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Ra (rä or rā), the Egyptian god, as chief of nine gods, [36]; creative tears of, [45], [334]; creative saliva of, [46]; the "Eye" of blinded and cured, [46]; as a destroyer, [63]; in flood legend, [197]; Paradise of, [209]; Osiris and, [297]; as old man, [314]; as cat, ass, bull, ram, and crocodile, [329]. Races, languages and, [3]; the Sumerian problem, [3]; shaving customs of, [4]; the Semitic blend, [10]; culture promoted by fusion of, [42]; god and goddess cults and, [105]. See Armenoids, Mongolians, Mediterranean Race, Semites, Sumerians. Rain gods, Enlil, Ramman, Indra, &c, as, [35], [57]; Mitra and Varuna as, [55]. Rainy season in Babylonia, [24]. Ram, sun god as, [329]; Osiris as, [85]. Rämă, the Indian demi-god, demon lover of, [67]; colour of, [186]. Ramayana (räm-ay´ăn-ă), the, [67]; eagle myth in, [166]. Rameses I (räm´e-sēz or ra-mē´sēs), Hittites and, [364]. Rameses II, of Egypt, wars of in Syria, [365]; the Hittite treaty, [366]; Hittites aided by Aramaeans against, [378]. Rameses III, sea raiders scattered by, [379]; Philistines and, [379]. Ramman (räm´män), the atmospheric and thunder god, [57]; in Zu bird myth, [74]; in demon war, [76]; a hill god, [136]; Merodach and, [159], [160]; in flood legend, [192] et seq.; deities that link with, [261]; called Mermer like Nebo, [303]; month of, [309]. Rams, offered to sea god, [33]. Rassam, Hormuzd, [xx], [xxiii]. Ravens, demons enter the, [71]; in folk cures, [234]; as unlucky birds, [429]. Rawlinson, Sir Henry, [xx], [xxi]. Rebekah, Hittite daughters-in-law of, [266], [267]. Reed hut, Ea revelation to Pir-napish-tim in, [190], [191]; and reeds in graves, [213]. Reformer, the first historic, Urukagina of Lagash, [121] et seq. Rehoboam (rē-ho-bō´am), subject to Egypt, [402]. Rem, the Egyptian god of fish and corn, [29]. Rephaim (reph´ā-im), the, Hittites and, II, [12]. Rezin, King of Damascus, [449]; Pekah plots with, [451]; Tiglath-pileser IV and, [453]. Rhea, [103]. Rhone, the river, dragon of, [152]. Ribhus (rib´hüs), the elves of India, [105]. Ridgeway, Professor, on the Achaeans, [377]. Rim-Anum (rim-an´um), revolt of in Hammurabi Age, [242]. Rimmon (rim´mon), Enlil, Tarku, &c., as, [35], [57], [395]. Rim-Sin, struggle of with Babylon, [217]; Hammurabi reduces power of, [249]; put to death by Samsu-iluna, [249], [256]. Rim´ush. See Urumush. Ripley, Professor W.Z., on Mediterranean racial types in Asia, [8]. Risley, Mr., on Naturalism in India, [291]. Rivers, worship of, [44]; life principle in, [48]; created by Merodach, [149]. Robin Goodfellow, the Babylonian, [66]. Roman burial customs, [207]. Rome, the death eagle of, [169]. Rose Garden, the Wonderful, [68]. Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, the Lilith sonnet, [67]. Rudra (rood´rä), the Indian god, [64]. Rusas (rü´säs), King of Urartu, Sargon II routs, [460], [461]. Russia, the double-headed eagle of, [168]; Persian and Armenian questions, [357]. Russian Turkestan, early civilization of and the Sumerian, [5].