INDEX.
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Jastrow, Morris
Â, or Malkatu, her names and their explanation, 74; position and relationship to Shamash, 74-5, 176, 685; temples of  and Shamash in Larsa and Borsippa, 70, 241; temple E-edinna in Sippar, 640.
Ab, 5th month, sacred to Nin-gish-zida, 462, 547; "the mission of Ishtar," 564; festival of Ishtar, 685.
Abram and Abraham, followers of, in fight with Babylon, 2; cult of Father Abraham, 562.
Abu-Habba, excavations, 10; see also Sippar; temple records and legal documents, 165.
Abu-Shahrein=Eridu.
Abydenus, source for B. A. religion, 1, 5.
Achaemenian inscriptions, 16.
Ad, Arabic tribe, 496.
Adad=Ramman, 157; solar deity of Syria, 156.
Adam, parallelism betw. A. and Eabani, 511; parallelism betw. A. and Adapa, 552.
Adapa Legend, a nature myth, 548, 644 ff.; found on El-Amarna tablets, 544; Adapa, son of Ea, 545; A. fighting the south wind, 545 ff.; seconded by Tammuz and Gish-zida, 548-9; identified with Marduk, 548; Adapa myth compared with 3d chapter of Genesis, 551.
Adar, 12th month, sacred to the Seven Evil Spirits, 463; 15th day, sacred to Shamash, Malkatu, and Bunene, 685; compared with Purim, 636.
Adar, 2d (intercalated), sacred to Ashur, 463.
Addu, equivalent of Ramman, 156.
Adón, Phoenician equivalent for Tammuz; see Tammuz.
Adra-Khasis, epithet of Parnapishtim, 505.
Aelian, historian, mentions Gilgamesh, 469, 524.
Agade, ancient center, 35, 245; rulers, 36; temple E-ul-mash of Nanâ, 82; temple of Anunit-Ishtar, 117, 242; zikkurat E-an-dadia, 639.
Agriculture, A. and calendar, 462.
Agum, see Agumkakrimi.
Agumkakrimi, king of Babylon, recovers the statues of Marduk and Sarpanitum, 122, 152, 670, 687; cult of Shamash, 144; cult of Shukamuna, 162; institutes special festival for Marduk and Sarpanitum, 687.
Ahasverus, the wandering Jew, =Parnapishtim, 515.
Ai-ibur-shabû, name of street in Babylon, 679.
Airu, 2d month, sacred to Ea, 462, 677; 12th day of A., sacred to Gula, 683; installation of king Ashurbanabal, 684; sacred in Assyria, 684; 10th day of A., sacred to Shamash, Malkatu, and Bunene, 685.
A-ishtu, a foreign god, 644.
Akitu, see Zag-muk; festival, 679.
Akkad, see also Sumer and Akkad; =Babylonia, 176, 532.
Akkadian=Sumerian.
Alala, deity, 417; in incantations, 417; in Allatu's court, 593; consort of Belili, 589; connection with Alallu, 589.
Alallu, a bird; relations to Ishtar, 482, 589; connection with deity Alala, 589.
Alamu, phase of Nergal, 280.
Alexander Polyhistor, source for B.-A. religion, 1, 5, 413.
Alexander the Great, probably contemporary of Berosus, 1; A. and Gilgamos, 469, 516.
Alexandria, gnostic center, 699.
Allatu, goddess, 1st Bab. period, originally associated with Bel, 104; associated with Nin-azu, 586, 590; associated with Nergal, 104, 183, 565, 580, 583, 593; goddess of subterranean cave, 104, 282, 511, 565, 580; in incantations, 282; =Nin-ki-gal, 282, cf. 584; Namtar, her messenger, 570, 580, 587, 592; Bêlit-seri, her scribe, 587; pictured as a lion, 580; Allatu's court, 587, 592; authoress of evil and disease, 593; called Eresh-kigal, 584 (cf. 282); vanquished by Nergal, 584-5; imitation of Tiâmat-Marduk episode, 585; correlated to Ishtar, goddess of fertility, 587; explanation of name, 587.
All-Souls' Day, see under Tammuz and Dead, 599, 605, 682.
Altar, description of, 651; the "horns" of the altar compared with those of Hebrew and Phoenician altars, 652.
Alu-usharshid, king of Kish, 54.
Amalgamation of divinities, cause, features, and results, 74-5, 94-5.
Amanus, district famous for its wood, 627.