Varuna, festival of, wife of the sacrificer obliged to name her paramours at the, iii. 217
Vase, external soul of habitual criminal in a, xi. 145 sq.
Vase-paintings of Cadmus and the dragon, iv. 78, 79;
of Croesus on the pyre, v. 176
Vashti, derivation of the name, ix. 366
—— and Esther, temporary queens, ix. 365, 401
—— and Haman the duplicates of Esther and Mordecai, ix. 406
Vasse River in Western Australia, mourners cut themselves for the dead on the, i. 91
Vaté, in the New Hebrides, the aged buried alive in, iv. 12
Vatican, worship of Cybele and Attis on the site of the, v. 275 sq.