mother of mankind, 'chief daughter of Anu,' 144, 145;
Zag-muku and, 251
BE-DAD or BEN-DAD. The father of the Edomite Hadad, 190
BE-EL'ZE-BUB. Magic and, 258
BE-HIS-TÛN. Persian text at, 65
BEL. Babylonian sun-god, 41;
the Dragon and 71;
Merodach and, 79, 194;
at Nippur, looked on as creator of man, 86;
ruled at Nippur (Niffur), 94;
earlier variant, En-lil;
description of, 95-97;
legend of the Dragon and, in the Apocrypha, 97;
worship of, at Babylon, 98;
King Cyrus and worship of, 98-101;
the temple of, 101-105;
discovery of Mr George Smith re temple of, 101;
Nebo, son of, 102;
father of Nirig, 153;
Ut-Napishtim and, 174, 176;
Gilgamesh resorts to, 180;
Tablets of Destiny and, 193-195;
Dagan and, 198, 216;
the Assyrians and the country of, 225;
Merodach usurped place of, 227;
the Pole Star (of equator), 236;
eclipses and, 255;
Bilé allied with, 317;
shrine to, of King Bur-Sin I, 364
Bel, The Observations of. In library founded by Sargon, 18;
translated into Greek by Berossus, 18
BEL'IT. A generic term given to Ishtar, 214, 227;
Anu's consort, 227;
figures as wife of Asshur, 227;
Tiglath-pileser I and, 227;
Assur-bani-pal and, 227
BEL-KU'DUR-U'ZUR. The last of the old Assyrian line, killed by Hadad-nadin-akhi, 23
BEL-MER'O-DACH. Babylonian god;
avenged by Cyrus, 41;
son of Ea and Dawkina, 73;
absorbed into the Assyrian pantheon, 225
BE'LOS. See variant, Bel-Merodach, 73
BEL-TE-SHAZZ'AR. Babylonian appellation for Daniel, 37
BEL'TIS. Variant, Nin-lil;
the wife of En-lil, 101;
sanctuary of, at Girsu, 101;
name signified 'lady,' 101;
tablets and figures of, found by Dr Peters, 364
BEL'US. Temple of;
mound of Bâbil identified with, 103;
delineations of animals preserved in temple of, 114;
variant, Dis, 114
BEL-ZAK'IR-ISK'UN. Descendant of Assur-bani-pal, 306, 307
BE-NA'NI. God;
husband of Melili, 82
BE-NI'NI. King of the monsters, 295, 296
BER-OSS'US.
1. Babylonian historian;
translates The Observations of Bel into Greek, 18;
narrative of, re creation of man, 81;
his statement re Ea copied by Alexander Polyhistor, etc., 112, 113;
quotes version of the deluge myth, 177, 178;
the hanging gardens of Babylon and, 371.
2. A priest of Bel at Babylon, 42;
'history' by, 42-45;
extracts from history of, preserved by Josephus and Eusebius, 42;
Sisuthrus and, 42;
his legend of Oannes, 42;
his account of the deluge, 42-44;
Daonus and, 127
BILÉ. A Celtic deity, 317
BINT-EL-AMIR. Hill of, 358, 361, 362, 365
BIRD MESSENGERS. Ut-Napishtim sends out, 176
BIRS NIMRÛD. Ruins of, 103
BIT-ILI, THE. Sacred stones, 19
BIT-IL-YA'SU. King of Babylon, slain by Tukulti-in-Aristi, 22
BOMBAY. The Parsis of, 336
BOR-SIP'PA. Site of Nebo's temple at, 103;
'The Stages of the Seven Spheres,' the wonder of, 104;
chief seat of Nebo's worship, 184
BOTTA, M. Archæological researches at Nineveh, 46;
French Consul at Mosul;
his excavations in Mesopotamia, 339, 340
BRITISH MUSEUM. Bricks in, containing Assur-bani-pal's researches, 35,
71, 154, 155, 290;
obelisk of Shalmaneser II in, 343
BULL. Sacred, slain by Gilgamesh and Eabani, 158;
Ramman's name the great, 220;
forms of Ea and Merodach, 290
BULL, WINGED. Symbol of and En-lil, 97;
associated with Merodach, 289, 290
BURMESE. Attitude of, to the dead, 269
BUR'NA-BUR'YAS. King of Babylonia, 22
BURNOUF. Cuneiform writing and, 63
BUR-SIN. Repairs Urbau's zikkurat, 248;
shrine to Bel dedicated by, 364
BYB'LUS. Journey of Isis to, 328;
Philo of, 328


C

CA'LAH. Sennacherib takes nucleus of Assur-bani-pal's library from, 154;
residence of Asshur, 207;
Ninib's temple at, 215;
residence of Assur-nazir-pal, 215;
Sin's temple of, 223;
tower of, discovered by Layard, 346
CALMET, ABBÉ. Disbelief of, in vampires, 266
CAL'NEH. Part of Nimrod's kingdom, 49
CAM-BY'SES. Son of Cyrus, 41
CANAANITES, THE. First historic dwellers in Syria and Palestine, 324-326;
gods of, 325, 326;
ancestor-worship and, 326
CANNING, SIR STRATFORD. Sir Henry Layard assisted by, in his excavations at Nimrûd, 340
CAPRICORNUS, SIGN OF. Sea-goddess Sabitu and, 183
CAPTIVITY, THE BABYLONIAN, 321-323
CARAVAN. The story of the missing, 285-288
CAR-CHE'MISH. Worship of Hadad extended from, to Edom, 189
CARTHAGE. Dido, the presiding deity of, 190;
Ba'al-Hamman worshipped in, 327;
Tanith honoured at, 328;
Eshmun worshipped at, 328;
religion of Semites of, 329;
Dido, Queen of, 329;
Apollo's temple at, 330;
Mohammedanism at, 332
CELTIC. Teutonic religion and, compared, 317;
deity; Bilé a, 317
CE'RES. Reference to, 133
CHAL'CHIS. Iamblichus a native of, 56
CHALDEAN MYTHOLOGY. The sign Gemini, associated with the two forms
of the solar deity in, 182
CHAL-DE'A-N-S. Birthplace of Abram, 52;
Nimrod, King of, 52;
star-gazers, 202;
difference between the faiths of the two great races of, 204;
astrologers, 231, 232;
speculations, 233-235;
magic, 258, 259;
belief in taboo, 278;
belief in superstitions, 280;
divination, 281;
excavations in, 339
CHA'OS. Tiawath, 193
CHARDIN, JOHN. Cuneiform writing and, 61
CHE'MOSH. God of the Moabite king, Mesha, 190
CHRISTIANITY. Initiated by Semitic race, 313;
Jewish influence upon, 320
CHRO'NOS. Berossus substitutes for Ea in the version of the deluge myth quoted in his history, 177
CHUS. The Æthiop;
equivalents, Cush, or Cash (a coloured race), 49;
father of Nimrod, 49
CIRCLE, THE MAGIC. Chaldean sorcerers and, 275, 276
CODE, MORAL. Of the Babylonians, 338
COLOSSI. Gate of, 101;
example of art of which Ea was patron, 229
COR-CY'RE-AN MOUNTAINS. Reference to, by Berossus, 44
CORN-SPIRITS. The primitive, 139
CORNWALL. Phœnicians in, 331
COSMOGONY. Babylonian, 70-87;
Jastrow's opinion, 84;
type of, 84-87
CREATION. Babylonian myth of, 70-87;
story of, in Genesis; myths found in Egyptian papyri; and that in the Popol Vuh, 70;
Seven Tablets of, 71;
of man, by Merodach, 80, 81;
legend; Apsu and Tiawath in, 193;
'Cuthæan legend of —,' 294-296;
common origin of Biblical and Babylonian accounts of, 323
CTES'I-AS. His tale re Parsondes, 146-149;
reference to, 367
CUNE-I-FORM TEXTS. Merodach and, 200
CUNEIFORM WRITING. See Writing
CUSH, or CASH. See equivalent, Chus
CU'THAH. Temple of Nergal at, 82, 94, 105, 296
CU-THÆ'AN LEGEND, THE. Of creation, 294-296
CYAXARES. Scythian king of Ecbatana, 36;
son of, dethroned by Achæmenidæ, 333
CYBE'LÉ. The mother-goddess, 132
CYPRUS. Among the conquests of Sargon, 18;
communication between Babylonia and island of, 19;
worship of Ashtart at, 327
CYRUS, KING. The worship of Bel and, 98-101
CYRUS THE PERSIAN. Invasion of Babylonia by, 41;
the pretended avenger of Bel-Merodach, 41;
Cambyses, son of, 41;
conqueror of Babylon and saviour of Merodach's honour, 378


D

DA'DA. Abbreviated form of Abd-Hadad;
resemblances between Hadad, Dido, Davad, and, 189-191;
Shalmaneser (II) speaks of, 189
DAG'AN. Palestinian form of Dagon;
a fish-god, same as Oannes or Ea, 216, 217;
associated with Bel, 217;
Anu and, 198
DAG'ON. God Atargatus worshipped under the name of, 27;
a fish-god, 151, 152;
an Amorite deity, 325
DAM'AS. One of the two eunuchs appointed to watch Rhodanes and Sinonis, 57
DAM-AS'CI-US. The last of the Neoplatonists, 72;
author of Doubts and Solutions of the First Principles, 73
DAM-AS'CUS. Worship of Hadad at, under name of Rimmon, 189;
worship of Ramman in, 220
DAM'KU. One of the lesser Babylonian gods, 229
DAN'I-EL. Babylonian appellation, Belteshazzar, 37;
Nebuchadrezzar and, 37-40;
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego companions of, 38;
reference to a corrupted story of the deliverance of the three Hebrew princes recorded by, 53;
Book of, 97;
the worship of Bel and, 98-101
DA'ON. The shepherd king of Pantibiblon, 112
DA-O'NUS or DAOS. King of Babylonia, vide Berossus, 127
DAR-I'US. Babylonia independence recovered after death of, 41;
defeated at Arbela, 378
DA'VID. Resemblances between Hadad, Dáda, Dido, and, 189-191;
variants, Dod, Dodo, 190
DAW-KI'NA. Belos (Bel-Merodach), the son of Ea, and, 73;
saved from the deluge, 115;
Ishtar identified with, 127, 137;
consort of Ea, 197
DE MORGAN. Unearths monument of Naran-Sin at Susa, 17;
copy of Khammurabi's code found by, 21
DE SAR'ZEC, ERNEST. French vice-consul at Basra;
diorite statues of Gudea (2700 B.C.) found by, 47;
excavations of, at Tellô, 355, 356;
Découvertes en Chaldée par, reference to, 356
DEAD. The doctrine of ministering to, 181;
often left unburied in Babylonia, 269;
attitude of Burmese to, 269;
Canaanites and cult of the, 326;
Persians and their, 336;
Parsis and their, 336;
'House of the —,' at Nippur, 362
DELLA VALLE, PIETRO. Cuneiform writing and, 61
DELPHI. Worshippers of Apollo send offerings to, 330
DELUGE, THE. Berossus' account of, 42-45;
reference to account of, in Gilgamesh Epic, 42;
analogies with Flood Myth, 45, 46;
Babylonian and Hebrew story of, have a common origin, 45, 323;
myth of, 112, 173-178;
refugees saved from—Ea, etc., 115
DEMETER. Tanit compared with, 330
DEMONOLOGY. Of Babylonia and Assyria, 257-288
DEMONS. Many Babylonian gods evolved from, 268;
Babylonian, described, 276-278
DESTINY. Mammetum, the maker of, 173;
Zu and the Tablets of, 193-195;
the Lia Fail, the Stone of, reference to, 248
DEVIL-S. Possession by, 262
DI-A'NA. Goddess, 235, 319
DI-BARR'A. A variant of Nergal, 106;
a Babylonian deity placed in the Assyrian pantheon, 229
DI'DO. Resemblances between Hadad, Dáda, David, and, 189-191;
Queen of Carthage, 329;
Tanit identified with, 331
DIS. Variant of Belus, 114
DIVINATION. Practice of, by Babylonians and Assyrians, 281-288;
Shamash, Hadad, and Rimmon, 'lords of —,' 283;
Phœnicians' belief in, 329
DIVINITIES, TRIBAL. The most outstanding, 94
DIVS. Arch-demons and demons, 334
DOD or DODO. See David;
worship of, by the side of Yahveh, 190
DOG-S. The, in Babylonia;
five hounds of Assur-bani-pal, 290, 291;
legend of a, 291, 292
DRAGON, THE. Bel and, 71;
China and, 80;
in Egypt, it is the serpent Apep, 80;
in India, the serpent Vritra (Ahi), 80;
in Australia and in parts of N. America a great frog, 80;
Beowulf and, 80;
Faffnir and, 80;
legend of Bel and, in the Apocrypha, 97;
Merodach's, 186;
the, in Zoroaster's religion, 337
DREAM-S. Nebuchadrezzar's, and Daniel, 37-40;
of Gyges, King of Lydia, 302, 303
DU-MU-ZI. A contraction of Du-mu-zi-apsu;
name of Tammuz derived from, 126
DUN'GI. Gudea vassal of the throne of, 19
DYNASTY. 'The First, of Babylon,' 21;
a Kassite, founded by Kandis, 21;
the First, of Ur, 101;
Khumbaba, and an Elamite, 166;
reference to Kassite, 248;
the Hammurabi, 325;
the Seleucidæ and the Arsacidæ, 333


E

E'A, OR O'AN-NES. The Babylonian god of light and wisdom, 14;
held sway at Eridu, 14;
legendary father of Semiramis, 25;
source of all things and, 72;
Apsu (Zigarun), mother of, 72;
variant, Nudimmud, 73;
Tiawath and, 76;
Merodach and, 79;
displaced politically by Merodach, 86, 199;
name of Jonah may be compared with that of, 87;
fish-form of, 93;
the God of the deep, 93;
Eridu, city of, 94;
temple of, 102;
the god of the waters and of the abyss, 111-116;
father of Merodach, 111, 191;
Greek name, Oannes, 111;
instructions tending to humanize mankind, 112, 113;
writings of, 113-116;
myth re creation of world and, 115;
variant, Nin-a-gal, 116;
variant, En-ki, 116;
Adapa, son of, 116;
Dagon (Dagan) same as, 151, 152, 216, 217;
Ut-Napishtim instructed by, 174, 176;
in later times, 191-193;
Dawkina, consort of, 197;
identified with a star in the constellation Argo, 236;
eclipses and, 255;
demons and name of, 263;
gazelles and, 292
EA-BA'NI. Goddess Aruru and, 86;
temple maiden Ukhut and, 129, 163;
typifies primitive man in Gilgamesh epic, 155, 159, 160;
the monster Khumbaba and, 158;
slain by wrath of Ishtar, 158;
shade of, appears to Gilgamesh, 160;
a sort of satyr, 163;
the beguiling of, 163, 164;
Gilgamesh meets, 164-166;
death of, 170;
Gilgamesh laments, 179;
ghost of, designated utukku, 181
EAGLE. Symbol of Kis, 294, 296;
Babylonian fable re the, 296-298
EA-LUR. Goddess;
amalgamated with Zarpanitum, 186
E-ANNA. Temple of, at Erech, 250
E-ANNA-TUM. Shamash first mentioned in reign of, 109;
'stele of vultures' erected by, discovered by de Sarzec, 355
EARTH. The Annunaki, the spirits of, 90;
-mother, worship of, 318, 319
E-BABB'ARA. 'The shining house';
name of Shamash's sanctuary, 109, 249
EC-BA-TA'NA. Cyaxares, the Scythian king of, 36
ECLIPSE. Terror of, to Babylonians, 255, 256;