BIBLIOGRAPHY. (continued 2)
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Jastrow, Morris
Marduk-baladan, of Babylon, 129.
Marduk-nadin-akhe, king of Babylon, carried statues of Ramman and Shala to Babylon, 212.
Marriage offerings, time of, 59; to Bau, 59.
Mars = Nergal, name of planet, 370, 459; the "sheep" par excellence, 459.
Mar-tu = Ramman, 166, 212.
Marwa, hill in Mecca, 687.
Mashu, mythical mountain, 488-9; = Musas or Masis, 516.
Masis, or Musas, = Mashu, 515.
Mecca, 623.
Medes, 44-5.
Median wedge writing, 19.
Meme, variant of Gula, 175.
Mer = Ramman, 157.
Mercury = Nabu, planet, 371, 459.
Mesopotamia, religious ideas and customs, 1, 3; seat of Terahites, 2; empire of Nimrod, 2; geography, 26, 27; character of, 28 ff.
Messiah, Hammurabi and the Hebr.-Christian notion of Messianic time, 533.
Mili-shikhu, king of Babylon, his cult of Shamash, 144; minor gods worshipped, 172.
Minor gods, 2d Bab. period, 171-2; by Mili-shikhu, 172; some Cassite deities, 172; in Ass. texts, 171; in neo-B. period, 171, 242-3; absorbed by greater gods, 111, 147, 171, 177, 190, 233; patron-gods of arts, 178; as personifications, 179; dividing line betw. spirits and m. g., 183, 233.
Mishiru, a foreign deity, 644.
Mitanni wedge writings, 20.
Months, connected with gods, 462 ff., 676; names of the months, 464; m. sacred to gods and their festivals not always corresponding, 687.
Monumental finds, 7.
Moon, importance of m. as omen giver, 358; manifold relations between man and m., 358; importance of m. for calendar, 436, 461; moon and sun in religion and astronomy, 461.
Moon-god, see Sin.
Moses, 130; parallelism with Sargon I., 562.
Mosul, excavations near, 5.
Mugheir, mound, excavated, 9; see also Ur.
Mummu, associated with Apsu and Tiâmat, 420-1.
Münter, Frederick, decipherment of wedge writing, 15.
Musas, or Masis, = Mashu, 516.
Mythology, see also Nature; extent and influence of Bab. m., 518 ff.
Nabonnedos, of Babylon, restores temple of Shamash in Sippar, 70, 647; last king of Babylonia, 45; restores temple of Sin in Harran, 77, 646; gives prominence to Shamash cult, 240-1.
Nabu, god, 2d B. period, 127; most prominent trait, 124; probable aqueous origin, 124-5, 220; rank as compared with that of Ea and Marduk, 125, 648; agricultural deity, 125; suppression of cult by Hammurabi and his successors, 126; becomes son of Marduk, 127, 240 (cf. 648-9); his shrine in E-Sagila, 127, 220-9, 636; prominence during the Assyrian period, 128-9, 228; his symbol, 128; temple at Calah, 128, 228-9; prominence during the neo-Bab. period, 129, 240; his epithets, 129-31, 229; meaning of name, 130; his functions, 130, 240; his cult with other Semites, 130; identified with Nusku, 220; his consort Tashmitum, 130, 228-9; his consort Nanâ, 224; favorite of Ramman-nirari III., 128, 228; temple E-Zida in Borsippa, 121, 229, 241, 639, 648; god of wisdom, 129, 229; son of Ea, 229; in the subscript to Ashurbanabal's tablets, 229-30; similarity and difference betw. N. and Ea, 230-1; in hymn, 306; shrine E-makh-tila in Borsippa, 307, 636; god of oracles in Assyria, 344, 348; = Mercury, name of planet, 371, 459; in the deluge, 500; sanctuary E-pad-kalama-suma, 640; Nabu's ship and procession, 654, 679.
Nabu-akhe-irba, astrologer, 340.
Nabu-bal-iddin, king of Babylon, 162, 685; restores cult of Sippar, 176, 628, 645, 670; votive offerings, 670.
Nabupelassar, see Nebopolassar.
Namar, district in Babylonia, sacred to Kamman, Nergal, and Nanâ, 159, 164.
Names, transference of name and interpretation of this act, 118, 140-1; composition of proper names, 165; Bab. etymologies of names, 173.
Namtar, god of pestilence, 569; strikes Ishtar with disease, 570; messenger of Allatu, 570, 580.
Nanâ, goddess, 51; titles, 81; center of worship, 81; position in the pantheon proper and in the cosmology, 81; her temples, E-anna in Uruk, 81, 242, 311, 531, 639; E-ul-mash in Agade, 82;in Ur, 81-2, 85, 202, 311, 639, 678; statue captured by Elamites and recaptured by Ashurbanabal, 85, 206; absorbs inferior local deities, 103; associated with Nergal and Ramman, 159, 164; worshipped by Assyr. kings, 206; consort of Nabu, 224; Zag-muk of Nanâ, 678.