The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia

Lecture III. The Gods Of Babylonia. 277 god. En-lil of Nippur had to yield to the influence of the stranger. The antiquity of hi ...

278 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia Sumerian family the woman held a foremost place by the side of the man. It was ...

Lecture III. The Gods Of Babylonia. 279 was lord of the city as well. He had as it were migrated from the deep; he had left his ...

280 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia of Eridu.^236 But in the days when she is first known to us by contemporaneous ...

Lecture III. The Gods Of Babylonia. 281 the waters of the Persian Gulf seemed to descend from the vault of heaven which rested u ...

282 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia of the Sumerian faith. Their attributes had been taken from them, and they had ...

Lecture III. The Gods Of Babylonia. 283 inhabitants of Erech knew nothing of it. For them Anu was the protecting god of their ci ...

284 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia was the chief among the spirits of the earth, so it is probable that Ana was ch ...

Lecture III. The Gods Of Babylonia. 285 of Anu were accepted in the Semitic West; when Babylonian culture made its way to Canaan ...

286 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia Erech became the capital of the kingdom, and it was perhaps at this time that i ...

Lecture III. The Gods Of Babylonia. 287 princes, made Ea the guardian and guide of the monarchy in the south. For their worshipp ...

288 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia [314] Northern, Central, and Southern Chaldæa, whose sanctuaries were the oldes ...

Lecture III. The Gods Of Babylonia. 289 and its Semitic population was therefore probably large. Harran, the other seat of the m ...

290 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia that the moon-god proceeded. It may be that Sin had once been one of the spirit ...

Lecture III. The Gods Of Babylonia. 291 the rise of Semitic influence all the attributes associated with a Semitic Baal gathered ...

292 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia and the 1st chapter of Genesis, with its“evening and morning,” perpetuates the ...

Lecture III. The Gods Of Babylonia. 293 and became the mere double of her husband. Samas absorbed her attributes and worship, an ...

294 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia given while as yet the Sumerian was dominant. This raises the question whether ...

Lecture III. The Gods Of Babylonia. 295 lower rank in the divine hierarchy or in the public cult. Thus Samas helps to form the s ...

296 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia [323] ...