The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia

Lecture VII. The Sacred Books. 377 Some of the incantations had even to be recited in a whisper, like certain parts of the Roman ...

378 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia without religious centralisation a common service-book and canon are not very p ...

Lecture VII. The Sacred Books. 379 “Show mercy to thy city of Babylon; to Ê-Saggil thy temple incline thy face; grant the prayer ...

380 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia an error of pronunciation was more fatal than a misunderstanding of their meani ...

Lecture VII. The Sacred Books. 381 “Direct the law of the multitudes of mankind! Thou art eternal righteousness in the heavens! ...

382 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia ritual, where the sorcerer first recited the incantation, and then called upon ...

Lecture VII. The Sacred Books. 383 punishment and listen to the repentant words of the sinner, the Babylonian polytheist was dis ...

384 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia the public cult. Indeed, the penitential psalm sometimes very nearly approaches ...

Lecture VII. The Sacred Books. 385 on them, and it is probable that they never received the sanction of the Babylonian priests; ...

386 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia O goddess whom I know and whom I know not, my sins are many, my transgressions ...

Lecture VII. The Sacred Books. 387 Overflowing with tears, take him by the hand! The sins I have sinned, turn to a blessing; the ...

Lecture VIII. The Myths And Epics. A lecture on the myths of Babylonia may perhaps seem out of place in a course, the subject of ...

Lecture VIII. The Myths And Epics. 389 fragments of a good many have been saved for us out of the wreckage of the past. But they ...

390 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia stage on which they move is human also. It was the pantheism of the Egyptian, i ...

Lecture VIII. The Myths And Epics. 391 them“like a small bread-basket.”But before they can reach their destination the destined ...

392 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia dealt so fully with the story of Tammuz in the various forms it assumed, as wel ...

Lecture VIII. The Myths And Epics. 393 underworld. There no mercy was shown her; the plague-demon was bidden to smite her with m ...

394 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia husband Kingu, who thereby became the acknowledged ruler of the world. The vict ...

Lecture VIII. The Myths And Epics. 395 had“planned evil because of former wickedness,”and it was long before his rage was appeas ...

396 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia in epical and mythological genius, the mixed race of Babylonia was in this resp ...