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Cailleach (käl´yăk), the Gaelic, a wind hag, [73]; as eternal goddess, [101]. Calah (kä´lah), the Biblical. See Kalkhi. Calendar, the early Egyptian, [14]; the Babylonian, [305]. Cambyses (kam-bī´sēz), as King of Babylon, [495]; sacrifice of Apis bull to Mithra by, [495]; wife of a Semiramis, [496]. Canaan, Abraham arrives in, [245]; tribes in, [245], [246]; Elamite conquest of, [247], [248], [249]; first reference to Israelites in, [379]. Canaanites, Hittites identified with, [266]. Canals of Ancient Babylonia, [22], [23]. Cappadocia, Cimmerians in, [472]. Captivity, the Hebrew, Chebar river (Kheber canal) at Nippur, [344]. Carchemish (kär´ke-mish), German railway bridge and Hittite wall at, [357](n[[407]].); Hittite city state of, [395]; revolt of, [461]; Nebuchadrezzar defeats Pharaoh Necho at, [489]. Caria (kär´i-ä), assists Lydia against Cimmerians, [484]; mercenaries from in Egypt, [486]. Cat, sun god as, [329]. Caucasus, the, skull forms in, [8]. Cave dwellers, the Palestinian, [10]. Celtic goddesses, of Iberian origin, [105]. Celtic water demon myths, [28]. Celts, Achaeans and, [377]. Ceres (sē-rēz), [103]. Chaldae´ans, Babylonian priests called, [222], [497]; in Hammurabi Age, [257]; history of, [390]; Aramaeans and, [390]; Judah's relations with, [408]; Merodach Baladan King of, [457] et seq.; revolt of against Esarhaddon, [471]; revolt of against Ashur-bani-pal, [484]; Nabo-polassar King of Babylon, [487]. Charms, the burial, [206]; ornaments as, [211]; the metrical and poetic development, [237]-[239] . Chedor-laomer (ched´or-lä´o-mer), the Biblical, [247], [248]. Chellean (shel´le-an) flints, in Palestine, [10]. Cherubs, the four-faced, [344]. Child god, Tammuz and Osiris as the, [89], [90]; Sargon of Akkad as, [91]; Germanic Scyld or Sceaf as, [92], [93]. Children, stolen by hags and fairies, [68]; in mother worship, [107], [108]. China, spitting customs in, [47]; dragons of, [152]; ancestor worship in, [295]. Chinese, language of and the Sumerian, [3]. Chronology, inflated dating and Berlin system, [xxiv], [xxv]. Cilicia, thunder god of, [261]; Ate, goddess of, [267]; Hittite Kingdom of, [395]; Ionians in, [464]; in anti-Assyrian league, [473]; Ashur-bani-pal expels Cimmerians from, [484], [486]. Cimmerians, raids of in Asia Minor, [461], [464]; Esarhaddon and, [472]; Gyges of Lydia and, [483], [484], [486]; Lydians break power of, [486]. Clans, Totemic names and symbols of, [293]. Clepsydra, a Babylonian invention, [323]. Clothing, magical significance of, [212]; the reed mats and sheepskins in graves, [213]; the bull skin, [213]; the ephod and prophet's mantle, [213], [214]. Comana (kō-mä´na), Hittite city of, [395]. Constellations, the Zu bird, [74]; why animal forms were adopted, [289]; the "Great Bear" in various mythologies, [295], [296], [309]; the Pleiades, [296], [297]; Pisces as "fish of Ea", [296]; the "sevenfold one", [298], [300]; Merodach's forms, [299]; Castor and Pollux myths in Australia, Africa, and Greece, [300]; Tammuz and Orion, [301]; months controlled by, [305]; signs of Zodiac, [305]; Babylonian and modern signs, [308]; the central, northern, and southern, [309]; "Fish of the Canal" and "the Horse", [309]; the "Milky Way", [309]; identified before planets, [318]; Biblical and literary references to, [324], [325]; the "Arrow", "Eagle", "Vulture", "Swan", and "Lyra", [336], [337]. Copper, Age of in Palestine, [11]; first use of, [12]; in Northern Mesopotamia, [25]; Gudea of Lagash takes from Elam, [130]. Corn child god, Tammuz and Osiris as, [89], [90]; Sargon as, [91]; the Germanic Scyld or Scef, [92], [93], [94]; Frey and Heimdal as, [94]. Corn Deities, as river and fish gods and goddesses, [29], [32], [33]. Corn god, moon god as, [52]; Mithra as, [55]; the thunder god as, [57], [340]; Tammuz and Osiris as, [81] et seq.; Khonsu as, [90]; Frey and Agni as, [94]; fed with sacrificed children, [171]. Corn goddess, Isis as, [90]; fish goddess as, [117]. Cow goddesses, Isis, Nepthys, and Hathor as, [99], [329]. Creation, local character of Babylonian conception, [xxix]; of mankind at Eridu, [38]; legend of, [134], [138] et seq.; night as parent of day, [330]. Creative tears, [45] et seq. Creator gods, Ea and Ptah as, [30]; eagle god as, [169]. Creatress, the goddess Mama as, [57]; Aruru as, [100], [148]; forms of, [437]. Cremation, traces of in Gezer caves, [11]; the ceremony of, [49]; not Persian or Sumerian, [50]; in European Bronze Age, [316]; Saul burned, [350]; Sardanapalus legend, [350]. Crete, chronology of, [xxv], [114]; no temples, [xxxi]; women's high social status in, [16]; Dagon's connection with, [33]; prehistoric pottery in, [263]; Hyksos trade with, [273]; Achaeans invade, [376], [377]; Philistine raiders from, [379]; dove and snake sacred in, [430]; dove goddess not Babylonian, [433], [434]. Crocodile god of Egypt, [29]; sun god as, [329]. Croesus of Lydia, Cyrus defeats, [494]. Cromarty, the south-west wind hag or, [73]. Cronos, as the Destroyer, [64]; Ninip and Set and, [315]. Cuneiform writing, earliest use of, [7]. Cushites, Biblical reference to, [276]. Cuthah (kü´thah), Nergal, god of, [54]; annual fires at, [170]; the Underworld city of, [205]; demon legend of, [215], [216]; men of in Samaria, [455], [456]. "Cuthean Legend of Creation", [215], [216]. Cyaxares (sy-ax´är-es), Median King, Nineveh captured by, [488]; ally of Nabopolassar, [493]. Cybele (ky-be´le), Attis lover of, [103], [104], [267]. Cyprus, dove goddess not Babylonian, [433], [434]; dove goddess of, [426], [427], [433], [434]; Ashur-bani-pal and, [484]. Cyrus, Merodach calls, [493]; the Patriarch of, [493]; the eagle tribe of, [493]; Astyages defeated by, [493]; Egypto-Lydian alliance against, [494]; Nabonidus and, [494]; Croesus of Lydia overthrown by, [494]; fell of Babylon, [494], [495]; the King of Babylonia, [495]; welcomed by Jews, [495]; rebuilding of Jerusalem temple, [496].