BIBLIOGRAPHY. (continued 1)
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Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, 200; restores temple of Nanâ-Ishtar at Erech, 85, 206; his pantheon, 238; restores Ekur, 645; Shamash cult in Sippar, 646.
Eschatological literature, gods and demons in e., 183.
E-shara, meaning, 173, 175, 198; offsprings of, 174; bride of E., 173, 175; built by Anshar, 198; built by Marduk, 198, 431 = Ekur, 217; placed by Marduk under control of Bel, 432.
E-shid-lam, temple of Nergal and Laz at Cuthah, 65, 648, 667.
Etana, legendary personage, 468, 505, 519 ff.; dwells in the netherworld, 511, 520, 523, 527, 590; E.'s patron, Shamash, 520; name occurs in O. T., 519; traditions among other nations, 519-21; E. and Ganymede, 523; deified, 527, 590; god of vegetation, 590.
E-temen-an-ki, zikkurat to Marduk at Babylon, 619, 639; meaning of name, 639.
Ethics, B.-A. religion, 291, 312, 692; belong to advanced period, 292, 304-5; in prayers, 298-9; gods whose nature create e. notions, 306, 692; in penitential psalms, 312 ff.; private morality, 694 ff.
E-tila, name of a temple, and meaning of name, 641.
E-tur-kalama, temple of Ishtar, 311.
E-u-gal, temple to En-lil, 640; meaning of name, 640.
E-ulla, temple to Gula in Sippar, 641; meaning of name, 641.
E-ul-mash, temple of Nanâ in Agade, 82.
Euphrates, stream of Garden of Eden, 2 (cf. 506); E. valley, central habitation of mankind, 2; old settlements of Hebrews, 2; course of, 27; comparison with Tigris, 30; one of the four streams forming the confluence of streams, 506 (cf. 2).
E-ur-imin-an-ki, zikkurat at Babylon, 619.
Eusebius, source for B.-A. religion, 1, 4, 5.
Eve, parallelism with Ukhat, 511.
Excavations, 6-15.
Exorcism, see Incantations.
E-Zida, temple of Nabu at Borsippa, 121, 229, 241, 639; with shrine of Erua, 123; with shrine of Sarpanitum, 241; with shrine of Tashmitum, 241; with shrine of Nusku, 241; with shrine of Ea, 241; with shrine of Sin, 639; history of E-Zida, 648 ff.; influence of E-Zida and E-Sagila, 649.
E-Zida, shrine of Nabu in E-Sagila, 127, 220, 229, 636.
Family, systematization of O. B. pantheon according to Davis, 109.
Fast days, special occasions, 688.
Fate tablets, tablets of fate in the hands of Bel, 538 (cf. 150, 153); in the Tiâmat story, 420, 428, 538; robbed by Zu, 540; compared with the tablets of wisdom, 585.
Festivals, zag-muk, 59, 127, 631, 677, 678; significance of every day, 675; special significance of special days, 675, 677, 680-1, 683-5; words for f. in Assyrian, 676, 687; each month sacred to a deity, 462-3, 676, 683-4; festivals and months sacred to divinities not always corresponding, 687; special festivals, 687-8; the puru ceremony, 688; fast days and rites, 688.
Fire, see Water (cf. Gibil-Nusku in incantations, 277); means of purification, 276, 279; belongs to all three divisions of the universe, 286.
Foreign gods in B.-A. religion (see also Cassites), 142, 644; Adad = Ramman, 156; Kadi, 188, 232, 234; Damku, 232; Eria, 122, 162 (Elamitic).
Fresnel, Fulgente, expedition, 8.
Gaga, Assyrian pantheon, 188; minor god, 234; Anshar's messenger to Tiâmat, 423; a foreign deity, 238, 644.
Gal-alim, 51; center of worship, 91; son of Nin-girsu, 91; in Gudea's pantheon, 106.
Gamlat, in Ass. pantheon, 188.
Ganymede and Etana, 523.
Ga-tum-dug, goddess, 51; similar to Bau, 61; worship at Lagash, 61, 635; in Gudea's pantheon, 106, 635.
Gate of Widespread Splendor, seat of Sarpanitum in E-Sagila, 121, 241, 636, 641.
Gegunu, epithet of Aralû, 563.
Genealogical systematization of Old Bab. pantheon according to Amiaud, 109.
Genesis, see Cosmology.
Gibil, fire-god, E-la-li, perhaps an epithet, 170; in Ass. pantheon, 189; amalgamated with Nusku, 220, 227; in incantations, 273, 277; older than Nusku, 277; epithets, 277, 280; a mythological conception, 277, 279; G.-Nusku, god of civilization, 278; medium betw. worshipper and deity, 279; associated with Anu, 277; associated with Bel and Ea, 279; associated with Nin-gish-zida, 463; identified with Nergal, 594.
Gil, attendant of Nergal and Allatu, 588; god of foliage, 588.
Gilgamesh, hero of the Bab. epic, 83, 468 ff.; in incantations, 282, 284, 470; mythological explanation of, 282, 486-7; with omens, 387; solar deity, 470-1, 515; king of the earth, 471; born in Marada, 473; conquers Uruk, 473, 513; created by Aruru, 473-4; Shamash (see Lugal-Marada), his patron, 471, 479; love affair with Ishtar, 481 ff.; Lugal-Marada, his patron (see Shamash), 486; conquers Khumbaba, 480, 514; G.'s contest with the bull, 486, 514, 537; contest with lion, 488, 514; Gilgamesh half divine, half human, 490, 514; G. and Sabitum, 490-1; G. and Parnapishtim, 492 ff.; points of contact with O. T., 495, 515-6; G. and Eabani, 510, 565; seeking immortality and the secret of life after death, 513; parallelism with Samson, 516; parallelism with Hercules, 516; Gilgamesh and Alexander the Great, 469, 516; G. in Aelian, 469, 524; G.'s grandfather Sokkaros, 524.
Gimil-Sin, deified, 561; temple at Lagash, 561.