Table of Contents — extended
[Chap. 1]—Babylonia and Assyria in History and Legend
[The Akkadians]—[The Semite Conquerors]—[A Babylonian Conqueror]—[The First Library in Babylonia]—[Gudea]—[Khammurabi the Great]—[A Court Murder]—[Tiglath-Pileser]—[Semiramis the Great]—[The Second Assyrian Empire]—[Sardanapalus the Splendid]—[The First Great Library]—[The Last Kings of Assyria]—[Nebuchadrezzar]—[The Last of the Babylonian Kings]—[The History of Berossus]—[Berossus' Account of the Deluge]—[Analogies with the Flood Myth]—[Babylonian Archæology]—[The Tower of Babel]—[Nimrod, the Mighty Hunter]—[Abram and Nimrod]—[A Persian Version]—[The 'Babylonica']—[Cuneiform Writing]—[Grotefend]—[Rawlinson]—[Origin of Cuneiform]—[The Sacred Literature of Babylonia]—[Hymn to Adar].
[Chap. 2]—Babylonian Cosmogony
[The Babylonian Myth of Creation]—[The Birth of the Gods]—[A Darksome Trinity]—[Type of Babylonian Cosmology]—[Connexion with the Jonah Legend].
[Chap. 3]—Early Babylonian Religion
[The Beginnings of Babylonian Religion]—[Spirits and Gods]—[Was Babylonian Religion Semitic in Type?]—[Totemism in Babylonian Religion]—[The Great Gods]—[Bel]—[Bel and the Dragon]—[Beltis]—[The Temple of Bel]—[Nergal]—[Dibarra] —[Shamash]—[Ea]—[The Writings of Oannes]—[The Story of Adapa and the South Wind]—[Anu]—[Ishtar]—[The Descent of Ishtar into Hades]—[Tammuz and Ishtar]—[At the Gates of Aralu]—[Ishtar and Persephone]—[Lamentations for Tammuz]—[An Allegorical Interpretation of the Myth]—[Ishtar, Tammuz, and Vegetation]—[Ishtar and Esther]—[Lang on the Esther Story]—[Nin-Girsu]—[Bau]—[Nannar]—[Nannar in Decay]—[Aralu, or Eres-ki-Gal]—[Dagon]—[Nirig, or Enu-Restu.]
[Chap. 4]—The Gilgamesh Epic
[The Birth of Gilgamesh]—[Eabani]—[Gilgamesh as Tyrant]—[The Beguiling of Eabani]—[Gilgamesh meets Eabani]—[The Monster Khumbaba]—[Ishtar's Love for Gilgamesh]—[The Bull of Anu]—[The Death of Eabani]—[The Quest of Gilgamesh]—[Gilgamesh and Ut-Napishtim]—[The Deluge Myth]—[The Babylonian Ark]—[The Bird Messengers].