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Wales, pig as the devil in, [293]. Warad Sin, struggle of with Babylon, [217]; the Biblical Arioch, [247], [248]. Warka. See Erech. Water, control and distribution of in Babylonia, [23], [24]; corn deities and, [33]; essence of life in, [44], [45], [51]. Water gods and demons, [27] et seq. Water of Life, Gilgamesh's quest of, [177] et seq.; in Alexander the Great myth, [186]; in Koran legend, [186]; in Gaelic legends, [186], [187]; in Indian legends, [187], [210]. Waxen figures, in folk cures, [234]. Weapons in graves, [212]. Weaving, in Late Stone Age, [14]. Weeping ceremonies, the agricultural, [82] et seq.; the Egyptian god Rem, [29]. Wells, worship of, [44]. Westminster Abbey, Long Meg and, [156]. Wheel of Life, the, Ashur, [334] et seq.; Ezekiel's references to, [344] et seq.; in Babylonian, Indian, Persian, and Hittite mythologies, [346]-[348] ; in Indian mythology, [346], [347]; the sun and the, [348]; "dot within the circle" and egg thorn, [352]; Ahura Mazda's, [355]. Wife of Merodach, [221]; Amon's wife, [222]. Wild Huntsmen, the, Asiatic gods as, [35], [64]. "Will-o'-the-wisp", the Babylonian and European, [66], [67]. Winckler, Dr. Hugo, Semitic migrations, [10]; on Mitannian origins, [268], [269]; Boghaz-Köi tablets found by, [280], [367]. Wind, the south-west, demon of in Babylonia and Europe, [72], [73]. Wind gods, Vayu, Enlil, Rarnman, &c, as, [35]. Wind hags, Babylonia Shutu, Scottish Annie, English Annis, Irish Anu, [73]; Icelandic Angerboda, [73]; Tyrolese "wind brewers", [74]; Artemis as one of the, [104]. Winds, the seven, as servants of Merodach, [145]. Wine seller who became queen, [114], [115]; the female, [229]. Wolf, Nergal-Mars as the, [303]. Women, as rulers in Egypt and Babylonia, [16], [17]; treatment of in early times, [15]; Nomads oppressors of, [16]; exalted by Mediterranean peoples, [16]; Sumerian laws regarding, [16], [17]; the Sumerian language of, [17]; in goddess worship, [106]-[108] ; social status of, [108]; position of in Hammurabi Code, [224] ei seq.; the marriage market, [224], [225]; drink traffic monopolized by, [229]. World hill, in Babylonian, Indian, and Egyptian mythologies, [332]. World serpent, in Eur-Asian mythologies, [151]. World Soul, the Brahmanic, [304], [328], [329]. "World spike", star called, [332]. "World spine", the, [332]; the "world tree" and, [334]; Ashur standard as, [335]. World tree, symbol of "world spine", [334]. Worm, the, dragon as, [151]; the legend of the, [234], [235]. Wryneck, goddess and the, [427] n.