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.
X
Xerxes, Merodach's temple pillaged by, [497].
Y
Yä, the Hebrew, Ea as, [31]. Yama (yă´mă), Osiris and Gilgamesh and, [xxxii]; Mitra and, [56]; eagle as, [169]; Gilgamesh and, [200]; the Paradise of, [209]. Yng´ve, the Germanic patriarch, [93]. Yügăs, the Indian doctrine of, Babylonian origin of, [310] et seq.
Z
Zabium (za´bi-um), king in Hammurabi Age, [242]. Zachariah, King of Israel, [449]. Zamama (zä-mä´mä), god of Kish, Tammuz traits of, [126]; identified with Merodach, [241]. Zambia (zäm´bi-a), King of Isin, [133]. Zedekiah, King of Judah, conspiracy against Babylonia, [490]; punishment of, [491]; the captivity, [491]. Zerpanitum (zār-pä´nit-um), mother goddess, [100]; as "Lady of the Abyss", [160]; as Aruru, [160]; Persian goddess and, [496]. Zeus (to rhyme with mouse), the god, as sea-god's brother, [33]; in Adonis myth, [90]; an imported god, [105]; in father and son myth, [158]; eagle of, [168]; deities that link with, [261]; the "Great Bear" myth and, [296]. Zi (zee´), the Sumerian manifestation of life, [291]; "Sige the mother" as Ziku, [328] n. Zimri, revolt of in Israel, [405]. Zodiac, Signs of the, [147], [301], [305]; Babylonian origin of, [306]; Hittites, Phoenicians, and Greeks and, [306]; stars of as "Divinities of Council", [309]; division of, [307]; the fields of Ea, Anu, and Bel, [307]; three stars for each month, [307]-[309] ; the lunar in various countries, [309]; when signs of were fixed, [322]. Zü bird, Garuda eagle and, [xxvi]; myth of, [74]. Zuzu (zü´zü), King of Opis, captured by Eannatum of Lagash, [119].