[283.1] _Vide supra_, p. 163. The writer of the late apocryphal document, “The Epistle of Jeremy,” makes it a reproach to the Babylonian cult that “women set meat before the gods” (v. 30), and “the menstruous woman and the woman in child-bed touch their sacrifices” (v. 29), meaning, perhaps, that there was nothing to prevent the Babylonian priestess being in that condition. But we cannot trust him for exact knowledge of these matters. Being a Jew, he objects to the ministration of women. The Babylonian and Hellene were wiser, and admitted them to the higher functions of religion. [283.2] Vide _Cults_, iv. p. 301. [283.3] _Vide_ Inscription of Sippar in British Museum, concerning the re-establishment of cult of Shamash by King Nabupaladdin, 884-860 B.C. (Jeremias, _Die Cultus-Tafel von Sippar_). [284.1] _Sumerian and Babylonian Psalms_, p. 75. [284.2] _Vide_ Langdon in _Transactions of Congress for the History of Religions_ (1908), vol. i. p. 250. [284.3] Vide _Zeitung für Assyriologie_, 1910, p. 157. [284.4] Formula for driving out the demon of sickness, “Bread at his head place, rain-water at his feet place” (Langdon, _ib._ p. 252). [284.5] Delitsch, _Wörterbuch_, i. 79-80. [284.6] _Zeit. für Assyr._, 1910, p. 157. [284.7] _Vide_ Hippocrates (_Littré_), vi. 362; Stengel, _Griechischer Kultusaltertümer_ (Iwan Müller’s Handbuch, p. 110). [285.1] Referred to in the comedy of Eupolis called the “Baptai.” [285.2] Jastrow, _op. cit._, p. 500. [285.3] _Op. cit._, p. 297, 487; the priest-exorciser, the Ashipu, uses a brazier in the expulsion of demons. [285.4] _Vide_ Golther, _Handbuch der Germanischen Mythologie_, p. 580; cf. my _Cults_, v. p. 196. [285.5] _Cults_, vol. v. pp. 383-384; cf. iv. p. 301. [286.1] _Cults_, v. p. 356; cf. p. 363 (the purifying animal carried round the hearth). [286.2] Eur. _Herc. Fur._, 928. [286.3] Dio Chrys. _Or._, 48 (Dind., vol. ii. p. 144), περικαθήραντες τὴν πόλιν μὴ σκίλλῃ μηδὲ δαδί, πολὺ δὲ καθαρωτέρῳ χρήματι τῷ λόγῳ (cf. Lucian, _Menipp._, c. 7, use of squills and torches in “katharsis,” (?) Babylonian or Hellenic); Serv. _ad Aen._, 6, 741, “in sacris omnibus tres sunt istae purgationes, nam aut taeda purgant aut sulphure aut aqua abluunt aut aere ventilant.” [286.4] “To take fire and swear by God” is a formula that occurs in the third tablet of Surpu; _vide_ Zimmern, _Beiträge zur Kenntniss Babyl. Relig._, p. 13; cf. Soph. _Antig._, 264. [286.5] Salt used as a means of exorcism in Babylonia as early as the third millennium (_vide_ Langdon, _Transactions of Congress Hist. Relig._, 1908, vol. i. p. 251); the fell “of the great ox” used to purify the palace of the king (_vide_ Zimmern, _Beiträge_, p. 123; compare the Διὸς κῴδιον in Greek ritual). [287.1] _Vide_ Thureau-Dangin, _Cylindres de Goudéa_, pp. 29, 93. [287.2] Vide _Evolution of Religion_, pp. 113, 114, 117; _Cults_, v. p. 322 (Schol. Demosth., 22, p. 68). [287.3] 5, 13, 6.