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Kadashman-Kharbe (kad-äsh´man-khär´be), King of Babylon, grandson of Ashur-uballit, [284], [285]; opens Arabian desert trade route, [360]; murder of, [361]. Kadesh (kä´desh), goddesses that link with, [268]. Kali (kä´lee), the Indian goddess, goat sacrificed to, [48]. Kalkhi (käl´khi), excavations at, [xix], [xx]; capital of Shalmaneser I, [367]; headquarters of Ashur-natsir-pal III, [398]; description of, [399], [400]; library at, [422], [470]; religious revolt at, [422]; Sargon II and, [463]; temple to Nebo at, [487]. Karduniash (kar-doon´i-ash), Babylonia called, [273]. Karna (kăr´nă), Indian hero: like Sargon of Akkad, [126]. Kässites, Nippur as capital of, [218]; in Hammurabi Age, [255]; as agriculturists, [256]; Aryans associated with, [270]; Mitannians, Hyksos and, [270], [271], [272], [273]; Babylonia consolidated by, [274], [393]; early Assyrian kings and, [279]; in Tell-el-Amarna letters, [281]; and Mesopotamian question, [358]; Arabian desert trade route, [360]; dynasty of ends, [370], [371]; Sennacherib and the mountain, [464]. Keats, John, [112]; "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" and Ishtar, [174]. Kengi (ken´gi), early name of Sumer, [2]. Khammurabi (kham-mü-rä´bi), [247]. See Hammurabi. Khani (khä´ni). See Mitanni. Kharri (khär´ri), Mitannians called; perhaps "Arya", [269]. Khatti. See Hatti and Hittites. Kheta. See Hittites. Khnumu (knoo´moo), the Egyptian god, Ea compared to, [30]. Khonsu (kon´soo), Tammuz a healer like, [90], [94]. Kid, sacrificed to Tammuz, [85], [333]; star called by Arabs, [333]. King, L.W., Creation tablets, [xxiv], [29]; [211]; on "Cuthean Legend of Creation", [215], [216]; on seven gods as one, [298]; on Sennacherib's sack of Babylon, [469]. Kings, worship of, in Hammurabi Age, [242], [257], [258]; burning of, [350], [351]; Ashur's association with, [352]. Kingu (kin´goo), in Creation Legend, as son and lover of Tiamat, [106]; stirs Tiamat to avenge Apsu, [140]; exalted by Tiamat, [140]; overcome by Merodach, [145], [146]. Kish, early dynasty of, [114]; legendary queen of, [114], [115]; Entemena's sack of, [120]; Sargon and, [125], [126]; goddess of, [126], [127]; kings and gods of, [241]. Kishar (ke´shär), the god, in group of elder deities, [37], [138]. Kneph, the Egyptian air god, [49]. Koran (kō´rän), Etana eagle myth in, [166], [167]; Nimrod agricultural myth in, [170]; water of life legend in, [186]; Abraham and Nimrod's pyre, [349]. Kudur Mabug (kü´dür mab´üg), Elamite King of Sumer, [242], [243]; the Biblical Chedor-laomer, [247], [248]. Kuiri (kü´i-ri), early name of Akkad, [2]. Kurds (koords), the, use of cradle board by, [4], [5]; of Mediterranean race, [8]; Mitannians as ancestors of, [270], [283]. Kurigalzu II (kü´ri-gäl´zü), King of Babylonia, [285]. Kurigalzu III, Kassite king, wars with Elam and Assyria, [362]. Küta and Küthä. See Cuthah. Kutu (kü´tü), the men of, [128], [264]. See Gutium.