Myths of Babylonia and Assyria

by Donald A. Mackenzie

[[339]] Herodotus (ii, 52) as quoted in Egypt and Scythia (London, 1886), p. 49.

[[340]] Babylonian Magic and Sorcery, L.W. King (London, 1896), pp. 43 and 115.

[[341]] Vedic Index, Macdonell & Keith, vol. ii, p. 229.

[[342]] Ibid vol. i, pp. 409, 410.

[[343]] Ibid vol. i, p. 415.

[[344]] Primitive Constellations, vol. i, p. 343.

[[345]] Custom and Myth, pp. 133 et seq.

[[346]] Dr. Alfred Jeremias gives very forcible reasons for believing that the ancient Babylonians were acquainted with the precession of the equinoxes. Das Alter der Babylonischen Astronomie (Hinrichs, Leipzig, 1908), pp. 47 et seq.

[[347]] Aspects of Religious Belief and Practice in Babylonia and Assyria, pp. 207 et seq.

[[348]] A History of the Babylonians and Assyrians, p. 93.