209.

_Damascius_ (or Damascenus), see _Nicolas of Damascus_.

_Damascus_, in Syria, cult of Ramman, 159.

_Damkina_,
consort of Ea, 64, 143, 231;
meaning of name, 143;
relationship to Ea and Marduk, 143;
in magical texts, 143;
Ea and Damkina grant long life, 153;
title Belit-ilani, 231;
occasionally invoked in incantations, 276.

_Damku_,
god, associated with Sharru-ilu and Sha-nit(?)-ka, 232;
meaning of name, 232;
evidently a title, 232;
perhaps foreign deity, 232;
worshipped at Magganubba, 232.

_Damu_ and _Damu-gal_, epithets of Gula, 166, 175.

_Daniel_, book of;
bearing upon B.-A. religion, 2, 3;
Daniel and Bab. religion, 3 (_cf._ 668);
illustrative of Babylonian dream lore, 403;
authentic description of dedication of statue, 669.

_Dead_,
universal, 556;
location and names of the gathering place of the dead, 557 ff. (cf.
_Netherworld_);
All-Souls' Day, 599, 605, 682;
under the special protection of the gods, 183, 558, 552, 592;
furnish oracles to the living, 559, 560, 582, 657;
deification of dead, 561, 582;
condition of dead, 563 ff.;
purified, 578, 602;
can hear lamentations, 575, 577;
cannot be brought back from Aralu, 576, 582;
suffer hunger, 598-9;
tombs and burial, 595 ff.

_Death and burial_, life after death, 512, 514, 556 ff.;
cave burial, 557;
pyramid burial, 557.

_Deborah_, song of, among the "Battles of Yahwe," 534.

_Deification_ (Parnapishtim and Etana), 470, 527;
of dead, 561, 582;
of Gudea and Dungi, 167, 470, 561;
of Gimil-Sin, 561;
of Gilgamesh, 282, 284, 470, 561.

_Delila,_ parallelism with Ishtar, 516.

_Delitzsch, Friedrich_, Sumerian question, 22; see Preface.

_della Valle, Pietro_, traveler, 15.

_Deluge_, in Gilgamesh epic and O. T., 495;
place of origin of deluge, 498;
embodying two distinct traditions, 502, 506;
points of contact with Biblical narrative, 506 ff.;
antiquity of the tradition, 508.

_Demons_, see also _Animism_ and _Spirits_;
chief demon, 57, 497;
in incantations, 287;
how exorcised, 330;
when not to be exorcised, 378;
messenger of god, 378;
_Targul-le_, in the deluge story let loose by Dibbarra, 500;
the Utukku, 260 (_cf._ 511);
the Ekimmu, 260 (_cf._ 512);
authors of evil and disease, 183, 593, 306, 692.

_Der_, center of worship of Nina, 88;
city of Anu, 88, 155.

_de Sacy, Silvestre_, decipherment of wedge writing, 15.

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