gan to tumble down. Babylon died slowly, but at length
the words of the Hebrew prophet were fulfilled:

The cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and
the raven shall dwell in it.... They shall call the nobles thereof
to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall
be nothing. And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and
brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation
of dragons, and a court for owls. The wild beasts of the desert
shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr
shall cry to his fellow: the screech owl also shall rest there,
and find for herself a place of rest.[568]

FOOTNOTES

[1] _Life of Apollonius of Tyana_, i, 2O.

[2] _Egyptian Tales_ (Second Series), W.M. Flinders Petrie, pp. 98 _et
seq._

[3] _Revelation_, xviii. The Babylon of the Apocalypse is generally
believed to symbolize or be a mystic designation of Rome.

[4] _Nineveh and Its Remains_, vol. i, p. 17.

[5] _Ezra_, iv, 10.

[6] The culture god.

[7] Langdon's _Sumerian and Babylonian Psalms_, p. 179.

[8] _Crete the Forerunner of Greece_, p. 18.

[9] _The Scapegoat vol._, p. 409 (3rd edition).

[10] _The Seven Tablets of Creation_, L. W. King, p. 129.

[11] _Ibid_, pp. 133-4.

[12] _The Races of Europe_, W.Z. Ripley, p. 203.

[13] _The Ancient Egyptians_, by Elliot Smith, p. 41 _et seq._

[14] _The Ancient Egyptians_, p. 140.

[15] _Crete the Forerunner of Greece_, C. H. and H. B. Hawes, 1911, p. 23
_et seq._

[16] _The Races of Europe_, W. Z. Ripley, p. 443 _et seq._

[17] _The Ancient Egyptians_, pp. 144-5.

[18] _The Ancient Egyptians_, p. 114.

[19] _The Ancient Egyptians_, p. 136.

[20] _A History of Palestine_, R.A.S. Macalister, pp. 8-16.

[21] _The Mediterranean Race_ (1901 trans.), G. Sergi, p. 146 _et seq._

[22] _The Ancient Egyptians_, p. 130.

[23] _A History of Civilization in Palestine, p. 20 et seq._

[24] _Joshua_, xi. 21.

[25] _Genesis_, xxiii.

[26] _Genesis_, xvi. 8, 9.

[27] _1 Kings_, xvi. 16.

[28] _2 Kings_, xviii, 32.

[29] _Herodotus_, i, 193.

[30] Peter's _Nippur_, i, p. 160.

[31] A Babylonian priest of Bel Merodach. In the third century a.c. he
composed in Greek a history of his native land, which has perished.
Extracts from it are given by Eusebius, Josephus, Apollodorus, and
others.

[32] _Indian Myth and Legend_, pp. 140, 141.

[33] _Th