tians_, A. Wiedemann, p. 58. Ra became a destroyer
after completing his reign as an earthly king.

[337] As Nin-Girau, Tammuz was associated with "sevenfold" Orion.

[338] _Babylonian and Assyrian Life_, pp. 61, 62.

[339] Herodotus (ii, 52) as quoted in _Egypt and Scythia_ (London, 1886), p.
49.

[340] _Babylonian Magic and Sorcery_, L.W. King (London, 1896), pp. 43 and
115.

[341] _Vedic Index_, Macdonell & Keith, vol. ii, p. 229.

[342] _Ibid_ vol. i, pp. 409, 410.

[343] _Ibid_ vol. i, p. 415.

[344] _Primitive Constellations_, vol. i, p. 343.

[345] _Custom and Myth_, pp. 133 _et seq._

[346] Dr. Alfred Jeremias gives very forcible reasons for believing that the
ancient Babylonians were acquainted with the precession of the
equinoxes. _Das Alter der Babylonischen Astronomie_ (Hinrichs,
Leipzig, 1908), pp. 47 _et seq._

[347] _Aspects of Religious Belief and Practice in Babylonia and Assyria_,
pp. 207 _et seq._

[348] _A History of the Babylonians and Assyrians_, p. 93.

[349] _Babylonians and Assyrians: Life and Customs_, pp. 219, 220.

[350] _Primitive Constellations_, vol. ii, pp. 147 et seq.

[351] The Aryo-Indians had a lunar year of 360 days (_Vedic Index_, ii,
158).

[352] _A History of the Babylonians and Assyrians_, p. 94.

[353] _Twelfth Night_, act ii, scene 5.

[354] _Childe Harold_, canto iii, v, 88.

[355] _Genesis_, x, 11.

[356] "A number of tablets have been found in Cappadocia of the time of the
Second Dynasty of Ur which show marked affinities with Assyria. The
divine name Ashir, as in early Assyrian texts, the institution of
eponyms and many personal names which occur in Assyria, are so
characteristic that we must assume kinship of peoples. But whether
they witness to a settlement in Cappadocia from Assyria, or vice
versa, is not yet clear." _Ancient Assyria_, C.H.W. Johns (Cambridge,
1912), pp. 12-13.

[357] Sumerian Ziku, apparently derived from Zi, the spiritual essence of
life, the "self power" of the Universe.

[358] _Peri Archon_, cxxv.

[359] _Religion of Babylonia and Assyria_, p. 197 et seq.

[360] _Julius Caesar_, act iii, scene I.

[361] _Isaiah_, xiv, 4-14.

[362] _Eddubrott_, ii.

[363] _Religion of the Ancient Egyptians_, A. Wiedemann, pp. 289-90.

[364] _Ibid_., p. 236. Atlas was also believed to be in the west.

[365] _Primitive Constellations_, vol. ii, p. 184.

[366] _Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia_, xxx, II.

[367] _Isaiah_, xiii