The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia

Lecture VI. Cosmologies. 357 folk-lore and legend, and that Tiamât is really what her name signifies, the chaos of waters. The p ...

358 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia Babylonian theologians transformed them into abstractions, or rather into Plato ...

Lecture VI. Cosmologies. 359 deep”were kept firmly barred. This is in flagrant contradiction with the cosmogony of the Introduct ...

360 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia arbiter of fortune, but its interpreter and seer. He learned from them how the ...

Lecture VI. Cosmologies. 361 He made the moon appear illuminating the night; he established it as the luminary of night that the ...

362 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia absorbed the prerogatives and attributes of the older gods; their virtues, as i ...

Lecture VI. Cosmologies. 363 that which inspires the cosmologies of Babylonia. Between the [396] polytheism of Babylonia and the ...

364 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia parents, after whom they were modelled. In so far, therefore, as the universe w ...

Lecture VII. The Sacred Books. Every organised religion has had its sacred books. They have been as indispensable to it as an or ...

366 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia object of which was to preserve the faithful from disease and mischief, to ward ...

Lecture VII. The Sacred Books. 367 themselves. They were, furthermore, the framework in which the hymns and spells were set; and ...

368 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia or explaining them in accordance with the orthodox creed; so too in ancient Bab ...

Lecture VII. The Sacred Books. 369 which breathed the later Semitic spirit, and were drawn up under the supervision of the Babyl ...

370 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia Nippur. In these older incantations the gods of the official cult are absent, e ...

Lecture VII. The Sacred Books. 371 or the spirit of the divine chanter of the spirit-hosts (En-me-sarra); or the spirit of the d ...

372 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia incantatory texts. The spirit of the sun became Samas, the spirit of the evenin ...

Lecture VII. The Sacred Books. 373 earth”which he has created, or the“king”of that“holy mound” [407] of waters which rose up aga ...

374 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia found its last expression in the legend of the struggle between Merodach and th ...

Lecture VII. The Sacred Books. 375 “In the mountain of the sunset, it is said,“those seven were born;” in the mountain of the su ...

376 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia are written throughout in Semitic Babylonian;^318 and though two out of the nin ...