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Jastrow, Morris
Taboo, meaning of, 397.
Talisman, see Amulet, Teraphim.
Tammuz, agricultural deity, 58, 588; relations to Ishtar, 84, 482, 484, 547, 564, 574; T. and Gish-zida doorkeepers of heaven, 546; solar deity, 547; 4th month named for T., 547, 682; intercedes for Adapa with Anu, 548-9; brother of Belili, 575; T.'s day = All-Souls' Day, 599, 605, 682; identified with Nin-girsu, 58; associated with Nin-gish-zida, 546, 588.
Tammuz, 4th month, sacred to Ninib, 462; named for god Tammuz, 547, 682; sacred to the servant of Gibil, 463.
Tarbisu, city north of Nineveh; temple of Nergal, 219.
Tar-gul-le, names of some demons let loose by Dibbarra in the deluge story, 500.
Tashmitum, goddess in pantheon of Hammurabi, 130; a new creation, 131-2; consort of Nabu, 130-1, 228-9; meaning of name, 131; her quasi-artificial character, 131-2; called Nanâ, 132; shrine in E-Sagila, 220, 241; in the subscript to Ashurbanabal's tablets, 229-30; shrine in E-Zida, 241.
Tashritu, see Tishri.
Taylor, J. E., excavations, 8.
Tebet, 10th month, sacred to Papsukal, Ishtar, and Anu, 463; festival of En-meshara, 588.
Tel-Id, mound near Warka, site of ancient capital of Mar, 100.
Tell-el-amarna, see El-amarna.
Tell-Ibrahim = Cuthah.
Telloh, excavations, 11; temple records and legal documents, 165.
Tell-Sifr, temple records and legal documents, 165.
Temple records, see also Literature; source of study of the deities, 167.
Temples, 612 ff.; names of t., 638 ff.; history of t., 642 ff.; as financial establishments, 650; minor part played by the temples in Assyria, 659.
Terah, Terahites, appearance in Palestine, 2; migrations, 2; home of, 9.
Teraphim, talismans parallel to Ass.-Bab. statuettes of gods, 674.
Teumman, king of Elam, 296.
Thamud, Arabic tribe destroyed, 496.
The Brilliant House, name of temple, 641.
"The Lesser Light," name of Ningal's ship, 655.
Theology and popular belief, 89, 114, 131, 180, 235, 249, 411, 414, 416, 458, 494, 527, 584, 614, 619, 629-30, 689; Gudea's system, 108; interaction betw. political fortunes and positions of divinities, 108, 110-11, 134-5, 201, 234, 235; genealogical arrangement according to Amiaud, 108; family theory according to Davis, 109; its value, 109; tendency towards recognition of certain great gods, 111, 147, 171, 190, 234-5, 696; organization of cult and ritual, establishment of dogmas, 115, 133, 247, 690; pedagogical activity, 135; formation of the great triad, 147; re-systematization of gods by Hammurabi, 171, 276; systematization of spirits, 184; attempts to systematize series of gods, 213, 216, 233; theology in cosmology, 412 ff., 418, 443; in the 12th tablet of the Gilgamesh epic, 512-3; in the Etana legend, 527; theology in the Zu epic, 542.
Thomas, Felix, excavations, 8.
Thousand and One Nights, 494.
Threshold of Long Life, name of zikkurat in Sippar, 641.
Tiâmat, mythical monster, conquered by Marduk, 140, 197, 408; fought by Anu, Ea, 197; synonymous with Apsu, 411; female principle, 411; personified chaos, 411, 414; dominion of T. and Apsu precedes that of the gods, 412; gods product of the union of T. and Apsu, 413; mythical monsters product of the union of T. and Apsu, 414; associates of T., 419; Ummu-Khubur, epithet of T., 419; Kingu her consort, 420; Tiâmat epic compared with Zu myth, 543; comparison with Nergal-Allat fight, 585.
Tiglathpileser I., king of Assyria, nomenclature of Bel, 146; dedicates temple to Anu and Ramman, 154, 159; as a hunter, 216; rebuilds temple of Bel at Ashur, 225; pantheon, 236; dedicates captured gods, 675.
Tiglathpileser II., sacrifices in Babylonia, 664.
Tigris, course of, 28-9; comparison with Euphrates, 30; in garden of Eden, 2 (cf. 506); one of the four streams forming the confluence of streams, 506 (cf. 2).
Tishri, 7th month, sacred to Shamash, 462 (cf. 681, 685); 7th day sacred to Shamash, Malkatu, and Bunene, 685.
Tombs, see Dead.
Triad, the great, Anu, Bel, Ea, 107; relationship of the members, 147; product of theology, 147, 149; development of, 148; extraneous position, 149; representative of the three kingdoms, 155; punish the violator of monuments, 207; fix the name of the months, 208, 236; general position in Ass. pantheon, 236; give victory, 236; grant rule, 236; associated with Ashur, Ishtar, and Igigi, and Anunnaki, 236; in incantations, 273; associated with fire-god, 279; in Gudea, 418; in the cosmology, 418; ancestors of the triad, 418; symbolizes the eternal laws of the universe, 432.
Triad, second, Sin, Shamash, Ramman, 163; in incantations, 273.
Tubal-cain, biblical father of metal workers, 178.
Tur-lil-en, in Nebuchadnezzar's II. pantheon, 242.
Tychsen, Gerhard, decipherment of wedge writing, 15.
Ubshu-kenna, council chamber of the gods, 423, 629, 687.
Uddushu-Namir, a divine servant, created by Ea, 571.