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As for the little girls, they get by themselves, and either play at hand-ball, or form into circles to play at some round game, accompanied by song. Indescribably soft and sweet the chorus of those little voices in the round: Kango-kango sho-ya, Naka yoni sho-ya, Don-don to kunde Jizo-San no midzu wo Matsuba no midzu irete, Makkuri kadso.
The Hebrew word for prophet, nabi, is of the same stem as the Assyrian Nabu, and the popular tradition is placing the last scene in the life of Moses on Mt. Nebo is apparently influenced by the fact that Moses was a nabi. See above, p. 123. E.g., in the so-called Grotefend Cylinder, col. ii. 34. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde d. Morgenlandes, iv. 301-307.
On the older and later names of the Babylonians, see Meissner, Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, v. 180, 181, and on the general subject of the Babylonian months, Muss-Arnolt's valuable articles in the Journal of Biblical Literature, xi. 72-94 and 160-176. IVR. pl. 33. En-lil. See above, p. 99. Lit., 'Arakh-shamnu, i.e., month eight. Rassam, Cylinder, col. lii. l. 32.
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