a Babylonian deity placed in the Assyrian pantheon, 229 DI'DO. Resemblances between Hadad, Dáda, David, and, 189-191; Queen of Carthage, 329; Tanit identified with, 331 DIS. Variant of Belus, 114 DIVINATION. Practice of, by Babylonians and Assyrians, 281-288; Shamash, Hadad, and Rimmon, 'lords of --,' 283; Phœnicians' belief in, 329 DIVINITIES, TRIBAL. The most outstanding, 94 DIVS. Arch-demons and demons, 334 DOD OR DODO. _See_ David; worship of, by the side of Yahveh, 190 DOG-S. The, in Babylonia; five hounds of Assur-bani-pal, 290, 291; legend of a, 291, 292 DRAGON, THE. Bel and, 71; China and, 80; in Egypt, it is the serpent Apep, 80; in India, the serpent Vritra (Ahi), 80; in Australia and in parts of N. America a great frog, 80; Beowulf and, 80; Faffnir and, 80; legend of Bel and, in the Apocrypha, 97; Merodach's, 186; the, in Zoroaster's religion, 337 DREAM-S. Nebuchadrezzar's, and Daniel, 37-40; of Gyges, King of Lydia, 302, 303 DU-MU-ZI. A contraction of Du-mu-zi-apsu; name of Tammuz derived from, 126 DUN'GI. Gudea vassal of the throne of, 19 DYNASTY. 'The First, of Babylon,' 21; a Kassite, founded by Kandis, 21; the First, of Ur, 101; Khumbaba, and an Elamite, 166; reference to Kassite, 248; the Hammurabi, 325; the Seleucidæ and the Arsacidæ, 333 E E'A, OR O'AN-NES. The Babylonian god of light and wisdom, 14; held sway at Eridu, 14; legendary father of Semiramis, 25; source of all things and, 72; Apsu (Zigarun), mother of, 72; variant, Nudimmud, 73; Tiawath and, 76; Merodach and, 79; displaced politically by Merodach, 86, 199; name of Jonah may be compared with that of, 87; fish-form of, 93; the God of the deep, 93; Eridu, city of, 94; temple of, 102; the god of the waters and of the abyss, 111-116; father of Merodach, 111, 191; Greek name, Oannes, 111; instructions tending to humanize mankind, 112, 113; writings of, 113-116; myth _re_ creation of world and, 115; variant, Nin-a-gal, 116; variant, En-ki, 116; Adapa, son of, 116; Dagon (Dagan) same as, 151, 152, 216, 217; Ut-Napishtim instructed by, 174, 176; in later times, 191-193; Dawkina, consort of, 197; identified with a star in the constellation Argo, 236; eclipses and, 255; demons and name of, 263; gazelles and, 292 EA-BA'NI. Goddess Aruru and, 86; temple maiden Ukhut and, 129, 163; typifies primitive man in Gilgamesh epic, 155, 159, 160; the monster Khumbaba and, 158; slain by wrath of Ishtar, 158; shade of, appears to Gilgamesh, 160; a sort of satyr, 163; the beguiling of, 163, 164; Gilgamesh meets, 164-166; death of, 170; Gilgamesh laments, 179; ghost of, designated _utukku_, 181 EAGLE. Symbol of Kis, 294, 296; Babylonian fable _re_ the, 296-298 EA-LUR. Goddess; amalgamated with Zarpanitum, 186 E-ANNA. Temple of, at Erech, 250 E-ANNA-TUM. Shamash first mentioned in reign of, 109;