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Dadu (dä´dü), Ramman as, [57]. Dagan (däg´an), the Babylonian, identical with Ea, [31]; Nippur temple of, [131]; under Isin Dynasty, [132]. Dagda (dag´da), the Irish corn god, [33]. [238]. Dagon (dag´on), Jah and Ea as, [31]; Dagan and, [31], [32]; as a fish and corn deity, [32]; Baal-dagon and, [32]; offering of mice to, [32], [33]. Daguna (däg´ü-na), Dagon and Dagan and, [31]. Daityas (dait´yăs), the Indian, like Babylonian demons, [34]. Damascius, on Babylonian deities, [328]. Damascus, Aramaean state of, [390]; Israel and Judah subject to, [395], [396]; Asa's appeal to, [404]; conflict with Assyria, [407]; Judah and Israel allied against, [408]; murder of Ben-hadad II, [410]; Palestine subject to, [414]; Israel overcomes, [449]; conquered by Adad-nirari IV, [438], [439]. Damik-ilishu (dam-ik-il-i´shü), last king of Isin Dynasty, [133]. Damkina (dam´ki-na), wife of Ea, [33], [34]; demon attendants of, [63]; as mother of Ea, [105]; as mother of Enlil, [139]; Zerpanitum and, [160]; association of with moon, [436]; creatrix and, [437]. Damu (dä´mü), the fairy goddess of dreams, [77], [78]. Danavas (dän´ăvas), the Indian, like Babylonian demons, [34]. Dancing, the constellations, [333]. Danes, harvest god as patriarch of, [92]. Daniel, Nebuchadrezzar's "fiery furnace", [349]. Danu (dä-nü), the Irish goddess, [268]. Daonus or Daos, the shepherd, Tammuz as, [83], [86]. Dari´us I, claims to be Achaemenian, [496]; plots against Merodach cult, [497]. Darius II, death of at Babylon, [497]. Darius III, Alexander the Great overthrows, [497]. Dasa (dä'să), the Indian, as "foreign devil", [67]. Dasyu (däsh´yoo), the Indian, as "foreign devil", [67]. Date palm, in Babylonia, [25]. David, the ephod used by, [213], [214], [388]. Dead, the, Nergal lord of, [56]; ghosts of searching for food, [70], [71]; Osiris lord of, [86]; charms, weapons, and food for, [206]; "houses" of, [206]-[208] ; spirits of as warriors and fishermen, [212]. Death, eagle of, [168]; the Roman, [169]; Hercules and, [170]. Death, the sea of, in Gilgamesh epic, [178] et seq. Death, the stream of, [56]. Deer, associated with Lagash goddess, [120]. Deities, the local, [43], [44]; food and water required by, [44]; the mead of, [45]; early groups of in Egypt and Sumeria, [105], [106]; made drunk at banquet, [144]. Deluge Legend, Smith translates, [xxii]. See Flood Legends. Demeter (de-me´ter), the goddess, Poseidon as lover of, [33], [103]. Demons, the Babylonian Ocean, [34]; gods as, [35], [62], [135]; Enlil lord of, [35], [63]; Tiamat and Apsu as, [37], [38], [64]; Tiamat's brood, [140], [141], [214], [215]; "ceremonies of riddance", [58]; as sources of misfortune, [60]; in images, [61]; the winged bull, &c., [65]; the "will-o'-the-wisp", [66], [67]; Anu as father of, [63], [68]; as lovers, [67], [68]; Adam's first wife Lilith, [67]; ghosts as, [69], [215]; penetrate everywhere, [71], [72]; as pigs, horses, goats, &c., [71]; Set pig of Egypt, [85]; as wind hags, [72], [73]; the Zu bird, [74]; Indian eagle, [166]; association of with gods, [76]; the serpent mother one of the, [74]-[76] ; the Jinn, [78]; as composite monsters, [79]; the Teutonic Beli, [95]; in mythology and folk lore, [151] et seq.; the Gorgons, [159]; King of Cuthah's battle against, [214], [215]; disease germs as, [234]. De Morgan, pottery finds by, [263]. Derceto (der-ke´to), fish goddess, Semiramis and, [277], [418], [423]; mermaid form of, [426]; Atargatis legend, [426], [427]; dove symbol of, [432]; legends attached to, [437]. De Sarzec, M., [xxiii]. "Descent of Ishtar", poem, [95] et seq. Destroyer, the, "World Mother" as, [xxx], [100]; Ninip as, [53]; goddess Ninsun as, [57]; Enlil and Nergal as, [62], [63], [303]; Egyptian and Indian deities as, [63], [85], [157], [336]; Cronos as, [64]; "Shedu" bull as, [65]; Set boar as, [85]; Babylonian boar god as, [86]; eagle as, [168], [169]; "winged disk" as, [336]; sun as, [336]; Thor, Ashur, Tammuz, and Indra each as, [340]. Diarmid, the Celtic, Tammuz-Adonis and, [84], [87]; water of life myth, [186], [187]; Totemic boar and, [293]. Dietrich (dēt´rēch: 'ch' as in loch) as the thunder god, [74], [164]. Diodo´rus, on Babylonian star lore, [309]. Disease, Nergal the god of, [53], [54]; goddess of, [77]; demons of, [60], [63], [77]. Divorce, in Babylonia, [227]. Doctors, laws regarding, [230], [231]; Herodotus on, [231]; Assyrian king and, [231], [232]. Doves, goddesses and, [418]; Semiramis protected after birth by, [424]; goddess of Cyprus and, [426]; Aphrodite and, [427]; Ishtar and Gula and, [427], [428]; associated with temples and homes, [428]; in Gilgamesh epic, [428]; deities identified with, [429]; ravens and, [429]; sacred at Mycenae, [430]; snakes and in Crete, [430]; sacred among Semites and Hittites, [430]; Egyptian lovers and, [431]; pigeon lore in England, Ireland, and Scotland, [431]; fish and, [432]; Totemic theory, [432] et seq.; antiquity of veneration of, [433], [434]; sacrificed in Israel, [439]; the Persian eagle legend and, [493]. Dragon, the, of Babylon, [62]; in group of seven spirits, [63]; Tiamat as the female, [38], [64]; Tiamat as ocean, [15], as "fire drake", "worm", &c., [151]; "Ku-pu" of Tiamat, [147]; heart of, [147] n.; liver vulnerable part of, [153]; the male, [156] (see Apsu); Biblical references to, [114], [157], [158]; Eur-Asian variations of myth of, [151], [152]; well of at Jerusalem, [152]; the Egyptian, [156]; Sutekh as slayer of, [157]; Merodach as slayer of (see Merodach). Drake, the Fire, the Babylonian, [66], [67]; dragon as, [151]. Dreams, the fairy goddess of, [77], [78]. Drink traffic, women monopolized in Babylonia, [229]. Drinking customs, religious aspect of, [45]; inspiration from blood, [48]; the gods drunk at Anshar's banquet, [144]. Dungi (dün´gi), King of Ur, [130]; daughters of as rulers, [130]; an Ea worshipper, [131]. Dyaus (rhymes with "mouse"), displaced by Indra, [302]. Dying gods, the eternal goddess and the, [101] et seq.; death a change of form, [305].