{"collection":"African","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/afr/ram/ram17.htm","path":"afr/ram/ram17.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/afr/ram/ram17.htm","text":"Religion and Myth, by James Macdonald, [1883]\nAbyssinia, priest of Alfai, 17; Paganism in, 42\nAccra, king's father's spirit causes earthquakes, 177; consequent sacrifices, 178\nActs of worship, 184\nAfricans regulate conduct by faith, 207\nAncestors, worship of, 36\nAnimals, sacred, making compact by, 179\nAshantee, annual festivals of, 76; messengers to spirit land, 77; dances and abrogation of law, 78\nAthens, 2\nAustralians, 9\nAustrian, 9\nBalaam, 100\nBabylonia, temporary king crucified, 61\nBacchus worship, 47 Balac, 100\nBalder, death of, 56\nBantama, festival, 79; mausoleum of kings, 79; messages to spirit land, 80\nBaralongs, subjects, persons the king's, 14; oracles, 163\nBarber's art, its dangers, 94\nBards sing of valour, 204\nBaris, no clothing, 209\nBavaria, tree worship, 41\nBedouins, fighting wind, 9\nBible, 224\nBlack art, votaries cast no shadow, 30\nBodio, house of sanctuary, 177\nBongo, expulsion of demons, 124; oracle, 163\nBorgie, mermaid of, 191\nBrahmanism, 167\nBreton, fighting wind, 9\nBr\u00fcd's bed, making, 141\nBuddhism, 167\nBulgarians, making rain, ix\nBullfights, 137\nBullom, oracles, 162\nBurmah, woman's position, 196\nCalicut, king killed every twelfth year, 29\nCannibalism, acquired taste, 208\nCattle-killing, mania, 69\nCeremonial, purity, 90\nChief, loyalty to, 205\nCircumcision, 44; not performed with knife, 46, 90\nClothing, influence of, 219\nCorn spirit, killed, 144\nCourtesies, 204\nDahomey, king's name not mentioned, 14; priest descends to lower regions, 81; king enters lower world in state, 82; demons driven out wholesale, 105; bestowing wives, 183\nDakota, gods of mortal, 96\nDances, moon, 42; Ashantee, 76; warrior, 138\nDeath and sleep same, 34\nDeification of king, 6\nDemons, enter animals, 102, expelled by magicians, 102; by guile, 103\nDevils, doctrine of, 81; \"laid,\" 108; \"raised,\" 109; driven out by girls, 111; incarnate, 116; water, 218\nDivine man, killed to prevent loss of god spirit, 28\nDiviner, incantations, fear of, 161\nDinka, guarding against evils, 86; expel demons by guile, 103 Doctor, witch, 118; rain, to\nDodola, 11\nDongolowa belle, how sought in marriage, 174\nDream, Kaffir, 65\nDress, Monbutto, 209\nDrinking, King Chop, 178\nDruids, Midsummer fires, 57\nEgbo, concealed in an ark, 25\nEngai, creator of men, 13\nErgamenes, killed priests, 29\nExecutioners, how they procure sacrificial victims, 75\nFairies, 130\nFestivals, yam, 136; Pondo, 136\nFetish, human skulls, 47; power, 49\nFinns, girls drive out devil, 111\nFire, sacred, not kindled, 211\nFladda, 9\nFunerals, mock, cheating the devil, 155; Congo, Uganda, killing of wives, 156\nGallas, kill the king every eight years, 26; priests, snake mother of men, 40; sacrifices, 41 sacred animals, 42; gods, 42; expel demons by horse-whipping, 104\nGingane, high priest, 14\nGod man, 229\nGods, compounding with, 71\nGomba, sacrifice paraded, 76\nGondokoro, food bewitched, 87\nGowane marriage, 219\nGrass, king, 41\nGreeks, 11; legend, 197; ruled thought, 227\nGuilds, secret, 158; priestly, 159\nHam, 232\nHannah, her prayer, 73\nHarvest festivals, maiden, 140-143\nHead, sanctity of, 93; sanctity of hair, 94\nHeadless Hugh, story of, 187\nHebrews, prophets of, 150\nHili, river spirit, calls souls, 35\nHlubies, 10\nHos, customs, 138\nHospitality, king responsible for, 205\nHottentots, 9; sacrifices, 117\nHunt, 5\nIncanti, river spirit, 35\nIncarnation, of founders of religion, 167\nInferno, descent to, 81\nIron, its dangers, 90; utility, 91; smelting, 210\nJaggas, king of, divine, 13; spit on guests, 176\nJews, building temple, 91; sacred books, 226\nKangomba, god of Mount Socki, 133\nKanjangeyerne, 73\nKhonds, 40\nKillimanjaro, 14; witchcraft, 86\nKing, 2; divine monarchs, 17; delicacy of organism, 20; refusing divinity, 26\nKings, departmental, 17; of fire and water, 18\nKordufan marriages, 201\nKra, kings\u2019 spies or souls, 131\nKuda Lubare, head wife of great harems, 73\nLakonga, succession law, 16\nLaongo, king worshipped called God, 16; his restrictions, 25; may not be seen eating, 87\nLightning, doctor of, 149\nLithuania, tree worship, 41\nLoch Aline, 5\nLoma, God of Bongo, 50\nLubare, 11; person possessed by Makusa, 15; offerings to, 74\nLuck, 5\nMagician, 78; Manganga can soar in air, detect by divination, 177\nMaiden, Scottish, 140; Lochaber, 141; Dantiz, 142; Bavaria, 143\nMakusa, spirit of Nyanza, 15\nMan-god, 3; sacrificed, 62; substitution, 63\nMariners, 8\nMarriage, earth, 40; Dongolowa, 174; Kordufan, 201; price of wives, 203\nMay-pole, a survival, 51; ceremonies, 60\nMen of hide, devil bought, 193\nMeriah, sacrifice to Tari, 51; how offered, 52\nMermaid, descendant of, 191\nMikado, descent of, 21; sanctity of clothes, 88; of food, 89; not to touch ground, 196\nMinisters, prejudice against, 170\nMirrors, dread of, 35\nMitto, burial, signs, 195\nMlungu, 50; ancestor, god, 132\nMonbuttu, king divine, 12; women aggressive, 199; no domestic animals, cannibalism, 208\nMorality, 201\nMorema, Bechuana god, cunning, 38\nMoreo, king of, 150\nMoses, teaching, 228\nMtesa, his ancestors\u2019 tombs, 74; his generosity, 200\nMuansa, earth divinity, 43\nMurder, compounding for, 71\nNanna, wife of Balder, 56\nNende, 73\nNeptune, 9\nNew Briton, 8\nNew Zealand, superstition of, 87\nNiam-Niam, no religion, 125; burial custom, 175\nNiass, 5\nOld Town, king's soul kept in grove, 178; devotion, 185\nOmens, Zulu, Wagogo, 70\nOracles, Bongo, Bullom, 162; Gallas, Baralong, Wayao, 163\nOvaons, tree worship, earth marriage, 41\nPalaver, witch, woman, sauce, 126\nPerthshire, messages to spirit land, 80\nPeruvians, 139\nPig, 5\nPondo, abrogation of law, 78; festivals, 136\nPriest, 7\nProphetess, detective of wizards, 122; Wanika, 176; may direct Lubare, 199\nProphets, God-possessed, 65; ghostly counsellers, 66; growth of order, 146; rivalry, 148; functions, 148; Jewish, 150; false, 150; foretelling events, 153, 160; practising augury, 154; duty to dead, 154; wise men of nation, 169; prejudice against, 170\nPurra, processions of, 13\nQueen, spring, of Bohemia, 59\nRab, Galla custom, 26\nReforms, works, blankets, Bibles, 215\nReligion, 1; none, 125; acts of, 126; ordinary life, 181\nRice, mother, Peruvian, 139\nRome, 2\nRoots, magic, 123\nRoss-shire, rag on branch bans evil from water, 112\nRuhea, little leaf man of, 59\nRussia, 10\nSacred Animals, 38\nSacred horn, 182\nSacrifice, human. 39; animal, 66; thank-offering, 67; Gomba, 76; Hottentot, 117\nSamson, 189\nSecond sight, 153\nSenjero, women only sold as slaves, 39; iron pillar, 39; slave drowning, 45\nServians, rain-making, 11\nShark Point, king of, secluded, 23\nShoa, worship of king of, 14\nShony, Celtic god, 58\nSiamese, 195\nSleep and death same, 34\nSogomoso, heir secluded, 196\nSorcery, expulsion of soul, 36\nSoul, stolen or strayed, 28, 35; journeying, 34; selling, 36; expulsion, 36; danger of, 185: safe keeping, 186; in pearl, 188; in parrot, 189; in egg, 189\nSpirits, worship of, 36; inhabiting rivers, 37; evil, 37\nSt. Paul, 230\nStimulant, 217\nSubstitutes, sought by kings, 31\nSwazies, 10\nTalisman, for witchcraft, 130\nTari, goddess of Khonds, 51\nTein egin, customs connected with, 212\nTheft, prevention, 42\nThunder, 7\nToad-day, 50\nTornado, 7\nTradition, persistency of, 170\nTransformation to animals, 127\nTrees may not be cut, 210; customs of Scotland, 215\nTyrolese legend, 197\nUganda, funerals, 156; succession, 157\nUnyoro, king killed by his wives, 29; claimants fight for succession, 175\nUrine, 7\nVedic, religion, 167\nWaganda, omens, 154; clothing, 219\nWahunga, killing councillors to accompany dead chief, burying wife alive, 156\nWakamba, steal brides, 176\nWaneka, expel devils by music, 104; arrival at manhood, 176; prophetess, 176; entering council, 178\nWanyoro, bewitched by footmarks, 87\nWar, enemies\u2019 heart eaten, 68; odour of sacrifice inhaled by gods, 69\nWarrior, dance, 138\nWathen, Druid offerings, 57\nWayao, oracles, 163\nWazeramas, expel demons by music, 103\nWitchcraft, causing death, 70; punishment, 70; dangers of, 84\nWitches, 8; who were? 115; doctors, 118; palaver, 126; trial, 212\nWizard, 9; discovered, 115, 120\nWoman, palaver, 126, 194; regents, war doctor, may represent god-life, 195; danger of blood, 196\nWork, panacea for ills, 217\nYam Festivals, Ashantee, 136; laws abrogated, 140\nYatuk, 8\nYoruba, evil spirits kept outside gates, 86\nZenana, 202\nZulus, 10; subjects\u2019 persons the king's, 14; dread of reflecting surfaces, 35; omens, 72; girls, 196","title":"Religion and Myth: Index","type":"page"}