[219.5] Vide Jeremias in his article on “Nergal” in Roscher’s Lexikon, iii. p. 251.
[219.6] It is doubtful if any argument can be based on the name Ningzu, occasionally found as the name of the consort of Ereshkigal (Zimmern, K.A.T.3, p. 637) and said to mean “Lord of Healing,” in reference, probably, to the waters of life.
[219.7] Only in the story of Adapa he appears as one of the warders of the gates of heaven (Zimmern, K.A.T.3, p. 521).
[220.1] The story of Aphrodite descending into Hades to seek Adonis is much later than the period with which we are dealing. Nergal’s descent to satisfy the wrath of Allatu and his subsequent marriage with her (Jeremias, Hölle und Paradies, p. 22) is a story of entirely different motive to the Rape of Kore.
CHAPTER XIII NOTES
[223.1] Cook, The Religion of Ancient Palestine, p. 17.
[223.2] Researches in Sinai, p. 72, etc., 186: he would carry back the foundation to the fourth millennium B.C.
[223.3] Vide Arch. Anzeig., 1909, p. 498.
[223.4] Vide Cults, iii. p. 299.
[224.1] Vide Hogarth’s evidence for the date of the earliest Artemision, Excavations at Ephesus, p. 244.