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Oak, Saul buried under, [350]; association of with thunder gods, [350]. Oannes (ō-än´nes), as Ea, [27], [30]. Odin (ō´din), [64]; lovers of wife of, [103]; Gilgamesh and, [184], [185]; the mythical Ages and, [202]; Paradise of like Indra's, [209]. Olympus, the Babylonian, [332]. Omri, King of Israel, [405]. Opener, the, Horus as, [302]. See Apuata and Patriarch. Opis, Kish swayed by, [114]; King of captured by Eannatum of Lagash, [119]; Entemena's sack of, [120]. Ops, [103]. Ori´on, the Constellation, as form of Osiris, [297]; Nin-Girsu and Tammuz as, [301]; as form of the sun, [305]. Orion, the Greek giant, origin of, [45]. Osiris (ō-sī´ris), Tammuz cult and cult of, [xxxi], [81]. Yama and Gilgamesh and, [xxxii]; as god of the Nile, [33]; creative tears of, [45]; as a "dangerous god", [63]; as patriarch, [52], [82], [83], [84], [86], [90]; weeping for, [83], twin goddesses mourn for, [99]; Adonis myth, [83], [84]; origin of, [84]; blood of in Nile, [85]; swine associated with, [85]; as the lunar babe, [89]; as child, husband, brother, and father of Isis, &c, [99], [297]; as son with two mothers, [99]; Nut as mother of, [101]; Paradise of, [209]; fusion of Ptah with Seb and, [264]; Isis star and, [296]; the grave of, [296]; makes Isis a male, [299]; Nergal and, [304]; in star lore, [315]; backbone symbol of world mountain, [332]; Merodach and Ashur and, [354]. Osiris-Sokar, Merodach like, [299]. Owl, as ghost of sorrowful mother, [65]; Arabian belief regarding, [70]; reference to in Isaiah., [114]. Ox, the wild, in eagle and serpent myth, [75]. [76].