Jupiter, Roman kings in the character of, 148, 152; as god of the oak, the rain, and the thunder, 160; and Juno, doubles of Janus (Dianus) and Diana, 164; and Dionysus, 388
King, the killing of the divine, 264–283; his life sympathetically bound up with the prosperity of the country, 267, 268, 592; sacrifice of his son, 289–293; responsible for weather and crops, 292. See also Kings
King and Queen, at Athens, 9; at Whitsuntide, 132, 299; of May, 132, 299, 320
King, the Grass, 130, 299; the Leaf, 130; the Roman, as Jupiter, 148
Kings, priestly, 9, 169, 203; Teutonic, 9; magicians as, 83–91; touch for scrofula, 90; divinity of, 91; as gods in India, 100; temples built in honour of, 104; sacrifices to, 104; of nature, 106–109; of rain, 108; of fire and water, 108; Roman, 147–149, 151, 152; supernatural powers attributed to, 149, 168; paternity of, 154; their lives regulated by strict rules, 168, 194; taboos observed by, 171; beaten before coronation, 176; portraits of, not on coins, 193; guarded against the magic of strangers, 198; not to be seen eating and drinking, 198; forbidden to leave their palaces, 200; tabooed, 202; foods tabooed to, 238; names of, tabooed, 257–259; killed when strength fails, 265; attacks on, permitted, 267, 275; worshipped after death, 268; killed at the end of a fixed term, 274; dying by deputy, 278; temporary, 283–289; torn in pieces, traditions of, 378; trace of the custom of slaying them annually, 440
Kingship, evolution of the sacred, 105; descent of the, in the female line, 152, 154, 155; burdens and restrictions attaching to the early, 168, 175; tenure of the, 279–281
