BIBLIOGRAPHY. (continued 1)
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Court of the World, name of temple, 641.
Creation epic, purpose of, 409; similarity with the Biblical account, 409, 433; literary form, 409 ff.; a nature myth, 432-3; representation of sun, 461; see Cosmology.
Ctesias, source for B.-A. religion, 1, 4.
Cult and worship, cf. Festivals and Rituals; organization, 115, 133, 234; gods in cult and in invocations, 238; revival of old c. in Neo-Bab. period, 242-3; tree-worship, 688-9; compounded of popular belief and theology, 689.
Cuneiform, see Wedge writing.
Cuthah, ancient center, 35; = Tell-Ibrahim, 65; cult and temple Nergal (see Laz), 65, 164, 218, 563, 583, 648, 667; a designation for the nether-world, 563, 570; synonymous with netherworld, 583.
Cuthaeans, 532.
Cyrus, captures Babylon, 4, 45; adopts Babylonian religion, 45, 650.
Dagan, god, 51; confusion with Bel, 151, 154, 209, 225; associated with Anu, 154, 209; chiefly in Assyria, 208; comparison with Dagon, 208; probably Aramaic origin, 208; god of earth, 209.
Damascius (or Damascenus), see Nicolas of Damascus.
Damascus, in Syria, cult of Ramman, 159.
Damkina, consort of Ea, 64, 143, 231; meaning of name, 143; relationship to Ea and Marduk, 143; in magical texts, 143; Ea and Damkina grant long life, 153; title Belit-ilâni, 231; occasionally invoked in incantations, 276.
Damku, god, associated with Sharru-ilu and Sha-nit(?)-ka, 232; meaning of name, 232; evidently a title, 232; perhaps foreign deity, 232; worshipped at Magganubba, 232.
Damu and Damu-gal, epithets of Gula, 166, 175.
Daniel, book of; bearing upon B.-A. religion, 2, 3; Daniel and Bab. religion, 3 (cf. 668); illustrative of Babylonian dream lore, 403; authentic description of dedication of statue, 669.
Dead, universal, 556; location and names of the gathering place of the dead, 557 ff. (cf. Netherworld); All-Souls' Day, 599, 605, 682; under the special protection of the gods, 183, 558, 552, 592; furnish oracles to the living, 559, 560, 582, 657; deification of dead, 561, 582; condition of dead, 563 ff.; purified, 578, 602; can hear lamentations, 575, 577; cannot be brought back from Aralû, 576, 582; suffer hunger, 598-9; tombs and burial, 595 ff.
Death and burial, life after death, 512, 514, 556 ff.; cave burial, 557; pyramid burial, 557.
Deborah, song of, among the "Battles of Yahwe," 534.
Deification (Parnapishtim and Etana), 470, 527; of dead, 561, 582; of Gudea and Dungi, 167, 470, 561; of Gimil-Sin, 561; of Gilgamesh, 282, 284, 470, 561.
Delila, parallelism with Ishtar, 516.
Delitzsch, Friedrich, Sumerian question, 22; see Preface.
della Valle, Pietro, traveler, 15.
Deluge, in Gilgamesh epic and O. T., 495; place of origin of deluge, 498; embodying two distinct traditions, 502, 506; points of contact with Biblical narrative, 506 ff.; antiquity of the tradition, 508.
Demons, see also Animism and Spirits; chief demon, 57, 497; in incantations, 287; how exorcised, 330; when not to be exorcised, 378; messenger of god, 378; Targul-le, in the deluge story let loose by Dibbarra, 500; the Utukku, 260 (cf. 511); the Ekimmu, 260 (cf. 512); authors of evil and disease, 183, 593, 306, 692.
Der, center of worship of Ninâ, 88; city of Anu, 88, 155.
de Sacy, Silvestre, decipherment of wedge writing, 15.
de Sarzec, Ernest, explorer, 11.
Dibbarra, in Ass. pantheon, 189; plague-god, 232, 505, 528; a spirit, 232; identified with Nergal, 232, 528-9, 594; minor god, 234; in the deluge story, 500 (cf. 505); solar deity, 528; god of war, "the warrior," 528-9; attendant of Nergal, 529, 588; attended by Ishum, 529; D.'s attack upon Babylon, 530-1; D.'s attack upon Uruk, 531; general war among mankind, 531 ff.; Dibbarra enraged and appeased, 535; identified with Girra, 588.
Dibbarra epic, see Dibbarra, 232, 528 ff.; recalls the "Battles of Yahwe," 534.
Dilbat, city in Babylonia; temple of Ninib, 242; zikkurat E-gubba-an-ki, 639.
Dilmun, island, 125.
Diodorus, source for B.-A. religion, 1, 4, 399, 435.
Dirges, sung by priests and priestesses, 604, 658; by priestesses, 660.
Divine names, variety of names of individual divinities and local uses thereof, 73; transference of name and its meaning, 118, 140-1; in proper names, 165-6, 169; obscurity of, 233.
Djumdjuma, 10.
Dogma, establishment of, 115, 133, 247, 690 ff.
Dreams, importance of, 322-3; on par with oracles, 350, 479; treated as omens, 350, 403 ff.; in the Gilgamesh epic, 481, 486, 497.
Du'ar, Da'ur, cosmological deity, 417.
Du-azagga, council chamber of the gods, 629; = Apsu, 630; place where the sun rises, 630.
Dumu-zi, god; his double aspect, 96-7; worship at Lagash, 635.