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The ceremony consumed several days, and seventy thousand captives are said to have perished at the shrine of this terrible deity. The same system appears in Professor Jastrow's account of the priesthood of Babylonia and Assyria: The ultimate source of all law being the deity himself, the original legal tribunal was the place where the image or symbol of the god stood.
Jastrow's dyin' in his room! He's yellin' for you! For God's sakes quick down in his room!" In the instant that followed, across the sudden black that blocked Miss Hoag of vision, there swam a million stars. "Teenie! For God's sakes quick! He's yellin' for you " "Coming, Mrs. Bostrum coming coming coming!"
Virginia's face became suddenly wooden. Until that moment it had not occurred to her that Jastrow's motive in showing her the two telegrams might have been carefully calculated. "I have never given you the right to speak to me that way, Mr.
It is true that the same Sumerian sign means "land" and "mountain"; but it may have been difficult to obtain an intelligible profile for "land" without adopting a mountain form. It should be added that Professor Jastrow's theory of the Dragon combat is bound up with his view of the origin of an interesting Sumerian "myth of beginnings", to which reference is made later. Cf.
The same may be said of the formulated statement of the subject in Morris Jastrow's Handbooks of the History of Religion, vol. iv. There are three main difficulties. It may be worth while to pause for a moment over these.
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