stars studied by, 231 AKK'U-LU (Eater). Attendant hound of Merodach, 202 A-LAL'U. The eagle; Ishtar and, 167 ALEXANDER THE GREAT, 378 'ALL'AH.' Modern Arabic name, 325 ALL-A-TU. Equivalent, Eresh-ki-gal, mistress of Hades, 129; realms of, 237 _Al-ô-nim_. Descriptive term of Phœnicians for their gods, 327 ALTAR-S. Of Dodo, and of Yahveh, 190, 191 A'LU. Bull, sent by Anu against Gilgamesh, 168, 169 AL'U-DEMON. The, 271, 277 A-MAR'UDUK. The name Merodach, originally, 202 AM'EN-HET'EP IV. King of Egypt; letters to, unearthed at Tel-el-Amarna, 22 AMORITE-S. Hadad, a god of the, 188; deity, Dagon an, 352 AN'A-TU. The consort of Anu, 123; mother of Ishtar, 168 ANCESTOR-WORSHIP. The Canaanites and, 326 ANDRAE, Dr. A German explorer, 356 ANIMALS. Babylonian gods having form of, 92, 93; mythological monsters and, of Chaldea, 289-298; the dog, 290-292; the pig, 294 ANIMISTIC. Babylonian religion typically, 317, 319 AN-NE-DA'TUS. Appears from Eruthrean Sea, 112 _Ann'-u-na-ki_, THE. Generic name for the gods of the earth, 82, 130; spirits of earth, 90; decree fate, 173; torches carried by, 175 AN'SAR. God; birth of, 71; Tiawath and, 76 AN'SHAR. Variant of Asshur; created with Kishar, 208; Anu, Ea, and Merodach sent to destroy Tiawath, 208 AN'U. God of the sky; son of Ansar and Kisar, 72; Ansar and, 76; Merodach and, 79; most ancient of Babylonian deities, 90; held sway over Erech and Der, 94; temple of, 102; South Wind and, 117-121; En-lil, Ea and, the universal triad, 121; significance, 121-123; Anatu, the consort of, 123; Bau and, 144; sacred bull sent against Gilgamesh by, 158; father of Ishtar, 168; Hadad worshipped with, at Asshur, 188; the Tablets of Destiny and, 195; in a triad with Ea and Bel, but more frequently in the texts apart from them, 197, 198; Dagan and, 198; in Assyria--in Babylon, 217; invoked with Bel, 227; the Pole Star, 236; eclipses and, 255 ANU'NIT. Lesser goddess, merged in conception of Ishtar, 124 APH-RO-DI'TÉ. Ishtar and cult, of, 124; Ishtar and, connected, 235 APOCRYPHA. Legend of Bel and the Dragon in, 97 APOLLO. Temple to, at Carthage, 330 APOLLODORUS. Statement of, _re_ Ea, 112 _Ap'su_. The deep, or 'house of knowledge,' 72; alternative, Zigarun; mother of Ea, 72, 73, 74; the primeval, 193 AQUARIUS, SIGN OF. The deluge story and, 183 ARABIA. Semites believed to have come from, 15, 16; Naram-Sin penetrates, 17; Semitic religion in, 331 AR-AKH'TU. Nabopolasser and the channel called the, 368 AR-A-LÛ. 1. The underworld, 125; 128-131, 171. 2. Goddess; variant, Eres-ki-gal; Nergal and, 150 AR-BE'LA. Ishtar's shrine in, 212; battle of, 378 ARCHÆOLOGY. Babylonian, 46, 47; Chaldean, 339-366; American interest in Babylonian, 356-366; fashionable about the time of Nabonidus (556-539 B.C.), 363 ARES. Greek god, 315 AR'GO. Ea identified with a star in the constellation, 236 ARK. The Babylonian, 174-178 AR-TA'IOS. Median monarch;