[200.3] Ib., p. 257.
[201.1] Keil. Bibl., ii. pp. 133-134.
[201.2] Ib., pp. 203, 207.
[201.3] Ib., p. 205.
[202.1] We note the indication of a cruel human sacrifice—consecration of a child to a god or goddess by fire—as a legal punishment for reopening adjudicated causes (Johns, Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, etc., p. 95).
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[205.1] Vide Dr. Langdon’s paper on “Babylonian Eschatology;” in Essays in Modern Theology (papers offered to Professor Briggs, 1911), p. 139.
[205.2] Vide Jeremias, Hölle und Paradies, p. 30; cf. King, Bab. Rel., p. 46—formula for laying a troubled and dangerous ghost—“let him depart into the west; to Nedu, the Chief Porter of the Underworld, I consign him.” The west was suggested to the Hellene because of the natural associations of the setting sun; to the Babylonian, perhaps, according to Jeremias, op. cit., p. 19, because the desert west of Babylon was associated with death and demons.
[205.3] The “waters of death” figure in the Epic of Gilgamesh, e.g. King, op. cit., p. 169.
[205.4] Vide inscr. of Sargon II. in Keil. Bibl., ii. 2, pp. 75-77, 79: “Ea, Sin, Shamash, Nabu, Ramman, Ninib, and their benign spouses, who were rightfully born on Iharsaggalkurkurra, the Mountain of the Underworld.”