[1181] So far as the domestic animals are concerned, it is true that they throw off their young in the spring. The reference to a similar interruption in the case of mankind (see above, p. [571]) may embody the recollection of a period when a regular pairing season and breeding time existed among mankind. See Westermarck, The History of Human Marriage, pp. 27 seq.
[1182] Allatu.
[1183] I.e., of the dead person.
[1184] Ishtar.
[1186] Vorstellungen, pp. 6-8.
[1187] Some instrument is mentioned.
[1188] IVR. 30, no. 3, obverse 23-35.
[1189] The word is explained by a gloss, 'Shamash has made him great.'
[1190] I.e., the month in which one dies.