er chief feast the Matronalia in March, 324.
" her month of June favorable for wedlock, 325.
Jupiter, derived his name from the Sanskrit, 324.
" had many temples in Rome, 324.
" god of the weather, of storm, of lightning, 324.

K.

"Kings," Chinese, names and number, 47.
" teach a personal God, 57.
" republished by Confucius, 47.

L.

Language of Ancient Egypt, 236.
Lao-tse, founder of Tao-ism, 50, 52.
" called a dragon by Confucius, 51.
" three forms of his doctrine, 54.
Lares, gods of home, 328.
Loki, the god of cunning, 381.
Lower Egypt, gods worshipped in, 248.
Lucretius, his view of religion, 343.
Luna, the moon, a Sabine deity, 327.
Lustrations, or great acts of atonement, 338.

M.

Magna Mater, a foreign worship at Rome, 330.
Maine, his work on ancient law quoted, 351.
Mann, laws of, when written, 100.
" account of Creation, 101.
" dignity of the Brahmans, 103.
" importance of the Gayatari, 104.
" account of the twice-born man, 105.
" description of ascetic duties, 106.
" the anchorite described, 107.
" duties of the ruler described, 109.
" crimes and penalties described, 110.
" the law of castes described, 110.
" penance and expiation described, 110.
" respect for cows enjoined, 111.
" transmigration and final beatitude, 112.
Maritime character of the Scandinavians, 361.
Mars, originally an agricultural god, 330.
Materialism in Christian doctrines, derived from Egypt, 256.
Mater Matuta, Latin goddess of the dawn (note), 325, 327.
Melchisedek, king of justice and king of peace, 407.
Minerva, her name derived from an Etruscan word, 325.
goddess of mental activity, 325.
one of the three deities of the capitol, 325.
Missionary work of Christianity, why checked, 506.
Moabite inscription in the Hebrew dialect, 400.
Mohammed, recent works concerning, 448.
" lives of, by Muir, Sprenger, Weil, and others, 449.
" essays on his life by Babador, 450.
" prophecies of, in the Old Testament, 451.
" lived a private life for forty years, 454.
" his early religious tendencies, 454.
" his inspirations, 454.
" his biography in the Koran, 455.
" his mother's death, 456.
" his first converts, 457.
" protected by his tribe, 458.
" his temporary relapse, 460.
" and his followers persecuted, 461.
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