AARON his eating and drinking in
covenant, 240.

Abayh, the rite in, 8.

Abel : his blood-giving, 210-212; his
proffer of himself to God, 211 f.; his
voice of blood, 359 f.

Abihu: his eating and drinking in
covenant, 240.

Abimelech his covenant with Abra-
ham, 264 f.; his relation to Ahuz-
zath, 267 f.; his covenant with
Isaac, 267 f.

Abraham: his surrender of Isaac, 166;

the friend of God, 215-221; his blood-
giving, 217-221; his faith-testing,
224-230; his covenant with Abime-
lech, 265 f.

Abram his first covenant with indi-
viduals, 264 f.

Abydos, inscription in temple at, 301 f.
Abyssinia: the slayer's blood drunk by

relatives of the slain in, 262 f.; cut-
tings of face in, 368.
Acosta: cited, 176 f.
Adams: cited, 92, 190.
Adoption of children, form of, in India,
194-196.

Eschylus cited, 297.

Africa: life through new blood in, 125 f.;

heart-eating in, 129; blood from legs
in, 235; blood-cancelling in, 261;
blood-bathing in, 324
"Agreement bottle," before a wedding,
199 f.

Ahab's blood licked by dogs, 312 f.
Ahuzzath and Abimelech, 267 f.

Akkadian: traces of substitute sacri-

fices, 166; sacrifice of first-born,
300.
Alcedo: cited, 131 f.
Aleppo, the rite in, 8.
Allingham: cited, 332.
Altar: a table of blood-bought com-
munion, 167 f., 189, 292 f.; sprink-
ling blood upon, 243, 292; true les-
son of, 255.

America: traces of the rite in, 43, 54-
56, 90 f.

America, Central and South: substitute

blood in covenant sacrifice in, 173-
178; heart for life in, 301 f.
American Indians: Oriental customs
among, 127; their sacrificing and

105.

Appianus: cited, 72.

Arabia: the rite in, 62, 351, legend of life

through blood in, 119 f.; substitute
blood in, 227, 347-349; balancing a
blood account in, 261 f.; signifi-
cance of blood in, 357.

Arabs sacrifice and feasting among,
179; their conception of liver and
spleen, 304.

Araucanians: vicarious sacrifice among,
131 f.; traces of the rite among, 334.
Arctic regions, heart for life in, 301 f.
Aristotle cited, 38, 80.

Armenia, survivals of the rite in, go.
Arm blood from, in the rite, 5 f, 16,
18, 26, 30-32, 36 f., 49-51, 60-
62, 79-83, 235, 316; lifting up of, in
oath, 235.

Armlet. See Bracelet.

Armpit, blood drawn from, 174 f.
Arrack as substitute for blood, 193.
Arriaga: cited, 115.

Arthur, King, legends of life through
blood, 120 f.

Ashantees, heart-eating among, 129.
Assiratum a drink of covenanting, 63 f.
Assyria, traces of the rite in, 64, 75,
115, 165-169.

Assyrian kings: their claim of union
with gods, 356.
Athenæus cited, 170, 320.
Atonement through life, not through
death, 245 f., 287 f.; meaning of

word, 352; only through shared
blood, 355:

Augustine: his condemnation of cove-
nant tokens, 238; on meaning of
sacrifice, 357-

Aulus Gellius: cited, 72.
Australia: belief as to blood in, 129; vi-

carious blood-yielding in, 133; ring
of flesh in, 331; giving of new name
in, 335 f.; brotherhoods in, 338.
"Avenger," "goel" not an, 259.
Aztecs their ideas of divine-human
inter-communion, 183; cannibalism
among, 190.

BAAL, priests of, illustrating the rite, 89 f.
Baal-bereeth,"Master of the covenant:"
218 f.; at Shechem, 218 f.
Babylon, traces of the rite in, 115, 165-
167.

Bacon: cited, 74 f.

Bähr: on blood-shedding in covenants,

297; on significance of blood, 354.
Balfour cited, 66.

Bancroft, H. H.: cited, 55, 90 f., 105-

107, 141, 174-176.

Banquet: an accompaniment of sacrifice

in China, 149; elsewhere, 176 f.
See, also, Feasting.

Basil, on sacrifices to demons, 359.
Bastian: cited, 139.

Bata and Anpu, Egyptian story of, 103-

105.

Baths of blood. See Blood-bathing.
Beasts: sacrifice of, in China, 152 f.;

sacrifice of, in India, 161; blood of,
made sacred, 242.

Bed'ween: their blood brotherhood, 9 f.;

their sacrificing and feasting, 179;
marriage customs among, 192; their
justification in eating liver, 304.
Beecham cited, 129.

Beer with and for blood, 13; as a sub-
stitute for blood, 193, 367f.

Beer sheba, covenant at, 265.
"Believed in," root-meaning of, 221.
Belts and necklaces: of wampum, 326-

328; of red feathers, a divine-royal
emblem in Tahiti, 328 f.
Benson: cited, 93 f., 145.

Berosus

cited, 112.

Bheels: blood-anointing among, 136 f.;
covenant-drinking among, 198.

Bible study: its wide range, 3.
Bible, the a book for Orientals, 3; the

earliest reference to blood in, 210;
indications of the rite in, 290-293.
Bible terminology, traces of the rite in,
349 f.

Biblical research, gain through, 4.
Birch: cited, 79, 81, 83, 100, 102, 236.
Birdwood: cited, 109, 164.

Bixby, Dr. H. M., on the rite among
Karens, 316.

Bleeding hand, sign of, in Tunis, 342.
Bleek: cited, 301 f.

Blood: from arm, 5 f., 16, 18, 26, 30-32;
36 f., 49-51, 60-62, 79-83, 235, 316;
from tongue, 9 f., 124; from stom-
ach, 13; from forehead, 13, 90, 232,
320, 366 f.; from bosom, 45; from
fingers, 59, 62, 96; offered to gods,
in Central and South America,
105-107; in China, in India, in
Phoenicia, 109; burial of, 109, 243 f.;
as life, 110, 147, 241; mingled with
mandrake juice, 111; in Greek
legend, 112; transfusion of, in Tas-
mania, 126; as a means of inspira-
tion, 139-147; bearing witness, 143-
147; not death, but life, 148, 244;
on door-posts in China, 153; from
ears, from armpits, from under the
girdle, 174 f.; from elbows, 175;
sharing of, gives common life, 182 f.;
of grapes, 191; earliest reference to,
in Bible, 210; primitive teachings
of, 210-215; abstinence from, en-
joined, 215; from cheek, 218: min-
gled with wine, 218 f.; waters of
Egypt turned into, 231; the pass-
over sign, 231 f.; from legs, 235,
313 f.; from parties to covenant,
240; forbidden as food, 240 f.; of
beasts deemed sacred, 242; friend-
ship through, 243; pre-eminence of,
in sacrifices, 245; milk or, in
blood-cancelling, 261 f.; vivifying
power of, 284-286, 306 f.; used in
leprosy, 287 f.; hands or weapons
of confederates dipped in, 297; les-
sons of, in Borneo, 308 f.; in mar-
riage ceremony in Borneo, 309; in
Tahiti, 337 f.; and butter in cove-
nanting, 338; sharing makes union,
350; Sabean views of, 357 f.; effect
of eating, 357 f.; from wrist, 370;
signatures of mutual covenants made
in, in Japan, 371.
Blood-anointing: in Arabia, 11, 119 f.,

268; in North and South America,
90 f.; in Arthurian romance, 120f.;
among the Bheels, 136 f.; among
the Caribs, 137 f.; among the Chi-
nese, 154 f.; among Arabs, 268;
among British Columbia Indians,
307 f.; among the Karens, 313 f.;
among the Australians, 337 f; sig-
nificance of, among Zuñis, 305-307.
See, also, Blood-bathing.
Blood-balancing: in Arabia, 261 f. See,
also, Blood-cancelling.
Blood-bathing: among Egyptians, 116-
118; in Scandinavia, 121 f.; among
Brahmans, 122 f.; among Kafirs,
139: among Bechuanas, 324.
Blood brotherhood: by proxy, 13, 28; in
China, in Burmah, in Madagascar,