communication between Babylonia and island of, 19; worship of Ashtart at, 327 CYRUS, KING. The worship of Bel and, 98-101 CYRUS THE PERSIAN. Invasion of Babylonia by, 41; the pretended avenger of Bel-Merodach, 41; Cambyses, son of, 41; conqueror of Babylon and saviour of Merodach's honour, 378 D DA'DA. Abbreviated form of Abd-Hadad; resemblances between Hadad, Dido, Davad, and, 189-191; Shalmaneser (II) speaks of, 189 DAG'AN. Palestinian form of Dagon; a fish-god, same as Oannes or Ea, 216, 217; associated with Bel, 217; Anu and, 198 DAG'ON. God Atargatus worshipped under the name of, 27; a fish-god, 151, 152; an Amorite deity, 325 DAM'AS. One of the two eunuchs appointed to watch Rhodanes and Sinonis, 57 DAM-AS'CI-US. The last of the Neoplatonists, 72; author of _Doubts and Solutions of the First Principles_, 73 DAM-AS'CUS. Worship of Hadad at, under name of Rimmon, 189; worship of Ramman in, 220 DAM'KU. One of the lesser Babylonian gods, 229 DAN'I-EL. Babylonian appellation, Belteshazzar, 37; Nebuchadrezzar and, 37-40; Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego companions of, 38; reference to a corrupted story of the deliverance of the three Hebrew princes recorded by, 53; Book of, 97; the worship of Bel and, 98-101 DA'ON. The shepherd king of Pantibiblon, 112 DA-O'NUS or DAOS. King of Babylonia, _vide_ Berossus, 127 DAR-I'US. Babylonia independence recovered after death of, 41; defeated at Arbela, 378 DA'VID. Resemblances between Hadad, Dáda, Dido, and, 189-191; variants, Dod, Dodo, 190 DAW-KI'NA. Belos (Bel-Merodach), the son of Ea, and, 73; saved from the deluge, 115; Ishtar identified with, 127, 137; consort of Ea, 197 DE MORGAN. Unearths monument of Naran-Sin at Susa, 17; copy of Khammurabi's code found by, 21 DE SAR'ZEC, ERNEST. French vice-consul at Basra; diorite statues of Gudea (2700 B.C.) found by, 47; excavations of, at Tellô, 355, 356; _Découvertes en Chaldée par_, reference to, 356 DEAD. The doctrine of ministering to, 181; often left unburied in Babylonia, 269; attitude of Burmese to, 269; Canaanites and cult of the, 326; Persians and their, 336; Parsis and their, 336; 'House of the --,' at Nippur, 362 DELLA VALLE, PIETRO. Cuneiform writing and, 61 DELPHI. Worshippers of Apollo send offerings to, 330 DELUGE, THE. Berossus' account of, 42-45; reference to account of, in _Gilgamesh Epic_, 42; analogies with Flood Myth, 45, 46; Babylonian and Hebrew story of, have a common origin, 45, 323; myth of, 112, 173-178; refugees saved from--Ea, etc., 115 DEMETER. Tanit compared with, 330 DEMONOLOGY. Of Babylonia and Assyria, 257-288 DEMONS. Many Babylonian gods evolved from, 268; Babylonian, described, 276-278 DESTINY. Mammetum, the maker of, 173; Zu and the Tablets of, 193-195; the Lia Fail, the Stone of, reference to, 248 DEVIL-S. Possession by, 262 DI-A'NA. Goddess, 235, 319 DI-BARR'A. A variant of Nergal, 106;