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Purification by, 270 WATERS OF DEATH

Date of account: Ancient traditions presented in a work published 1916
Source: Myths & Legends of Babylonia & Assyria
Reference: Myths & Legends of Babylonia & Assyria · selected passage 112
Rights: public_domain
Language: English synthesis of Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian material
Translation: Lewis Spence, with cited translations and retellings
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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Work of Loftus at, 346, 347 WATER. Purification by, 270 WATERS OF DEATH. Gilgamesh crosses, 158, 159 WESTERGAARD. Median language and, 65 WIND, SOUTH. Adapa and the, story of, 116-121; variant, Shutu, 117 WINDOWS. None in Nebuchadrezzar's palace at Babylon, 369 WITCH. Known as _Kassaptu_, 261; -finding, 272-275; -orgies in France, 293 WIZARDS. Priestly, 260-262; known as _Kassapu_, 261 WORD OF POWER, THE. The magicians of Chaldea and, 263 WORSHIP. Of gods by gods, 77; of gods under animal forms, 92, 93; of Bel, 98-101; of Shamash, 109; of Aa, 110; of Ishtar, 124; of Dagon, 151; of Merodach, 184, 185; of Nebo, 184, 185; of Hadad, in Syria, 188; of the Sun-god in Canaan and Phœnicia, 190; of Dodo or Dod, by the side of Yahveh, 190; of Ramman, 219, 220; of Aztecs and Toltecs, 226, 227; of stars, Babylonian, 231-238; lunar, 236; moon-, 249; Semitic, and lamentations, 253; of the gazelle and goat, 292-294; of great earth-mother, 318, 319; of ancestors; Canaanites, 326; of Moloch, 328; Carthaginian, 329-332; Zoroastrian, 332-336; of fire, 335, etc. WRITING, CUNEIFORM.

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