Sec. 1. Babylonian calendar.--Sec. 2. Astronomy conducive to religious feeling.--Sec. 3. Sabeism.--Sec. 4. Priestcraft and astrology.--Sec. 5. Transformation of the old religion.--Sec. 6. Vague dawning of the monotheistic idea. Divine emanations.--Sec. 7. The Supreme Triad.--Sec. 8. The Second Triad.--Sec. 9. The five Planetary deities.--Secs. 10-11. Duality of nature. Masculine and feminine principles. The goddesses.--Sec. 12. The twelve Great Gods and their Temples.--Sec. 13. The temple of Shamash at Sippar and Mr. Rassam's discovery.--Sec. 14. Survival of the old Turanian superstitions.--Sec. 15. Divination, a branch of Chaldean "Science."--Secs. 16-17. Collection of one hundred tablets on divination. Specimens.--Sec. 18. The three classes of "wise men." "Chaldeans," in later times, a by-word for "magician," and "astrologer."--Sec. 19. Our inheritance from the Chaldeans: the sun-dial, the week, the calendar, the Sabbath. VI. LEGENDS AND STORIES 258-293 Sec. 1. The Cosmogonies of different nations.--Sec. 2. The antiquity of the Sacred Books of Babylonia.--Sec. 3. The legend of Oannes, told by Berosus. Discovery, by Geo. Smith, of the Creation Tablets and the Deluge Tablet.--Secs. 4-5. Chaldean account of the Creation.--Sec. 6. The Cylinder with the human couple, tree and serpent.--Sec. 7. Berosus' account of the creation.--Sec. 8. The Sacred Tree. Sacredness of the Symbol.--Sec. 9. Signification of the Tree-Symbol. The Cosmic Tree.--Sec. 10. Connection of the Tree-Symbol and of Ziggurats with the legend of Paradise.--Sec. 11. The Ziggurat of Borsippa.--Sec. 12. It is identified with the Tower of Babel.--Secs. 13-14. Peculiar Orientation of the Ziggurats.--Sec. 15. Traces of legends about a sacred grove or garden.--Sec. 16. Mummu-Tiamat, the enemy of the gods. Battle of Bel and Tiamat.--Sec. 17. The Rebellion of the seven evil spirits, originally messengers of the gods.--Sec. 18. The great Tower and the Confusion of Tongues. VII. MYTHS.--HEROES AND THE MYTHICAL EPOS 294-330