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Ea (ā´ä), god of the deep, Ashur-banipal and, [xxii], [xxiii]; a typical Babylonian god, [xxviii], [xxix], [27]; Oannes and, [27], [30]; as world artisan like Ptah and Indra, [30]; connection of with sea and Euphrates, [28], [29], [39]; as sea-demon, [62]; names of, [30], [39]; as fish and corn god, [32]; Dagon, Poseidon, Neptune, Frey, Shony, &c., and, [31], [33]; Dagon and Dagan, [31]; Ea as Dagan at Nippur, [131]; as Ya, or Jah, of Hebrews, [31]; Totemic fish of, [294]; Indian Varuna and, [31], [34], [209]; wife of as earth lady, [33]; wife of as mother, [105]; Anu and, [34]; Enlil and, [35]; demons of, [35], [63]; in early triad, [36], [37], [463]; Indian Vishnu and, [38]; as dragon slayer, [38], [140], [153], [157]; Adapa, son of, a demon slayer, [72], [73]; in demon war, [77]; as "great magician", [38], [46]; moon god and, [40], [50], [51], [53]; solar attributes of, [50], [51], [53]; food supply and, [43]; beliefs connected with, [44]; Nusku as messenger of, [50]; Nebo a form of, [303], [435]; gods that link with, [57], [58]; as form of Anshar, [125]; family of including Merodach and Tammuz, [72], [73], [82]; daughter of, [117]; Merodach supplants, [158]; Enlil as son of, [139]; Ashur as son of, [348]; planetary gods and, [304]; worshipped at Lagash, [116]; earliest form of, [134]; under Isin Dynasty, [132]; in Creation legend, [138] et seq.; astral "field" of, [147], [307]; constellations and, [296]; Merodach directs decrees of, [149]; Etana and eagle visit heaven of, [166]; in flood legend, [190] et seq.; as Aos, [328]; the goat and, [333]; as "high head", [334]; Sargon II and, [463]. Ea-bani (ā´ä-bä´ni), [41], [42]; ghost of as "wind gust", [48], [49]; goat demi-god, [135]; lured from the wilds, [173]; as ally of Gilgamesh, [174]; Ishtar's wooing, [174], [175]; slaying of Ishtar's bull, [176]; death of, [176], [177]; ghost of invoked by Gilgamesh, [183], [184]. Eagle, the, Sumerian Zu bird and Indian Garuda eagle, [74], [75], [165], [166], [168], [169], [330], [346], [347]; the lion headed as Nin-Girsu (Tammuz), [120], [135]; in Etana myth, [165]; in Nimrod myth, [166], [167]; in Alexander the Great legend, [167]; in Scottish folk tale, [167], [168]; as soul carrier, [168]; Roman Emperor's soul and, [169]; Hercules and, [170], [349]; Gilgamesh protected at birth by, [171]; Persian patriarch protected at birth by, [493]; the Totemic theory, [293], [493]; wheel of life and, [346], [347]; Ashur and Horus and, [343]; wings of on Ashur disk, [351], [352]. Eagle stone, as a birth charm, [165]. Eagle tribe, the ancient, [493]. Eannatum (ā´än-nä´tum), King of Lagash, a great conqueror, [118], [119]; rules Ur and Erech, [119]; works of, [119]; mound burial in period of, [214]. Earth children, elves and dwarfs as, [292], [292] n. Earth spirits, males among father worshippers, [105]; the Egyptian, Teutonic, Aryan, and Siberian, [105]; elves and fairies as, [294], [295]. Earth worship, moon and stone worship and, [52]. Ecclesiastes, "Lay of the Harper", "Song of the Sea Lady" and, [179], [180]. Ecke (eck-ā), Tyrolese storm demon, [74]. Eclipse foretold by Assyrian and Babylonian astronomers, [321], [322]; the Ahaz sundial record, [323]; Babylonian records of, [324]; in reign of Ashurdan III, [442]. Ecliptic, when divided, [322]. Edinburgh, the giant Arthur of, [164]. Edom, Judah and, [402], [409], [448]; tribute from to Assyria, [439]. Education, in Hammurabi Age, [251]. Egg, the, goddess Atargatis born of, [28], [426]; thorn as life in, [352]. Egypt, agricultural festivals in, [xxxi]; debt of modern world to, [xxxv]; prehistoric agriculture in, [6]; Mediterranean race in, [7]; early shaving customs, [5], [9], [10]; theory copper first used in, [12]; social status of women in, [16]; early gods of and Sumerian, [26], [36], [37]; creative tears of deities of, [45]; lunar worship in, [52]; god and goddess cults in, [105]; Great Mother Nut of, [106]; at dawn of Sumerian history, [114]; bearded deities of, [136]; dragon of, [156]; "Lay of Harper" and Sumerian "Song of Sea Lady", [178], [179]; flood legend of, [197]; feast of dead in, [206]; burial customs and Sumerian, [209]-[214] ; Hyksos invasion and Hittite raid on Babylon, [259]; culture debt of to Syria, [275]; prehistoric Armenoid invasion of, [11], [263]; prehistoric black foreign pottery, [263]; Totemism in, [292]-[295] , [432]-[433] ; Syrian empire of lost, [284]; fairies and elves of, [294]; Pharaoh displaces gods in, [295]; doctrine of mythical ages in, [315]; the phoenix, [330]; the "man in the sun", [336]; Neith as a thunder goddess, [337], [337] n.; Ankh symbol, [347]; influence of Hittites in, [364]; wars with Hittites, [365], [366]; Cretans and sea raiders,[378]; Hebrews and, [388]; "mother right" in, [418]; sacred pigeons in, [428]; fosters revolt against Sargon II, [457]; Pharaoh and Piru of Mutsri, [458] and n.; Sennacherib defeats army of, [465]; intrigues against Assyria, [465], [471]; as Assyrian province, [475]; Ashur-bani-pal and, [482], [484]; Assyrian yoke shaken off, [486]; Scythians on frontier of, [488]; after Assyria's fall, [489]; Hophra plots against Nebuchadrezzar II, [491]. El´ah, King of Israel, [405]. Elam, prehistoric pottery of, [5], [263]; copper from, [130]; British influence in [357]; caravan routes of, [361]. Elamites, relations with early Sumerians, [111]; defeated by Eannatum of Lagash, [118]; raid on Lagash by, [121]; Sargon of Akkad defeats, [127]; Ur dynasty overthrown by, [131]; in Hammurabi Age, [217]; conquests of Warad-Sin and Rim-Sin, [217]; King Sin-mubal-lit's struggle with, [242], [243]; Medes and, [244]; King of and Abraham, [247]; in Syria, [247]; driven from Babylonia, [249]; in Kassite period, [274], [370], [380], [381]; connection of with early Assyria, [278]; struggle for trade expansion, [361] et seq.; Babylonian raid, [369]; during Solomon period, [391]; Esarhaddon and, [472]; Ashur-bani-pal subdues, [484], [485]. Elisha, call of Jehu, [409], [410]; call of Hazael, [410], [411]. Elves, the Babylonian, [67]; as lovers, [68]; origin of conception of, [79], [80], [292]; like Indian Ribhus and Siberian "masters", [105]; the European, Egyptian, and Indian, [294]; human bargains with, [294], [295]. Enannatum I (en-an-nä´tum) of Lagash, defeats Umma force, [119]. Enannatum II, King of Lagash, last of Ur-Nina's line, [120]. England, the ancestral giant of, [42]; spitting customs in, [47]; return of dead dreaded in, [70], [70]n; Black Annis, the wind hag, [73], [101]; fairies and elves of, [80], [186]; the "fire drake" of, [151]; "Long Meg" a hag of, [156]; "Long Tom" a giant of, [156]; pigeon lore in, [431]. Enki (än´ki), "lord of the world", Ea as, [31]. See Ea. En´lil, god of Nippur and elder Bel, lord of demons, [35]; spouse of, [36]; in early group of deities, [37]; like Indian Shiva, [38]; deities that link with, [35], [57], [271], [272]; as destroyer, [62], [63]; "fates" as sons of, [80]; Ur Nina worshipped, [116]; as son of Anu, [124]; as son of Ea, [139]; Ninip as son and father of, [53], [158], [302]; during Isis Dynasty, [132]; astral "field" of, [147]; Merodach directs decrees of, [149]; as corn god, [159]; monotheism of cult of, [161]; temple of as "world house", [35], [332]; as bull and "high head", [334]; Etana in heaven of, [166]; also rendered Ellil. See Bel. Enlil-bani (en´lil-bä´ni), King of Isin, a usurper like Sargon, [133]. En-Mersi (en-mer´si), a form of Tammuz, [116]. Enneads, the Babylonian and Egyptian, [36]. Entemena(en-te´men-a), King of Lagash, Umma subdued by, [119], [120]; famous silver vase of, [120]; worshipped as a god, [257], [258]. Ephod, the, used by David, [213], [214]. Ephron the Hittite, [12]. Equinoxes, precession of, where law of discovered: Greece or Babylonia? [320], [320]n, [322]. Erech, Anu god of, [34]; gods of become flies and mice, [41]; destroying sun goddess of, [57]; Ur-Nina and, [116]; under Lagash, [119]; an ancient capital, [124], [125]; rise of after Akkad, [129]; moon god at, [130]; in Gilgamesh epic, [172] et seq.; in revolt against Ashur-bani-pal, [484]; Nabonidus and, [492]. Eresh-ki-gal (eresh-ki´gäl), goddess of death, [53]; Nergal husband and conqueror of, [53], [54], [204], [205], [303]; as a Norn, [77]; "Fates" as sons of, [80]; as wife of Enlil, [80]; Germanic hag like, [95]; punishment of Ishtar by, [96], [97]; as destroyer, [100]. Eridu (e´ri-dü), once a seaport, [22], [25], [38]; Ea the god of, [27]; sanctity of, [38], [39]. Eros, Greek love god, [90]. E-sagila (e-säg´i-la), Merodach's temple, [221]; Hammurabi and, [252]; in Kassite Age, [274]; as symbol of world hill, [332]; sacked by Sennacherib, [468]; gods of Ur, Erech, Larsa, and Eridu in, [492], [493]; Xerxes pillages, [497]; Alexander the Great repairs, [497]; decay of, [498]. Esarhaddon (e´sar-had´don), character of, [470]; Babylonian wife of, [471]; Egypto-Syrian league against, [471], [472]; Queen Nakia regent of, [472]; alliance with Urartu, [473]; sack of Sidon, [473]; Manasseh's revolt, [474]; invasion of Egypt, [475]; revolt in Assyria, [476]; successors chosen by, [476]; death of, [476]. Esau, Hittite wives of, [266]. Etana (e-tä´nä), Zu bird myth and, [74]-[76] ; quest of the "Plant of Birth", [164], [165]; flight with eagle to heavens, [165], [166]. Eternal goddess, the, husbands of die annually, [101] et seq. Ethnology, folk beliefs and, [xxvi]. Euphrates, the river, [22]; as "the soul of the land", [23]; rise and fall of, [24]; as the creator, [29]. Europe, lunar worship in, [52]; Armenoid invasion of, [264]. Evans, Sir Arthur, pottery finds by, [263]. Evil eye, the, [235], [236]. "Evil Merodach", King of Babylon, [492]. Evolution, in Babylonian religion, [xxxiv]. Ezekiel, on fire-worshipping ceremony, [50]; Tammuz weeping, [82]; on ethnics of Jerusalem, [246]; on Hittite characteristics, [266]; Assyria the cedar, [340], [341]; the wheel of life symbol, [344] et seq. Ezra, return of Jewish captives with, [496].