missionaries as to the basis of cannibalism in the root idea of divinehuman inter-communion in the blood and the flesh of substitute sacrifice.
And so all the gleanings from the world's field tend to show the unique importance of the idea of blood as the life, the offering of blood⚫ as the offering of life, the divine acceptance of blood as the divine acceptance of life, and the sharing of blood as the sharing of life. Here is the basal thought of sacrifice, in its true meaning in the sight of God and man.
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,
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
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, 90. 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.
Bähr: on blood-shedding in covenants,
297; on significance of blood, 354. Balfour cited, 66.
Bancroft, H. H.: cited, 55, 90 f., 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.
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, 120 f.; 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,
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