BIBLIOGRAPHY. (continued 2)
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Sacred quarter, 622 ff.
Sacredness of animals, meaning of, 397-8, 662; of trees, 662-3.
Sacrifices, when not to be offered, 378; when offered, 663, 667-8; offered by priests, 657-8; Semitic view of, 660; comparison with Hebrew, 667-8; as determined from religious and historical literature, 661; development of, 661; two kinds of, 661; connected with prayers, 663; use of oil and wine, 664, 666; daily, 667; monthly, 668.
Sâdu, the hunter in the service of Gilgamesh, 475; associated with Ukhat, 511.
Safa, hill in Mecca, 687.
Sag-ila = Marduk, in proper names of the 2d Bab. period, 169.
Sal, father of Rustem, 520.
Samsi-Ramman, king of Assyria, builds temple to Ramman, 154, 159; builds temple to Ashur in Ashur, 198; his name as evidence of age of Shamash cult, 209.
Samson, parallelism with Gilgamesh, 515 ff.
Samsu-iluna, king of Babylon, 56; builds sanctuary of Belit, 56; builds Dur-padda, sacred to Ramman, 158; his pantheon, 162; builds wall of Zakar in Nippur, 172; builds wall of Lugal-mittu in Nippur, 172.
Samuel, prophet, his spirit called up, 559.
Saracus, last king of Assyria, 229.
Sargon I., "builds" temple E-ulmash of Nanâ in Agade, 82; myth of Sargon I. related to an incident in Moses' life, 562; his exploits incorporated in a religious text, 562; "builder" of temple of En-lil in Nippur, 642, 645.
Sargon II., of Assyria, restores "laws and customs of Harran," 77; builds sanctuary to Shamash, 211; names Kar-Nergal in honor of Nergal, 219; builds sanctuary to Sin at Khorsabad and Magganubba, 219; patron of learning, 229; prominence of Nabu cult, 229; erects sanctuary to Nin-gal at Khorsabad, 231; restores Magganubba, 232; revives the triad, 236; his pantheon, 237; his palace at Khorsabad, 225, 237; his zikkurat at Khorsabad, 617; sacrifices in Babylonia, 664; institutes special festival, 687.
Sarpanitum, consort of Marduk, 121, 224, 228, 636; interpretation of name, 121, 449; shrine in E-Sagila, 121, 241, 636, 641; her statue recovered by Agum, 122, 152, 670, 687; her subordinate position, 121-2; goddess of matrimonial fertility, 122, 684; of secret knowledge, 122; amalgamation with Erua, 122; epithets of Sarpanitum-Erua, 123; called Belit, 224, 684; shrine in E-Zida, 241; rarely in incantations, 276; 25th day of Siwan her festival, 684; festival instituted by Agum, 687.
Saturn = Ninib, planet, 371, 459.
Saul, king of Israel, and the witch, 559.
Semites and non-Semites in Babylonia, 21-2, 32-4.
Sendschirli, excavations in, 579.
Senkereh = Larsa.
Sennacherib, king of Assyria, 200; takes statues of Ramman and Shala back from Babylon, 212; erects temple to Nergal at Tarbisu, 219; his pantheon, 238, 644, note 2.
Seven spirits, cause eclipse of moon, 264, 276; 12th month sacred to them, 463; Sibi, collective personification of the s. p. associated in war with Ishum, 533.
Sex, inferiority of female to male in the B.-A. pantheon, 75, 79, 104; confusion of female cults, 80; variety of "ladies" in pantheon, 98, 104; position of female deities as consorts of male deities, 104, 586, 594; male deities becoming female and consorts of male deities, 177, 280; association of sexes in cosmology, 411; association of sexes in the creation of the gods, 413; female deities and the months, 463; sex in witchcraft, 267, 342, 660; sex in priesthood, 485, 659-60; sex in furnishing oracles, 485, 660; sex among musicians and dirge singers, 660 (see Dirge); position of woman, 694.
Shabat, 11th month, sacred to Ramman, 463; sacred to Ninib, 215, 684.
Shabra, god, temple at Lagash, 635.
Shàilu, a designation for priest, 560; || Hebr. Shôel, 560.
Shala, consort of Ramman, 161, 212; in proper names of 2d Bab. period, 169; in Ass. pantheon, 189; meaning of name, 213; other applications of the name, 213; epithets, 213.
Shalman, god, in Ass. pantheon, 188.
Shalmaneser II., king of Assyria, gives prominence to Shamash cult, 205, 215; his pantheon, 237.
Shamash, or Utu, 51, 277; signification of name, 68; relations to the moon-god, 68-70, 98, 305; centers of worship, Sippar and Larsa, 69, 117, 143, 176, 241, 628, 640, 646; relative age of the centers, 70; temple Ebabbara, 70, 628, 640, 645; attributes and functions, 71, 120, 210; in incantations, 71, 211; probable age of these conceptions, 72; his other names and their meaning, 72-4, 176; local uses thereof, 73; Malkatu his consort, 74-5, 176, 241-685; offspring of Nin-gal, 98; in Lugalzaggisi's and Gudea's pantheon, 110; in Hammurabi's pantheon, 162; warrior of heaven and earth, 144, 211; mighty hero, 152; position in Bab. pantheon during and after Hammurabi, 144; position in Ass. pantheon, 144, 209-11; associated with Ramman, 145, 157-8, 160, 211; associated with Sin and Ramman, 158, 163; associated with Ishtar, 163, 511; associated with Malik and Bunene, 176; often called Malik, 176; symbol of Shamash, 176-7; temple at Ashur, 209; protecting deity, 209; ethical level in Ass. pantheon, 209-10; judge of heaven and earth, 210, 274, 279, 297, 527 (cf. 640); prominence of sun cult during reign of Ashurnasirbal and Shalmaneser II., 210, 646; under Esarhaddon, 646; sanctuary by Sargon II., 211; cult influenced by that of Egyptian Ra, 210 (cf. 699); name of one of the eastern gates of Sargon's II. palace, 237; grants victory, 237; Nebuchadnezzar II. and Shamash cult, 646; Nabonnedos gives prominence to Sh. cult, 240-1, 647; temple in Babylon, 242, 640; Sh. in incantations, 280; in hymns, 300 ff.; in omens and oracles, 334, 344;
Shamash and Sin, 305, 647; 7th month sacred to Sh., 463, 685; patron of Gilgamesh, 471, 479; identical with Lugal-Marada, 486; patron of Etana, 520; controls Zu, 538; on seal cylinders, 540; Si-gar, a festival of, 684; festival days, 685.
Shamshi-Ramman, king of Assyria, gives prominence to Ninib cult, 214.
Shamuktu, a class of priestesses of Ishtar, 660.
Sha-nit(?)-ka, goddess, in Ass. pantheon, 188; associated with Damku and Sharru-ilu, 232; mistress of Nineveh, 233; = Ishtar, 233.
Sharru, title of Marduk, in the deluge story, 500.
Sharru-ilu, god, associated with Damku and Sha-nit(?)-ka, 232; meaning of name, 232; evidently a title, 232; perhaps a foreign god, 232; worshipped at Magganubba, 232.
Shar-sarbi = Belsarbi, 242.
Sherua, minor god in Ass. pantheon, 234; foreign deity, 644.
Sheôl, 560; O. T. conceptions of Sheôl || to Babylonian conceptions, 606 ff.; see also Shuâlu, Dead..
Shinar = Babylonia, 613.