by water, in connexion with Babylonian magic, 270 PÛRIM. Feast of, 140, 141 Q QAL'AT SHER'QAT. Annals of Tiglath-pileser I discovered by Rawlinson, 346; Dr Andrae's excavations at, 356 R RA. Worship of, in Egypt, 223 RAB'BAT UM'MA. 'The Great Mother,' 330 RAB-I'SU. A lurking demon, 276, 277 RACES. Asia Minor peopled with diverse, 324 RACHEL. The stolen images and, 266-268 RACH'MET. Reference to, 61 RAM'MAN, 175; equivalent, Rimmon; identified with Hadad or Adad, 187-189; the Tablets of Destiny and, 195; popularity and functions, 217-222; weapons of, 218; worship of, in days of Khammurabi and Nebuchadrezzar I, 219; Assur-nazir-pal and, 219; Attributes and signification, 218-222; eleventh month sacred to, 237 RAM'MAN-NIR-A'RI I. The _Annunaki_ and _Igigi_ and, 90 RAM'MAN-NI-RA'RI III. Nabu exalted at expense of Asshur by, 228 RASH'NU. Mithra and, 337 RASS'AM, MR HOR'MUZD. Assur-bani-pal's library at Nineveh and, 35; his archæological researches at Nineveh and at Abu-habba, 47; stone tablet found at Sippard by, 292; researches at Nimrûd, 342, 344. 346, 354. 355 RAWLINSON, MAJOR (SIR) HENRY. Cuneiform writing and, 64-66; his discovery _re_ Nebuchadrezzar, 104; Layard and, 342, 344, 345, 346 RED INDIANS. Titles of months and, 236 REINACH. Reference to, 334 RELIGION-S. Akkadian tongue used as a sacred language by Babylonian priesthood, 14; early Babylonian, 88-153; Jewish, 88; of ancient Mexico, 88; Vedic, of India, 88; Semitic influence on Babylonian, 91, 92; official system of Babylonian and Assyrian, 92; Semitic, Euphrates-Tigris influence on, 92; totemism in Babylonian, 92; system of, in Babylonia, overshadowed by Merodach, 199; Jastrow's _Religion in Babylonia and Assyria_ quoted, 199, 212; star-worship, the origin of, 237; _of the Semites_ quoted, 91, 241, 332; cult of the gods, 292; comparative value of the, of Babylonia and Assyria, 313-336 and on; Teutonic and Celtic, comparisons, 316; Babylonian, typically animistic, 317, 318; worship of great earth-mother, 318, 319; Jewish, 319-329; Canaanite, 324-326; Carthaginian, 329; Semitic, 329, 331; Punic, 330; Mohammedanism, 313, 332; of the Persians (Zoroaster), 332-337; of Babylonians, 338; decay of Babylonian, 378, 379 RESH'EPH. Known to the Canaanites, 326; the lightning god; origin; identified with Apollo, 328 RHO-DA'NES. Romance of Sinonis and, 56-60 RIM'AT-BEL'IT. Mother of Gilgamesh, 158; interprets Gilgamesh's dream, 164 RIM'MON. _See_ Rammon RITUAL. Lamentation at Nippur, 199, 200; of hepatoscopy, 283-288; Zoroastrian fire worship central feature of, 335 S