[301.2] For the main facts relating to the Babylonian system and the “baru”-priests, _vide_ Zimmern, _Beiträge_, etc., pp. 82-92; for the Hellenic, vide _Cults_, iv. 190-192, 224-231; also vol. iii. 9-12. [301.3] The documentary evidence, from a very early period, is given by Zimmern, _Beiträge_, etc., pp. 85-97. [301.4] L. 322: Clytemnestra speaks of pouring oil and vinegar into the same vessel and reproaching them for their unsociable behaviour. [302.1] We have also one example of an oracle of Ishtar (in plain prose), _Keil. Bibl._, ii. p. 179. [303.1] Zimmern, _op. cit._, p. 89. [303.2] _Cults_, iii. p. 297. [303.3] Lucian, _De Dea Syr._, 43. [303.4] _Cults_, iii. p. 297. [303.5] Vide _Cults_, iv. pp. 191-192; iii. p. 11. TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES. Page numbers are given in {curly} brackets. Plain text version only: endnote markers are given in [square] brackets. Minor spelling inconsistencies (_e.g._ coexist/co-exist, temple-ritual/temple ritual, etc.) have been preserved. Add title, subtitle, and author’s name to cover image. Alterations to the text: Convert footnotes to endnotes, relabel note markers (append the original note number to the page number), and add a corresponding entry to the TOC. [Title page] Add commas to author’s bibliography. [Chapter I] Change “from the tyranny of a morbid _ascetism_” to _asceticism_. [Chapter III] “In his _Historie des anciennes Religions_, Tiele classifies” to _Histoire_. “and their aboriginal god was _Possidon_” to _Poseidon_. [Chapter IV] “and _expecially_ the powers of the lower world” to _especially_. “Even _Allat_, the goddess of Hell, she who” to _Allatu_. “the great Assyrian god _Ahshur_ is quaintly expressed” to _Asshur_. “the idea that _Istar_ is the compeer in power” to _Ishtar_. “between the Hittites and the _Assyrian Babylonian_ kingdom” to _Assyrian-Babylonian_. “no clear trace of _theriomophism_ either in the” to _theriomorphism_. “how far the _Minaon_ religion was purely anthropomorphic” to _Minoan_. [Chapter V] “I formerly developed in the second volume of my cults” capitalize and italicize _cults_. [Chapter VI] “Still less is _Allalu_, the monstrous and grim Queen” to _Allatu_. [Chapter VII] (Alalkomenai, “the places of Athena Alalkomene; Nemea, “the…) add right double quotation mark after _Alalkomene_. [Chapter VII] “about whom he is _particulurly_ thoughtful” to _particularly_. [Chapter IX] “and regards this _Hititte_ goddess as the ancestress” to _Hittite_. [Chapter XIII] “modern savagery and the history of _ascetism_” to _asceticism_. (and bewail her”: “If you regard her as a deity, do) delete right double quotation mark. [Index] “Hell, Babylonian conception of, 205-206” add period at end of line. [Endnotes] (Page 17, note 1) “_Archiv fur Religionswissenschaft_, 1904.” to _für_. (Page 42, note 1) “that the _idiogram_ of Enlil, the god of” to _ideogram_.