[133.1] Translated by Scheil in _Rev. de l’hist. des Religions_, 1897,
p. 205.
[133.2] Zimmern in _K.A.T._3, p. 455; cf. his _Beiträge zur Kenntniss
der Babyl. Religion_, ii. p. 147, “for the House-God, the
House-Goddess, for the House-daimon thou shalt erect three altars.”
[134.1] For exceptions, _vide infra_, pp. 213, 217.
[134.2] _Vide_ Johns, _op. cit._, p. 133; quoting from paper by Dr.
Pinches in _Proceedings of the Victoria Institute_, 1892-93, “Notes on
some recent Discoveries in the Realm of Assyriology.”
[134.3] Johns, _op. cit._, p. 154, etc., treats Babylonian adoption
wholly as a secular business based on secular feelings.
[136.1] _Il._, 18, 505.
[137.1] _Od._, 3, 215.
[137.2] Vide _Cults_, iv. pp. 201-202.
[137.3] _Ib._, p. 202.
[137.4] _Ib._, pp. 104-106.
[138.1] _Vide_ my _Cults_, iii. pp. 80-81.
[138.2] _Ib._, pp. 53-55.
[138.3] _Vide supra_, pp. 129-131.
[139.1] _Vide_ my _Cults_, v. p. 345.
[139.2] _Evolution of Religion_, pp. 139-152.
CHAPTER VIII NOTES
[142.1] Zimmern, _Babylonische Hymnen und Gebete_, p. 20.
[142.2] Pinches, _op. cit._, p. 77.
[142.3] _Vide_ Jeremias, _Bab. Assyr. Vorstellungen vom Leben nach dem
Tode_, p. 68.
[142.4] Zimmern, _K.A.T._3, pp. 433-434.
[143.1] Zimmern, _op. cit._, pp. 412, 587.
[143.2] Langdon, _op. cit._, p. 83.
[143.3] Roscher, _Lexikon_, vi. p. 47, _s.v._ “Ramman.”
[144.1] Certain other minor powers or daimones, such as the
corn-deity, the Lord of Watercourses (Shuqamunu), may have remained
purely “functional,” and have acquired no moral attributes beyond the
beneficent exercises of their special function. But the habitual
Babylonian tendency is to moralise all the gods and goddesses.
[145.1] Ἀφροδίτη ἀνδροφόνος or ἀνόσιος, _Cults_, ii. p. 665, and
Διόνυσος ἀνθρωπορραίστης, _ib._, v. p. 156.
[146.1] Zimmern, _K.A.T._3, pp. 416-418; Jastrow, _op. cit._, pp. 297,
487.
[148.1] Weber, _Dämonenbeschwörung bei den Babyloniern und Assyrern_,
p. 8.
[148.2] _Il._, 9, 312.
[150.1] _Od._, 22, 334.
[150.2] _Il._, 9, 63.
[150.3] _Il._, 15, 204.
[150.4] _Od._, 11, 280.
[151.1] Weber, _op. cit._, p. 8.
[152.1] Gray, _Samaš Religious Texts_ (British Museum), Hymn 1.
[152.2] Zimmern, _Babylonische Hymnen u. Gebete_, p. 18.
[153.1] Weber, _op. cit._, p. 9.
[153.2] Zimmern, _op. cit._, p. 23.
[154.1] “I have sinned and am therefore ill,” is the conventional
formula in the confessional exorcism (Zimmern, _op. cit._, p. 26).
[154.2] Zimmern, _op. cit._, pp. 23-24.
[155.1] _Op. cit._, pp. 28-30.
[157.1] _Vide_ my _Evolution of Religion_, p. 128.
[159.1] Roscher, _Lexikon_, iii. p. 49.
[159.2] Langdon, _op. cit._, p. 269.
[159.3] Jastrow, _op. cit._, p. 536. For the idea of the goddess as
the pleader for man before the high god, cf. the prayer of
Ashurbanapal to Ninlil (Jastrow, p. 525).
[159.4] Zimmern, _op. cit._, p. 15; _ib._, p. 11.
[159.5] Jastrow, _op. cit._, p. 200.
[160.1] _Il._, 9, 497; cf. my _Cults_, i. pp. 72-73, 75-77.
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