Assur-bani-pal desired to make the centre of religious influence of the empire, 35; Scythians penetrate into, 36; Sin-sar-iskin, last King of, 36; cuneiform writing of, 60-66; religion, Semitic influence on, 91, 92; the Pantheon of, 203-230; religion of, centres in Asshur, 206; greatness; secret of, 208, 209; Ishtar in, 211-214; worship of Ramman in, 220; Shammash's cult in, 222, 223; Bel-Merodach and, 225; cult of Nabu in, 228; temples of, 242-251; culture; progenitors of, 250; magic and demonology, 257-288; belief in taboo, 278; religions of Babylonia and, comparative value of, 313-337; religion of Zoroaster supplanted that of ancient, 332; ethics, 337, 338; modern excavations in, 339-366; empire, fall of, in 606 B.C., 377 ASTROLOGY. Birthplace of, 231 ATARATH. The _arel_ (or altar) of Dodo carried from, 190 ATARGA'TUS. God; Dagon worshipped as, 27 ATARYAT'IS. Alternative, Derketo. Fish-goddess, legendary mother of Semiramis, 25 ATHENAG'ORAS. Refers to worship of Semiramis, 27 ATHENS. Piræus, port of, 328 AT'TIS. A god akin to Adonis, 132 AU'RA MA-I-NYU. Evil principle of Zarathustra's religion, 334 A-VERR'-O-ES. Friend of Maimonides, 232 AVESTA. Earliest form of Zoroaster's name in the, 333 A'YA. The betrothed of Sham-ash, 166 AZ'AR. One of Nimrod's guards; traditional father of Abram, 54 AZ'TECS. Reverence of, for worship of Toltecs, 226, 227 AZ-U-RI, King. Sargon displaces, by Ahimiti, 210 B BAAL. Sun-god; Hadad the supreme, 189; magic and, 258; Phœnician god, 327; Tanit alluded to as 'The Countenance of --,' 330 'BA'AL.' Canaanitish god, 325; term applied by Phœnicians, 327 BAAL-AMM'ON or MO'LOCH. _See_ Moloch BA'AL-HAMM'AN. Phœnician god worshipped in Carthage, 327 _Ba'alim_. Presiding spirits, 326; of Tyre, the Phœnicians and, 327 BA'BEL. The Tower of, 48; Hebrew verb _babal_ confused with word _babel_, 48; story of Tower of, suggested by one of the towers of Babylon; the beginning of Nimrod's kingdom was, 49 BÂBIL. Mound and enclosure of 103, 347; as a citadel, 368 BA'BU. Esar-haddon, restorer of, 306 BABYLON-IA-N. Racial origin, 12; mother of astrology and magic, 12; land boundaries, the Tigris and Euphrates, 12; the Akkadians and, 13; Semites--receive germs of culture from Akkadians, 14; language, 14; civilization, 14; offshoot of culture of Eridu, 15; first founders, 15; Semite conquerors enter, 15, 16; first great Semitic empire in, founded by Sargon of Akkad, 16; Syria and Palestine welded with, by Sargon, 17; kings, vicegerents of the gods, 17; art; gem-cutting, etc., 17; communication between island of Cyprus and, 18; fall of 'First Dynasty of --', 21; Burna-buryas, King of, 22; Tukulti-in-Aristi takes, and slays King Bitilyasu, 22; built by Semiramis, 26; finally conquered by Tiglath-pileser III, 30; surrender of, through starvation, 34; literature; Assur-bani-pal and, 35;