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Dadu (dä´dü), Ramman as, 57.
Dagan (däg´an), the Babylonian, identical with Ea, 31; Nippur temple of, 131; under Isin Dynasty, 132.
Dagda (dag´da), the Irish corn god, 33, 238.
Dagon (dag´on), Jah and Ea as, 31; Dagan and, 31, 32; as a fish and corn deity, 32; Baal-dagon and, 32; offering of mice to, 32, 33.
Daguna (däg´ü-na), Dagon and Dagan and, 31.
Daityas (dait´yăs), the Indian, like Babylonian demons, 34.
Damascius, on Babylonian deities, 328.
Damascus, Aramæan state of, 390; Israel and Judah subject to, 395, 396; Asa's appeal to, 404; conflict with Assyria, 407; Judah and Israel allied against, 408; murder of Ben-hadad II, 410; Palestine subject to, 414; Israel overcomes, 449; conquered by Adad-nirari IV, 438, 439.
Damik-ilishu (dam-ik-il-i´shü), last king of Isin Dynasty, 133.
Damkina (dam´ki-na), wife of Ea, 33, 34; demon attendants of, 63; as mother of Ea, 105; as mother of Enlil, 139; Zerpanitum and, 160; association of with moon, 436; creatrix and, 437.
Damu (dä´mü), the fairy goddess of dreams, 77, 78.
Danavas (dän´ăvas), the Indian, like Babylonian demons, 34.
Dancing, the constellations, 333.
Danes, harvest god as patriarch of, 92.
Daniel, Nebuchadrezzar's "fiery furnace", 349.
Danu (dä-nü), the Irish goddess, 268.
Daonus or Daos, the shepherd, Tammuz as, 83, 86.
Darius I, claims to be Achæmenian, 496; plots against Merodach cult, 497.
Darius II, death of at Babylon, 497.
Darius III, Alexander the Great overthrows, 497.
Dasa (dä´să), the Indian, as "foreign devil", 67.
Dasyu (däsh´yoo), the Indian, as "foreign devil", 67.
Date palm, in Babylonia, 25.
David, the ephod used by, 213, 214, 388.
Dead, the, Nergal lord of, 56; ghosts of searching for food, 70, 71; Osiris lord of, 86; charms, weapons, and food for, 206; "houses" of, 206-208; spirits of as warriors and fishermen, 212.
Death, eagle of, 168; the Roman, 169; Hercules and, 170.
Death, the sea of, in Gilgamesh epic, 178 et seq.
Death, the stream of, 56.
Deer, associated with Lagash goddess, 120.
Deities, the local, 43, 44; food and water required by, 44; the mead of, 45; early groups of in Egypt and Sumeria, 105, 106; made drunk at banquet, 144.
Deluge Legend, Smith translates, xxii. . See Flood Legends.
Demeter (de-me´ter), the goddess, Poseidon as lover of, 33, 103.
Demons, the Babylonian Ocean, 34; gods as, 35, 62, 135; Enlil lord of, 35, 63; Tiamat and Apsu as, 37, 38, 64; Tiamat's brood, 140, 141, 214, 215; "ceremonies of riddance", 58; as sources of misfortune, 60; in images, 61; the winged bull, &c., 65; the "will-o´-the-wisp", 66, 67; Anu as father of, 63, 68; as lovers, 67, 68; Adam's first wife Lilith, 67; ghosts as, 69, 215; penetrate everywhere, 71, 72; as pigs, horses, goats, &c., 71; Set pig of Egypt, 85; as wind hags, 72, 73; the Zu bird, 74; Indian eagle, 166; association of with gods, 76; the serpent mother one of the, 74-76; the Jinn, 78; as composite monsters, 79; the Teutonic Beli, 95; in mythology and folk lore, 151 et seq.; the Gorgons, 159; King of Cuthah's battle against, 214, 215; disease germs as, 234.
De Morgan, pottery finds by, 263.
Derceto (der-ke´to), fish goddess, Semiramis and, 277, 418, 423; mermaid form of, 426; Atargatis legend, 426, 427; dove symbol of, 432; legends attached to, 437.
De Sarzec, M., xxiii.
"Descent of Ishtar", poem, 95 et seq.
Destroyer, the, "World Mother" as, xxx, 100; Ninip as, 53; goddess Nin-sun as, 57; Enlil and Nergal as, 62, 63, 303; Egyptian and Indian deities as, 63, 85, 157, 336; Cronos as, 64; "Shedu" bull as, 65; Set boar as, 85; Babylonian boar god as, 86; eagle as, 168, 169; "winged disk" as, 336; sun as, 336; Thor, Ashur, Tammuz, and Indra each as, 340.
Diarmid, the Celtic, Tammuz-Adonis and, 84, 87; water of life myth, 186, 187; Totemic boar and, 293.
Dietrich (dēt´rēch: 'ch' as in loch) as the thunder god, 74, 164.
Diodo´rus, on Babylonian star lore, 309.
Disease, Nergal the god of, 53, 54; goddess of, 77; demons of, 60, 63, 77.
Divorce, in Babylonia, 227.
Doctors, laws regarding, 230, 231; Herodotus on, 231; Assyrian king and, 231, 232.
Doves, goddesses and, 418; Semiramis protected after birth by, 424; goddess of Cyprus and, 426; Aphrodite and, 427; Ishtar and Gula and, 427, 428; associated with temples and homes, 428; in Gilgamesh epic, 428; deities identified with, 429; ravens and, 429; sacred at Mycenæ, 430; snakes and in Crete, 430; sacred among Semites and Hittites, 430; Egyptian lovers and, 431; pigeon lore in England, Ireland, and Scotland, 431; fish and, 432; Totemic theory, 432 et seq.; antiquity of veneration of, 433, 434; sacrificed in Israel, 439; the Persian eagle legend and, 493.
Dragon, the, of Babylon, 62; in group of seven spirits, 63; Tiamat as the female, 38, 64; Tiamat as ocean, 15, as "fire drake", "worm", &c., 151; "Ku-pu" of Tiamat, 147; heart of, 147 n.; liver vulnerable part of, 153; the male, 156 (see Apsu); Biblical references to, 114, 157, 158; Eur-Asian variations of myth of, 151, 152; well of at Jerusalem, 152; the Egyptian, 156; Sutekh as slayer of, 157; Merodach as slayer of (see Merodach).
Drake, the Fire, the Babylonian, 66, 67; dragon as, 151.
Dreams, the fairy goddess of, 77, 78.
Drink traffic, women monopolized in Babylonia, 229.
Drinking customs, religious aspect of, 45; inspiration from blood, 48; the gods drunk at Anshar's banquet, 144.
Dungi (dün´gi), King of Ur, 130; daughters of as rulers, 130; an Ea worshipper, 131.
Dyaus (rhymes with "mouse"), displaced by Indra, 302.
Dying gods, the eternal goddess and the, 101 et seq.; death a change of form, 305.
Ea (ā´ä), god of the deep, Ashurbanipal and, xxii, xxiii; a typical Babylonian god, xxviii, xxix, 27; Oannes and, 27, 30; as world artisan like Ptah and Indra, 30; connection of with sea and Euphrates, 28, 29, 39; as sea-demon, 62; names of, 30, 39, as fish and corn god, 32; Dagon, Poseidon, Neptune, Frey, Shony, &c., and, 31, 33; Dagon and Dagan, 31; Ea as Dagan at Nippur, 131; as Ya, or Jah, of Hebrews, 31; fish of, 294; Indian Varuna and, 31, 34, 209; wife of as earth lady, 33;
wife of as mother, 105; Anu and, 34; Enlil and, 35; demons of, 35, 63; in early triad, 36, 37, 463; Indian Vishnu and, 38; as dragon slayer, 38, 140, 153, 157; Adapa, son of, a demon slayer, 72, 73; in demon war, 77; as "great magician", 38, 46; moon god and, 40, 50, 51, 53; solar attributes of, 50, 51, 53; food supply and, 43; beliefs connected with, 44; Nusku as messenger of, 50; Nebo a form of, 303, 435; gods that link with, 57, 58; as form of Anshar, 125; family of including Merodach and Tammuz, 72, 73, 82; daughter of, 117; Merodach supplants, 158; Enlil as son of, 139; Ashur as son of, 348; planetary gods and, 304; worshipped at Lagash, 116; earliest form of, 134; under Isin Dynasty, 132; in Creation legend, 138 et seq.; astral "field" of, 147, 307; constellations and, 296; Merodach directs decrees of, 149; Etana and eagle visit heaven of, 166; in flood legend, 190 et seq.; as Aos, 328; the goat and, 333; as "high head", 334; Sargon II and, 463.
Ea-bani (ā´ä-bä´ni), 41, 42; ghost of as "wind gust", 48, 49; goat demi-god, 135; lured from the wilds, 173; as ally of Gilgamesh, 174; Ishtar's wooing, 174, 175; slaying of Ishtar's bull, 176; death of, 176, 177; ghost of invoked by Gilgamesh, 183, 184.
Eagle, the, Sumerian Zu bird and Indian Garuda eagle, 74, 75, 165, 166, 168, 169, 330, 346, 347; the lion headed as Nin-Girsu (Tammuz), 120, 135; in Etana myth, 165; in Nimrod myth, 166, 167; in Alexander the Great legend, 167; in Scottish folk tale, 167, 168; as soul carrier, 168; Roman Emperor's soul and, 169; Hercules and, 170, 349; Gilgamesh protected at birth by, 171; Persian patriarch protected at birth by, 493; the Totemic theory, 293, 493; wheel of life and, 346, 347; Ashur and Horus and, 343; wings of on Ashur disk, 351, 352.
Eagle stone, as a birth charm, 165.
Eagle tribe, the ancient, 493.
Eannatum (ā´än-nä´tum), King of Lagash, a great conqueror, 118, 119; rules Ur and Erech, 119; works of, 119; mound burial in period of, 214.
Earth children, elves and dwarfs as, 292, 292 n.
Earth spirits, males among father worshippers, 105; the Egyptian, Teutonic, Aryan, and Siberian, 105; elves and fairies as, 294, 295.
Earth worship, moon and stone worship and, 52.
Ecclesiastes, "Lay of the Harper", "Song of the Sea Lady" and, 179, 180.
Ecke (eck-ā), Tyrolese storm demon, 74.
Eclipse foretold by Assyrian and Babylonian astronomers, 321, 322; the Ahaz sundial record, 323; Babylonian records of, 324; in reign of Ashur-dan III, 442.
Ecliptic, when divided, 322.
Edinburgh, the giant Arthur of, 164.
Edom, Judah and, 402, 409, 448; tribute from to Assyria, 439.
Education, in Hammurabi Age, 251.
Egg, the, goddess Atargatis born of, 28, 426; thorn as life in, 352.
Egypt, agricultural festivals in, xxxi; debt of modern world to, xxxv; prehistoric agriculture in, 6; Mediterranean race in, 7; early shaving customs, 5, 9, 10; theory copper first used in, 12; social status of women in, 16; early gods of and Sumerian, 26, 36, 37; creative tears of deities of; 45; lunar worship in, 52; god and goddess cults in, 105; Great Mother Nut of, 166; at dawn of Sumerian history, 114; bearded deities of, 136; dragon of, 156; "Lay of Harper" and Sumerian "Song of Sea Lady", 178, 179; flood legend of, 197; feast of dead in, 206; burial customs and Sumerian, 209-214; Hyksos invasion and Hittite raid on Babylon, 259; culture debt of to Syria, 275; prehistoric Armenoid invasion of, 11, 263; prehistoric black foreign pottery, 263; Totemism in, 292-295, 432-433; Syrian empire of lost, 284; fairies and elves of, 294; Pharaoh displaces gods in, 295; doctrine of mythical ages in, 315; the phoenix, 330; the "man in the sun", 336: Neith as a thunder goddess, 337, 337 n.; Ankh symbol, 347; influence of Hittites in, 364; wars with Hittites, 365, 366; Cretans and sea raiders,
[paragraph continues] 378; Hebrews and, 388; "mother right" in, 418; sacred pigeons in, 428; fosters revolt against Sargon II, 457; Pharaoh and Piru of Mutsri, 458 and n.; Sennacherib defeats army of, 465; intrigues against Assyria, 465, 471; as Assyrian province, 475; Ashur-bani-pal and, 482, 484; Assyrian yoke shaken off, 486; Scythians on frontier of, 488; after Assyria's fall, 489; Hophra plots against Nebuchadnezzar II, 491.
El´ah, King of Israel, 405.
Elam, prehistoric pottery of, 5, 263; copper from, 130; British influence in, 357; caravan routes of, 361.
Elamites, relations with early Sumerians, 111; defeated by Eannatum of Lagash, 118; raid on Lagash by, 121; Sargon of Akkad defeats, 127; Ur dynasty overthrown by, 131; in Hammurabi Age, 217; conquests of Warad-Sin and Rim-Sin, 217; King Sin-muballit's struggle with, 242, 243; Medes and, 244; King of and Abraham, 247; in Syria, 247; driven from Babylonia, 249; in Kassite period, 274, 370, 380, 381; connection of with early Assyria, 278; struggle for trade expansion, 361 et seq.; Babylonian raid, 369; during Solomon period, 391; Esarhaddon and, 472; Ashur-bani-pal subdues, 484, 485.
Elisha, call of Jehu, 409, 410; call of Hazael, 410, 411.
Elves, the Babylonian, 67; as lovers, 68; origin of conception of, 79, 80, 292; like Indian Ribhus and Siberian "masters" 105; the European, Egyptian, and Indian, 294; human bargains with, 294, 295.
Enannatum I (en-an-nä´tum) of Lagash, defeats Umma force, 119.
Enannatum II, King of Lagash, last of Ur-Nina's line, 120.
England, the ancestral giant of, 42; spitting customs in, 47; return of dead dreaded in, 70, 70 n.; Black Annis, the wind hag, 73, 101; fairies and elves of, 80, 186; the "fire drake" of, 151; "Long Meg" a hag of, 156; "Long Tom" a giant of, 156; pigeon lore in, 431.
Enki (ān´ki), "lord of the world", Ea as, 31. See Ea.
En´lil, god of Nippur and elder Bel, lord of demons, 35; spouse of, 36; in early group of deities, 37; like Indian Shiva, 38; deities that link with, 35, 57, 271, 272; as destroyer, 62, 63; "fates" as sons of, 80; Ur Nina worshipped, 116; as son of Ann, 124; as son of Ea, 139; Ninip as son and father of, 53, 158, 302; during Isis Dynasty, 132; astral "field" of, 147; Merodach directs decrees of, 149; as corn god, 159; monotheism of cult of, 161; temple of as "world house", 35, 332; as bull and "high head", 334; Etana in heaven of, 166; also rendered Ellil. See Bel.
Enlil-bani (en´lil-bä´ni), King of Isin, a usurper like Sargon, 133.
En-Mersi (en-mer´si), a form of Tammuz, 116.
Enneads, the Babylonian and Egyptian, 36.
Entemena (en-te´men-a), King of Lagash, Umma subdued by, 119, 120; famous silver vase of, 120; worshipped as a god, 257, 258.
Ephod, the, used by David, 213, 214.
Ephron the Hittite, 12.
Equinoxes, precession of, where law of discovered: Greece or Babylonia? 320, 320 n., 322.
Erech, Ann god of, 34; gods of become flies and mice, 41; destroying sun goddess of, 57; Ur-Nina and, 116; under Lagash, 119; an ancient capital, 124, 125; rise of after Akkad, 129; moon god at, 130; in Gilgamesh epic, 172 et seq.; in revolt against Ashur-bani-pal, 484; Nabonidus and, 492.
Eresh-ki-gal (eresh-ki´gäl), goddess of death, 53; Nergal husband and conqueror of, 53, 54, 204, 205, 303; as a Norn, 77; "Fates" as sons of, So; as wife of Enlil, 80; Germanic hag like, 95; punishment of Ishtar by, 96, 97; as destroyer, 100.
Eridu (e´ri-dü), once a seaport, 22, 25, 38; Ea the god of, 27; sanctity of, 38, 39.
Eros, Greek love god, 90.
E-sagila (e-säg´i-la), Merodach's temple, 221; Hammurabi and, 252; in Kassite Age, 274; as symbol of world hill, 332; sacked by Sennacherib, 468; gods of Ur, Erech, Larsa, and Eridu
in, 492, 493; Xerxes pillages, 497; Alexander the Great repairs, 497; decay of, 498.
Esarhaddon (e´sar-had´don), character of, 470; Babylonian wife of, 471; Egypto-Syrian league against, 471, 472; Queen Nakia regent of, 472; alliance with Urartu, 473; sack of Sidon, 473; Manasseh's revolt, 474; invasion of Egypt, 475; revolt in Assyria, 476; successors chosen by, 476; death of, 476.
Esau, Hittite wives of; 266.
Etana (e-tä´nä), Zu bird myth and, 74-76; quest of the "Plant of Birth", 164, 165; flight with eagle to heavens, 165, 166.
Eternal goddess, the, husbands of die annually, 101 et seq.
Ethnology, folk beliefs and, xxvi.
Euphrates, the river, 22; as "the soul of the land", 23; rise and fall of, 24; as the creator, 29.
Europe, lunar worship in, 52; Armenoid invasion of, 264.
Evans, Sir Arthur, pottery finds by, 263.
"Evil Merodach", King of Babylon, 492.
Evolution, in Babylonian religion, xxxiv.
Ezekiel, on fire-worshipping ceremony, 50; Tammuz weeping, 82; on ethnics of Jerusalem, 246; on Hittite characteristics, 266; Assyria the cedar, 340, 341; the wheel of life symbol, 344 et seq.
Ezra, return of Jewish captives with, 496.
Face paint, for the dead, 206; why used for dead, living, and gods, 212.
Fafner dragon, 156.
Fairies, the Babylonian, 67; origin of, 79, 80; green like other spirits, 186; the European, Egyptian, and Indian, 294; human bargains with, 294, 295; birds as, 429.
Farm labourers, scarcity of in Babylonia, 256.
Farnell, Dr., on pre-Hellenic religion, 104; on racial gods in Greece, 105.
Fates, the birds as, 65,147 n., 427 n.,430; as servants of Anu, 77; moon as chief of the, 301; oldest deities as, 317; on St. Valentine's Day, 430; Aphrodite and Ishtar as, 433.
Father, the Great, Anu as, 38; Ramman-Hadad as, 57; Apsu, the chaos demon as, 64; Osiris as, 99; shadowy spouse of, Too; nomadic people and, 105; worshipped by Hatti, xxx, 268, 420.
Father and son conflict; younger god displaces elder, Ninip and Enlil, Merodach and Ea, Indra and Dyaus myths, 158; Osiris and Horus, 159; in astral myths, 302, 303, 304, 305, 348.
Feast of Dead, 206.
Fig tree, in Babylonia, 25:
Finger counting, in Babylonia and India, 311 et seq.
Finn-mac-Coul (finn´mac-cool), as hero and god, 87, 87 n., 88 n.; as mother monster slayer, 153, 154; Beowulf and, 155; as a "sleeper", 164, 394; water of life myth, 186, 187.
Finns, language of and the Sumerians, 3; of Ural-Altaic stock, 4.
Fire, as vital principle, 50, 51; fire and water ceremonies, 50, 51; the ever-lasting fire in the sea, 50, 51; the Babylonian "Will-o´-the-wisp", 66; Eagle and, 169; the May Day, 348; ceremony of riddance, 349; Babylonian burnings, 348; Nimrod's pyre, 349, 350; Tophet, 350; royal burnings in Israel and Judah, 350, 351.
Fire drake, the Babylonian, 66, 151.
Fire gods, the Babylonian and Indian, 49.
First born, sacrifice of, 50.
Fish deities, Sumerian Ea and Indian Brahma and Vishnu as, 27, 28; in Eur-Asian legends, 28; Sumerian and Egyptian, 29; connection of with corn, 29, 32; goddess of Lagash, 117; Western Asian fish goddesses, 277, 418, 423, 426; dove symbol of, 431, 432; Totemism and, 294.
Flies, gods turn to, 41.
Flood legend, the Babylonian, 24, 55, 190 et seq.; the Greek, 195; the Indian, xxvi, 196; the Irish, 196; the Egyptian, 197; the American, 197, 198; the Biblical, 198, 199.
Folk cures, the ancient, 6,, 231, 232-234.
Folk lore, mythology and, xxv, xxxiv, 42, 151 et seq., 189; ethnology in, xxvi.
Food of death, 44.
Food of the gods, 44.
Food supply, religion and the, 42, 43.
"Foreign devils", the Babylonian and Indian, 67.
Four quarters, the, in astronomy, 307; lunar divisions, 323.
Fowl, inspiration from blood of, 48.
France, skull forms in Dordogne valley, 8; Syrian railways of, 357.
Frazer, Professor, xxv; "homogeneity of beliefs", xxvi; Adonis garden, 171, 172; Hercules and Melkarth, 348; on Semiramis legend, 424, 425.
Frey (frī), the Germanic patriarch and corn god, 33, 93, 94; links with Tammuz myth, 95, 116, 204.
Freyja (frī´ya), the Germanic eternal goddess, 102; lovers of, 102.
Frigg, Germanic goddess, lovers of, 103.
Frode (frō´dē). See Frey.
Gabriel, Abraham rescued from Nimrod's pyre by, 349, 350.
Gaga (gä´ga), messenger of Anshar, 143.
Gallu (gäl´lü), as "foreign devil", 65-67.
Gandash (gän´dash), Kassite king, 271.
Ganga (găng´ä), the Indian goddess, as king's lover, 68.
Gardens, the Hanging, of Babylon, 220.
Garstang, Professor, on fall of Hatti and god cult, 268; on Totemic Adonis boar, 293, 294; Hittite Sandan disk, 348.
Garuda (găr-ood´ă), Indian eagle god, Zu bird and, xxvi; myth of, 74, 75; Etana eagle and, 165; sons of, 166; identified with Agni, Brahma, Indra, Yama, &c., t68, 169; wheel of life and, 346, 347.
Gauls, Hittite raiders like the, 261; gods of and the Babylonian, 316, 317. Germ theory, anticipated by Babylonians, 61, 234.
Germany, double-headed eagle of, 168; the Baghdad railway, 357.
Gezer cave dwellings, 10; cremation practised in, 11.
Ghosts, "wind gusts" as, 48, 49; associated with demons, 60, 215, 216; as birds, 65; as death bringers, 69, 295; the terrible mothers, 69; where dreaded and where invoked, 69, 70; Babylonian "night prowlers", 70; food required by, 70, 212, 213; Ishtar's threat to raise, 215; King of Cuthah and, 215, 216; as "Fates" and enemies of the living, 295; worship of, 295; Orion and Jupiter as, 305.
Giants, the British Alban, 42; the Babylonian, 71; graves of, 296.
Gibil (gi´bil), fire god, Nusku and, 353.
Gilgamesh (gil´gä-mesh), the Babylonian Hercules, 41; revelation of ghost to, 48, 49, 183, 184; quest of, 164; birth legend of, 171; eagle rescues, 171; lord of Erech, 172; coming of Ea-bani, 173; Ishtar's fatal love of, 174; "La Belle Dame Sans Merci", 174, 175; Ishtar spurned by, 99, 176; Ishtar's bull slain, 176; death of Ea-bani, 176; quest of Water of Life and Plant of Life, 177; the mountain tunnel and Sea of Death, 178; song of the Sea Lady, 178, 179; reaches Pir-napishtim's island, 180; ancestor's revelation to and magic food, 182; plant of life, 183; Earth Lion robs, 183; Germanic gods and heroes and, 184, 185; flood legend revealed to, 190 et seq.; Tammuz and, 210; Ashur and, 336; Persian eagle and, 493.
Gillies, Dr. Cameron, on Scottish folk cures, 232, 233.
Gira (gi´ra), the god, 42.
Girru (gir´rü), the fire god, 49.
Gish Bär, the fire god, 49.
Goat, inspiration from blood of, 48; demons enter the, 71; on Lagash vase, 120; the six-headed, 332; the satyr or astral goat man, 333; the white kid of Tammuz, 85, 333; the Arabic "kid" star, 333; associated with Anshar, Agni, Varuna, Ea, and Thor, 329, 333, 334; forehead symbol of like Apis symbol, 334; Minerva's shield has skin of, 337.
Goblin, the Babylonian, 66.
God, the Dead, grave of Osiris, 296; also alive and in various forms, 297. God cult, fusion of with goddess cult, 105.
Goddesses, at once mothers, wives, and daughters of gods, 99, 101, 436; husbands of die annually, 101 et seq.; lovers of various, 102; of Mediterranean racial tribes, 105; Ishtar as "La Belle Dame Sans Merci", 174-176; the Semiramis legend, 417 et seq.
Gods, Babylonian and Egyptian groups, 36, 37; the younger and elder, 149; why Sumerian were bearded, 135-137.
Goodspeed, Professor, on early astronomy, 321, 322.
Gorgons, the, Tiamat and, 159.
Graves, charms and weapons in, 206; as houses of dead, 206, 208; of gods and giants, 296.
Great Mother, the, forms of, 36; Hittite and Sumerian forms, 267; Anaitis, Ate, Cybele, Ishtar, Isis, Astarte, Ashtoreth, and Atargatis, 267; Kadesh, Anthat, and Danu, 268.
Greece, spitting customs in, 46, 47; blood drinking in, 48; wanton goddesses of, 104; imported gods in, 105; dragon myths of, 151, 152; eagle connected with birth and death in, 168; flood legend of, 195, 196; "Island of Blessed", 203; star myths of, 300; Babylonian culture reached through Hittites, 306; doctrine of world's ages, 310 et seq.; pre-Hellenic beliefs in, 84, 104, 317; astrology in, 318 et seq.; astronomy in, 316, 319 et seq.; in pre-Phrygian period, 386; fusion of races in, 393.
Greeks of Cilicia, Ashur-bani-pal and, 484. See Ionians.
Green, a supernatural colour, 186.
"Grey Eyebrows", a Gaelic hag, 87; myth of, 101.
Gudea (gü´de-a), King of Lagash, sculptures, buildings, and trade of, xxiii, 129, 130; bearded gods of, 136.
Gula (goo´lä), mother goddess, 100; Bau and, 116; feast of, 476.
Gungunu (gün´gün-ü), King of Ur, 132.
Guns, called after giants "Long Meg" and "Long Tom", 156.
Gutium (gü´tium), northern mountaineers, 128, 129, 264; demons and, 307.
Gyges (gÿ´jes), King of Lydia, emissaries of visit Nineveh, 483, 486.