Sec. 1. Definition of the word Myth.--Sec. 2. The Heroes.--Sec. 3. The Heroic Ages and Heroic Myths. The National Epos.--Sec. 4. The oldest known Epic.--Sec. 5. Berosus' account of the Flood.--Sec. 6. Geo. Smith's discovery of the original Chaldean narrative.--Sec. 7. The Epic divided into books or Tablets.--Sec. 8. Izdubar the Hero of the Epic.--Sec. 9. Erech's humiliation under the Elamite Conquest. Izdubar's dream.--Sec. 10. Eabani the Seer. Izdubar's invitation and promises to him.--Sec. 11. Message sent to Eabani by Ishtar's handmaidens. His arrival at Erech.--Sec. 12. Izdubar and Eabani's victory over the tyrant Khumbaba.--Sec. 13. Ishtar's love message. Her rejection and wrath. The two friends' victory over the Bull sent by her.--Sec. 14. Ishtar's vengeance. Izdubar's journey to the Mouth of the Rivers.--Sec. 15. Izdubar sails the Waters of Death and is healed by his immortal ancestor Hasisadra.--Sec. 16. Izdubar's return to Erech and lament over Eabani. The seer is translated among the gods.--Sec. 17. The Deluge narrative in the Eleventh Tablet of the Izdubar Epic.--Secs. 18-21. Mythic and solar character of the Epic analyzed.--Sec. 22. Sun-Myth of the Beautiful Youth, his early death and resurrection.--Secs. 23-24. Dumuzi-Tammuz, the husband of Ishtar. The festival of Dumuzi in June.--Sec. 25. Ishtar's Descent to the Land of the Dead.--Sec. 26. Universality of the Solar and Chthonic Myths. VIII. RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY.--IDOLATRY AND ANTHROPOMORPHISM.--THE CHALDEAN LEGENDS AND THE BOOK OF GENESIS.--RETROSPECT 331-336 Sec. 1. Definition of Mythology and Religion, as distinct from each other.--Secs. 2-3. Instances of pure religious feeling in the poetry of Shumir and Accad.--Sec. 4. Religion often stifled by Mythology.--Secs. 5-6. The conception of the immortality of the soul suggested by the sun's career.--Sec. 7. This expressed in the Solar and Chthonic Myths.--Sec. 8. Idolatry.--Sec. 9. The Hebrews, originally polytheists and idolators, reclaimed by their leaders to Monotheism.--Sec. 10. Their intercourse with the tribes of Canaan conducive to relapses.--Sec. 11. Intermarriage severely forbidden for this reason.--Sec. 12. Striking similarity between the Book of Genesis and the ancient Chaldean legends.--Sec. 13. Parallel between the two accounts of the creation.--Sec. 14. Anthropomorphism, different from polytheism and idolatry, but conducive to both.--Secs. 15-17. Parallel continued.--Secs. 18-19. Retrospect. PRINCIPAL WORKS READ OR CONSULTED IN THE PREPARATION OF THIS VOLUME. BAER, Wilhelm. DER VORGESCHICHTLICHE MENSCH. 1 vol., Leipzig: 1874. BAUDISSIN, W. von. STUDIEN ZUR SEMITISCHEN RELIGIONSGESCHICHTE. 2 vols.