their belief in conception without sexual intercourse, 99 sqq.;
their cuttings for the dead, 268
Austria, leaping over Midsummer fires in, i. 251
“Awakening of Hercules,” festival at Tyre, i. 111
Awemba, Bantu tribe of Rhodesia, ii. [174];
their worship of ancestral spirits, [175];
their prayers to dead kings before going to war, [191] sq.
Axe, emblem of Hittite god of thundering sky, i. 134;
as divine emblem, 163;
symbol of Asiatic thunder-god, 183