George Smith dispatched to, 351; recent research in, 366-376 MEXICO. Reference to religious system of ancient, 204; reference to temples, on, 243 MIC'AH. Reference to his teraphim, 268 MIDDLE AGES. The Sabbatic goat of the witchcraft of the, 293 MI-LI-SHIK'HU. Babylonian monarch; Shamash and, 187 _Misch'nah_. Commentary on the, 232 MITANI. Provinces of, conquered by Shalmaneser I, 308 MITH'RA. Rashnu and, 337 MIT-RA-PHER'NES. Artaios' eunuch, 149 MOFFLAINES. Wood of, 293 MOHAMMEDANISM. Initiated by the Semitic race, 313, 332 MOLOCH. Magic and, 258; worship of, in Phœnicia, 328; worship of, in Carthage, as Baal-ammon, 330; children sacrificed to, 331 MOMMU TI-A-WATH. The primeval ocean, 71. _See_ Moumis MONSTER-S. Mythological animals and, of Chaldea, 289-298; the dog, 290, 291; invasion of the, 294-296; Patechus, 330 MONTH-S. Titles of, by Babylonians, 236-238 MOON. Babylonian religion and, 236; city; Ur, the, 249, 250; Abram, probably a moon-worshipper, 249; eclipses and the, 256 MOON-DEITIES. Osiris, 138; Aphrodite, 138; Proserpine, 138; Phœnician Ashtoreth, 138; Nannar, moon-god of Ur, 145-149; Sin, 94, 109, 128, 170, 223, 224, 250; Tanit, 330 MOR'DE-CA-I. The Book of Esther and, 141; a form of Marduk or Merodach, 142 MOSÛL. M. Botta French Consul at, 339; Layard's researches at, 340-344 MOTHER-EARTH. Of primitive mythologies, 197 MOTHER-GODDESS. Theory, 318, 319; compounded of various types, 326 'MOTHER OF THE GREAT GODS,' Belit alluded to as, 228 MOU'MIS or MUM'MU. Son of Tiawath and Apsu, 73; name at one time given to Tiawath, 73 MOUNTAIN. Of the Sunset, Gilgamesh journeys to, 158, 159, 171; of the Sunrise, 253; of the Earth, 305; of the Wind, 362; of the World, 362 MUL-LIL. The 'gazelle god' of Nippur, 292 MU-RASH'U AND SONS. Bankers and brokers at Nippur, 366 MU'RO. Worship of Ramman originated at, 220 MEYER, JOSEPH A. An American architect who assisted Haynes at Nippur, 365 MYRRH. Used at the Adonia festival, 136; -tree and Adonis, 137 MYTH-S. Of Sardanapalus, reference to, 32; analogies with Flood-, 45; North American Indian, reference to, 46, 122; Algonquin, reference to, 46; Babylonian, of creation, 70-87; confusing, connected with Ea, 112; of deluge, 111, 173-178; of Merodach and Tiawath, reference to, 78, 114, 199; Mexican, reference to, 115; Greek, reference to, 122, 315; of Tammuz, 126-129; Tammuz and Ishtar, groundwork of those of Greece and Rome, 131; of Adonis, 131-133; Egyptian, _re_ quest of Isis, 133; Tammuz-Ishtar, 135; various strata underlying the Gilgamesh, 159, 160; of the slaughter of Tiawath, 201; of Persephone and of Osiris, 201; a toothache-, 262, 263; Phœnician, little known _re_, 328; Indo-Germanic, reminiscences in Zarathustra's religion, 334; character of Babylonian, compared with that of Hellenic and Scandinavian, 338 N