"If in a dream a fish appear on a man's head, that man will be powerful."
"If a mountain appear on a man's head, that man will be without a rival."[4]
While all these omens were not directly connected with worship, they were consistent with the religious teaching of the time, and so are perhaps rightly considered here.
The Babylonians were more religious than the Assyrians and their government was far more bound up in religious ceremonies. One fact alone bears out this statement: In Babylonia the king must each year celebrate anew the ceremony of taking his temporal power from the god Marduk by taking the hands of the god's image. This service took place on New Year's day, and no matter what might be the situation in other parts of the empire, to Babylon the king must come and observe the ancient custom would he remain possessor of the kingly crown.
[1] See the apocryphal story of Bel and the Dragon.
[2] Johns: Baby. and Assy. Laws, Contracts and Letters, 211.
[3] Jastrow: Babylonian Religion.
[4] Jastrow: Babylonian Religion.