U-BA'RA-TU-TU. Shurippak son of, 173 UB'SHU-KEN'NA (or Upshukkina-ku). The 'brilliant chamber' where the sun takes his rise, 252, 253 UK'HUT. Eabani and, 129, 163; one of the sacred women of the temple of Ishtar, 163 UKK'U-MU (Seizer). Attendant hound of Merodach, 202 UNDERWORLD, THE, 125, 128-132, 136; Eabani descends into, 160; description of, in VIIth of Gilgamesh tablets, 169 UR. City from whence Abram came, a near neighbour of Eridu, colonized by Nippur, 15; fall of the dynasty, 20; Nannar, the moon-god, of, 145-149; the moon-city, 249, 251 U'ra. The legend of, 268-270 UR-A-GAL, 175 UR'BAU. Bau alluded to in inscriptions of, 144; Zikkurat built by, at Nippur, 248 UR'GA. A town in Mesopotamia; equivalents, Caramit and Diarbekr, 52 UR-GUR. King of Assyria, 359, 366 UR-NIN'IB. Reference to pavement of, 366 U'ru. Canaanitish god of light; name found in Uru-Salim, 325 URU-AZ-AG'GA. Bau's temple at, 145 UR'UK. Place, 84 URU-KAG-I'NA. Bau alluded to in inscriptions of, 144 UT-NAP-ISH'TIM. Variant of Noah, 116, 160; hero of Babylonian deluge myth, figures in Gilgamesh epic, 155, 158, 160; Gilgamesh's ancestor, 170-173; Gilgamesh seeks secret of perpetual life from, 173-178; the deluge myth and, 173-178 UT-UKKU. Ghost of Eabani designated, 181; an evil spirit, 276 UZ. God; worshipped under form of a goat, 93, 292 UZZ'I-EL, JONATHAN, BEN. The targum of, 267 V VAMPIRES. Babylonian, 264-266 VAN. Lake, 331 VASH'TI. Reference to, 142; Frazer on, 143 VED'IC GODS. Reference to, 77 VEGETATION. En-lil (Bel), a god of, 96; Ishtar, 'great mother' of, 123, 137, 138, 168; seven gates of Aralu and the decay of, 137; Tammuz, a god of, 137, 138, 140; Adonis and Aphrodite connected with, 139; Ceres, a corn-mother, 139; Proserpine, same nature, 139; Osiris introduced corn into Egypt, 139; Mordecai as god of, 144; Humman an Elamite god of, 144 VE'NUS. Star; Abram and, 55; temple of, 58; Ishtar and, 124, 235 VIR'GO, SIGN OF. Ishtar and the, 182 W