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Medicine, 398, 399. Medicine man, as prototype of deity, 49. Mekala, Melaka, country, 632. Memorial mound to dead, erection of, 421, 629. Memory, 563; and *see smṛti*. Men as deities, 50; *see also* Chap. 14. Menā, of Vṛṣaṇaçva, applied to Indra, 125. Menakā, Apsaras, 184. Mercy, *see* Compassion. Merit, *see puṇya*. Mesopotamia, influence on India, 25, 26, 624, 634. Messenger, Agni as, 159; Narāçaṁsa as, 165. Metempsychosis, *see* Transmigration. Meteor as a Rakṣas, 238. Methu, μέθυ, 172, 624. Metre (for an implausible theory see Leumann, KZ. lii.), 6, 16, n. 2, 255, 499, 500. Mēṭru, Assyrian term, 101, n. 4. Mexican religion, 277, 323, n. 1, 329, n. 1. Midland, definition of the Aryan, 634, n. 2. Midrassil, Mitanni name of Mitra, 617. Milindapañha, 558, 563. Milk, in ritual, 167, 171, 254, 278, 310, 332, 336, 353, 355, 420; as *madhu*, 167; cooked, placed in the raw cow by Indra, 132. Milk pails, Todas’ worship of, 269, n. 5. Milky way, Sarasvatī as, 173, n. 4, 202, n. 4. Millet, offered, 323, 366, 381; theory of Soma as, 172, n. 1. Millstone, possibly deified, 189, n. 6. Mimetic magic, 388–90. Mimi, parallel with Trita, 135. Mimic raid, by king at Rājasūya, 342. Mind (*manas*), 122, 210, 436, 443, 444, 453, 455, 467, 472, 484, 486, 517, 518, 537, 539, 553, 554, 555, 556, 557, 559, 563, 565, 612. Mingling of races and cultures as affecting religion, 51–5. Minoan religion, *see* Aegean religion. Minoans, probably pre-Hellenic (cf., however, Bury, CAH. ii. 475 f.