MAAT. Reference to, 222 MAGI. Confounded by Zoroaster, 333 MAGICAL TEXTS. Dawkina alluded to in the, 197; Anu mentioned in, 198; of Babylonia and Assyria, 257, 288; alluded to in Bible, 266, 267; circle, the, 275, 276 MAGICIAN-S. The word of power and, 263; Ea, the great, of the gods, 268 MAHOMET-AN. 'Baphomet' a corruption of, 293; conquest, 333 MAI-MON'I-DES. Jewish rabbi, friend of Averroes; his commentary on the _Mischnah_, 232 'MAK'LU.' A series of texts known as, 261 _Mam'it_. Equivalent for taboo, 278 MAM-MET'UM. The maker of destiny, 173 MAN-KIND. Creation of, by Merodach, 80, 81; goddess Aruru assists in the creation of, 82, 86; humanizing of, 112, 113 MARAZION. Signifies in Semitic, 'Hill by the Sea,' 331 MAR-CHESH-UAN. Merodach's month, 251 MAR'DUK. _See_ Merodach, 175, 200 MARRIAGE. Customs in Babylonia, 312 MARS. Identified with Nergal, 235 MAS'HU. The Mountain of Sunset, 171 MAZ'DA. One of the spiritual powers in Zoroaster's religion, 337 MEC'CA. Reference to the celebrated Kaaba (temple) at, 52 MEDE. Zoroaster a, 333 ME'DI-A. Subdued by Ninus, 25 MEDICINE. Ea, a god of, 192 MEG-ID'DO. The Canaanitish fortress of, 189 ME-LI'LI 1. Queen; wife of Benani, 82; 2. Mother of the monsters, 295, 296 MEL'I-SHIP'OK II. Houses found dating from period of, 376 MELK ('KING'). Variant of Moloch, 328 MEL'KARTH. Phœnician god of Tyre, 327, 328; worship of, in Carthage, 330 MEL'KARTH-RESH'EF. Phœnician combination, 328 MEM-AN-GAB. Leader of the monsters, 295, 296 MEM'PHIS. Assyrians enter, 31 MEN'KES MOUND, 376 MER-AG-A'GA. Variant of Merodach, 202 MER'CURY. Identified with Nabu, 235 MER'OC. Yaran flees to, 210, 211 MER'O-DACH. Babylonian god, 41; temple of, 47, 374; Nimrod identified with, 50; prayer and god, 68; Tiawath and, 76-82; creates man, 81; the central figure of a popular myth, 84; god Ea displaced by, 86, 199; may have been a bull-god, 93; worshipped at Babylon, 94; Asshur identified with, 94; Nebuchadrezzar and, 104; Diabarra and, 106; the name Mordecai a form of, 142; great festival of, the Zakmuk, 141; worship of, first prominent in days of Khammurabi, 184-198; association with Nebo, 184-186; the Chamber of Fates in temple of, 185; Zarpanitum, wife of, 186, 202; supremacy of, 192; variant Marduk, 194, 200; Shamash and, 200; variants, Amaruduk, Asari, Saragagam, and Mer-agaga, 202; attendant hounds of, 202; usurped place of Bel, 227; Bel paired with, 228; Jupiter, identified with, 235; eighth month ruled over by, 237; month Marcheshuan belonged to, 251; eclipses and, 256; demons and the name of, 263; four dogs of, 291; head of the Babylonian Pantheon, 377; Nabonidus, 377 MER'O-DACH-BAL-A-DAN I. Houses found dating from period of, 376 MESH'A. The Moabite king; Chemosh, god of, 190 MESH'ACH. One of Daniel's companions, 38 MES-O-POT-A'MI-A. Elam and Northern --, overcome by Sargon, 17; Semitic religion in, 331; excavations in, 339, ff.;