M
Ma, the goddess, serpent form of, [76]; Tiamat and, [150]; goddess of Comana, [267]. Magic and poetry, [236] et seq. Magician, the great, Ea as, [38]. Magyars, language of and the Sumerian, [3]. Mahabharata, the (măhä´bha´´rătă), [67], [68]; the various Indras in, [101]; Karna myth in, [126]; eagle myth, [166]; Bhima like Gilgamesh in, [187]; Naturalism and Totemism in, [291], [292], [293]; the "wheel of life" in, [346]-[347] ; the Shakuntala legend in, [423], [424]. Mama (mä´mä), the mother goddess, [57], [267]; as Creatrix, [100]. Man, creation of, [38]; Ea desired, [148]; Merodach sheds blood for, [148]; Berosus legend, [148], [149], [150]. Man bull, the winged, [65]. Manasseh, King of Judah, idolatries of, [473]; legend of Isaiah's end, [474]; captivity of, [474]; Ashur-bani-pal and, [486]. Manishtusu (män-ish-tü´sü), successor of Sargon I, empire of, [127]. Mannai (män´nai), state of, [473], [486]. Manu (măn´oo), the Indian patriarch, like Babylonian Noah, [27]; the fish and flood myth, [27], [28], [196]. Mara (mä´ra), the European demon of nightmare, [69]. Marduk (mär´duk). See Merodach. Marduk-balatsu-ikbi (mar´duk-bal´atsü-ik-bi), King of Babylonia, defeat of by Shamshi-Adad VII, [415], [416]. Marduk-bel-usate (mar´duk-bel-ü-sä´te), revolt of in Babylonia, [408], [409]. Marduk-zakir-shum (mar´duk-zä-kir´shüm), King of Babylonia, [408]; a vassal of Assyria, [409]. Mari (mä´ri), king of Damascus, as the Biblical Ben Hadad III, [438], [439]. Marriage contracts, in Hammurabi code, [225] et seq. Marriage market of Babylon, the, [224], [225]. Marriage of deities, the Hittite, [268]. Mars, Horus as, [300], [304]; month of, [305]; as "bronze fish stone", [314]; the Gaulish mule god as, [316]; in astrology, [318]. Mars, Nergal, wolf planet of pestilence, as, [301], [303], [316]. Mars, the planet, boar slayer of Adonis as, [87]; in sun and moon group, [301]. Maruts (măr´oots), the Indian, like Anu's demons, [34], [64]. Mashi (mä´shi), the mountain of, in Gilgamesh epic, [177], [178]. Maspero, Professor, on antiquity of Hittites, [264]; on Assyrian colonists, [456]. "Masters, the", Buriat earth and air spirits, [105]. Mati-ilu (ma´ti-i´lü), of Agusi, relations of with Assyria and Urartu, [443], [446], [447]; overthrow of by Tiglath-pileser IV. Mattiuza (mat-ti-ü´za), King of Mitanni, flight of, [283]; as Hittite vassal, [284]. May Day, fire ceremonies of, [50]. Mead, of the gods, [45]; blood as, [48]; eagle steals, [74]. Measurer, the, moon as, [52]. Medes, III; in Hammurabi Age, [244]; Sargon II and, [460]; Ashur-bani-pal and, [486]; and fall of Nineveh, [488]; Scythians and, [472], [488]; alliance of with Lydia, [494]; Cyrus as King of, [493]. Mediterranean Race, the, Basques a variation of, [3]; Sumerians and proto-Egyptians of, [7], [8]; Cretans of, [8]; Ripley traces in Asia, [8], [9], [11]; in Africa and Europe, [9]; "cradle" of, [39]; Tammuz-Adonis myth and, [85]; mother worship and status of women in, [104], [105], [108], [420] et seq.; in Hittite confederacy, [266]; the Biblical Cushites and Hamites and, [276]. Medusa, Tiamat and, [159]. Meg, Long. See Long Meg. Melkarth (mel´kärth), children sacrificed to, [171]; Hercules and, [348]; burning of, [349]. Memphis (mem´phis), Assyrians fight Ethiopians at, [475], [483]. Men, in worship of mother goddess, [107], [108]. Menahem (men´ä-hem), King of Israel, pays tribute to Assyria, [449]. Meneptah (men-ē´tä or men´e-tä), King of Egypt, relations of with Hittites, [378]; sea raiders defeated by, [378], [379]. Menuas (men´ü-äs), King of Urartu, [440]; conquests of, [441]. Mercury, the planet; in sun and moon group, [301]; Nebo as, [301], [302]; month of, [305]; the "face voice of light", [314]; "lapis lazuli" star, [314]; the Gaulish boar god as, [316], [317]; in astrology, [318]. Mermaids, the Babylonian, [34]. Mermer (mer´mer), a name of Nebo and Ramman, [303]. Merodach (mer´ō-dach), the god: creation of mankind, [xxix], [148]; Damkina and, [34]; Enlil as older Bel than, [35]; Ea and, [38]; water of life belief, [44]; Nusku as messenger of, [50]; in demon war, [77]; brothers and sister of, [82]; Zamama of Kish and, [126]; rise of, [134]; Anshar's appeal to in Creation legend, [142]; the avenger, [143]; proclaimed king of the gods, [144]; weapons and steeds of, [145]; Tiamat slain, and brood of captured by, [146]; eats "Ku-pu" of Tiamat, [147], [147] n., [153]; forms earth and sky, [147], [328]; creates stars of Zodiac, [147]; lunar and solar decrees of, [148]; other deities and, [34], [35], [38], [149], [158], [159], [298], [299], [303], [316], [336], [337], [348], [354], [420]; hymn to, [149], [150], [161]; as Tammuz, [158]; Osiris and, [159], [298], [354]; Perseus and, [159]; Nimrod and, [167], [277], [343]; temple of, [221]; Hammurabi Age kings and, [241]-[242] , [252]; Hittites carry off image of, [261], [262], [269], [272]; Kassites and, [272], [274], [372]; complex character of, [298], [299]; stars of, [296], [299], [300], [305]; Jupiter form of as sun ghost, [305]; Nebo and, [303], [435]; month of, [305]; goddesses and, [221], [299], [316], [420]; world hill and, [332]; as "high head", [334]; Ashur and, [336], [337], [348], [354]; image at Asshur, [468], [469]; restoration of, [481], [482]; ceremony of "taking hands" of, [480], [481]; Cyrus and, [493], [495]; Ahura Mazda and, [496]; Darius I and, [497]; Xerxes pillages temple of, [497]; Alexander the Great and, [497]; late worship of, [498]. Merodach Baladan (mer´o-dach bal´adan), King of Babylon, [457]; second reign of, [465]; death of, [468]; sons of and Esarhaddon, [471]. Mesopotamia, present-day racial types in, [8]; Assyria and Babylonia struggle to control, [286], [381], [382], [384]; under Kassites, [358], [360], [361]; atrocities of Ashur-natsir-pal III in, [397]. Messenger of gods, Sumerian Nusku and India Agni as, [50]; Papsukel as, [97]; Gaga as, [143]. Metals, the northern Mesopotamia, [25]. Mexico, the terrible mother ghost of, [69]. Meyer, Professor Kuno, [101], [102]. Micah, the prophet, [405], [406]. Mice, the golden, Dagon offering of, [32], [33]; gods as, [41]; as destroyers of Sennacherib's army, [466]. Midas (mī´das), King of Phrygia, Sargon II and, [460], [462]. Migrations, earliest from Arabia and Asia Minor, [10], [11], [12]; the Canaanitic or Amorite, [217]; Median and Iranian, [244]; the Phoenician, [244], [245]; of Abraham and Lot, [245], [246]; of Hittites to Palestine, [246]; prehistoric pottery evidence of, [263]; cults and, [338]; Aramaean, [359], [360], [376]-[378] ; Achaean, [376]-[378] ; the Moslem, [377]; the "Bedouin peril", [392]; effects of on old empires, [393]. Milky Way, the, [309]. Millet, husks of in Egyptian pre-Dynastic bodies, [6]. Minerva, Neith and, [337]. Mitanni (mitän´ni), Mitra, Indra, &c, gods of, [55], [269]; rise of kingdom of, [268]; Kurds descendants of people of, [270]; Egypt and, [270], [271], [279], [282], [358], [359]; Kassites and Hyksos and, [270], [271], [273]; Assyria subject to, [270], [279]; Merodach's image in, [272]; in Tell-el-Amarna letters, [281]; conquered by Hittites, [283], [284]; cultural influence of, [316]; Assyria occupies, [367]. Mithra (mith´rä), the Persian god; attributes of, [54], [55]; Sumerian gods and, [55], [56]; eagle as, [168], [169]; Ashur and, [338]; Cambyses sacrifices Apis bull to, [495]. Mitra (mit´ră), Aryo-Indian god, Shamash and, [54]; association of with rain, [55]; Sumerians and, [55], [56]; identified with Yama, [56], [201]; links with Agni and Tammuz, [94]; in Mitanni, [55], [269]. Moab, Judah and, [402]. Mohammed, spitting custom of, [46]. Moisture of life, gods and, [45]. Moloch, the god, fire ceremony and, [50]; children sacrificed to, [171]. Money, spat on to ensure increase, [47]. Mongolians, the, Sumerians unlike, [3],4; elves of, [105]; Hittites and, [265], [266]. Monotheism, in Creation legend, [149]; Babylonia, [160], [161]. Mons Meg, [156]. Moon, the, water worship and worship of. [45],51; Nannar (Sin), god of, [40]; origin of in sea fire, [50], [51]; as source of fertility and growth, [52]; consort and family of, [53]; Mitra and Varuna as regulators of, [54]; goblet of, [75]; in demon war, [76]; devoured by pig demon, [85]; god of as father of Isis, [100]; bi-sexual deity of, [161], [299], [301]; as a planet, [301]; forms of god of, [297], [298]; Venus and, [314]; in astrology, [318]; the "four quarters of", [323], [324].-See Nannar and Sin. Moon goddess, the, [53]. Moses, in Koran water of life story, [186]. Mother, the Great, agriculturists and, [xxx]; as source of food supply, [xxxii]; destroying goddesses as, [57]; Tiamat as, [64], [106], [140], [157]; the serpent as, [74]-[76] ; the Gaelic Hag as, [87]; Ishtar as, [100], [157]; Nut of Egypt as, [100], [106]; the Aryo-Indian Sri-Lakshmi as, [101]; lovers of die yearly, [101] et seq.) human sacrifices to, [104]; worship of in Jerusalem, [106]; women as offerers to, [106]-[108] ; Kish queen and, [114]; Lagash form of, [116]; lions, deer, and wild goats of, [120]; at creation of mankind, [148]; as star Sirius, [296]; Semiramis legend and, [436], [437]. See Mother Worship. Mother demons, in Sumerian and Anglo-Scottish folk tales, [153]; Neolithic origin of, [156]. Mother ghost, the terrible, in Western Asia, India, and Mexico, [69]; Buriats plead with, [69], [70]. "Mother of Mendes", the, Egyptian fish and corn deity, [29]; Nina and, [117]. "Mother right", Hittites and, [418]; Darius I succeeds through, [496]. Mother worship, in Mediterranean racial areas, [104], [105]; in Semiramis Age, [417] et seq.; Queen Tiy and, [434] > goddesses as mother, wife, and daughter of god, [436]; Sargon II and, [463]; Esarhaddon and, [471]; Ashur-bani-pal and, [486]; Artaxerxes promotes, [497]. Mothers, the twin, Isis and Nepthys as, [99]. Moulton, Professor, on Indian conception of conscience, [54]; on Mithraism, [201]. Mountain gods, Enlil and the, [35]. "Mountain of the West", Olympus as, [332]; temples as symbols of, [332]. Mountains, as totems, [291], [292]. Mouse, god as a, [296]. Mulla, Gaulish mule god, as Mars, [316]. Mulla (mül´la), the "Will-o'-the-wisp", [66] et seq. Müller, Max, on lunar chronology, [312]. Mummu (müm´mü), plots with Apsu and Tiamat, [139], [140]; overcome by Ea, [140], [142]. Mummu-Tiamat, or Tiawath. See Tiamat, Mursil (mür´sil), King of Hittites, [364]; conquests of Egypt, [364]. Music, magical origin of, [238]. Muski (moosh´kee), overlords of Hittites, [380]; Hittites freed from yoke of, [386]; Thraco-Phrygian kingdom of, [395]; Assyrians fight with, [397]; the Biblical Meshech, [464]. Müt, Egyptian cult of, [105], [418]; Aton and, [419]. Mutallu (mü´täl´lü), Hittite king, wars of with Rameses II, [365], [366]. Mysticism, the "lord of many existences", [297], [299]; Osiris as father, husband, son, &c., [297]; Babylonian and Egyptian, [297], [298]; forms of Horus, [300], [304]; "world soul" conception, [304]; father and son gods identical, [304], [305]; Anshar and Anu and "self power", [328]; Ashur and Brahma, [328].