[[379]] Layard's Nineveh (1856), p. 44.
[[380]] Ibid., p. 309.
[[381]] The fir cone was offered to Attis and Mithra. Its association with Ashur suggests that the great Assyrian deity resembled the gods of corn and trees and fertility.
[[382]] Nineveh, p. 47.
[[383]] Isaiah, xxxvii, 37-8.
[[384]] The Old Testament in the Light of the Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia, pp. 129-30.
[[385]] An eclipse of the sun in Assyria on June 15, 763 B.C., was followed by an outbreak of civil war.
[[386]] Ezekiel, i, 4-14.
[[387]] Ezekiel, xxiii, 1-15.
[[388]] As the soul of the Egyptian god was in the sun disk or sun egg.