Egypt
“In the time when nothing which was called heaven existed above, and when nothing below had as yet received the name of earth,* Apsu, the Ocean, who first was their father, and Chaos-Tiamat, who gave birth to them all, mingled their waters in one, reeds which were not united,...
“In the time when nothing which was called heaven existed above, and when nothing below had as yet received the name of earth,* Apsu, the Ocean, who first was their father, and...
4. CHAPTER II--THE TEMPLES AND THE GODS OF CHALDAEAThe cities of the Euphrates attract no attention, like those of the Nile, by the magnificence of their ruins, which are witnesses, even after centuries of neglect, to the activi...
7. i. 114; it was almost identical with the ancient one, asproved by the representations on the cylinders and monuments of Telloh. The short-sleeved tunic is more rarely represented, and the loin-cloth is usually hidden under the abayah...
6. CHAPTER III--CHALDAEAN CIVILIZATIONThe Chaldaean kings, unlike their contemporaries the Pharaohs, rarely put forward any pretensions to divinity. They contented themselves with occupying an intermediate position...
3. CHAPTER II--THE TEMPLES AND THE GODS OF CHALDAEA_Chaldaean cities: the resemblance of their ruins to natural mounds caused by their exclusive use of brick as a building material--Their city walls: the temples and local gods;...
5. CHAPTER III--CHALDAEAN CIVILIZATION_The kings not gods, but the vicegerents of the gods: their sacerdotal character--The queens and the women of the royal family: the sons and the order of succession to the thron...
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