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In Sumerian mythology and later in the religions of Assyria and Babylonia ... the heavens is being denoted. In the old-Babylonian period, i.e. before Hammurabi ...

the deep heavens. However, in later Babylonian mythology, it was the younger ... over Enlil and the older gods in Babylonian mythology and Yahweh's ...

inspired great devotion in the ancient Babylonian empire, as evidenced by ... of some lost story about Isthar and the Babylonian deity Marduk. Their names ...

medicine is sometimes traced to Roman mythology, which describes the god ... putative origins of the caduceus in Babylonian mythology (as described above ...

nāʾid) was the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, reigning from 556 ... As king, Nabonidus was maligned by the priests of the chief Babylonian ...

god, corresponding to Sumerian Utu. In mythology, Shamash was the son of ... In the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, it is with Shamash's blessing ...

In Babylonian mythology, Tiamat is one of the foundational principles of the universe known as a maelstrom of dark, roiling seawater. ...

role in Mesopotamian religion and mythology. He was the god of the ... In Mesopotamian mythology, Nanna was the son of the sky god Enlil ...

Enûma Eliš (also transliterated Enuma Elish) is the Babylonian or ... important sources for understanding the Babylonian worldview, centered on ...

Enki was a major deity in Sumerian mythology, later known as Ea in Babylonian mythology. He was originally the chief god of the city of Eridu ...

B.C.E.), but also various Old Babylonian fragments exist. The story ... Enki, who often takes the side of mankind in Babylonian mythology ...

Though the Babylonian/Assyrian god Dumuzi was known by a variety of ... a considerable body of Sumerian and Babylonian mythology. ...

the dead, the Underworld, in Mesopotamian mythology. One of the oldest goddesses ... similar to the use of Hades in Greek mythology to refer to both the Underworld ...

A Jewish inscription from the post-Babylonian period in Elephantine, ... Antu or Antum is a Babylonian goddess, and seems to be a precursor ...

The Babylonian creation myth Enuma Elish begins with a description ... rituals until at least the time of the Babylonian exile. The story of Eve ...

In West Semitic mythology, Yam was given kingship over the other gods ... him. A similar sea-demon appears in the mythology of many cultures. The biblical ...

In Sumerian mythology, Ninhursag (NIN.URSAG) was the earth and mother ... his creation of the mountains. In one Babylonian investiture ritual, as ...

god Marduk and his dragon, from a Babylonian cylinder seal]] ... The idea of dragons was not unique to Herodotus in Greek mythology ...

fullest insights we have into the nature of Greek mythology. ... Although the Theogony is often used as a sourcebook for Greek mythology ...

in the Hindu Puranas, Deucalion in Greek mythology, and Utnapishtim in the ... In the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh the story of the Flood is told ...

of Jerusalem, and after the subsequent Babylonian captivity of the Kingdom ... that seem to indicate the end of the Babylonian captivity which lasted ...

by Joshua. During the early days of the Babylonian exile, the prophet Ezekiel ... probably blended into the Arabic, Babylonian, and Anatolian civilizations ...

south of modern Baghdad. In Mesopotamian mythology Gilgamesh is credited to ... *George, Andrew The Epic of Gilgamesh: the Babylonian Epic Poem and ...

As long as 500 years after her death, during the Babylonian era, it was used as a text copied by students learning to be scribes in the edubba, or scribal ...

Biblical references also resemble the Babylonian creation epic Enûma Elish ... *[http://www.sacred-texts.com/ane/enuma.htm Enuma Elish (Babylonian ...

worshipers), Etruria, and Babylonia. The Babylonian necromancers were called ... Norse mythology also contains examples of necromancy (Ruickbie 2004 ...

other deities. Thus, by the end of the Babylonian captivity of Judah in the ... of the Vedas, and paralleling the mythology of the Greeks, the Vedic ...

the parent of many other gods. Canaanite mythology about El may have directly ... their nation during and after the Babylonian exile. ===The Council of El=== ...

=== Babylonian sources === and mathematicians were influenced by Babylonian astronomy to a limited ...

by 600 B.C.E. had already begun using Babylonian concepts in their calculations. ... The Greeks grafted the names of their own gods onto the Babylonian ...

*Sargon, et al. The Babylonian Correspondence of Sargon and Sennacherib. State archives of Assyria, v. 17. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press ...

The word “vampire” is mentioned in Babylonian demonology, and the even ... Vampire-like spirits called the Lilu are mentioned in early Babylonian ...

Although the text is often used as a sourcebook for Greek mythology ... exemplified in the affirmation of Babylonian kingship in the Enuma Elish ...

and thus gain eternal life is found in various Babylonian legends. In the Amarna tablets, Adapa, the first man, is the son of Ea, god of wisdom, who has ...

similar to those of the Devil. In Hindu mythology, Rahu is a snake that swallows ... Satan as the Devil in Judaism during the Babylonian captivity, thus explaining ...

, Hammurabi (who established the Old Babylonian state), Ashur-uballit I ... were used until the end of the Neo-Babylonian period. Old Aramaic, which ...

) is a female demon figure found in Mesopotamian mythology and Jewish ... of the demon were found in ancient Babylonian culture, eventually influencing ...

*Babylonian astrology *Horoscopic astrology and its specific subsets: ... indigenous forms of astrology. This Babylonian astrology came to Greece ...

to the destruction of humankind. The Babylonian Talmud, for instance, states ... the aforementioned events. In the Babylonian Talmud, Rabbi Levi asserts ...

and the captivity, the fifth between the Babylonian period and the time of ... was followed by the Exodus; the Babylonian captivity was followed ...

and Misharu as a judge of the dead. A late Babylonian text makes him the underworld prison warder. The Phoenician inscription on the sarcophagus ...

Jeremiah urged accommodation with the Babylonian Empire, which he saw as ... Jonah – Probably written after the period of Babylonian exile, this ...

B.C.E. when Mesopotamia is united under Babylonian rule. ... the culture god Enki (absorbed into Babylonian mythology as the god Ea), the ...

History") during the Babylonian exile of the sixth century ... (meaning notably, but not only, the Babylonian exile) upon his people ...

In religion, folklore, and mythology, a demon (also rendered daemon ... represent shedim are the shedu of Babylonian mythology. These figures were ...

is shown at the far north, in the Babylonian Empire of Hammarabi. It ... chief Assyrian god, equivalent to the Babylonian Marduk, and it is from ...

five great epics combined: The ancient Babylonian Gilgamesh (3,000 verses ... Though the Epic of Gesar contains elements of ancient Tibetan mythology ...

upon a combination of Persian and Babylonian mythology.Van Voorst, 8.Constantin ... The Babylonian Talmud contains several references that have been traditionally ...

Biblical narrative of Ham in a racial way. The Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 108b states, "Our Rabbis taught: Three copulated in the ark, and they ...

Modern histories have replaced mythology with anthropology. Scholars ... By 2000 B.C.E., Sumerian and Babylonian cultures began delineating ...

planet. Although no records have survived, late Babylonian records from the seventh century B.C.E. refer to much earlier records. The Babylonians called ...

According to Irish mythology, Noah had a son named Bith who was not ... the mid-sixth century B.C.E., during the Babylonian exile; some modern scholars ...

Ea, also called Enki, one of the great Babylonian gods, has also been mentioned ... a common national identity, religious mythology, and origin story. In any ...

called Ishtar Terra, after Ishtar, the Babylonian goddess of love, and is ... on human culture. It is described in Babylonian cuneiformic texts such ...

Rank was an expert in philosophy, literature, and mythology, and brought ... found in different cultural traditions: Babylonian (story of kings Gilgamesh ...

In Roman mythology, Mars was the god of war and patron of warriors ... In Babylonian astronomy, the planet was named after Nergal, their ...

ethic eventually prevailed during the Babylonian captivity and thereafter ... considerably later era: of the period of Babylonian exile even as late as the ...

137:1 speaks in the past tense of the Babylonian exile when it states: ... *Human, Dirk J. Psalms and Mythology. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old ...

Rashi's massive commentary covers nearly all of the Babylonian Talmud. It has been included in every published version of the Talmud since ...

99 are missing) and are inscribed in Old Babylonian on an eight-foot tall stele ... on his reign as well as insights into Goguryeo mythology. ...

the Indians came in contact with through Babylonian traders. [http://oldestcoins ... In Greek mythology Charon, the ferryman of Hades, charged the newly ...

the Great. Cyrus reversed the policy of his Babylonian predecessors who had destroyed local temples and removed their religious treasures. He returned ...

drawings in France. Early Egyptian and Babylonian reliefs depict wrestlers ... emerged from a pool of competitors. Greek mythology celebrates the rise of ...

thought (all of which emerged after the Babylonian captivity), including the importance of rewards and punishments, the belief in a perfected ...

of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (Boston: Little, Brown ... For example, one legend in the Babylonian Talmud describes Titus ...

The Symbolist painters mined mythology and dream imagery for a visual ... of Symbolist imagery, as do the Babylonian scenes from Griffith's ...

Nazism, for example, was of the first type, and Babylonian and Egyptian Messianism were of the second type. The Messianic claims of Jesus belonged only ...

themes from Judaism, Hellenistic philosophy and mythology, and classical Egyptian religion. In the last case, this literature combined philosophical ...

dominant stallion. In stark contrast to the mythology of the stallion and his (ownership implied) harem, he has no value to the herd itself beyond reproduction ...

(layer VII, from the later part of the old-Babylonian period) mention people with Hurrian names at the mouth of the Orontes. There is no evidence for ...

of many comparisons made with Egyptian, Babylonian and Hittite plans, both ... in the world, much as in later Greek mythology. Many stories in the Sumerian ...

hanged on the eve of the Passover.The Babylonian Talmud, translated I. Epstein ... with then-contemporary religion and mythology.Will Durant, Caesar and ...

The concept of the constellation was known to exist during the Babylonian period. Ancient sky watchers imagined that prominent arrangements of ...

and zodiac sign Leo, and described in mythology, where its skin was borne ... The lion was a prominent symbol in both the Old Babylonian and Neo ...

586 B.C.E., Judah was conquered by the Babylonian Empire and Jerusalem and ... Cyrus II of Persia conquered the Babylonian Empire by 539 B.C.E. and ...