Sec. 1. Shumir and Accad.--Sec. 2. Language and name.--Sec. 3. Turanian migrations and traditions.--Sec. 4. Collection of sacred texts.--Sec. 5. "Religiosity"--a distinctively human characteristic. Its first promptings and manifestations.--Sec. 6. The Magic Collection and the work of Fr. Lenormant.--Sec. 7. The Shumiro-Accads' theory of the world, and their elementary spirits.--Sec. 8. The incantation of the Seven Maskim.--Sec. 9. The evil spirits.--Sec. 10. The Arali.--Sec. 11. The sorcerers.--Sec. 12. Conjuring and conjurers.--Sec. 13. The beneficent Spirits, Ea.--Sec. 14. Meridug.--Sec. 15. A charm against an evil spell.--Sec. 16. Diseases considered as evil demons.--Sec. 17. Talismans. _The Kerubim._--Sec. 18. More talismans.--Sec. 19. The demon of the South-West Wind.--Sec. 20. The first gods.--Sec. 21. _Ud_, the Sun.--Sec. 22. _Nin dar_, the nightly Sun.--Sec. 23. _Gibil_, Fire.--Sec. 24. Dawn of moral consciousness.--Sec. 25. Man's Conscience divinized.--Secs. 26-28. Penitential Psalms.--Sec. 29. General character of Turanian religions. APPENDIX TO CHAPTER III. 181-183 Professor L. Dyer's poetical version of the Incantation against the Seven Maskim. IV. CUSHITES AND SEMITES--EARLY CHALDEAN HISTORY 184-228 Sec. 1. Oannes.--Sec. 2. Were the second settlers Cushites or Semites?--Sec. 3. Cushite hypothesis. Earliest migrations.--Sec. 4. The Ethiopians and the Egyptians.--Sec. 5. The Canaanites.--Sec. 6. Possible Cushite station on the islets of the Persian Gulf.--Sec. 7. Colonization of Chaldea possibly by Cushites.--Sec. 8. Vagueness of very ancient chronology.--Sec. 9. Early dates.--Sec. 10. Exorbitant figures of Berosus.--Sec. 11. Early Chaldea--a nursery of nations.--Sec. 12. Nomadic Semitic tribes.--Sec. 13. The tribe of Arphaxad.--Sec. 14. Ur of the Chaldees.--Sec. 15. Scholars divided between the Cushite and Semitic theories.--Sec. 16. History commences with Semitic culture.--Sec. 17. Priestly rule. The _patesis_.--Secs. 18-19. Sharrukin I. (Sargon I) of Agade.--Secs. 20-21. The second Sargon's literary labors.--Secs. 22-23. Chaldean folk-lore, maxims and songs.--Sec. 24. Discovery of the elder Sargon's date--3800 B.C.--Sec. 25. Gudea of Sir-gulla and Ur-ea of Ur.--Sec. 26. Predominance of Shumir. Ur-ea and his son Dungi first kings of "Shumir and Accad."--Sec. 27. Their inscriptions and buildings. The Elamite invasion.--Sec. 28. Elam.--Secs. 29-31. Khudur-Lagamar and Abraham.--Sec. 32. Hardness of the Elamite rule.--Sec. 33. Rise of Babylon.--Sec. 34. Hammurabi.--Sec. 35. Invasion of the Kasshi. V. BABYLONIAN RELIGION 229-257