The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia

Lecture I. Introductory. 237 and belief; it is not sufficient to know the literal meaning of its technical terms, or the mere or ...

238 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia Unfortunately we have nothing in Babylonia that corresponds with the Pyramid te ...

Lecture I. Introductory. 239 immediately adjoining the Babylonian plain, but over the whole of Western Asia as well. Long before ...

240 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia While Eridu looked seaward, Nippur looked landward, and the [261] influences th ...

Lecture I. Introductory. 241 beneath the earth, or in the air by which we are surrounded. He was the master of spells and incant ...

242 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia with the early civilisation of Babylonia. Foreign ideas made their way into the ...

Lecture I. Introductory. 243 Like Egypt, Babylonia was originally divided into several independent States. From time to time one ...

244 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia to the shores of the Mediterranean. This was the empire of Sargon of Akkad, and ...

Lecture I. Introductory. 245 person of Khammurabi or Ammurapi, of the Arabian dynasty; he drove the Elamites out of Babylonia, d ...

246 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia the supremacy also of the divinity to whom it was dedicated; its decay involved ...

Lecture I. Introductory. 247 of religion, but of culture as well, and this culture was essentially religious. For unnumbered cen ...

248 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia Asia. The result was that their language and script spread far and wide; wherev ...

Lecture I. Introductory. 249 influenced by the Babylonians than the Babylonians by them. Their own culture was inferior, and Bab ...

250 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia “Sabbath,”is derived from the Sumeriansa,“heart,”andbat,“to cease”or“rest,”and ...

Lecture I. Introductory. 251 was but a child, the offspring of a later day; and even when he became supreme in Babylonia, the fa ...

252 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia animated them, and the religious ritual which they observed. But such inscripti ...

Lecture I. Introductory. 253 yet ripe. [276] ...

Lecture II. Primitive Animism. Deep down in the very core of Babylonian religion lay a belief in what Professor Tylor has called ...

Lecture II. Primitive Animism. 255 reason seemed to demand that what held true of himself must hold true also of the rest of the ...

256 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia of the tomb. The child had his favourite toys to play with, the woman her neckl ...