The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia

Lecture IX. The Ritual Of The Temple. 437 But the custom was really the exaggeration in the Greek age of Babylonian history of t ...

438 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia not eat flesh cooked at the fire or in the smoke. His clothes he must not chang ...

Lecture IX. The Ritual Of The Temple. 439 come to know more of the ritual of Babylonia, the resemblance it bears to that of the ...

Lecture X. Astro-Theology And The Moral Element In Babylonian Religion. A hundred years ago, writers on the history or philosoph ...

441 was elaborated in the schools. Astronomy, like all other sciences, was under the control of the priests, the observatory ros ...

442 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia spirit of Ea, and the son of Ea, it must be remembered, became a sun-god.“Thezi ...

443 Sippara, had become his wife under Semitic influence,^389 and from Sippara the conception of a solar goddess passed to the S ...

444 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia that Sargon of Akkad, who first brought the civilisation and arts of Babylonia ...

445 writer he“alone is supreme in heaven and earth.”He is the creator of the universe; he is also the universal“Father,” “long- ...

446 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia could never be; they became the hosts that he marshalled in fight against the e ...

447 underworld, a father of the stars of night who makes the green herb grow in the earth below. In En-me-sarra,“the enchanter o ...

448 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia is little evidence. We look in vain for anything analogous to the judgment-hall ...

449 landmark, or has he refused to set up a true landmark? Has he removed bound, border, or landmark? Has he broken into his nei ...

450 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia “If he smites a man of Sippara and gives a wrong decision, the sun-god, who jud ...

451 the ideas connected with them were borrowed too. In the gloom of that underworld, where the ghosts of the dead fed on dust a ...

452 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia sorcerer. But with the arrival of the Semite, and the consequent transformation ...

453 When thou makest a promise (to give), give and [hold] not [back].” Already, in the age of Khammurabi, the author of the stor ...

454 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia But it must be remembered that the judgeship of the son-god and the fatherhood ...

455 god's place. The Semitic Baal was a lord or king of human shape and passions. He thus stood in marked contrast to the Sumeri ...

456 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia partly dependent on a belief in a doctrine of vicegerency, which, in combinatio ...