The Threshold Covenant; or, The Beginning of Religious Rites

by H. Clay Trumbull

[302]. Bancroft’s Native Races, IV., 481.

[303]. See, for example, Williams’s Middle Kingdom, I., frontispiece; Gray’s China, I., 11 f.

[304]. See citation in Bonomi’s Nineveh and its Palaces (2d ed.), pp. 157–160, 174.

[305]. Ibid.

[306]. Nineveh and its Remains (Am. ed.), II., 202.

[307]. Assyrian Discoveries, pp. 75, 78, 429.

[308]. Chaldean Magic, pp. 47, 48, 54.

[309]. See, for example, 1 Sam. 29 : 6; 2 Sam. 3 : 25; 2 Kings 19 : 27; Psa. 121 : 7, 8; Isa. 37 : 28; Ezek. 43 : 11.

[310]. See references to the Mezuza of the Hebrews at page [69] f., supra.

[311]. Grotefend Cylinder, Col. I., ll. 44–46. See, also, Rawlinson’s Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia, Vol. I., p. 65, Col. I., ll. 19–21.