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It has of course long been recognized that Ezekiel, in announcing the punishment of the king of Egypt in xxxii. 2 ff., uses imagery which strongly recalls the Babylonian Creation myth. Loisy, Les mythes babyloniens et les premiers chaptires de la Genèse , p. 87. Ezek. xiv. 21 f. In the passage of the Babylonian Epic, Enlil had already sent the Flood and had destroyed the good with the wicked.
The embankments which regulated the flow of the Euphrates and Tigris have given way, and at the present time the whole region round Babylon is marshy and malarious. See Dr. Berliner's Beiträge zur Geographie und Ethnographie Babyloniens; also Layard's Nineveh and Babylon, p. 469. Cf.
Hommel, Geschichte Babyloniens und Assyriens, p. 19. Written ideographically, as the names of the zikkurats and of all sacred edifices invariably are. See above, p. 459. Inscription G, col. i. l. 14; D, col. ii. l. 11. IIR. 50; obverse 20. See p. 472. Kosmologie, pp. 171-174.
And the association of winged guardians with the Sacred Tree in Babylonian art is at least suggestive of the Cherubim and the Tree of Life. The very side of Eden has now been identified in Southern Babylonia by means of an old boundary-stone acquired by the British Museum a year or two ago. See Loisy, Les mythes babyloniens, pp. 10 ff., and cf. S. Reinach, Cultes, Mythes et Religions, t.
Besides those at Persepolis, a large tri-lingual inscription was found at Behistun, near the city of Kirmenshah, in Persia, which, containing some ninety proper names, enabled Sir Henry Rawlinson definitely to establish a basis for the decipherment of the Mesopotamian inscriptions. The best account is to be found in Hommel's Geschichte Babyloniens und Assyriens, pp. 58-134.
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