Chaldea: From the Earliest Times to the Rise of AssyriaRagozin, Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna)
History
Chaldea: From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria
Ragozin, Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna)
Babylonia -- History
Temples of Ea and Meridug at Eridhu, 246;
of the Moon-god at Ur, ib.;
of Anu and Nana at Erech, ib.;
of Shamash and Anunit at Sippar and Agade, 247;
of Bel Maruduk at Babylon and Borsippa, 249.
Theocracy, meaning of the word, 235.
Tiamat, see Mummu-Tiamat.
Tin-tir-ki, oldest name of Babylon, meaning of the name, 216.
Triads in Babylonian religion, and meaning of the word, 239-240.
Tubalcain, son of Lamech, descendant of Cain, the inventor of
metallurgy, 129.
Turanians, collective name for the whole Yellow Race, 136;
origin of the name, ib.;
the limitations of their genius, 136-139;
their imperfect forms of speech, monosyllabic and agglutinative,
136, 137;
"the oldest of men," 137;
everywhere precede the white races, 138;
omitted in Genesis X., 135, 139;
possibly represent the discarded Cainites or posterity of Cain,
140-142;
their tradition of a Paradise in the Altai, 147;
characteristics of Turanian religions, 180-181.
Turks, their misrule in Mesopotamia, 5-6;
greed and oppressiveness of their officials, 7-8;
one of the principal modern representatives of the Turanian
race, 136.
U.
Ubaratutu, father of Hasisadra, 322.
Ud, or Babbar, the midday Sun, 171;
hymns to, 171, 172;
temple of, at Sippar, 247-248.
Uddusunamir, phantom created by Ea, and sent to Allat, to rescue
Ishtar, 328, 329.
Ur (Mound of Mugheir),
construction of its platform, 46;
earliest known capital of Shumir, maritime and commercial, 200;
Terah and Abraham go forth from, 201.
Ur-ea, king of Ur, 215;
his buildings, 216-218;
his signet cylinder, 218.
Urubel, the ferryman on the Waters of Death, 311;
purifies Izdubar and returns with him to Erech, 313.
Urukh, see Erech.
Uru-ki, or Nannar, the Shumiro-Accadian Moon-god, 240.
V.
Vaults, of drains, 70;
sepulchral, at Warka, 83, 85.
W.
Warka, see Erech.
X.
Xenophon leads the Retreat of the Ten Thousand, 2;
passes by the runs of Calah and Nineveh, which he calls Larissa and
Mespila, 3.
Xisuthros, the king of, Berosus' Deluge-narrative, 300.
See Hasisadra.
Y.
Yahveh, the correct form of "Jehovah," one of the Hebrew names for
God, 354.
Z.
Zab, river, tributary of the Tigris, 17.
Zagros, mountain range of, divides Assyria from Media, 50;
stone quarried in, and transported down the Zab, 50, 51.
Zaidu, the huntsman, sent to Eabani, 305.
Zi-ana, see Ana.
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