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E.g., Knudtzon, no. 124. Zimmern, Busspsalmen, p. 32. The popularity of the sun-cult in Assyria in connection with omens and oracles is probably due also in part to the influence of Marduk, who was, as we have seen, a solar deity. Lehman, Samassumukin, p. 42. See Ploss, Das Weib, pp. 594-606; also above, p. 267. IVR. pl. 61. I.e., Ishtar sends the wind with a clear message. 3d month.
+712+. The Egyptians, with their more advanced civilization, finally carried sun-worship to a very high point of perfection. The hymns to Ra, the sun-god, reached the verge of monotheism and are ethically high, yet traces of the physical side of the sun appear throughout. The same thing is true of the old Semitic sun-cult.
Especially in the days of Ashurnasirbal and Shalmaneser II. the ninth century does the sun-cult receive great prominence. These kings call themselves the sun of the world.
The phrase, indeed, has so distinctly an Egyptian flavor, that, in connection with other considerations, it seems quite plausible to assume that the influence of Egyptian reverence for Ra had much to do with the popularity of the sun-cult about this time. Shalmaneser bestows numerous epithets upon Shamash.
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