The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia

Lecture II. Primitive Animism. 257 The ancient conception of the Zi lingered long among the Babylonian population. But, as the S ...

258 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia its fossilised relics in the old magical texts, which, like the spells and char ...

Lecture II. Primitive Animism. 259 Lil were transferred to the new creation of the Semitic mind, and the siren who lured men to ...

260 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia En-lil was accordingly the sovereign of the dead as well as of the spirits of t ...

Lecture II. Primitive Animism. 261 as the ranks of the vampire might be recruited from the dead, [284] so too might the class of ...

262 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia kings from their tombs at Susa. Sennacherib similarly desecrated [285] the buri ...

Lecture II. Primitive Animism. 263 declared she saw Elohim rising up from the earth in the form of an old man clothed in a mantl ...

264 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia The overlaying of primitive Sumerian animism by Semitic conceptions and beliefs ...

Lecture II. Primitive Animism. 265 texts probably forgot that the god had once been a chieflilor ghost and nothing more. This al ...

266 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia polytheism. How close this connection between the gods and the souls of men bec ...

Lecture II. Primitive Animism. 267 the Sumerian governor of Lagas; he who had ruled on earth, whether Semite or Sumerian, was ad ...

268 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia as to extract from them sober history. The poets who depicted Hades, with its b ...

Lecture II. Primitive Animism. 269 to be suppressed by force, as in ancient Israel; but for all that it stood outside the offici ...

270 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia the gods who inhabit the grave, I then presented.”^231 The gifts, it will be no ...

Lecture II. Primitive Animism. 271 from Eridu never succeeded in overcoming it altogether. The gods of light ruled, indeed, over ...

272 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia [296] the sun-god was the supreme judge of men, punishing in this life their si ...

Lecture III. The Gods Of Babylonia. I have already had occasion to refer to one of the gods of Babylonia, En-lil or El-lil of Ni ...

274 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia of controlling them. The spells and charms which have been handed down from the ...

Lecture III. The Gods Of Babylonia. 275 represent two diverse currents of belief, which may for a time run side by side, but nev ...

276 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia New ideas came from the south. Ea was a god, and like the gods of the Semitic r ...