of Destiny, 193-195;
cuneiform, dealing with magic, 261, 262;
Surpu and Maklu, series of, 262;
the deluge, discovered by Smith, 347, 351, 352;
discovered by Rassam, 354;
of Nabopolasser, Nebuchadrezzar, Nabonidus, Cyrus, Cambyses, and Darius, 358
TAB'OO. Prayers, etc., against, 262;
belief in, in Chaldea, 278;
known in Babylonia as mamit, 278
TAM'MUZ. One of the guardians of the gates of heaven, 118;
Ishtar's search for, 126;
myth of, 126-129;
name derived from Dumu-zi, 126;
Professor Sayce and, 126;
addressed as 'shepherd and lord' in Akkadian hymn, 126;
Ishtar, consort of, 127;
Adonis myth related to that of, 131;
Sir James Frazer's Golden Bough and, 134;
lamentations for, 135, 136, 140;
a god of vegetation, 137, 138;
Nin-Girsu (Shulgur) identified with, 144;
the bridegroom of Ishtar's youth, 167;
Dido and, 190;
Ninib and, 216
TAM'MUZ-A-DO'NIS. Worshipped in Carthage, 330
TAM'TU. Assyrian term signifying 'the deep sea,' 72
TA'NIT. Goddess of the heavens and the moon;
compared with Demeter, 330;
inscriptions to, 330;
identified with Dido, 331
TA'NITH. Goddess, honoured at Carthage, 328
TASH'MIT. Nebo's consort, 102, 185, 186;
patron of writing, 185
TAU'RUS, SIGN OF. Represented by the slaying of the celestial bull, Alu, 182
TELL AM'RAN. Mound of, 374
TEL-LÔ. Ernest de Sarzec's researches at, 355, 356
TEMPLE-S. Of Bel, 101-105, 227;
of Nebo and Tashmit, 102;
of Ea and Nusku, 102;
of Bel and Anu, 102;
of Belus, reference to, 103;
of Ea, 111;
of Belus, reference to, 114;
of Dagon, at Ashdod and Gaza, 151;
of Merodach, at Babylon, 185, 374;
of Asshur, 207;
of Sin, at Calah, 223;
priesthood, cult and, 239-241;
of Babylonia and Assyria, 242-251;
oldest, in Babylonia, was E-Kur, 248;
as banks, 250;
begun by Esar-haddon, 305;
Saggal, of Merodach, 305;
Sidda, 306;
of Ashtart or Ishtar, at Sidon and Askelon, 327;
to Apollo, 330;
Zoroastrian, 335;
of Nebo, 348;
of Babylon, 373-375
TE'RAH. Father of Abraham, 51, 52
TESTAMENT, OLD. Nergal mentioned in, 105;
Dagon in, 151, 152;
David of the, 190;
poetical form of, 322
TEUTONIC. Celtic religion and, compared, 316, 317
TEXTS, CUNEIFORM. See Cuneiform
TEXTS, MAGICAL. Dawkina alluded to in, 197;
Anu mentioned in, 197, 198;
a series known as 'Maklu,' 261, 262
TEZ-CAT-LI-PO'CA. Reference to, 222
THAL-ATH. Chaldaic equivalent for Omorca, 114
THEIAS, KING. Reference to, 132
T'hom or 'DEEP.' Tiawath a parallel to the Old Testament expression, 72
THOMES. French exploration expedition and, 347
THOTH. Reference to, 185, 222, 224, 228
THUNDER-BIRD. North-American Indian conception, 193
THUNDER-GOD. Hadada, 188, 189
TI'A-MAT. Variant of Tiawath, 71
TI'AWATH. Variant, Tiamat, 71;
a parallel to Old Testament expression T'hom (or 'deep'), 72, 73;
her ill-will toward the gods of heaven, 76-78;
her death by Merodach, 78, 199;
the 'fish' of Jonah and, 87;
chaos, 193;
slaughter of, enacted, 201;
the host of, 232;
not the only Babylonian monster, 289
TIG'LATH-PIL-E'SER I. Alternative, Tukulit-pal-E-saria, King of Assyria, 23;
god Bel (En-lil) and, 95;
Ishtar and, 212;
Ninib and, 214, 216;
Shamash and, 222;
Merodach and, 227;
Rawlinson discovers annals of, 346
TIG'LATH-PIL-E'SER II. Tales of, 299-301
TIG'LATH-PIL-E'SER III. Second Assyrian Empire commenced with, 29;
conquers Babylon and is invested with the sovereignty of 'Asia,' 36
TIGRIS. The river, 206, 342
TOL'TECS. Reference to Aztecs, and, 226, 227
TONGUES. Babylonian towers and legend of confusion of, 47;
legend of confusion of, found in Central America, 48;
among African tribes some such myth found, 49;
certain Australian and Mongolian peoples possess a similar tradition, 49
TOOTHACHE MYTH, A, 262
TOTEMISM. Signs of, in Babylonian religion, 92
TOWER OF BABEL. Legend of confusion of tongues and, 47. See Babel
TREE-S. Adonis and myrrh-, 137;
Osiris and tamarisk-, 137;
Attis and pine-, 137, 138;
Tammuz and cedar, 138
TRIAD. See Trinity
TRIBAL DIVINITIES. The most outstanding, 94
TRINITY, A. Tiawath, Apsu, and Mummu, 74;
Bel, Ea, and Anu, 97, 111, 191, 196-198;
En-lil, Ea, and Anu, 121;
of earth, air, and sea, 197;
Ramman, Sin, and Shamash, 219;
Ea, Anu, and Enlil evolved from demons, 268
TSAI'DU. The hunter; Gilgamesh, Eabani, and, 163-166
TSA'PHON. Carthaginian deity, 330
TUK-UL'TI-IN-AR-IS'TI. Son of Shalmaneser I; takes Babylon
and slays its king, Bitilyasu, 22
TUK-UL'TI-NIN'IP. Son of Shalmaneser I; inscriptions of, 351
TYRE. Sidon and, in touch with Assyria, 327


U

U-BA'RA-TU-TU. Shurippak son of, 173
UB'SHU-KEN'NA (or Upshukkina-ku). The 'brilliant chamber' where the sun takes his rise, 252, 253
UK'HUT. Eabani and, 129, 163;
one of the sacred women of the temple of Ishtar, 163
UKK'U-MU (Seizer). Attendant hound of Merodach, 202
UNDERWORLD, THE, 125, 128-132, 136;
Eabani descends into, 160;
description of, in VIIth of Gilgamesh tablets, 169
UR. City from whence Abram came, a near neighbour of Eridu, colonized by Nippur, 15;
fall of the dynasty, 20;
Nannar, the moon-god, of, 145-149;
the moon-city, 249, 251
U'ra. The legend of, 268-270
UR-A-GAL, 175
UR'BAU. Bau alluded to in inscriptions of, 144;
Zikkurat built by, at Nippur, 248
UR'GA. A town in Mesopotamia; equivalents, Caramit and Diarbekr, 52
UR-GUR. King of Assyria, 359, 366
UR-NIN'IB. Reference to pavement of, 366
U'RU. Canaanitish god of light; name found in Uru-Salim, 325
URU-AZ-AG'GA. Bau's temple at, 145
UR'UK. Place, 84
URU-KAG-I'NA. Bau alluded to in inscriptions of, 144
UT-NAP-ISH'TIM. Variant of Noah, 116, 160;
hero of Babylonian deluge myth, figures in Gilgamesh epic, 155, 158, 160;
Gilgamesh's ancestor, 170-173;
Gilgamesh seeks secret of perpetual life from, 173-178;
the deluge myth and, 173-178
UT-UKKU. Ghost of Eabani designated, 181;
an evil spirit, 276
UZ. God; worshipped under form of a goat, 93, 292
UZZ'I-EL, JONATHAN, BEN. The targum of, 267


V

VAMPIRES. Babylonian, 264-266
VAN. Lake, 331
VASH'TI. Reference to, 142;
Frazer on, 143
VED'IC GODS. Reference to, 77
VEGETATION. En-lil (Bel), a god of, 96;
Ishtar, 'great mother' of, 123, 137, 138, 168;
seven gates of Aralu and the decay of, 137;
Tammuz, a god of, 137, 138, 140;
Adonis and Aphrodite connected with, 139;
Ceres, a corn-mother, 139;
Proserpine, same nature, 139;
Osiris introduced corn into Egypt, 139;
Mordecai as god of, 144;
Humman an Elamite god of, 144
VE'NUS. Star;
Abram and, 55;
temple of, 58;
Ishtar and, 124, 235
VIR'GO, SIGN OF. Ishtar and the, 182


W

WAR. Ishtar, goddess of, 127, 213, 214;
-god, Ninib a, 214;
-god, Ramman a, 221
WAR-KÂ. Work of Loftus at, 346, 347
WATER. Purification by, 270
WATERS OF DEATH. Gilgamesh crosses, 158, 159
WESTERGAARD. Median language and, 65
WIND, SOUTH. Adapa and the, story of, 116-121;
variant, Shutu, 117
WINDOWS. None in Nebuchadrezzar's palace at Babylon, 369
WITCH. Known as Kassaptu, 261;
-finding, 272-275;
-orgies in France, 293
WIZARDS. Priestly, 260-262;
known as Kassapu, 261
WORD OF POWER, THE. The magicians of Chaldea and, 263
WORSHIP. Of gods by gods, 77;
of gods under animal forms, 92, 93;
of Bel, 98-101;
of Shamash, 109;
of Aa, 110;
of Ishtar, 124;
of Dagon, 151;
of Merodach, 184, 185;
of Nebo, 184, 185;
of Hadad, in Syria, 188;
of the Sun-god in Canaan and Phœnicia, 190;
of Dodo or Dod, by the side of Yahveh, 190;
of Ramman, 219, 220;
of Aztecs and Toltecs, 226, 227;
of stars, Babylonian, 231-238;
lunar, 236;
moon-, 249;
Semitic, and lamentations, 253;
of the gazelle and goat, 292-294;
of great earth-mother, 318, 319;
of ancestors; Canaanites, 326;
of Moloch, 328;
Carthaginian, 329-332;
Zoroastrian, 332-336;
of fire, 335, etc.
WRITING, CUNEIFORM. Restoration of, 60-67;
Josaphat Barbara and, 61;
Pietro della Valle and, 61;
Sir John Chardin and, 61;
Niebuhr and, 61;
Tychsen and, 61;
Münter and, 61;
Georg Grotefend, and, 62;
Professor Lassen and, 63;
Burnouf and, 63;
Major Henry Rawlinson and, 64-66;
Westergaard and, 65;
Morris and, 65;
Löwenstern and, 65;
Hinks and, 65;
Longpérier and, 66;
origin of, 66, 67;
on obelisk of Shalmaneser II, 343
WRITING-S. Religions, of Babylonia, 67;
of Oannes, 113-116;
Nebo credited, like Ea, with the invention of, 185;
Tashmit patron of, 185;
stars, the, of heaven, 231;
Zarathustrian sacred, 334


X

XER'XES, KING. Reference to, 141;
Esther, the crown-name of Jewish wife of, 143


Y

YAH'WEH. The Hebrew name of God, 49;
worship of, by the side of Dodo, by the Israelites, 190
YAR'AN. Sargon and, 210, 211
YEAR, NEW. See New


Z

ZAB. The river, 207
ZAG-MU'KU (Zak-muk). Festival of Sacæa or, 141;
goddess Bau and, 251
ZAK-MUK. See Zag-muku.
ZA'MAMA. Court of Ishtar and, 101
ZA-RA-THUS'TRA. See Zoroaster
ZAR-PA-NI'TUM. Goddess, wife of Merodach, 186, 202;
Ealur amalgamated with, 186
ZECH-A-RI'AH. Allusion of, to Hadad-Rimmon, 189
ZED-EK-I'AH. King of Jerusalem; Nebuchadrezzar and, 37
ZEUS. Reference to, 132, 315
ZIG-A-RUN. Variant of Apsu, 72
ZIK-KU-RAT-S. Staged towers;
described, 242, 246;
of Assur-bani-pal, 365
ZI'RAT-BA'NIT. The seat of, 306
ZIS-U'THROS, KING. Berossus substitutes, for Ut-Napishtim, 177, 178
ZO'DIAC. Signs of the, in the Babylonian astrological system, 183, 231, 232;
the goat, one of the signs of the, 292
ZOG-A'NES. The, of the Sacæa, 142
ZOR-O-AS'TER. The religion of, 332;
earliest form of name Zarathustra, 333;
a Mede, 333;
good and evil principles of religion of, 334
ZU. The storm-god;
retained a bird-like form, 93, 193-195;
legend of, 193-195
ZU-BIRD. The bird roc, in Arabian Nights, a possible descendant of, 193