The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia

Lecture IV. The Sun-God And Istar. It is thus that Nebuchadrezzar addresses his god in the plenitude of his glory and power— “To ...

298 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia had been but one of the many villages of Babylonia, Merodach had been its presi ...

Lecture IV. The Sun-God And Istar. 299 goblin”; and the fact that the sun-god was known to have once been anutukor“goblin”seemed ...

300 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia Asari is a difference that runs through the whole of Egyptian and Babylonian th ...

Lecture IV. The Sun-God And Istar. 301 god of Babylon are one and the same. It was but gradually that he attained his high posit ...

302 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia transferred to Merodach the sovereignty of the civilised world; the power of Ni ...

Lecture IV. The Sun-God And Istar. 303 name he became“the merciful one who brings back the dead to life.”The ceremony was not co ...

304 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia it. As is the man, so is the god, for the one has been made in the likeness of ...

Lecture IV. The Sun-God And Istar. 305 It passed into the person of the other deity; the two gods were [332] identified together ...

306 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia him; the supremacy of En-lil, the wisdom of Ea, the glory of Anu, alike became ...

Lecture IV. The Sun-God And Istar. 307 as seemed to him good. Originally the first among his peers, he ended—at least in the bel ...

308 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia history did not begin with the rise of Babylon to power, much as the priests of ...

Lecture IV. The Sun-God And Istar. 309 his words might often have been those of a Jew; and even at an earlier date the moon-god ...

310 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia denoted the Semitic goddess; Semitised though she might be, she continued to be ...

Lecture IV. The Sun-God And Istar. 311 wife of the sun-god was the goddess Â. But  had once been the sun-god himself, and texts ...

312 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia hand, was adapted, though imperfectly, to Semitic modes of thought. She took up ...

Lecture IV. The Sun-God And Istar. 313 moon. But in the Babylonian system the triad of Istar, Sin, and Samas was not made, they ...

314 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia similarly demanded the service of its daughters. It was the same in Canaan as a ...

Lecture IV. The Sun-God And Istar. 315 religion, she was also the Istar of the popular creed, of the creed of that part of the p ...

316 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia banks of the Euphrates, which is distinguished in the inscriptions from the Sip ...