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modifications of, 152-3; discussion of, in 'Notes and Queries,' 143; 

 in Florence, 150; a horn emblem, 142; introduced into Europe by 

 Crusaders, 146 ; not copied from Iris or Lily, 145 and 149 ; ligatures 

 betray its origin, 147 and 150; used as a finish to helmets, tent poles, 

 and umbrellas, 140 and 148 ; at foot of sacred fir tree, 57. 



G. 



Ges-tin or 'wood of life,' 54. 



H. 



Hair-curls, as volutes, 127. 



Hapi, Nile-god, altar of, loi. 



HIERACIUM PANNOSUM— botanical characters, 33; figure of, 35; 

 geographical distribution, t^^. 



Hindoos like nasty fruits, loi. 



HOLY WATER, antiquity of, 75-6 ; bucket of cone genius contains, 

 75 ; on cuneiform inscriptions, 85 ; on cylinders, 84 and 165 ; figure 

 of man praying for, Zl ; fir cone as sprinkler of, 74 ; notion of, 

 in various Oriental countries, 76 and 86. 



Honeysuckle pattern, a date tree pattern, 99. 



HORNS— on Assyrian buildings, 136; as charms in Naples, 139; as 

 emblems of divinity, xiii and 131 ; emblems on ancient Greek 

 buildings, 174; emblem imported into Egypt from Assyria, 148; 

 emblem used by Buddhists, 163 ; other horn emblems— Apollo's 

 lyre, the bident, the trident, the ' fleur-de-lys,' Jupiter's thunderbolts, 

 the Hindoo 'trisulah,' Mercury's caduceus, 162-4, 169, and 172-3; 

 of ibex and ram, figures, 46 ; horn fetish among Ainus of Japan 

 (note), 181; hornism and witchism, emotions of, 176; luck-horns 

 of Assyria, descendants from, 169 ; on modern buildings, 138 ; as 

 ornaments in Assyria, 140; on trees, 45, 48, 50, 55, and 57; 

 received from Deity, 78 ; on winged discs and Ionic capitals, ic8. 



Horse-shoe used as luck-horns, 157. 



Hybridism of Assyrian and Egyptian ornamentations, 124. 



