Marriage

was by free choice, and women walked about unveiled. This is not now the case, women being little considered and (it is said) having no names, They only venture out between 8 P.M. and 3 A.M., when men _ are forbidden to be abroad. Girls are shut up in the women’s apart- _ ments, from 8 years of age till married about 16 or 17, after which the wife never sees any man but her husband. The bridegroom goes ___ to the bride's house with a goose, as a symbol of fidelity (see Goose), _ the idea originating in the use of geese as guards of the house, instead _ of watch dogs. The pair bow several times to each other over the - and all present drink the loving cup. The bride is then led to er new prison house. In Korea (as in China) public works, mining, and art, are hindered by fear of offending the spirit of Pung-siu _ (Chinese Feng-shui) “the dragon” presiding over wind and water, A structure once erected must, for the same reason, not be destroyed,, Koreish. Arabic. The tribe who were.guardians of the Ka’aba at Makka, and from whom the prophet was descended (see Muhammad). Koro man del. The narrow strip of E, coast in India, named from Cheras or Cholas, as the Cheramandalwm (see Chera). Korubantes. Corybantes. The Greek plural of Korubas, [As they are connected with Kubélé and the Kabeiroi, they may be of Semitic origin; and Corybas may mean “ guardian” (see Keriib),— Ep.] There were said to be 9 of them, and Korubas established rites at Mt. Ida in Krete. When the infant Zeus was being suckled by the goat in the Kretan cave, the wild songs and music of the Korubantes prevented Kronos from hearing the cries of the babe. The Korubantes, like the Kourétés, leapt and danced and blew horns, they elanged brazen shields, and played with swords and spears like the Roman Salii, or dancing priests of Mars. They were attendants of the sun and moon, connected with the Daktuloi; and apparently— like Gandharvas—they were spirits of wind and cloud. They could change their forms at will; could reveal the secrets of heaven; and could heal or inflict disease, by magic stones and charms. _ Korubas was the son of Iasion, the son of Zeus, and was father of Korubantes. He is called a form of Phanes the “first born” in Orphic hymns; and Orpheus bids Muszeus to offer frankincense at the altar of this deity as a form of the male moon (see Kourétés). Kos. Kozé. Joseph us notices Kozé as an Idumean deity; and among Nab a the ans we find, in various inscriptions, the names Koésnatan, Kos-malak, Kos-gér, and Kos-gabri. The word Kos means a “bow” in Arabic. 431