Vulgar words in The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria (Page 1)
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In modern times Lavater, it will be recalled, based his study of human physiognomy in part upon the resemblance of the nose, eyes, mouth, and ears, and general shape of the head to the features of such animals as the lion, jackass, dog, and swine.
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Having finished with litters, the series proceeds to peculiar marks found on single specimens; lambs that have a head and tail shaped like a lion or that have a lion's head and a mane like that of an ass, or a head like a bird's, or like a swine, and so through a long and rather tiresome list.
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The ox does not mount the cow, the ass does not bend over the she-ass.
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_Anu_, god, 51; relationship to Ishtar, 84-5; Dêr, city of Anu, 88, 155, 162; god of heavenly expanse, 89, 147, 207, 432; abstract conception, 89; priest of Anu, 90; Anu as term for 'lofty,' 90; member of the great triad, 107, 152, 155, 207, 677; in Lugalraggisi's pantheon, 110; artificial character in Hammurabi's pantheon, 152; position in Agum's pantheon, 152; dwells in Uruk, 153; Anatum, his consort, 153; in Ass.
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_Ashur_, god, consort of Belit, 150, 226, 668; rivaled by Ramman, 161; in Ass.
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pantheon, 189; head of Ass.
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_Assyria_, military superiority, 2; history by Herodotus, 3; art and antiquities, 7; character of country and culture, 30-1; character of people, 31; comparison with Babylonia, 31; architecture, 42; history, 41-4; conquest of, 44; sun worship, 78; Assyrian Ishtar cult as distinguished from Bab., 83, 85; Ass.
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culture and religion, 179; pantheon, 188; divisions of Ass.
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pantheon, 188-9; comparison of Ass.
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pantheons, 189, 201; attacked by Cassites, 199; A. god of oracles, 344; continuity of Ass.
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religion owing to Ass.
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deities, 642; Airu, sacred month in Ass., 684.
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_Azag-sir,_ minor deity in Ass.
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and Ass.
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and Ass.
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beliefs less popular than Ass., 153; periods of Bab.
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and Ass.
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pantheons, 189, 201; country of Bel, 222; under Ass.
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rule, 223; source of Ass.
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and Ass.
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belief owing to Ass.
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_Belit_, goddess, 51; place of cult, 55, 635; titles and their meanings, 55-6, 227; sanctuaries, 56; in Lugalzaggisi's pantheon, 110; consort of En-lil, 111, 150, 151; consort of Ashur, 150, 226, 668; uses of "Belit," 151; Bel and Belit decree the fate, 150, 153; relationship to Zakar, 172; associated with Anu and Bel, 226-8; confusion in Ass.
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_Christianity_, influenced by Ass.-Bab.
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_Dibbarra_, in Ass.
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_Dur-ilu_, Ass.
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_Gamlat_, in Ass.
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_Gibil_, fire-god, E-la-li, perhaps an epithet, 170; in Ass.
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_Kadi_, in Ass.
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_Khani_, god, in Ass.
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_Laz_, consort of Nergal, 219, 243; not mentioned in Ass.
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period, 171-2; by Mili-shikhu, 172; some Cassite deities, 172; in Ass.
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_Nusku_, fire-god, in Ass.
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temple, 623, 632, 652-3, 655; libation of oil in O. T. and in Ass.-Bab., 665; sacrifices in O. T. compared with Ass.-Bab., 667-8; teraphim and Ass.-Bab.
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Ass.
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period, 169; in Ass.
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_Shalman_, god, in Ass.
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pantheon during and after Hammurabi, 144; position in Ass.
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pantheon, 144, 209-11; associated with Ramman, 145, 157-8, 160, 211; associated with Sin and Ramman, 158, 163; associated with Ishtar, 163, 511; associated with Malik and Bunene, 176; often called Malik, 176; symbol of Shamash, 176-7; temple at Ashur, 209; protecting deity, 209; ethical level in Ass.
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)-ka_, goddess, in Ass.
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_Sherua_, minor god in Ass.
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_Sin_, god, see also _Nannar_; worshipped in Harran, 76, 241, 641, 647; temple at Ur, 76, 241, 295, 640, 644, 687; occurrence of the name elsewhere, 77; amalgamation with Nannar, 78; chief trait, 78; lunar cycle and sun calendar, 78; epithets and functions, 76, 78-9, 219, 462; gradual decrease of Sin cult, 78-9; in Lugalzaggisi's and Gudea's pantheon, 110; associated with Shamash and Ramman, 158, 163; in Hammurabi's pantheon, 162; patron of Bit-Khabban, 163; head of 2d triad, 163; associated with Ishtar, 163, 571; father of Ishtar, 565; temple at Calah, 219; sanctuary at Khorsabad, 219; sanctuary at Magganubba, 219; god of wisdom, 78, 219; god of water in Ass.
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pantheon, 219; first-born son of Bel, 76, 219; subordinate position in Ass.
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_Teraphim_, talismans parallel to Ass.-Bab.
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_Triad_, the great, Anu, Bel, Ea, 107; relationship of the members, 147; product of theology, 147, 149; development of, 148; extraneous position, 149; representative of the three kingdoms, 155; punish the violator of monuments, 207; fix the name of the months, 208, 236; general position in Ass.