The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia

Lecture IV. The Sun-God And Istar. 317 termination that had been added to her name. Wherever, in fact, Semitic influence prevail ...

318 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia Assyria became kings also of Babylon that Istar encroached on the rights of Ass ...

Lecture V. Sumerian And Semitic Conceptions Of The Divine: Assur And Monotheism. In the preceding lectures I have assumed that t ...

320 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia whom he adopted as his son; the sun-god who rises between the twin mountains of ...

321 and the temple of Merodach at Babylon was also known as his tomb. As the gods were born, so could they die; they could marry ...

322 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia god. At Babylon he was made the adopted son of Bel-Merodach by taking the hand ...

323 supremacy. The apotheosis of the king is thus coeval with the rise of Semitic domination in Babylonia. In the older Sumerian ...

324 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia and of the Chinese storm-bird,“which, in flying, obscures the sun, and of whose ...

325 The change of form was due to the same striving to humanise the superhuman beings of Sumerian belief as that which had given ...

326 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia guarding the waters of life, while the Igigi or angels dwelt rather with the go ...

327 at the time of the Deluge, while the Anunna-ki followed him with their blazing torches; and he is the brother of En-nugi, th ...

328 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia [358] must once have dwelt beneath the earth, and been himself one of those spi ...

329 ancestors. The difference is racial: wherever we find the Semite, in all periods of his history, his gods are human and not ...

330 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia be herded together in the indistinguishable crowd of spirits of heaven and eart ...

331 the Semitic conception of divinity. If Baal were a counterpart of the human father, there would be a divine family and a div ...

332 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia of Borsippa to the god of Babylon, and included him among the inferior deities ...

333 his ears and enlightened his eyes,”so that he had collected and republished the books and tablets of the kings who had gone ...

334 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia and with the political rise of the neighbouring city of Babylon is degraded int ...

335 that the tablet published by Dr. Pinches, to which I have already alluded in the last lecture, identifies the chief gods of ...

336 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia in other similarly compounded names. Between the deified city and the deified r ...