[1] ‘Records of the Past,’ iii. p. 83. See also i. p. 135.
[2] ‘Chaldean Genesis,’ by George Smith, p. 70.
[3] Copied in ‘Chald. Gen.,’ p. 91. As to the connection of this design with the legend of Eden, see chap. vii. of this volume.
[4] ‘Chaldean Genesis,’ pp. 62, 63.
[5] Ib., 97.
[6] ‘Records of the Past,’ ix. 141.
[7] Anu was the ruler of the highest heaven. Meteors and lightnings are similarly considered in Hebrew poetry as the messengers of the Almighty. (Psalm civ. 4, ‘Who maketh his ministers a flaming fire,’ quoted in Heb. i. 7.)
[8] Im, the god of the sky, sometimes called Rimmon (the Thunderer). He answers to the Jupiter Tonans of the Latins.
[9] The abyss or ocean where the god Hea dwelt.
[10] The late Mr. G. Smith says that the Chaldean dragon was seven-headed. ‘Chaldean Genesis,’ p. 100.