[449] Possibly also the Cerastes. At a relatively late period other snakes were adopted as surrogates of the cobra and Cerastes.
[450] See Oldham, "Sun and Serpent," p. 51 inter alia.
[451] Blackman, however, has recently advanced this claim in reference to Egypt (op. cit., Proc. Soc. Bibl. Archæology, 1918, p. 57), as Breasted and others have done before.
[452] S. Langdon, "A Seal of Nidaba, the Goddess of Vegetation," Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archæology, Vol. XXXVI, 1914, p. 281.
[453] L. W. King, "Babylonian Religion," p. 58.
Transcriber's Note: Numerous obvious printing errors have been corrected. However, inconsistent hyphenation in the original has been retained.