilichios, in the Diasia, 14-15, 19

Meister, R., [53:1]

Meyer, Ed., [154:3]

Mind, nature of, 209

Mithraic communities, 146

Mithraism, 148

Mithras, 123, 139, 152;
as Mediator, 151;
Liturgy, 146, 148;
religion of, 21

Mommsen, August, [14:1], [17:1], [18:1]

Monotheism, 69 f.

Moon, as Kourotrophos, 30;
as origin of Kosmos, 169;
divinity of, 136 ff.

Morals, minor, 177;
of antiquity, 177 f.;
of Christians, 178

Moret, [23:2]

Mother, Divine, 164;
Great, 185

Muelder, D., [53:1], [57:1]

Mullach, 172

Mueller, H. D., [57:1]

Music of the Spheres, 142

Myres, J. L., 40

Mysteries, 93

Mystic letters, 219

Mysticism, 169

Mythology, Olympian, 75

Myths, Sallustius' treatment of, 221 f.;
why divine, 201;
five species, 202;
explanation of examples, 203-5

Naassenes, 146, 162

Nature, the return to, as salvation for man, 91

Nausiphanes, 101

Neo-Platonism, 181

Nerve, failure of, chap. iv.

Nikator, 155

Nilsson, M. P., [18:2], [21:2], [31:1], [32:1]

Nilus, St., 21

Norden, [159:1]

_Octavius_, 164, 182, [190:1]

Odin, 59

Ogdoas, 147

_Oimoge_, 79, 116

Olympian expurgation, 61 f., 67 ff.;
family, 11;
reformation, 58, 61 ff.;
stage, 2;
theology, 4

Olympian Gods, brought by Northern invaders, 45;
character of, 46-58;
coming of, 43;
why so called, 44 f.

Olympian religion, achievements of, 72 ff.;
beauty of, 73;
conception of, 131;
failure of, 67-72

Olympians, origin of, 39 ff.

Olympus, Mount, 46

Optimism, 193

Oracles, 37-8

Oreibasius, 27

Oreibates, 27

Organization, social, 214

Origins, Religious, 1

Orphic Hymns, [30:1];
literature, [64:1]

Orphism, 148

_Orthia_, 32

Osiris, 166

Othin, [50:1]

+ousia+, [200:1]

Ovid, [52:2]

Ozymandia, 144

Pagan prayer, a, 197 f.;
reaction, 173 f.

Paganism, final development of, 192 f.;
struggle with Christianity, 195 f.

Palimpsest, manuscript of man's creed as, 199

Palladion, 52

Pallas, Athena as, 52, 71