“Mother” and “Father” as epithets applied to Roman goddesses and gods, ii. [233] sqq.
——, dead, worshipped, ii. [175], [185]
—— Earth, festival in her honour in Bengal, i. 90;
fertilized by Father Sky, myth of, 282
—— Goddess of Western Asia, sacred prostitution in the worship of the, i. 36;
lions as her emblems, 137, 164;
her eunuch priests, 206;
of Phrygia conceived as a Virgin Mother, 281
—— -kin, succession in royal houses with, i. 44;
trace of, at Rome and Nemi, 45;