Polynesians, oracular inspiration of priests among the, i. 377;
their mode of kindling fire, ii. 258;
their way of ridding themselves of sacred contagion, viii. 28
Polynices and Eteocles, their grave at Thebes, ii. 33
Polytheism evolved out of animism, ii. 45
Pomegranate, growing on the grave of fratricides, ii. 33;
causes virgin to conceive, v. 263, 269
Pomegranates forbidden to worshippers of Cybele and Attis, v. 280 n. 7;
sprung from blood of Dionysus, vii. 14;
seeds of, not eaten at the Thesmophoria, vii. 14;