ZAB. The river, 207 ZAG-MU'KU (_Zak-muk_). Festival of Sacæa or, 141; goddess Bau and, 251 ZAK-MUK. _See_ Zag-muku. ZA'MAMA. Court of Ishtar and, 101 ZA-RA-THUS'TRA. _See_ Zoroaster ZAR-PA-NI'TUM. Goddess, wife of Merodach, 186, 202; Ealur amalgamated with, 186 ZECH-A-RI'AH. Allusion of, to Hadad-Rimmon, 189 ZED-EK-I'AH. King of Jerusalem; Nebuchadrezzar and, 37 ZEUS. Reference to, 132, 315 ZIG-A-RUN. Variant of Apsu, 72 ZIK-KU-RAT-S. Staged towers; described, 242, 246; of Assur-bani-pal, 365 ZI'RAT-BA'NIT. The seat of, 306 ZIS-U'THROS, KING. Berossus substitutes, for Ut-Napishtim, 177, 178 ZO'DIAC. Signs of the, in the Babylonian astrological system, 183, 231, 232; the goat, one of the signs of the, 292 ZOG-A'NES. The, of the Sacæa, 142 ZOR-O-AS'TER. The religion of, 332-; earliest form of name Zarathustra, 333; a Mede, 333; good and evil principles of religion of, 334 ZU. The storm-god; retained a bird-like form, 93, 193-195; legend of, 193-195 ZU-BIRD. The bird roc, in _Arabian Nights_, a possible descendant of, 193