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Tabal (ta-bäl´), Hittite Cilician kingdom of, [395]; Shalmaneser III subdues king of, [414]; Sargon II conquers, [460], [461]; Biblical reference to, [464]; tribute from to Ashur-bani-pal, [483]. Tablets of Destiny, the, Zu bird steals, [74]; Tiamat gives to Kingu in Creation legend, [141], [145]; Merodach takes from Kingu, [146]; Ninip receives, [158]. Taharka (tä-har´ka), King of Egypt, in anti-Assyrian revolt, [465]; intrigues against Esarhaddon, [471]; Esarhaddon's invasion of Egypt, [475]; flight of, [475], [476]; death of, [482]. Tammuz, Osiris and, [xxxi], [81]; variations of myths of, [xxxii]; blood of in river, [47], [48]; as the shepherd and spring sun, [53]; spends winter in Hades, [53]; links with Mithra, [55], [94]; son of Ea, [82]; Belit-sheri, sister of, [98]; Ishtar, mother and lover of, [101]; worship of among Hebrews, [82], [106], [107]; as "the man of sorrows", [88]; "the true and faithful son", [93]; as the patriarch, [82]; Sargon of Akkad myth and, [91]; links with Adonis, Attis, Diarmid, and pre-Hellenic deities, [83], [84]; blood of in river, [85]; kid and sucking pig of, [85]; as "steer of heaven", [85]; Nin-shach, boar god, as slayer of, [86]; Ishtar laments for, [86]; month of wailings for, [87]-[89] ; why Ishtar deserted, [99], [103]; as the love god, [87]; dies with vegetation, &c., [87], [88]; sacred cedar of, [88]; in gloomy Hades, [89]; return of like Frode (Frey), [95]; as the slumbering corn child, [89], [90], [91]; Teutonic Scyld or Sceaf and, [92], [93]; Frey, Hermod, and Heimdal like, [93]; as world guardian and demon-slayer like Heimdal and Agni, [94]; as the healer like Khonsu, [94]; Ishtar visits Hades for, [96], [97], [98]; refusal to leave Hades, [98]; like Kingu in Tiamat myth, [106]; Nin-Girsu, or En-Mersi, of Lagash a form of, [116], [120]; Nina and Belitsheri and, [117]; Sargon myth like Indian Karnastory, [126], [437]; Zamama, Merodach, Ninip and, [53], [126], [158], [241], [302], [305]; as elder god, [159]; Etana and Gilgamesh and, [164]; as patriarch and sleeper, [164]; eagle of, [120], [168]; Nimrod myth, [170]; John Barleycorn and, [170]; Gilgamesh and, [171], [172], [210]; in Gilgamesh epic, [176]; Nebo and, [303], [435]; Adonis slain by boar god of war, [304]; planetary deities and, [301], [304]; forms of like Horus, [305]; astral links with Merodach and Attis, [305]; Ashur and, [337], [340], [348]; identified with Nusku, &c., [354]; as Anshar, En Mersi, and Nin-Girsu, [333]; doves and, 428 n[[480]]. Tanutamon (tä-nut´ämon), Ethiopian king, Assyrians expelled from Memphis by, [482], [483]; defeat of, [483]. Tarku (tär´kü), Asia Minor thunder god, [35], [57], [261], [395]. Tarsus, Hittite city of, [395]. Tashmit (täsh´mit), spouse of Nebo, [436]; creatrix and, [437]. Taylor, J.E., [xx]. Tears, agricultural weeping ceremonies, [82] et seq. Tears of deities, the fertilizing, [29]; the creative, [45], [46]. Tefnut (tef´nut), the Egyptian goddess, created from saliva, [46]. Tell-el-Amarna letters, historical evidence from, [280] et seq.; Assyrian king's letter, [284], [285]. Tello (tello´), Lagash site, [120]; archaic forms of gods, [135]; mound of, Lagash site, [243]. Temples, the houses of gods, [60]. Teshub or Teshup (tesh´ub), thunder god of Armenia, [261]; as a Mitannian god, [269]; in Tell-el-Amarna letters, [282], [395]. Teutonic sea-fire belief, [51]. Thebes, sack of by Assyrians, [483]. Theodoric (toyd´rik or thē-od´o-rik), the Goth, myths of, [164]. Thomas the Rhymer, as a "sleeper", [164]. Thompson, R. Campbell, [34], [39], [72], [76], [234], [235], [238], [239]. Thor, Ramman and Dadu or Hadad as, [57]; Dietrich as, [74], [164]; the hammer of, [238]; deities that link with, [261]; the goat and, [333], [334]; Ashur, Tammuz, and Indra and, [340]. Thorkill (thōr´kill), the Germanic, Gilgamesh and, [185]. Thoth (thōth or tā-hoo´tee), the Egyptian god, as chief of Ennead, [36]; curative saliva of, [46]; Sumerian moon god like, [301]. Thothmes III (thōth´mes), of Egypt, wars against Mitanni, [275]; correspondence of with Assyrian king, [276], [279]. Thunder god, Ramman, Hadad or Dadu, and Enlil as, [35], [57]; Indra as, [35]; Dietrich as Thor, [74]; in Babylonian Zu and Indian Garuda myths, [74], [75], [169]; in demon war, [76]; Merodach as, [144]; Hercules as, [171]; horn and hammer of, [238]; the Hittite, [260]; the Amorite, Mitannian, Kassite, and Aryan, [261]; Ptah of Egypt a, [263], [264]. Thunder goddess, the Egyptian Neith a, [337] n. Thunderstone, weapon of Merodach and Ramman, [144], [159], [160]. Tiamat (ti´a-mat), like Egyptian Nut, [37]; in group of early deities, [64]; the "brood" of, [64], [65]; as Great Mother, [106]; in Creation legend, [138]; plots with Apsu and Mummu, [139]; as Avenger of Apsu, [140]; exalts Kingu, [141]; Anu and Ea fears, [142]; Merodach goes against, [144]; slaying of, [146]; Merodach divides "Ku-pu" of, [147]; the dragon's heart, [147] n.; body of forms sky and earth, [147]; followers of "fallen gods", [150]; as origin of good and evil, [150]; beneficent forms of, [150]; as the dragon of the deep, [151]; Gaelic sea monster and, [151]; Alexander the Great sees, [151]; the Scottish "eel" and, [151]; "brood of" in Beowulf, [151]; vulnerable part of, [153]; Ishtar and, [157]; the Gorgons and, [159]; in Germanic legend, [202]; grave demons and, [215]; reference to by Damascius, [328]. (Also rendered "Tiawath".) Tiana (ti-an´i), Hittite city of, [395]. Tibni, revolt of in Israel, [405]. Tidal (ti´dal), Saga on Hittite connections of, [264], [265]; Tudhula of the Hittites as, [247], [248]. Tiglath-pileser I (tig´lath pi-le´ser), of Assyria, [382]; conquests of, [383], [384]. Tiglath-pileser IV, the Biblical "Pul", [444]; Babylonian campaign of, [445], [446]; Sharduris of Urartu defeated by, [446], [447]; Israel, Damascus, and Tyre pay tribute to, [449]; destruction of Urarti capital, [450]; appeal of Ahaz to, [451], [452]; Israel punished by, [453]; Babylon welcomes, [453]; triumphs of, [454]. Tigris, the river, [22]; as "the bestower of blessings", [23]; rise and fall and length of, [24]. Tiy, Queen, in Tell-el-Amarna letters, [283]; Semiramis like, [418]; Aton and Mut worship, [419]; mother worship and, [423]. Toothache, Babylonian cure of, [234], [235]. Totems, the bear, [164]; mountains, trees, and animals as, [292], [293]; surnames and, [293]; the fish of Ea and, [294]; eating the in Egypt, [295]; doves, snakes, crocodiles, &c., as, [432], [433]; Persian eagle, [493]. Trade routes, Babylonia and Assyria struggle for, [286]; the ancient, [356]; Baghdad and other railways following, [357]; ancient Powers struggled to control, [358]; Babylon's route to Egypt, [359]; Arabian desert route opened, [360]; route abandoned, [361]; Elam's caravan roads, [361]; struggle for Mesopotamia, [361] et seq.; Babylon's trade with China, Egypt, &c., [371], [372]. Transmigration of souls, [315]. "Tree of Life", Professor Sayce on the Babylonian, [39]. Tree worship, Tammuz, Adonis and Osiris and, [88]; Ashur and, [339]; Ezekiel on Assyria's tree, [340], [341]. Trees, in Babylonia, [24], [25]; sap as the "blood" of, [47]; as totems, [291], [293]. Trident, the lightning, weapon of Merodach, [144]. Tritons, the, [33]. Tudhula (tüd´hü-lä), a Hittite king, identified with Biblical Tidal, [247], [248]; forms of name of, [264], [265]. Tukulti-Ninip I (tu-kul´ti-nin´ip), of Assyria, [368], [369]. Tukulti-Ninip III, [396]. Tunnel, the dark, in Gilgamesh epic, [178]; Germanic land of darkness, [185]; in Alexander the Great myth, [185], [186]; in Indian legends, [187], [188]; in Scottish folk tales, [189]. Turkestan, early civilization of and the Sumerian, [5]; did agriculture originate in? [6]; prehistoric painted pottery in, [263]. Turkey, great Powers and, [357]; language of and Sumerian, [3]. Turks, of Ural-Altaic stock, [4]. Tushratta (tüsh´rat-ta), King of Mitanni, [280]; correspondence of with Egyptian kings, [282] et seq.; murder of, [283]. Twin goddesses, Ishtar and Belitsheri, [98], [99]; Isis and Nepthys, [99]. Tyr, the Germanic god, mother of a demon, [64]. Tyre, relations with Sidon and Hebrews, [388], [389], [392]; tribute of to Adad-nirari IV, [439]; gifts from to Tiglath-pileser IV, [449]; King Luli and Assyria, [465]; Esarhaddon and, [474], [475]; tribute from to Ashur-bani-pal, [483]; conspiracy against Nebuchadrezzar II, [491], [492]. Tyrol, the demon lover of, [68]; wind hags of, [74].