en a part of the body of
Tiamat.

[160] The waters above the firmament.

[161] According to Berosus.

[162] This portion is fragmentary and seems to indicate that the Babylonians
had made considerable progress in the science of astronomy. It is
suggested that they knew that the moon derived its light from the sun.

[163] _The Seven Tablets of Creation_, L.W. King, pp. 134, 135.

[164] _The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria_, T.G. Pinches, p. 43.

[165] _The Seven Tablets of Creation_, L. W. King, vol. i, pp. 98, 99.

[166] _Trans. Soc. Bib. Arch_., iv, 251-2.

[167] Shakespeare's _Julius Caesar_, i, 3, 8.

[168] _Isaiah_, li, 8.

[169] Campbell's _West Highland Tales_, pp. 136 _et seq._

[170] _The Life and Exploits of Alexander the Great_, E. A. Wallis Budge,
pp. 284, 285.

[171] Campbell's _West Highland Tales_.

[172] _Nehemiah_, ii, 13.

[173] _The Tempest_, i, 2, 212.

[174] _Waifs and Strays of Celtic Tradition_, vol. iv, p. 176 et seq.

[175] From unpublished folk tale.

[176] _Beowulf_, translated by Clark Hall, London, 1911, p. 18 et seq.

[177] _Beowulf_, translated by Clark Hall, London, 1911, p. 69, lines
1280-1287.

[178] _Egyptian Myth and Legend_, pp. 260, 261.

[179] _Egyptian Myth and Legend_, pp. 8, 9.

[180] _Indian Myth and Legend_, pp. xli, 149, 150.

[181] _Isaiah_, li, 9.

[182] _Psalms_, lxxiv, 13, 14. It will be noted that the Semitic dragon,
like the Egyptian, is a male.

[183] _Job_, xxvi, 12, 13.

[184] _Psalms_, lxxxix, 10.

[185] _Isaiah_, xxvii, I.

[186] _Sumerian and Babylonian Psalms_, p. 204.

[187] _Custom and Myth_, pp. 45 et seq.

[188] Translation by Dr. Langdon, pp. 199 _et seq._

[189] _The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria_, T.G. Pinches, pp. 118, 119.

[190] It is suggested that Arthur is derived from the Celtic word for
"bear". If so, the bear may have been the "totem" of the Arthur tribe
represented by the Scottish clan of MacArthurs.

[191] See "Lady in the Straw" beliefs in _Brand's Popular Antiquities_, vol.
ii, 66 _et seq._ 1899 ed.).

[192] Like the Etana "mother eagle" Garuda was a slayer of serpents (Chapter
III).

[193] _Vana Parva_ section of the _Mahabharata_ (Roy's trans.), p. 818 _et
seq._, and _Indian Myth and Legend_, p. 413.

[194] _The Koran_ (with notes from approved commentators), trans. by George
Sale, P-246, _n_.

[195] _The Life and Exploits of Alexander the Great_, E. Wallis Budge
(London, 1896), pp. 277-8,