52
HAR' RAN. A centre of lunar adoration, 250, 283
HAS'DRU-BAL. Carthaginian hero; Baal's name in, 330
HAUG, DR. Translator of the Gāthās, 333
HAYNES. Excavations of, at Nippur, 360-366
HAYNES, MR J.H. Sent in 1889 to excavate at Nippur, 47
HEAVEN. The Igigi the spirits of, 90
HEBREW-S.
1. Symbol; the serpent the, for mischief, 285;
2. Religion; Babylonian influence upon, 321, 322
HE-PAT-OS'CO-PY. Ritual and practice of, 282-288
HER'AC-LES. Melkarth equated with, 328
HER'CU-LES. Reference to, 87
HER-O'DOT-US. Statements of, re Semiramis, 28;
account of, re temple of Bel, 101, 103;
marriage customs in Babylonia described by, 312;
reference to, 367, 374
HEZ-EK-I AH. King of Judah, 30, 37;
Sennacherib's campaign against, 30;
praise of, sung by Byron in his Hebrew Melodies, 30
HI-ER-A'POL-IS. Memorials of Semiramis preserved at, 27
HILPRECHT, PROFESSOR. An expert Assyriologist, 345, 357, 360-363
HINKS, REV. EDWARD. Language found at Persepolis deciphered by, 65
HO'RUS. The Egyptian god of light; Tiawath reminds of, 75
'HOUSE OF NO RETURN.' Equivalent, Hades, 126
HUITZILOPOCHTLI (pron. Hweet-zil-o-potch-tlee). Reference to, 144
HUR-AK-ÂN. The storm-god alluded to in the Popol Vuh, 97
HYMN-S. To Adar, 68;
to Nebo, 69;
to Nusku, 69;
'magical,' emanated from Eridu, 68;
Akkadian, in which Tammuz is addressed, 126;
of Khammurabi, 219;
to Ramman, 220


I

I-AM'BLI-CHUS. Author of a Babylonica, 56
IDOLATRY. Legend re origin of, 232;
Laban's images, 266-268
IG'I-GI, THE. Spirits of heaven, 90
IK-SU'DA (Grasper). Attendant hound of Merodach, 202
IL-A-BRAT. Minister of Anu, 117
ILL'AT. Carthaginian deity, 330
IL-TE'HU (Holder). Attendant hound of Merodach, 202
IMAGE-S. Stars and, 233
IM-GÛR-BEL. City of, 354
'INCANTATION OF ERIDU.' The ceremony of the, 270
INDIA-NS. Semiramis makes war on Strabrobates, King of, 26, 27;
followers of Zarathustra fled to; descendants, the Parsis of, 334;
Araucanian, of Chile, 336
IN'ESH. The pilot of Eridu, 115
IN'MAR-MA'ON. City of, 108
INSCRIPTION-S. Of Shalmaneser I, 351;
of Tukulti-ninip, 351
IR'KAL-LA. The abode of;
the house of darkness, 128, 169
IR'NI-NA. A form of Ishtar, 165
IS-AI'AH. Jerusalem described by, 191;
reference to Sargon's expedition against Ashdod mentioned by, 350
ISH'NU, Ura's counsellor, 269
ISH'TAR. Goddess;
fame of Semiramis mingled with that of the, 28;
goddess of Nineveh, 94, 212;
court of Zamama and, 101;
witnesses plunder of Erech by Dibarra, 106, 107;
both male and female, 111;
significance, 123-144;
generic designation for goddess, 124;
equivalents, Ashteroth or Astarte, 124, 327;
cult of Aphrodite began in that of, 124;
Esther and, 124, 140-144;
identified with Venus, 124, 235;
identified with Nin-lil, 124;
the consort of Asshur, 125;
descent into Hades of, 125-126;
war-goddess, 127, 213, 214;
consort of Tammuz, 127;
consort of Merodach and Assur, 127;
identified with Dawkina, 137;
a goddess of vegetation, 137, 138;
slays Eabani, 158;
Ir-nina a form of, 165;
love of, for Gilgamesh, 167, 168;
Anu father of, 168;
Anatu mother of, 168;
Lady of 'the Gods,' 176;
Assyrians and, 211-214;
Assur-nazir-pal and, 214;
confusion between Belit and, 228;
Aphrodite and, connected, 235;
sixth month sacred to, 236;
temple of E-anna dedicated to, 250;
magic and, 258;
variant, Ashtart, 326, 327, 330;
great gate of, discovered by Dr Koldewey, 372
ISH'UM. Attendant of Dibarra, 106-108
I'SIS. Osiris and, 133;
journey to, as Astarte, 328
ISRAELITES. Worship of Dodo, or Dod, by the side of Yahveh, by the, 190
I'YAR. The second month, sacred to Ea, 236
IZ-DU'BAR or GISDHUBAR. Provisional name of Gilgamesh, 156


J

JA'COB. Laban and, 267
JE-HO'IA-KIM. King of Jerusalem; Nebuchadrezzar puts to death, 37
JE'HU. Son of Omri (sic);
obelisk of Shalmaneser and, 343
JEN'SEN. View of, re Hamon, 142, 143;
explanation of, re Ninib, 216
JERUSALEM. Reference to deliverance of, from Sennacherib, 30;
King Nebuchadrezzar wars against, 37;
Isaiah describes, 191
JEW-S. Nebuchadrezzar leads into captivity, 37;
feast of Purim and, 140;
Mordecai name of a real, 143
JEWISH. Religion;
Babylonian influence on, 319-329
JO'NAH. Story of, and supposed allusion to Babylonian cosmology, 86;
Tiawath and the 'fish' of, 87
JOP'PA. Place, 86
JUDAISM. Initiated by the Semitic race, 313
JU'PIT-ER. The planet;
represented Merodach, 202, 235;
controlled stars under name Nibir, 235;
the 'Planet of the Bull of Light,' 290


K

KAA'BA (Temple). The celebrated, at Mecca, 52
KAN'DIS. A Kassite dynasty founded by, 21
Kas'sa-pu or Kas'sap-tu. Names by which the wizard and the witch were known, 261
KASS'ITE. Dynasty;
founded by Kandis, 21;
King of Babylonia marries daughter of Assur-yuballidh of Assyria, 22;
dynasty, reference to, 248;
rulers and temple at Nippur, 248;
votive objects found by Dr Peters, 358, 359, 364, 365
KHAM-MUR-A'BI THE GREAT.
Most famous name in Babylonian history, 20;
art and literature blossomed under care of, 20;
is to be regarded as the Babylonian Alfred, 21;
pantheon that held sway prior to, 94;
worship of Merodach and, 184;
Nebo, Tashmit, and, 186;
Shamash and, 187;
goddess Innana or Ninni and, 187;
age of, fertile in writers, 192;
Hymn of—Ramman and Shamash appealed to in, 219;
builder of sanctuaries, 247;
city of, discovered, 376
KHARSAG-KURKURA. 'Mountain of the World,' 362
KHI-KHI. Mountain of, 108
KHOR'SA-BAD. City;
residence of Asshur, 207;
M. Botta and mounds of, 339;
Victor Place's work at, 340
KHUM'BA-BA. Monster, overcome by Gilgamesh and Eabani, 158, 160, 166, 167
KHUR'SAG KUR'KUR-A. The birthplace of the gods, 242
KID'MU-RU. Ishtar's shrine in, 212
KING, PROFESSOR, 371, 376
KING-S. Of Babylonia and Assyria—Sargon of Akkad, 16-21, 47, 210, 211, 340, 350, 352;
'of the Four Zones'—Naram-Sin, 17;
of Ur—Dungi, 19;
of Lagash—Gudea, 19;
of Babylonia—Khammurabi the Great, 20, 21, 109;
of Babylonia (Kassite dynasty)—Kandis, 21;
of Egypt—Amen-hetep IV, 22;
of Babylonia—Burna-buryas, 22;
of Assyria—Shalmaneser I, 22, 351;
of Assyria—Tukulti-in-Aristi, 22;
of Babylon—Bitilyasu, 22;
of Babylon—Hadad-nadin-akhi, 23;
of Assyria—Bel-kudur-uzur, 23;
of Assyria—Tiglath-pileser I, 23, 346;
of Assyria—Assur-nazir-pal III, 23, 214-216, 223, 343, 351;
of Assyria—Shalmaneser II, 24, 343, 351;
of Israel—Ahab, 24;
of Assyria—Samsi-Rammon, 24;
of Assyria—Ninus, 25;
of Armenia—Barsanes, 25;
of India—Strabrobates, 26;
'of the World, etc., etc.'—Semiramis, 29;
of Assyria—Tiglath-pileser III, 29;
of Assyria—Shalmaneser IV, 30;
of Judah—Hezekiah, 30, 37;
of Assyria—Sennacherib, 30;
of Assyria—Esar-haddon, 31, 306, 307, 343, 350;
of Assyria—Assur-bani-pal (Sardanapalus), 31, 32, 301-306, 346;
of Assyria—Ashurbanapal, 33;
of Assyria—Sin-sar-iskin, 36;
of Ecbatana—Cyaxares, 36;
of Babylonia—Nebuchadrezzar II, 36-40, 47, 104;
of Babylonia—Nabonidus, 40, 249;
Cyrus the Persian, 41;
of Babylon—Cambyses, 41;
Alexander the Great, 42;
of Chaldea—Nimrod, 52;
Rammannirari I, 90;
of Persia—Cyrus, 98;
Daon, the shepherd, of Pantibiblon, 112;
of Persia—Xerxes, 141;
of Babylonia—Sokkaros, 157;
of Babylonia—Mili-Shikhu, 187;
the Moabite—Mesha, 190;
of Ashdod—Azuri, 210, 211;
of Babylonia, and soothsayers, 260;
tales of Babylonian and Assyrian, 299-312;
Nabu-Usabi, King of Sarrapanu, 300;
Gyges, King of Lydia, 302;
Tiglath-pileser II, 299-301;
of Assyria—Assur-Dan III, 308;
of Assyria—Adad-Narari IV, 308;
a royal 'day,' 309-312;
of Assyria—Ur-Gur, 359, 366;
of Assyria—Ur-Ninib, 366
KIN'GU. God;
'only husband' of Tiawath, 75;
bound by Merodach, 78;
son of Tiawath, 194
KIS. The Babylonian sun-god, 93, 294
KI'SAR. God; birth of, 71
KOLDEWEY, DR. German explorer, 356, 367;
great gate of Ishtar discovered by, 372;
temple of E-Sagila and, 374, 375
Kosmologie. Jensen's, 216
KOU-YUN-JIK. M. Botta and mound of, 339;
Layard's searches in mound of, 344, 345;
George Smith's excavations at, 351;
Rassam's excavations at, 354, 355
KUK-UL-CAN. Reference to the god, 224


L

LAB'AN. Jacob and, 267
LAB'AR-TU. The hag-demon, 271, 277
LADY OF THE GODS. Ishtar the, 176
LAG'ASH. The modern Tel-lo, earliest Semite monuments come from, 16;
the priests of became kings, 16;
Gudea high-priest of, 19, 355;
Bau 'mother of,' 145
LA'HA-MÉ. God; birth of, 71
LAH'MU. God; birth of, 71
LAM-AS'SU. A spirit of similar type to the Sedu, 277
LAMENTATION-S. For Tammuz, 135, 136, 140;
Rituals, 253-255
LANGUAGE. The Akkadian, 13, 14;
Babylonian priesthood preserved old Akkadian tongue as a sacred, 14;
Sumerians borrowed from rich Semitic tongue, 15;
cuneiform writing, 60-66, see Writing;
Median, 65;
Susian, 65;
Assyrian, 65;
Longpérier's translation of Assyrian, 66;
of Babylonia and Assyria, compared, 205
LAR'SA. Shamash worshipped at, 109;
Khammurabi's improvements at, 187
LA'YARD, Sir HENRY. Assur-bani-pal's library at Nineveh and, 35, 46;
archæological researches at Nineveh, 46, 155, 344, 346;
researches of, at Nimrûd, 340, 342-344, 346
LEGEND-S. Jewish, re Abram and Nimrod, 51;
Persian, re Abram and Nimrod, 52, 53;
the creation, 193-195;
of Etana, 195;
of the origin of star-worship, 232-3;
the, of Ura, 268-270;
of a dog, 291, 292;
'Cuthæan, of creation,' 294-6
LENORMANT. Hebrew and Assyrian poetry and, 322
LEO, SIGN OF. Recalls the slaying of Khumbaba, 182
LETTER-S. Franked by clay seals bearing name of Sargon, 18
LEVI, ELIPHAS. The Baphomet goat and, 293
LIA FAIL, THE. The Stone of Destiny; reference to, 248
LIBRARY. Assur-bani-pal's, 35, 46, 71, 261, 282, 346;
the temple in 'Tablet Hill,' 363
LIGHT. Merodach and Tiawath, and the primal strife between darkness and, 79
LITERATURE. Babylonian art and, under Khammurabi the Great, 20;
Assur-bani-pal and Babylonian, 35;
sacred, of Babylonia, 67-69
LIVER-READING. By priests, 281-283
LOFTUS, WILLIAM KENNET. Successor of Mr Hormuzd Rassam, 346, 347
LO'KI. God of fire; Nergal not unlike, 106
LU'GAL-BAN'DA. Storm-bird god; like Prometheus, 93
LU'GAL-ZUG-GI'SI. King of Erech; famous text of, found by Hilprecht, 366


M

MAAT. Reference to, 222
MAGI. Confounded by Zoroaster, 333
MAGICAL TEXTS. Dawkina alluded to in the, 197;
Anu mentioned in, 198;
of Babylonia and Assyria, 257, 288;
alluded to in Bible, 266, 267;
circle, the, 275, 276
MAGICIAN-S. The word of power and, 263;
Ea, the great, of the gods, 268
MAHOMET-AN. 'Baphomet' a corruption of, 293;
conquest, 333
MAI-MON'I-DES. Jewish rabbi, friend of Averroes;
his commentary on the Mischnah, 232
'MAK'LU.' A series of texts known as, 261
Mam'it. Equivalent for taboo, 278
MAM-MET'UM. The maker of destiny, 173
MAN-KIND. Creation of, by Merodach, 80, 81;
goddess Aruru assists in the creation of, 82, 86;
humanizing of, 112, 113
MARAZION. Signifies in Semitic, 'Hill by the Sea,' 331
MAR-CHESH-UAN. Merodach's month, 251
MAR'DUK. See Merodach, 175, 200
MARRIAGE. Customs in Babylonia, 312
MARS. Identified with Nergal, 235
MAS'HU. The Mountain of Sunset, 171
MAZ'DA. One of the spiritual powers in Zoroaster's religion, 337
MEC'CA. Reference to the celebrated Kaaba (temple) at, 52
MEDE. Zoroaster a, 333
ME'DI-A. Subdued by Ninus, 25
MEDICINE. Ea, a god of, 192
MEG-ID'DO. The Canaanitish fortress of, 189
ME-LI'LI
1. Queen; wife of Benani, 82;
2. Mother of the monsters, 295, 296
MEL'I-SHIP'OK II. Houses found dating from period of, 376
MELK ('KING'). Variant of Moloch, 328
MEL'KARTH. Phœnician god of Tyre, 327, 328;
worship of, in Carthage, 330
MEL'KARTH-RESH'EF. Phœnician combination, 328
MEM-AN-GAB. Leader of the monsters, 295, 296
MEM'PHIS. Assyrians enter, 31
MEN'KES MOUND, 376
MER-AG-A'GA. Variant of Merodach, 202
MER'CURY. Identified with Nabu, 235
MER'OC. Yaran flees to, 210, 211
MER'O-DACH. Babylonian god,