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It has of course long been recognized that Ezekiel, in announcing the punishment of the king of Egypt in xxxii. 2 ff., uses imagery which strongly recalls the Babylonian Creation myth. Loisy, Les mythes babyloniens et les premiers chaptires de la Genèse , p. 87. Ezek. xiv. 21 f. In the passage of the Babylonian Epic, Enlil had already sent the Flood and had destroyed the good with the wicked.
A. de Nore, Coutumes Mythes et Traditions des Provinces de France, pp. 149 sq.; E. Cortet, op. cit. pp. 218 sq. Dupin, "Notice sur quelques fêtes et divertissemens populaires du département des Deux-Sèvres," Mémoires et Dissertations publiés par la Société Royale des Antiquaires de France, iv. p. 110. H. Gaidoz, "Le dieu soleil et le symbolisme de la roue," Revue Archéologique, iii.
And the association of winged guardians with the Sacred Tree in Babylonian art is at least suggestive of the Cherubim and the Tree of Life. The very side of Eden has now been identified in Southern Babylonia by means of an old boundary-stone acquired by the British Museum a year or two ago. See Loisy, Les mythes babyloniens, pp. 10 ff., and cf. S. Reinach, Cultes, Mythes et Religions, t.
Ch. For an explanation of the custom of throwing a pebble into the fire, see below, p. 240. Jean Baptiste," Mémoires de la Société des Antiquaires de Picardie, viii. In Upper Brittany these bonfires are called rieux or raviers. A. de Nore, Coutumes, Mythes et Traditions des Provinces de France, pp. 219, 228, 231; E. Cortet, op. cit. pp. 215 sq.
Série, iv. p. 30. Ch. A. de Nore, Coutumes, Mythes et Traditions des Provinces de France p. 127. Aubin-Louis Millin, op. cit. iii. 28. As to the custom at Toulon, see Poncy, quoted by Breuil, Mémoires de la Société des Antiquaires de Picardie, viii. p. 190 note.
Rev. xvii, pp. 275 ff.; A. J. Reinach, Rev. de l'Hist. des Religions, lx, p. 178; S. Reinach, Cultes, Mythes, &c., ii. 160-6. The particular numbers chosen, however, are probably due to other causes, e. g. the fifty moon-months of the Penteteris. New York, 1906. Deorum, ii. 2; iii. 5, 6; Florus, ii. 12. Theseus, 35; Paus. i. 32. 5. Constant., l. i, cc. 28, 29, 30; Nazarius inter Panegyr.
A careful study has been made of it by Salamon Reinach in his Cultes, Mythes et Religions, where he formulates his conclusions in twelve statements or definitions; but even so though his suggestions are helpful he throws very little light on the real origin of the system. The French original is in three large volumes.
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