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Hadad, Ramman as, 57, 261, 411.
Haddon, Dr., Achæan racial affinities, 377.
Hades, Ishtar receives water of life in, 44; Tammuz spends winter in, 53, 98; Indian "land of fathers", 56; land of no return, 58; descent of Ishtar to, 95 et seq.; "Island of the Blessed", 180 et seq.; Babylonian conception of, 203; the Celtic, 203; the Greek, Germanic, Indian, and Egyptian, 204; the grave as, 206; the Japanese, 206; the Roman, 207; Babylonian king and queen of. See Nergal and Eresh-ki-gal.
Hags, of storm, marsh and mountain as primitive goddesses: the Scottish, 64, 87; the Babylonian, 68, 71, 72, 73, 185; the Germanic, 72, 73, 95. See Annie, Annis, Beowulf, Mothers, and Tiamat.
Hair, evidence from early graves and sculptures, 4, 9, 10.
Hamath, Hittite city of, 395; Israel overcomes, 449; Ilu-bi-di, the smith king of, 457, 458.
Hamites, Biblical reference to, 276.
Hammurabi (häm´mü-rä´bi), Dagan as creator of, 31; Sin-muballit father of, 133; pantheon of, 134, 254; the Biblical Amraphel, 131, 246, 247; "Khammurabi" and "Ammurapi" forms of, 247, 248; Rim Sin, the Elamite, and, 249; character of, 249-255; god Nebo ignored by, 303; legal code of, 2, 222, 223 et seq.
Hammurabi Dynasty, the, Amorites and, 217, 218; early Amorite kings of Sippar, 241, 242; schools and correspondence during, 252; Kassites first appear during, 255; Sealand Dynasty in, 257; late kings of, 257, 258; Hittite raid at close of, 258-260; Assyria during, 279, 419; astronomy in, 300.
Hanuman (hăn´u-män), the Indian monkey god, Bhima and, 187; like Gilgamesh, 188, 189.
Hapi (häpi), Nile god, a bi-sexual deity, 161.
Haran, Abraham's migration from Ur to, 131, 245; Ashur and Sin worshipped at, 353; Nabonidus's temple to Sin at, 494.
Harper, Professor, 321.
Harvest deities, fish forms of, 29, 32; river and ocean gods as, 33; the pre-Hellenic, 84; the Egyptian, 85.
Harvest moon, the, crops ripened by, 52.
Hathor (hät´hor), the fish goddess and, 29; Ishtar and, 57, 99.
Hathor-Sekhet, the destroyer, 157, 197.
Hatshepsut (hat-shep´soot), Queen of Egypt, 16; Sumerian queen earlier than, 115.
Hatti (hät´ti), dominant tribe of Hittites, 246; of Armenoid race, 262; as Great
[paragraph continues] Father worshippers, 260; Mitannians and, 269.
Hattusil I (hat-too´sil), King of Hittites, 283.
Hattusil II, Hittite king, Egyptian treaty, 366; influence of in Babylonia, 364, 368; marriage treaty with Amorite king, 418.
Hawes, Mr., on Cretan chronology, xxv; Cretan racial types, 8.
Hawk, demons enter the, 71.
Hazael (haz´ā-el), King of Damascus, 410; Shalmaneser III defeats, 411; Israel oppressed by, 412.
Heaven, Queen of, Hebrews offer cakes to, 106; women prominent in worship of, 106, 107.
Hebrews, in Canaan, 379; Philistines as overlords of, 379, 380, 386, 387; as allies of Egypt and Tyre, 388; under David and Solomon, 388, 389; Pharaoh Sheshonk plunders, 391; kingdoms of Judah and Israel, 401 et seq.; in late Assyrian period, 448 et seq. See Israel and Judah.
Heimdal (hīm´dal), as patriarch and world guardian, 93; Tammuz and Agni like, 94; Nin-Girsu of Lagash like, 116.
Hercules, Gilgamesh and, 41, 164, 172; as dragon slayer, 152; eagle as soul of, 170, 349; burning of, 171; of Cilicia and deities that link with, 261; Merodach and, 316; Ashur and, 336; astral arrow of, 337; Melkarth and, 348.
Hermes (her´mēz), Nebo as, 303.
Hermod (her´mod), the Germanic Patriarch, 93; Gilgamesh and, 184.
Herodotus, on Babylonian harvests, 21, 22; on Babylonian burial customs, 214; description of Babylon, 219 et seq.; on Babylonian marriage market, 224, 225; on doctors and folk cures, 231, 232; on origin of Nineveh, 277; on Egyptian Totemism, 293, 432; on pre-Hellenic beliefs, 317; on Semiramis legend, 425; on fall of Assyria, 488.
Heth, children of, Hittites as, 246.
Hezekiah (hez-e-kī´ah), 21, 340; Merodach-Balad conspiracy, 465; destruction of Assyrian army, 466, 467; Esarhaddon and, 471, 472.
Hierap´olis, Atargatis goddess of, 267.
"High Heads", symbols and "world spine", 332; Anshar, Anu, Enlil, Ea, Merodach, Nergal, and Shamash as, 334.
Hindus, Mediterranean race represented among, 8.
Hipparchus, the Greek astronomer, discoveries of, 320, 321.
Hiram, King of Tyre, as Solomon's ally, 388, 389.
Hit, the bitumen wells of, 25.
Hittites, the father worshippers among, xxx, 420; racial types in confederacy of, 11, 12, 246, 265, 266; double-headed eagle of, 168; in ethnics of Jerusalem, 246; Hebrews, dealings with, 246, 266, 267; earliest references to in Egypt and Babylonia, 258, 259, 264; prehistoric culture of, 263; thunder god of and linking deities, 261, 268; Merodach carried off by, 261; fusion of god and goddess cults by, 267, 268; relations with Mitannians and Kassites, 270-272, 282, 358; Subbi-luliuma, the conqueror, 283; conquest of Mitanni, 284; Babylonian culture passed to Greece by, 306, 316; the winged disk of, 347, 348; Ashur cult and, 355; Syria after expansion of, 363; King Mursil, 364; influence of in Egypt and Babylonia, 364; wars of Seti I and Rameses II against, 364, 365; alliance with Egypt, 366; early struggle with Assyria, 367, 368; Muski as overlords of, 380; Nebuchadrezzar I defeats, 381; late period of Empire of, 386; city-states of Hamath and Carchemish, 395; Shalmaneser III and, 414; "mother right among", 418; connection of with Urartu, 440 n.; combination against Sargon II, 459, 460; Biblical reference to Tabal and Meshech, 464.
Horse, sea god as a, 33; demons enter the, 71; domesticated in Turkestan, 271; introduction of to Babylonia and Egypt, 270, 271; sacrificed by Aryo-Indian and Buriats, 271, 309; constellation of, 309.
Horus (ho´rus), god of Egypt, creative tears of, 45; as the sun, Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars, 300, 304; the "elder" and "younger", 302; as the "opener", 304; "world soul" conception and, 304; has many forms like Tammuz, 305; Ninip and, 316;
[paragraph continues] "winged disk" of, 336; the eagle and, 343.
Hoshea (ho-she´a), King of Israel, 453, 454.
Host of heaven, 305.
Hotherus (hoth´erus), Gilgamesh and, 184, 185.
"House of Clay", the grave called, 56; 206-208.
Hraesvelgur (hrā´svel-gur), Icelandic wind demon, 72.
Human sacrifices, the May Day, 50. "Husband of his mother", xxxii; in Sumerian, Indian, and Egyptian mythologies, 106, 304, 305; Kingu becomes lover of Tiamat, 106; sun as offspring and spouse of the moon, 301; Adad-nirari IV as, 420. See Father and son conflict.
Hydra, as Dragon, 152.
Hyksos (hik´sos), Egypt invaded by, 259; Mitannians and, 270; horse introduced into Egypt by, 271; theories regarding, 271; trading relations of with Crete and Persia, 273; period of expulsion of, 275.
Iberians, the, Sumerians and Egyptians congeners of, 9; goddesses of, 105; folk tales of, 156.
Ibis, demons enter the, 71.
Iceland, wind hag of, 73; Barleycorn a god of, 170 n.
Idols, spirit of god or demon in, 61; gods of taken prisoners, 62.
Idun (ee´doon),Germanic goddess, lovers of, 102.
Igigi (i´gig-i), spirits of heaven, 34, 149.
Ilu-bi´di, smith king of Hamath, 457, 458.
Immortality, quest of Gilgamesh, 177; Song of the Sea Lady, 178, 179; Lay of the Harper, 179; Pir-napishtim and Gilgamesh, 181 et seq.; Ea-bani's revelation, 183-184; no Babylonian Paradise, 203, 210, 211; Brahmans ask Alexander the Great for, 208; Egyptian Ra and Osirian doctrines, 209.
India, Sumerian myths in, xxvi, xxvii; Mediterranean race in, 7; Brahma-Vishnu and Ea, 27; Babylonian flood myth in, 27, 28, 196; demons of and the Babylonian, 34; mother ghost in, 69; Garuda eagle and Sumerian Zu bird, 74, 75, 165-169, 330; wedding bracelet of and Ishtar's, 98, 98 n.; eternal "mothers" and "dying gods" in, 101; Ribhus the "elves" of, 105; fairies of, 294; Gilgamesh myth in, 187-189; Babylonian culture in, 199, 200, 313; face paint of gods in, 211; jungle-dwellers' conception of "Self Power", 291, 304; star myths of, 296; early astronomers of, 300; lunar zodiac of, 309; constellations identified before planets in, 318; horse sacrifice in, 309; sun and moon marriages in, 306; doctrine of World's Ages in, 310 et seq.; "finger counting" at prayer in, 311 n.; deities connected with goat in, 333; "man in the eye" belief, 335, 336; cult of "late invaders" of, 338; fire cult in, 346; Solomon's trade with, 389, 390; Jehoshaphat's fleet, 408; swans as love messengers in, 429.
"Indo-Europeans", Mitannians as, 269, 270.
Indra (ind´ră), god of India, a world artisan like Ea and Ptah, 30; Anu's messengers like Maruts of, 34; Enlil and, 35; Ramman, Hadad, Thor, &c., and, 57, 261, 340; in Garuda myth, 74, 75; dies annually like Tammuz, 101; various forms of, 101; as slayer of father, 158, 302; eagle as, 169; Paradise of like Odin's, 209; thunder horn of, 238.
Insects, gods as, 296.
Inspiration, derived from sacred juice, 45; from drinking blood, 48; from incense and breath of Apis bull, 49. Inundation, the Babylonian, 24. Inverness, the "sleeper" and fairy mound of, 164.
Ionians, deported from Cilicia to Nineveh, 464.
Iranian sun god, Sumerians and, 55, 56.
Ireland, the corn god and river goddess of, 33, 238; spitting customs in, 47; "calling back" of souls in, 70, 70 n.; Anu a wind hag, 73; Tammuz-Diarmid myth in, 85, 87; Angus, the love god of, 90, 238, 428 n.; the eternal goddess of, 101, 102, 268; the "morúach" (worm) of, 151; flood legend of, 196; the Hades of, 203; pig as devil in, 293; doctrine of world's ages in, 310 et seq.; origin of culture of, 315, 316; giant gods of, 317; pigeon lore in, 431.
Iron, in northern Mesopotamia, 25; used in folk cures, 236.
Irrigation, in early Sumeria, 23, 39.
Isaac, forbids Jacob to marry a Hittite, 266.
Isaiah, 2,; doom of Babylonia, 113, 499; "Worm" of, the dragon, 151; use of Babylonian symbolism by, 331, 341; "satyrs" referred to by, 333; on Assyria the Destroyer, 340; on Tophet, 350; reference to Jerusalem's water supply, 451; warns Ahaz, 459; destruction of Sennacherib's army, 466; tradition of murder of, 474.
Ishbi-Urra (ish´bi-oor´ra), King of Isin, 132.
Ishtar (ish´tar), Isis cult and, xxxi; hymn to, 18-20; Beltu and, 36; water of life given to, 44; as earth goddess, 53; identical with Hathor, 57; in demon war, 76; as "Queen of Heaven", 81, 106, 107; lamentation of for Tammuz, 86, 88, 98; in Sargon of Akkad myth, 91; descent of to Hades poem, 95 et seq.; magical ornaments of, 96; punishment of, 96, 97; rescue of, 98; Belit-sheri associated with, 98; as love goddess, 99; temple women of, 99, 106, 107; absorbs other goddesses, 100, 117, 277, 496; as daughter of Ann and Nannar, 100; as mother of Tammuz, 100; the lovers of, 103, 126, 174-176; like Tiamat, 106; under Isin Dynasty, 132; links with Indian and Egyptian goddesses, 157; Damkina and, 160; as a bi-sexual deity, 161; in Etana legend, 166; in Gilgamesh legend, 172-177; in flood legend, 193, 194; Frey's bride and, 204; threat to raise dead, 213; fish goddesses and, 117, 277; Nineveh image of sent to Egypt, 280; star of, 295; changes star forms with Merodach, 299; month of, 305; wheel symbol of, 347; Nineveh temple of destroyed, 363; worshipped by Nebuchadrezzar I, 382; cult of in Assyria, 420; Semiramis and, 425; as a Fate, 433; moon god and, 436; Creatrix and, 437; worshipped by Sargon II, 463; worshipped by Esarhaddon, 471; Persian goddess and, 496.
Ishtarate (ish-tar-ä´te), "Ishtars", goddesses in general called, too.
Isin, Dynasty of, 131; early kings of, 132 et seq.; last kings of, 133; sun worship and, 240; Dynasty of Pashe, 380.
Isis (ī´sis), goddess of Egypt, Ishtar cult and, xxxi; fish goddess and, 29; as Nile goddess, 33; creative tears of, 45; mourning of for Osiris, 83, 99; as daughter, wife, sister, and mother of Osiris, 99; as corn goddess, 90; as serpent goddess, 150; as bi-sexual deity, 161; male form of, 299; the star of, 296, 300; address of to different forms of Osiris, 297.
"Island of the Blessed", in Gilgamesh epic, 180 et seq.; the Greek and Celtic, 203.
Israel, first Egyptian reference to, 379; subject to Damascus, 396; separation of from Judah, 401 et seq.; Abijah's victory over, 402, 403; first conflict with Assyria, 407; tribute to Shalmaneser III, 411, 412; Assyria as "saviour" of, 414, 438, 439; goddess cult in, 421; Aramæans and mother worship in, 434; war with Judah, 448; Tiglath-pileser harries, 453; the lost ten tribes, 455, 456.
"Jack and Jill", the Sumerian lunar, 53.
"Jack with a Lantern", the Babylonian, 66.
Jacob, personal ornaments as charms to, 211; marriage of, 266.
Jah, the Hebrew, Ea as, 31; Dagon as, 31; as dragon slayer, 157; monotheism, 160.
Japan, the Hades of, 206.
Jastrow, Professor, on Ea, 29, 30, 435; on culture and racial fusion, 42; on fire and water ceremonies, 51; on moon names, 52; on female conservatism, 107, 179, 180; on burial customs, 208; on Nebo, 303, 435; on Greek and Babylonian astrology and astronomy, 319 et seq.; on Anshar, Ashir, and Ashur, 354.
Jehoahaz (je-hō´a-haz), King of Judah, 414; Necho deposes, 489.
Jehoash (je-hō´ash), King of Israel, 448, 449.
Jehoiachin (je-hoi´a-chin), King of Judah, carried to Babylon, 490.
Jehoiakim (je-hoi´a-kim), King of Judah, 489, 490, 492.
Jehoram (je-hō´ram), King of Judah, no burning at grave of, 350.
Jehoshaphat (je-hosh´a-phat), King of Judah, 407; navy of wrecked, 408.
Jehu (je´hü), King of Israel, Elisha calls, 409, 410; tribute to Shalmaneser III, 411, 412; mother worship in reign of, 421, 434.
Jeremiah, liver as seat of life, 48; on mother worship, 106, 107, 421; Pharaoh Necho, 489.
Jeremias, Dr. Alfred, on precession of equinoxes, 320 n.
Jeroboam (jer-o-bō´am), revolt of, 402; Abijah defeats, 402, 403; an ally of Assyria, 449.
Jerusalem, the "new", xvii; Palæolithic collection at, 10; "dragon well" at, 152; "father" of Amorite, "mother" of Hittite, 246; eclipse record from, 323; "Queen of Heaven" worshipped in, 421; wall of destroyed by Jehoash, 449; new wall and water supply of, 451; siege of by Sennacherib, 465, 466; Assyrian ambassador visits, 471, 472; sack of by Nebuchadrezzar II, 490, 491; Cyrus and rebuilding of, 496; return of captives to, 496.
Jewellery, the magic, Ishtar's, 96, 98.
Jewish type, Akkadians of, 1, 2; Arabs not of, 9; the racial blend which produced, 10 et seq.
Jews, Cyrus welcomed in Babylon by, 495; return of to Jerusalem, 496.
Jezebel (jez´e-bel), Queen, 406; murder of, 410.
Jinn, the Arabian, 78.
Joash (jō´ash), King of Judah, concealment of in childhood, 413; coronation of, 413, 414.
Johns, Mr., on Aryans in early Assyria, 278, 279.
Joram (jō´ram), King of Israel, 408, 409; Jehu murders, 410.
Josiah (jō-sī´ah), King of Judah, Necho and, 489.
Jotham (jō´tham), King of Judah, 451.
Judah, subject to Damascus, 396; separation of from Israel, 401 at seq.; Edom revolts against, 409; defeated by Israel, 448; Damascus and Israel plot against, 451; Ahaz appeals to Assyria, 452; Sennacherib deports prisoners from, 463; in Esarhaddon's reign, 474; Pharaoh Necho in, 489; the Captivity, 491; return of captives, 496.
Jupiter, the planet, Ramman and Hadad as, 57; Merodach creates, 147; Merodach as, 296; Horus as, 300, 302; associated with sun and moon, 301; as ghost of sun, 305; as "bull of light", 301; Nin- Girsu (Tammuz) as, 301; month of, 305; Attis as, 305; as "face voice of light" and "star of bronze", 314, 315; in astrology, 318.
Jupiter-Amon, 317.
Jupiter-Belus, Merodach as, 221, 317.
Kadashman-Kharbe (kad-äsh´man-khär´be), King of Babylon, grandson of Ashur-uballit, 284, 285; opens Arabian desert trade route, 360; murder of, 361.
Kadesh (kä´desh), goddesses that link with, 268.
Kali (kä´lee), the Indian goddess, goat sacrificed to, 48.
Kalkhi (käl´khi), excavations at, xix, xx; capital of Shalmaneser I, 367; head-quarters of Ashur-natsir-pal III, 398; description of, 399, 400; library at, 422, 470; religious revolt at, 422; Sargon II and, 463; temple to Nebo at, 487.
Karduniash (kar-doon´i-ash), Babylonia called, 273.
Karna (kăr´nă), Indian hero: like Sargon of Akkad, 126.
Kässites, Nippur as capital of, 218; in Hammurabi Age, 255; as agriculturists, 256; Aryans associated with, 270; Mitannians, Hyksos and, 270, 271, 272, 273; Babylonia consolidated by, 274, 393; early Assyrian kings and, 279; in Tell-el-Amarna letters, 281; and Mesopotamian question, 358; Arabian desert trade route, 360; dynasty of ends, 370, 371; Sennacherib and the mountain, 464.
Keats, John, 112; "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" and Ishtar, 174.
Kengi (ken´gi), early name of Sumer, 2.
Khammurabi (kham-mü-rä´bi), 247. See Hammurabi.
Khani (khä´ni). See Mitanni.
Kharri (khär´ri), Mitannians called; perhaps "Arya", 269.
Khatti. See Hatti and Hittites.
Kheta. See Hittites.
Khnumu (knoo´moo), the Egyptian god, Ea compared to, 30.
Khonsu (kon´soo), Tammuz a healer like, 90, 94.
Kid, sacrificed to Tammuz, 85, 333; star called by Arabs, 333.
King, L. W., Creation tablets, xxiv, 29; 211; on "Cuthean Legend of Creation", 215, 216; on seven gods as one, 298; on Sennacherib's sack of Babylon, 469.
Kings, worship of, in Hammurabi Age, 242, 257, 258; burning of, 350, 351; Ashur's association with, 352.
Kingu (kin´goo), in Creation Legend, as son and lover of Tiamat, 106; stirs Tiamat to avenge Apsu, 140; exalted by Tiamat, 140; overcome by Merodach, 145, 146.
Kish, early dynasty of, 114; legendary queen of, 114, 115; Entemena's sack of, 120; Sargon and, 125, 126; goddess of, 126, 127; kings and gods of, 241.
Kishar (ke´shär), the god, in group of elder deities, 37, 138.
Kneph, the Egyptian air god, 49.
Koran (kō´rän), Etana eagle myth in, 166, 167; Nimrod agricultural myth in, 170; water of life legend in, 186; Abraham and Nimrod's pyre, 349.
Kudur Mabug (kü´dür mab´üg), Elamite King of Sumer, 242, 243; the Biblical Chedor-laomer, 247, 248.
Kuiri (kü´i-ri), early name of Akkad, 2.
Kurds (koords), the, use of cradle board by, 4, 5; of Mediterranean race, 8;
Mitannians as ancestors of, 270, 283.
Kurigalzu II (kü´ri-gäl´zü), King of Babylonia, 285.
Kurigalzu III, Kassite king, wars with Elam and Assyria, 362.
Küta and Küthä. See Cuthah.
Kutu (kü´tü), the men of, 128, 264. See Gutium.
Labartu (la-bär´tü), the, a mountain hag, 68; as a luck spirit, 77.
Labashi-Marduk (la´ba-shi-mar´dük), King of Babylonia, 492.
"La Belle Dame Sans Merci", Ishtar as, 174, 175.
Lachamu (lach-ä´mü), goddess, in Creation legend, 37, 138, 143.
Lachmu (lach´mü), god, in Creation legend, 37, 138, 143.
Lagash (lä´gash), city of, early rulers of, 115 et seq.; deities of, 116-118; relations with Umma, 118-120; site of at Tello, 120; revolution in, 120; Urukagina, the reformer of, 121-124; sack of, 124; Gudea, King of, 129; sculptures, buildings, and trade of, 130; bearded god of, 135, 136; burning of in Hammurabi Age, 243. Also Shir-pür´lä.
Lakshmi (lăksh´mee), the Indian eternal mother, 101.
Lamassu (la´mas-sü), the winged bull, 65.
Lamb, the sacrificed, inspiration from blood of, 48.
Land laws, in early Sumeria, 26; of Babylonia, 229, 230.
Lang, Andrew, on Cronos, 64; on father and son myth, 158; on Greek star lore, 319.
Langdon, Dr., Sumerian psalms, 98 et seq.; on Ninip and Enlil, 158; on doves and goddesses, 428.
Language, race and, 3; Sumerians-, Chinese, Turks, Magyars, Finns, and Basques compared, 3.
Larsa (lär´sä), sun god chief deity of, 40; revolt against Isin, 132; Rim-Sin, king of, 133; rise of sun cult of, 240; Elamite kings of, 242; the Biblical Ellasar, 247; Nabonidus and, 492.
Laurin (law´reen), the Germanic elfin lover, 68.
Law courts, in Hammurabi Age, 223.
Layard, Sir A. H., discoveries of, xix et seq.; Ashur symbols, 343; description of Kalkhi, 399-401.
"Lay of the Harper", the Sumerian "Song of the Sea Lady" and, 178, 179.
Lead, in northern Mesopotamia, 25.
Lebanon, Gudea of Lagash gets timber from, 130.
Leicestershire wind hag, 73.
Library, Shalmaneser III founded at Kalkhi, 422.
Libyans, the, shaving customs of, 9.
Life, the water of, 44, 45; the plant of, 44; blood and sap and, 45; liver as seat of, 48; habits of and modes of thought, 51.
Light on head, Merodach's, 145.
Li´la or Li´lu, the demon, 67.
Li´lith, "Adam's first wife", 67; Indian Surpanaka like, 67.
Linen, manufactured in prehistoric Egypt, 14.
Lion god, Nergal as the, 54.
Lions, associated with mother goddess, 120.
Liver, the, as seat of life, 48; dragon's vulnerable part, 153.
Loftus, W. K., xx.
Loki, the Germanic god, taunts goddesses regarding lovers, 102, 103; god Barleycorn and, 170.
"Long Meg", the English giantess, 155, 156; "Long Tom" and, 156. "Long Tom", the giant, guns called, 156.
Love charms and love lyrics, 238.
Love goddess, Ishtar as, 99, 175, 176; the inconstancy of, 99 et seq., 102, 103, 104.
Lucian (loosh´yan), Semiramis legend, 425.
Lucifer, Babylonian king as, 331.
Luck, spitting to secure, 46 et seq.; spirits of, 77.
Lugal-zaggisi (lü´gal-zag´gi-si), King of Umma, sack of Lagash by, 123, 124; gods of, 124; Kish captured by, 124; Erech capital of empire of, 124, 125; supposed invasion of Syria by, 125.
Lulubu (lül´ü-bü), mountaineers, 128.
Lunar chronology, solar chronology preceded by, 312; "Four Quarters", 323, 324.
Lunar zodiac, the original, 309.
Lycia, god had wife in, 221.
Lydia, emissaries from to Ashurbanipal, 483; helps Egypt against Assyria, 486; alliance with Egypt against Cyrus, 494.