Amambwe, a Bantu tribe of Northern Rhodesia, believe that their head chief at death turns into a lion, vi. 193, viii. 287;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 24 sq.
Amapondo country, cairn to which passers-by added stones in the, ix. 30 n. 2
Amasis, king of Egypt, substitutes images for human victims, iv. 217;
his body burnt by Cambyses, v. 176 n. 2
Amata, “Beloved,” title of Vestals, ii. 197
Amata, wife of King Latinus, ii. 197
Amathus, in Cyprus, Adonis and Melcarth at, v. 32, 117;
statue of lion-slaying god found at, v. 117
Amatongo, ancestral spirits (Zulu term), v. 74 n. 4, vi. 184, xi. 212 n.