CHAPTER X.

Concept of Divine Power and Ancient Cosmogonies.

Neither in Babylon nor Greece any clear and consistently maintained dogma of divine omnipotence--Yet the divinities collectively the strongest power in the universe--No developed theory of dualism--The divine power combined with magic in Babylonia, but not in Greece--No early Hellenic consciousness of the Word as a creative force--The magic power of the divine name felt by the Hellenes, but not realised as a creative force--Babylonian cosmogonies not traceable in the earliest Greek mythology, nor in Hesiod, but the myth of Typhoeus probably from Babylonian sources--Babylonian myths concerning creation of man not known in early Greece--Organisation of the polytheism into divine groups--Evidence of Trinitarian idea and of monotheistic tendency--No proof here of Greek indebtedness to Mesopotamia