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Theophilus G. Pinches's classic exploration of the ancient religion of Babylonia and Assyria. Topics covered include: Position, and Period, By whom followed, The documents, The importance of the subject, The uniting of two pantheons, In Assyria, The later period in Assyria, In Babylonia, The picture presented by the study, The Sumero-Akkadians and the Semites, The Babylonian script and its evidence, Ancestor and hero-worship. The deification of kings, The earliest form of the Babylonian religion, How the religion of the Babylonians developed, Was Animism its original form? Image-worship and Sacred Stones, Idols, The adoration of sacred objects, Holy places, An interesting list, The Tower of Babel, -sagila according to Herodotus, A Babylonian description, Other temple-towers, Their origin, An Embodiment of doctrine, Water the first creator, The gods, The designs against them, Tiawath's preparations, Kingu replaces Absu, Tiawath's aim, The gods hear of the conspiracy, And choose Merodach as their champion, Merodach proclaimed king, The fight with Tiawath, Tiawath's fate, Merodach orders the world anew, The creation of man, Berosus' narrative fills the gap, A second creation, The concluding tablet, Man the redeemer, The bilingual account of the creation. Aruru aids Merodach, The order of the gods in the principal lists, Anu, Ea, Bel, Beltis, nu-r stu or Nirig.[] Nusku, Merodach, Zer-pan tum, Nebo and Tasm tum, Samas and his consort, Tammuz and Istar, Nina, Nin-Gursu, Bau, Eres-ki-gal or Allatu, Nergal, Amurru, Sin or Nannara, Addu or Rammanu, Assur, The minor divinities, The gods and the heavenly bodies, Moon and Sun, Jupiter and Saturn, Venus at sunrise and sunset, And in the various months, Stars identified with Merodach, Parallels in Babylonian legends, Other star-names, How the gods were represented. On cylinder-seals, On boundary-stones, etc, Other divine figures, A specimen incantation, Rites and ceremonies, Monotheism, Dualism, And Monism, and The future life.

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