Feb.4] SOCIETYOF BIBLICAL ARCH/EOLOGY. [1890.as connected with the planet Venus; Istar - Venus is, however,
generallycalled £-£fE^f »*-J»-^f>*Nin-H-an-na, " Lady-of-the-
garden-of-heaven. "
Line 7 couples as also regentdivinities of " The LittleTwins,"
'IluSi-du," and the goddess Ninsar,"whosenameoccurs,too, in
the second part of line 6. "The goddess Sidu" appearsto be
" Siduri, the Istar of wisdom." f As Si-du = ' eye ' + " the goer," }
we have herea lunar Istar,appropriatelypresiding overthe stars of
the Bull, and afterwards reduplicatedin a planetary Istar.Line8, Star No. VI.Kakkab Sar | D.P.Maruduk
The-Starof-theKing. \ Merddax
Prof.Sayceremarksof the Akkadian Pantheon,that" its several
personages,mostlyformsof the Sun, wereidentifiedwith[or, rather,
as I should preferto express it —were reduplicated in] the planets
and the stars." § Thus, in W.A.I. Ill,53, 2, we find thatMerodax,
who is primarily the Sun,was reduplicated in various stars in
differentmonths, andin the month Tebetwas Sarru, " the King.''
a word usedby the Akkadai in the borrowed formSar,= Akkadian,
Un-gal," Great-man," = ' King."
Es verehren" (DieFinnischeAlythologie,p. 228). He gives AsaandYtytas
southSiberianforms(Ibid.,p. 186). It reappears in the well-known Etruscan
Ais-ar('god,'or, rather 'gods.' VideSuetonius,Augustus,c. 97 ; Hesychios:
Atffot'8eoitriro Tvppqvdf). Thetar in Is-/a/- = the Ak. tur,'small,''young'
(cf. Ak. /ur-rak, -rakki," little-woman" = ' daughter '), Finnic tar, 'son,' 'child,'
ty-tar,'girl,'Mordvintsora,'son,'MagyarlUr,'girl,'AsiaticTurkictura(vide
Lenormant, Chaldean Magic, pp. 300-1), Etruscanetera, 'child.' 7s-tar=
"Heaven-child,"" Daughter-of-Heaven." Taris the most commonendingfor
the names of the female mythologicalpersonagesmentionedin the KaUvala, the
greatepicpoemof Finland, e.g.,Etele-far(a daughter of the South-wind), lima-
tar (Daughter of the Air), Kaleva-/a»-(the Daughter of Kaleva= ' Hero'), Lowya-
tar (the Daughter of Tuoni, the god of death ; cf. the Ak. god Tu, ' Death '), etc
- Vide W.A.I.II, 57, 20.
t W.A.I. IV, 58-9, Col.iv, line 2, ap. Sayce. Mr.Boscawenreads"the
goddessof wisdom" ( Transactions, VI, p. 540), ' Istar' being usedat timesin the
generalsenseof goddess.
J Cf. the Hellenic moon-name16, "the Goer." Cifalso = "to wax"(as
the moon).
§ Transactions, Til, p. 166.
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