Eshmun worshipped at, 328 SIGN-S. Gemini, Leo, Virgo, Taurus, Scorpio, 182; Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces, 183 SILENCE, TOWERS OF. Parsis' dead and the, 336 SIN (perhaps pron. _Siñ_). The moon-god, 94, 223, 224; Ruled at Ur, 94; Shamash son of, 109; Ishtar daughter of, 128; Gilgamesh delivered by, 170; Gilgamesh resorts to, 180; eclipses and god, 256; a Canaanitish god, 325 SIN-A-IT'IC PENINSULA. Semitic religion in, 331 SI-NO'NIS. Romance of Garmus and, 56-60 SIN-SAR-IS'KIN. Last King of Assyria, 36; the Sarakos of the Greeks, 36 SIN-SHAR-ISH'KUN. The last representative of the Assyrian dynasty, 364 SIP'PAR. Shamash worshipped at, 109; Aa worshipped at, 110; Abu-Habbah, the ancient site of, 177; Berossus substitutes, for Shurippak, 178; Khammurabi's improvements at, 187; Shamash's temple at, 249 SIP'PA-RA. Temple of sun-god, Mr Rassam discovers, 47, 292 SIS-U'THRUS. The Flood Myth and, 45 SI'WAN. Month sacred to Sin, 236 SMITH, GEORGE. Reference to archæological labours, 46, 155, 347-354; discovery of, _re_ Bel, 101; discovery of, _re_ Tiglath-pileser II, 299; Babylonian and Assyrian poetry and, 322 SMYR'NA. Mother of Adonis, reference to, 127 SOUL. Supposed to reside in the liver, 281 SPAIN. Mohammedanism in, 332 SPEAKING HEAD, THE. Laban and, 267 SPIRIT-S. Assyrian, 277, 278 SOKK-A'ROS. First king to reign in Babylonia after the deluge, 157; Ælian the grandson of, 157 SOOTHSAYERS. Sennacherib and, 260 SOR-ACCH'US. Magistrate, who sends Sinonis to Babylon, 58 SORCERERS. Chaldean, and the magic circle, 275, 276 SRA-O'SHA. Soul carried by, to the beyond, 336, 337 STAR-S. Formed by Belus, 115; Babylonian worship of, 231-238; ideograph the same for 'god' and, 234; the sun the shepherd of the, 236; Anu the Pole, 236; Bel the Pole (equator), 236; Ea and star in constellation Argo, 236; -gazers of Chaldea, 258 ST IL'YA. Tammuz compared with, 127 STONE. The Moabite, 190; examined by Professors Socin and Smend, 190 STRA-BRO-BA'TES. King of India; Semiramis makes war on, 26, 27 'SU-ME'RI-AN.' Modern equivalent for the old expression 'Akkadian,' 15 SUN. Merodach's ideograph is the, 202; known as the 'Way of Anu,' 234; the 'Bull of Light,' 290 SUN-GOD. _See_ Gods. SUPERSTITION-S. In Chaldea, 280, 281 SU'SA. Monument of Naram-Sin unearthed by de Morgan at, 17; copy of Khammurabi's code found at, by J. de Morgan, 21 SUS'I-AN. Language; alternative, Median, 65 SUS'IN-AY. Idol of, 304 SYRIA. Palestine and, invaded by Sargon, 17; worship of Hadad in, 188; the Canaanites first dwellers in, 324 SYSTEM-S. Official, of religion in Babylonia and Assyria, 92; of religion in Babylonia, 199; religious, of ancient Mexico, Guatemala, and Yucatan; reference to, 204; Hellenic and Roman, 235; religions--Judaism, Christianity, Mohammedanism, 313; of religious races in Asia Minor, 324; Zarathustra's moral, 334 T