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+317+. In the more elaborate pantheons the local deities of streams and springs tend to disappear, and gods of ocean appear: in Babylonia, Ea; in Greece, Okeanos and Poseidon; in Rome, Neptune; and along with these are numerous subordinate figures attendants on the great gods, and intrusted with various particular duties.
Like Henry More, he would have wished to take for a motto 'that generous resolution of Marcus Cicero, rationem, quo ea me cunque ducet, sequar. 'Doctrines, he said, 'are vehemently to be suspected which decline trial.
Proficiscar enim non ad eos solum viros, de quibus ante dixi, verum etiam ad Catonem meum, quo nemo vir melior natus est, nemo pietate praestantior, cuius a me corpus est crematum, quod contra decuit ab illo meum, animus vero non me deserens sed respectans, in ea profecto loca discessit quo mihi ipsi cernebat esse veniendum.
The Sumerians had called it "the land whence none return," though in the theology of Eridu and Babylon Asari or Merodach was already a god who, through the wisdom of his father Ea, "restored the dead to life." But as the centuries passed, new and less gloomy ideas grew up in regard to the future life.
To say the truth, I require no more than that a man should have some little knowledge of the subject on which he treats, according to the old maxim of law, Quam quisque norit artem in ea se exerceat. With this alone a writer may sometimes do tolerably well; and, indeed, without this, all the other learning in the world will stand him in little stead.
Come, mistress, grant me Sukhal-ziku, that I may drink therefrom. Ea appears here again in the rôle of Creator. The name of the mysterious being created by Ea signifies 'renewal of light. The incident, it will be seen, is wholly symbolical. A touch of mysticism has also been introduced.
They bestow all manner of glorious epithets upon him; and, to cap the climax, the old Bel, known as 'father Bel, steps forward and transfers to him his name, bêl matâti, 'lord of lands. To bestow the name was equivalent to transferring Bel's powers to Marduk; and so Marduk is henceforth known as Bel. But Ea must be introduced into the episode.
The dwelling of Ea. See Meissner, Alexander and Gilgamos, p. 17. I.e., still smaller. See above, p. 458. See p. 460. See p. 511. Harper, ib.. p. 404, note. See Harper, ib.. pp. 406, 407. See above, p. 469. Harper, pp. 392-394. I.e., one cannot escape from Shamash, since he traverses all space. A personification of the storm. See below, pp. 537 seq.
Now to counsel an Emperor what he ought to do is a task of much difficulty: humouring the whims of this or that Emperor does not cost the slightest trouble." "Ea aetas tua, quae cupiditates adolescentiae jam effugerit: ea vita, in qua nihil praeteritum excusandum habeas.
He secures it in disobedience to the divine will, whereas Ea willingly grants him the knowledge of all there is in heaven and earth. In this way the Hebrew and Babylonian mind, each developed the common tradition in its own way.
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