The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia

Lecture VIII. The Myths And Epics. 397 and men.^327 And Gilgames was a man, the creation of the goddess Aruru, whose original bi ...

398 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia to create a rival to Gilgames, who might overcome him in the contest of strengt ...

Lecture VIII. The Myths And Epics. 399 manhood, and asked him to be her bridegroom.“If thou wilt be my husband,”she declared— “I ...

400 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia ‘Isullanu mine, let us eat the gourds together; put forth thine hand and touch ...

Lecture VIII. The Myths And Epics. 401 Accordingly he determines to visit Xisuthros,^331 the hero of the Deluge, who dwelt beyon ...

402 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia gate of her palace, and forbade him to cross the ocean; none had ever passed ov ...

Lecture VIII. The Myths And Epics. 403 Khammurabi.^334 Even the version contained in the Epic seems to be a combination of two e ...

404 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia was not its original cause. In the myth of Adapa, the first man, we find Anu la ...

Lecture VIII. The Myths And Epics. 405 those reed-huts which stood by the shore of the Persian Gulf, and in which Xisuthros—desp ...

406 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia smelt the sweet savour of the offering, and rejoiced that there were men still ...

Lecture VIII. The Myths And Epics. 407 question which forms the burden of the twelfth and last book of the Epic. Gilgames wander ...

408 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia birds, for instance, sent out by Xisuthros are three instead of two, as in the ...

Lecture VIII. The Myths And Epics. 409 omitted. There is no third alternative.” The Palestinian colouring of the Biblical versio ...

410 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia Babylonian myth of Atarpi, which similarly become men and women. But it is not ...

Lecture VIII. The Myths And Epics. 411 Egypt and Asia on the one hand, and the islands and shores of the Mediterranean on the ot ...

Lecture IX. The Ritual Of The Temple. The temple of the god was the centre and glory of every great Babylonian city. The Babylon ...

Lecture IX. The Ritual Of The Temple. 413 Its first name, Ê-kur,“the house of the earth”or“mountain,” continued always to cling ...

414 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia But the growth in height was not displeasing to the priestly builders. The high ...

Lecture IX. The Ritual Of The Temple. 415 drawn and stereotyped in writing must, it would seem, have been a mountainous one, lik ...

416 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia mountains than in the plain, and the memory of its birthplace was preserved by ...