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exceedingly appropriate for a star or an asterism which marks
(and may have marked at a remote period) the flowfrom the
Urn. The"Channel"star mayhavebecome the "Foundation"
star by a secondary meaning. " The channelsof waters " (ai ir,^al
my i&artuv) are connected by the Hebrew poetwith" the founda
tionsOf the world " * (to 0efie\ia T;y« olicov/ievns).\ In this partof
the heaven is situated the Great Deep,wherein swim Cetus("the
Sea-monster"),the three Fish,the Dolphin, andthe Sea-goat ; and
its position here in connexion withthe ' Foundation ' and ' Goat'
stars, alike at the beginning and end of things, is in perfect
accordance with Sumero-Akkadian beliefrespecting the Abzu or
"wateryabysswhichwasthe source of all things," J and whichin
one aspect is, and in another contains,the Tiamat or CV/«j-monster.§
The ruling divinityof the " Star of the Foundation " is appro
priatelythe god Sar,Ak. An-sar, the power of the upper expanse,
who is named in the Creation Legend,and whose name" is generally
read Assur as a deity in later times,beingan ordinary symbolfor
the supreme godof the Assyrians." || His position in the interesting
Euphratean Theogony preservedby Damaskios, is shown by the
followingtable:—
Ziku(Gk. Sige)
I L ■ -1
Tiamat =F Apsu
(Gk.Tauthe) j (Gk.Apason)
Mummu(Gk.Moumis)
I
Lakhmu
(Gk.Lache)
r Lakhamu 1
(Gk.Lachos)
I " 1
Kisar =p Ansar
(Gk.Kissare) (Gk.Assoros)
I 1 —' 1
Ana (Gk. Anos) Elimma(Gk.Illimos) Ea (Gk. Aos)=pDavkina(Gk.Dauke)
Bilu(Gk.Belos)
III.
The very prominent positionof the Goat in archaic religionand* Psalm, xviii,15. + LXX, in loc.
t Vide Sayce,Ret. And. Babylonians,374. TheSumerianzuab-abzu,Semitic
"flu,seemsto have beenthe origin of the famous magicalwordJd<//,saidto
mean"thesea"(videClemensAlex.,Stromata,V, 8).
I Vide Robt.Brown,Jun.,Eridanus,Riverand Constellation, 16.
I! Smith, ChaldeanAccountof Genesis, 61.
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