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[1112] See above, p. 448.

[1113] See pp. 487, 489, 511, 512.

[1114] Or Arallu.

[1115] IIR. 61, 18. Jensen, Kosmologie, p. 220, takes this as the name of a temple; but, since Aralû was pictured as a 'great house,' there is no reason why the designation should not refer to the nether world.

[1116] See the admirable argument in Jensen, Kosmologie, pp. 185-195.

[1117] Or, more fully, Kharsag-gal-kurkura, 'great mountain of all lands.'

[1118] See above, p. 458.

[1119] See the following chapter.

[1120] See the passages in Jeremias' Die Babylonisch-Assyrischen Vorstellungen vom Leben nach dem Tode, p. 62.

[1121] Sargon Annals, I. 156. Jensen's interpretation of the passage (Kosmologie, p. 231) is forced, as is also his explanation of IIR. 51, 11a, where a mountain Aralû is clearly designated.

[1122]Kosmologie, pp. 222-224.

[1123] Gunkel's Schöpfung und Chaos, p. 154, note 5.

[1124] In an article on 'Shuâlu' published in the American Journal of Semitic Languages (xiv.), I have set forth my reasons for accepting this word as a Babylonian term for the nether world.