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Face paint, for the dead, [206]; why used for dead, living, and gods, [212]. Fafner dragon, [156]. Fairies, the Babylonian, [67]; origin of, [79], [80]; green like other spirits, [186]; the European, Egyptian, and Indian, [294]; human bargains with, [294], [295]; birds as, [429]. Farm labourers, scarcity of in Babylonia, [256]. Farnell, Dr., on pre-Hellenic religion, [104]; on racial gods in Greece, [105]. Fates, the birds as, [65], [147] n., [427] n., [430]; as servants of Anu, [77]; moon as chief of the, [301]; oldest deities as, [317]; on St. Valentine's Day, [430]; Aphrodite and Ishtar as, [433]. Father, the Great, Anu as, [38]; Ramman-Hadad as, [57]; Apsu, the chaos demon as, [64]; Osiris as, [99]; shadowy spouse of, [100]; nomadic people and, [105]; worshipped by Hatti, [xxx], [268], [420]. Father and son conflict; younger god displaces elder, Ninip and Enlil, Merodach and Ea, Indra and Dyaus myths, [158]; Osiris and Horus, [159]; in astral myths, [302], [303], [304], [305], [348]. Feast of Dead, [206]. Fig tree, in Babylonia, [25]. Finger counting, in Babylonia and India, [311] et seq. Finn-mac-Coul (finn´mac-cool), as hero and god, [87], [87] n., [88] n.; as mother monster slayer, [153], [154]; Beowulf and, [155]; as a "sleeper", [164], [394]; water of life myth, [186], [187]. Finns, language of and the Sumerians, [3]; of Ural-Altaic stock, [4]. Fire, as vital principle, [50], [51]; fire and water ceremonies, [50], [51]; the everlasting fire in the sea, [50], [51]; the Babylonian "Will-o'-the-wisp", [66]; Eagle and, [169]; the May Day, [348]; ceremony of riddance, [349]; Babylonian burnings, [348]; Nimrod's pyre, [349], [350]; Tophet, [350]; royal burnings in Israel and Judah, [350], [351]. Fire drake, the Babylonian, [66], [151]. Fire gods, the Babylonian and Indian, [49]. First born, sacrifice of, [50]. Fish deities, Sumerian Ea and Indian Brahma and Vishnu as, [27], [28]; in Eur-Asian legends, [28]; Sumerian and Egyptian, [29]; connection of with corn, [29], [32]; goddess of Lagash, [117]; Western Asian fish goddesses, [277], [418], [423], [426]; dove symbol of, [431], [432]; Totemism and, [294]. Flies, gods turn to, [41]. Flood legend, the Babylonian, [24], [55], [190] et seq.; the Greek, [195]; the Indian, [xxvi], [196]; the Irish, [196]; the Egyptian, [197]; the American, [197], [198]; the Biblical, [198], [199]. Folk cures, the ancient, [61], [231], [232]-[234] . Folk lore, mythology and, [xxv], [xxxiv], [42], [151] et seq., [189]; ethnology in, [xxvi]. Food of death, [44]. Food of the gods, [44]. Food supply, religion and the, [42], [43]. "Foreign devils", the Babylonian and Indian, [67]. Four quarters, the, in astronomy, [307]; lunar divisions, [323]. Fowl, inspiration from blood of, [48]. France, skull forms in Dordogne valley, [8]; Syrian railways of, [357]. Frazer, Professor, [xxv]; "homogeneity of beliefs", [xxvi]; Adonis garden, [171], [172]; Hercules and Melkarth, [348]; on Semiramis legend, [424], [425]. Frey (fri), the Germanic patriarch and corn god, [33], [93], [94]; links with Tammuz myth, [95], [116], [204]. Freyja (frī´ya), the Germanic eternal goddess, [102]; lovers of, [102]. Frigg, Germanic goddess, lovers of, [103]. Frode (frō´dē). See Frey.