CA'LAH. Sennacherib takes nucleus of Assur-bani-pal's library from, 154; residence of Asshur, 207; Ninib's temple at, 215; residence of Assur-nazir-pal, 215; Sin's temple of, 223; tower of, discovered by Layard, 346 CALMET, ABBÉ. Disbelief of, in vampires, 266 CAL'NEH. Part of Nimrod's kingdom, 49 CAM-BY'SES. Son of Cyrus, 41 CANAANITES, THE. First historic dwellers in Syria and Palestine, 324-326; gods of, 325, 326; ancestor-worship and, 326 CANNING, SIR STRATFORD. Sir Henry Layard assisted by, in his excavations at Nimrûd, 340 CAPRICORNUS, SIGN OF. Sea-goddess Sabitu and, 183 CAPTIVITY, THE BABYLONIAN, 321-323 CARAVAN. The story of the missing, 285-288 CAR-CHE'MISH. Worship of Hadad extended from, to Edom, 189 CARTHAGE. Dido, the presiding deity of, 190; Ba'al-Hamman worshipped in, 327; Tanith honoured at, 328; Eshmun worshipped at, 328; religion of Semites of, 329; Dido, Queen of, 329; Apollo's temple at, 330; Mohammedanism at, 332 CELTIC. Teutonic religion and, compared, 317; deity; Bilé a, 317 CE'RES. Reference to, 133 CHAL'CHIS. Iamblichus a native of, 56 CHALDEAN MYTHOLOGY. The sign Gemini, associated with the two forms of the solar deity in, 182 CHAL-DE'A-N-S. Birthplace of Abram, 52; Nimrod, King of, 52; star-gazers, 202; difference between the faiths of the two great races of, 204; astrologers, 231, 232; speculations, 233-235; magic, 258, 259; belief in taboo, 278; belief in superstitions, 280; divination, 281; excavations in, 339 CHA'OS. Tiawath, 193 CHARDIN, JOHN. Cuneiform writing and, 61 CHE'MOSH. God of the Moabite king, Mesha, 190 CHRISTIANITY. Initiated by Semitic race, 313; Jewish influence upon, 320 CHRO'NOS. Berossus substitutes for Ea in the version of the deluge myth quoted in his history, 177 CHUS. The Æthiop; equivalents, Cush, or Cash (a coloured race), 49; father of Nimrod, 49 CIRCLE, THE MAGIC. Chaldean sorcerers and, 275, 276 CODE, MORAL. Of the Babylonians, 338 COLOSSI. Gate of, 101; example of art of which Ea was patron, 229 COR-CY'RE-AN MOUNTAINS. Reference to, by Berossus, 44 CORN-SPIRITS. The primitive, 139 CORNWALL. Phœnicians in, 331 COSMOGONY. Babylonian, 70-87; Jastrow's opinion, 84; type of, 84-87 CREATION. Babylonian myth of, 70-87; story of, in Genesis; myths found in Egyptian papyri; and that in the _Popol Vuh_, 70; Seven Tablets of, 71; of man, by Merodach, 80, 81; legend; Apsu and Tiawath in, 193; 'Cuthæan legend of --,' 294-296; common origin of Biblical and Babylonian accounts of, 323 CTES'I-AS. His tale _re_ Parsondes, 146-149; reference to, 367 CUNE-I-FORM TEXTS. Merodach and, 200 CUNEIFORM WRITING. _See_ Writing CUSH, or CASH. _See_ equivalent, Chus CU'THAH. Temple of Nergal at, 82, 94, 105, 296 CU-THÆ'AN LEGEND, THE. Of creation, 294-296 CYAXARES. Scythian king of Ecbatana, 36; son of, dethroned by Achæmenidæ, 333 CYBE'LÉ. The mother-goddess, 132 CYPRUS. Among the conquests of Sargon, 18;