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[588] Repeated in the text by an error of the scribe.
[589] III R. 60, col. ii. 90 to col. iii. 24.
[590]I.e., there will be war. One is reminded of the modern superstition which associates war with the 'northern light' in the heavens.
[591]I.e., there will be sedition.
[592] So a variant text.
[593]I.e., will play havoc with the Inhabitants of the deep.
[594]I.e., there will be peace.
[595] See the chapter on "The Temples of Babylonia and Assyria."
[596] See Jensen, Kosmologie der Babylonier, pp. 134-139.
[597] IIIR. 63.
[598] Lit., "delayed in the heavens."
[599] Tablet defective.
[600]I.e., there is war.
[601] Intercalated month.
[602]I.e., it is a good sign.
[603] Tablet defective.
[604] Text erroneously 'one month.'
[605] See above, p. 183.
[606] See Ihering, Vorgeschichte der Indo-Europaer, pp. 182 seq.
[607] See The Golden Bough, passim.
[608] IV Rawlinson, pls. 32, 33.
[609]I.e., the Intercalated Elul. After the 6th month (Elul) and after the 12th (Adar), a month was intercalated at certain intervals in order to bring the solar and lunar years into conjunction.
[610] Lit., 'raising of his hand to a god'—the attitude in prayer.
[611] Text erroneously 'mistress.'
[612] Here and elsewhere Ishtar is used in a generic sense for 'chief goddess'; in the present case Sarpanitum. See above, pp. 82, 151, 206.
[613] 'Belit,' as 'mistress' in general.
[614] Lit., 'place of secrecy,' the reference being to that portion of the temple where the god sat enthroned.
[615]I.e., of the palace.
[616]I.e., upon one's enemies.
[617] Isaiah, lviii. 13.
[618] Meat, just as wine, was considered at all times a symbol of joy in the Orient.
[619] Perhaps also the 24th.
[620] V Rawlinson, pls. 48, 49.
[621] The plural is used, but in a collective sense.
[622] The Euphrates or Tigris is no doubt meant.
[623] IIIR. 52, no. 3, reverse.
[624] The most extensive publication of omens is Boissier's Documents Assyriens Relatifs aux Présages, of which two volumes have appeared. Boissier's method of publication is not altogether satisfactory.
[625]Introduction to the History of Religions, pp. 28-35.
[626] A particularly bad omen. See IIIR. 65, 22, obverse.
[627] Boissler, Documents Assyriens Relatifs aux Présages, pp. 110 seq. Boissier has published portions of some twenty tablets of the series, ib. pp. 110-181.