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See the chapter on "The Temples of Babylonia and Assyria." See Jensen, Kosmologie der Babylonier, pp. 134-139. Lit., "delayed in the heavens." I.e., there is war. Intercalated month. I.e., it is a good sign. Text erroneously 'one month. See above, p. 183. See Ihering, Vorgeschichte der Indo-Europaer, pp. 182 seq. See The Golden Bough, passim. IV Rawlinson, pls. 32, 33.
Again, in the incantation texts she appears only as the daughter of Anu, coördinate with Sin and Shamash. Keils Bibl. 3, 1, 72, note. Old Babylonian Inscriptions, I. pls. 30, 31. Questioned by Peiser, ib. Among many nations the moon is pictured as a horned animal. See Robert Brown's interesting monograph on The Unicorn, pp. 27 seq. et passim; also above, p. 76. See above, p. 59.
Small streams in some cases have been wound for miles around the sides of a mountain, passing deep gullies and rivers in wooden troughs or tubes. LVII see also Pls. Within a quarter of a mile below the main dam were three other loose, open weirs of rocks, two of which began on a shallow island, throwing water to the Samoki side of the river.
Peters' Nippur, ii. 77, 133. So, e.g., Peters' Nippur, ii. 237, 238, 378, 379. De Sarzec, Découvertes en Chaldée, pls. 1 bis and 28. The opinion has been advanced that the personage who holds the cone-shaped object is the fire-god turning the fire drill, but this is highly improbable. Découvertes en Chaldée, p. 239. Peters' Nippur ii. 376, and Hilprecht, Cuneiform Texts, ix. pl. 12.
The present translation is, however, a fresh one made by Mr. Griffith word for word, and shaped as little as possible by myself in editing it. The copy followed is the publication by Birch in "Select Papyri," part ii. pls. ix. to xix. Before considering the details of the story, we should notice an important question about its age and composition.
See p. 172. Assyrian and Babylonian Religious Texts, i. 56-59. As Lagamal, Kanishurra. See Peters' Nippur, ii. chapter x, "The History of Nippur." Ib. ll. 260. VR. pls. 60, 61. See Nöldeke, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie, xi. 107-109. VR. 64, col. i. 3-9; col. ii. 46. See p. 444. See p. 81. See pp. 126 seq. See p. 129. So Antiochus Soter, VR. 66, col. i. l. 3.
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