Myths of Babylonia and Assyria

by Donald A. Mackenzie

[[121]] Osiris is also invoked to "remove storms and rain and give fecundity in the nighttime". As a spring sun god he slays demons; as a lunar god he brings fertility.

[[122]] Like the love-compelling girdle of Aphrodite.

[[123]] A wedding bracelet of crystal is worn by Hindu women; they break it when the husband dies.

[[124]] Quotations from the translation in The Chaldean Account of Genesis, by George Smith.

[[125]] Langdon's Sumerian and Babylonian Psalms, p. 329 et seq.

[[126]] The Burden of Isis, translated by J.T. Dennis (Wisdom of the East series), pp. 24, 31, 32, 39, 45, 46, 49.

[[127]] The Burden of Isis, pp. 22, 46.

[[128]] Aspects of Religious Belief and Practice in Babylonia and Assyria, p. 137, and Herodotus, book i, 199.

[[129]] The Burden of Isis, p. 47.

[[130]] Original Sanskrit Texts, J. Muir, London, 1890, vol. i, p. 67.