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Title: Myths of Babylonia and Assyria

Author: Donald A. Mackenzie

Release Date: September 5, 2005 [EBook #16653]

Language: English

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MYTHS OF BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA

Donald A. Mackenzie

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface
Introduction
I. The Races and Early Civilization of Babylonia
II. The Land of Rivers and the God of the Deep
III. Rival Pantheons and Representative Deities
IV. Demons, Fairies, and Ghosts
V. Myths of Tammuz and Ishtar
VI. Wars of the City States of Sumer and Akkad
VII. Creation Legend: Merodach the Dragon Slayer
VIII. Deified Heroes: Etana and Gilgamesh
IX. Deluge Legend, the Island of the Blessed, and Hades
X. Buildings and Laws and Customs of Babylon
XI. The Golden Age of Babylonia
XII. Rise of the Hittites, Mitannians, Kassites, Hyksos, and
Assyrians
XIII. Astrology and Astronomy
XIV. Ashur the National God of Assyria
XV. Conflicts for Trade and Supremacy
XVI. Race Movements that Shattered Empires
XVII. The Hebrews in Assyrian History
XVIII. The Age of Semiramis
XIX. Assyria's Age of Splendour
XX. The Last Days of Assyria and Babylonia

PREFACE

This volume deals with the myths and legends of Babylonia and Assyria,
and as these reflect the civilization in which they developed, a
historical narrative has been provided, beginning with the early
Sumerian Age and concluding with the periods of the Persian and
Grecian Empires. Over thirty centuries of human progress are thus
passed under review.

During this vast interval of time the cultural influences emanating
from the Tigro-Euphrates valley reached far-distant shores along the
intersecting avenues of trade, and in consequence o