[2] Religious Belief in Babylonia and Assyria, p. 69.
[3] Athenæum, Feb. 12, 1876.
[4] Polyhistor is still speaking. The passage is somewhat obscure, and of course relates to the myth of Merodach and Tiawath—Bel representing Merodach, and "the woman-creature" Tiawath.
[5] Religious Belief in Babylonia and Assyria, p. 88.
[6] Religious Belief in Babylonia and Assyria, p. 81.
[7] Religious Belief in Babylonia and Assyria, p. 82.
[8] Elsewhere Ishtar herself is sprinkled. See [p. 130.]
[9] Translation from Prof. Sayce's Hibbert Lectures, p. 157.
[10] These deities of the underworld must not be confounded with the gods of the abyss referred to at great length in Chapter II. The first group are gods of the dead, the second gods of the primeval waters.
[11] In sacrifice, too, the totemic or symbolic animal of the god is often flayed and the skin worn by the priest, who in this manner personates the god. In ancient Mexico the priests of Centeotl wore the skin of a woman sacrificed annually to that goddess.