Myths of Babylonia and Assyria

by Donald A. Mackenzie

[[465]] The Old Testament in the Light of the Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia, T.G. Pinches, p. 343.

[[466]] Nat. Hist., v, 19 and Strabo xvi, 1-27.

[[467]] The Mahabharata: Adi Parva, sections lxxi and lxxii (Roy's translation, pp. 213 216, and Indian Myth and Legend, pp. 157 et seq.

[[468]] That is, without ceremony but with consent.

[[469]] The Golden Bough (The Scapegoat), pp. 369 et seq., (3rd edition). Perhaps the mythic Semiramis and legends connected were in existence long before the historic Sammu-rammat, though the two got mixed up.

[[470]] Herodotus, i, 184.

[[471]] De dea Syria, 9-14.

[[472]] Strabo, xvi, 1, 2.

[[473]] Diodorus Siculus, ii, 3.

[[474]] Herodotus, i, 105.