mother of mankind, 'chief daughter of Anu,'144,145;Zag-mukuand,251BE-DADorBEN-DAD. The father of the Edomite Hadad,190BE-EL'ZE-BUB. Magic and,258BE-HIS-TÛN. Persian text at,65BEL. Babylonian sun-god,41;the Dragon and71;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,364Bel, The Observations of. In library founded by Sargon,18;translated into Greek by Berossus,18BEL'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,227BEL-KU'DUR-U'ZUR. The last of the old Assyrian line, killed by Hadad-nadin-akhi,23BEL-MER'O-DACH. Babylonian god;avenged by Cyrus,41;son of Ea and Dawkina,73;absorbed into the Assyrian pantheon,225BE'LOS.Seevariant, Bel-Merodach,73BEL-TE-SHAZZ'AR. Babylonian appellation for Daniel,37BEL'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,364BEL'US. Temple of;mound of Bâbil identified with,103;delineations of animals preserved in temple of,114;variant, Dis,114BEL-ZAK'IR-ISK'UN. Descendant of Assur-bani-pal,306,307BE-NA'NI. God;husband of Melili,82BE-NI'NI. King of the monsters,295,296BER-OSS'US.1. Babylonian historian;translatesThe Observations of Belinto Greek,18;narrative of,recreation of man,81;his statementreEa 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,127BILÉ. A Celtic deity,317BINT-EL-AMIR. Hill of,358,361,362,365BIRD MESSENGERS. Ut-Napishtim sends out,176BIRS NIMRÛD. Ruins of,103BIT-ILI, THE. Sacred stones,19BIT-IL-YA'SU. King of Babylon, slain by Tukulti-in-Aristi,22BOMBAY. The Parsis of,336BOR-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,184BOTTA, M. Archæological researches at Nineveh,46;French Consul at Mosul;his excavations in Mesopotamia,339,340BRITISH MUSEUM. Bricks in, containing Assur-bani-pal's researches,35,71,154,155,290;obelisk of Shalmaneser II in,343BULL. Sacred, slain by Gilgamesh and Eabani,158;Ramman's name the great,220;forms of Ea and Merodach,290BULL, WINGED.Symbol of and En-lil,97;associated with Merodach,289,290BURMESE. Attitude of, to the dead,269BUR'NA-BUR'YAS. King of Babylonia,22BURNOUF. Cuneiform writing and,63BUR-SIN. Repairs Urbau's zikkurat,248;shrine to Bel dedicated by,364BYB'LUS. Journey of Isis to,328;Philo of,328CCA'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,346CALMET, ABBÉ. Disbelief of, in vampires,266CAL'NEH. Part of Nimrod's kingdom,49CAM-BY'SES. Son of Cyrus,41CANAANITES, THE. First historic dwellers in Syria and Palestine,324-326;gods of,325,326;ancestor-worship and,326CANNING, SIR STRATFORD. Sir Henry Layard assisted by, in his excavations at Nimrûd,340CAPRICORNUS, SIGN OF. Sea-goddess Sabitu and,183CAPTIVITY, THE BABYLONIAN,321-323CARAVAN. The story of the missing,285-288CAR-CHE'MISH. Worship of Hadad extended from, to Edom,189CARTHAGE. 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,332CELTIC. Teutonic religion and, compared,317;deity; Bilé a,317CE'RES. Reference to,133CHAL'CHIS. Iamblichus a native of,56CHALDEAN MYTHOLOGY. The sign Gemini, associated with the two formsof the solar deity in,182CHAL-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,339CHA'OS. Tiawath,193CHARDIN, JOHN. Cuneiform writing and,61CHE'MOSH. God of the Moabite king, Mesha,190CHRISTIANITY. Initiated by Semitic race,313;Jewish influence upon,320CHRO'NOS. Berossus substitutes for Ea in the version of the deluge myth quoted in his history,177CHUS. The Æthiop;equivalents, Cush, or Cash (a coloured race),49;father of Nimrod,49CIRCLE, THE MAGIC. Chaldean sorcerers and,275,276CODE, MORAL. Of the Babylonians,338COLOSSI. Gate of,101;example of art of which Ea was patron,229COR-CY'RE-AN MOUNTAINS. Reference to, by Berossus,44CORN-SPIRITS. The primitive,139CORNWALL. Phœnicians in,331COSMOGONY. Babylonian,70-87;Jastrow's opinion,84;type of,84-87CREATION. Babylonian myth of,70-87;story of, in Genesis; myths found in Egyptian papyri; and that in thePopol 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,323CTES'I-AS. His talereParsondes,146-149;reference to,367CUNE-I-FORM TEXTS. Merodach and,200CUNEIFORM WRITING.SeeWritingCUSH, orCASH.Seeequivalent, ChusCU'THAH. Temple of Nergal at,82,94,105,296CU-THÆ'AN LEGEND, THE. Of creation,294-296CYAXARES. Scythian king of Ecbatana,36;son of, dethroned by Achæmenidæ,333CYBE'LÉ. The mother-goddess,132CYPRUS. Among the conquests of Sargon,18;communication between Babylonia and island of,19;worship of Ashtart at,327CYRUS, KING. The worship of Bel and,98-101CYRUS 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,378DDA'DA. Abbreviated form of Abd-Hadad;resemblances between Hadad, Dido, Davad, and, 189-191;Shalmaneser (II) speaks of,189DAG'AN. Palestinian form of Dagon;a fish-god, same as Oannes or Ea,216,217;associated with Bel,217;Anu and,198DAG'ON. God Atargatus worshipped under the name of,27;a fish-god,151,152;an Amorite deity,325DAM'AS. One of the two eunuchs appointed to watch Rhodanes and Sinonis,57DAM-AS'CI-US. The last of the Neoplatonists,72;author ofDoubts and Solutions of the First Principles,73DAM-AS'CUS. Worship of Hadad at, under name of Rimmon,189;worship of Ramman in,220DAM'KU. One of the lesser Babylonian gods,229DAN'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,98-101DA'ON. The shepherd king of Pantibiblon,112DA-O'NUSorDAOS. King of Babylonia,videBerossus,127DAR-I'US. Babylonia independence recovered after death of,41;defeated at Arbela,378DA'VID. Resemblances between Hadad, Dáda, Dido, and,189-191;variants, Dod, Dodo,190DAW-KI'NA. Belos (Bel-Merodach), the son of Ea, and,73;saved from the deluge,115;Ishtar identified with,127,137;consort of Ea,197DE MORGAN. Unearths monument of Naran-Sin at Susa,17;copy of Khammurabi's code found by,21DE SAR'ZEC, ERNEST. French vice-consul at Basra;diorite statues of Gudea (2700B.C.) found by,47;excavations of, at Tellô,355,356;Découvertes en Chaldée par, reference to,356DEAD. 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,362DELLA VALLE, PIETRO. Cuneiform writing and,61DELPHI. Worshippers of Apollo send offerings to,330DELUGE, THE. Berossus' account of,42-45;reference to account of, inGilgamesh 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.,115DEMETER. Tanit compared with,330DEMONOLOGY. Of Babylonia and Assyria,257-288DEMONS. Many Babylonian gods evolved from,268;Babylonian, described,276-278DESTINY. Mammetum, the maker of,173;Zu and the Tablets of,193-195;the Lia Fail, the Stone of, reference to,248DEVIL-S. Possession by,262DI-A'NA. Goddess,235,319DI-BARR'A. A variant of Nergal,106;a Babylonian deity placed in the Assyrian pantheon,229DI'DO. Resemblances between Hadad, Dáda, David, and,189-191;Queen of Carthage,329;Tanit identified with,331DIS. Variant of Belus,114DIVINATION. Practice of, by Babylonians and Assyrians,281-288;Shamash, Hadad, and Rimmon, 'lords of —,'283;Phœnicians' belief in,329DIVINITIES, TRIBAL. The most outstanding,94DIVS. Arch-demons and demons,334DODorDODO.SeeDavid;worship of, by the side of Yahveh,190DOG-S. The, in Babylonia;five hounds of Assur-bani-pal,290,291;legend of a,291,292DRAGON, 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,337DREAM-S. Nebuchadrezzar's, and Daniel,37-40;of Gyges, King of Lydia,302,303DU-MU-ZI. A contraction of Du-mu-zi-apsu;name of Tammuz derived from,126DUN'GI. Gudea vassal of the throne of,19DYNASTY. '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,333EE'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;mythrecreation 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,292EA-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, designatedutukku,181EAGLE. Symbol of Kis,294,296;Babylonian fablerethe,296-298EA-LUR. Goddess;amalgamated with Zarpanitum,186E-ANNA. Temple of, at Erech,250E-ANNA-TUM. Shamash first mentioned in reign of,109;'stele of vultures' erected by, discovered by de Sarzec,355EARTH. TheAnnunaki, the spirits of,90;-mother, worship of,318,319E-BABB'ARA. 'The shining house';name of Shamash's sanctuary,109,249EC-BA-TA'NA. Cyaxares, the Scythian king of,36ECLIPSE. Terror of, to Babylonians,255,256;