[1471] Inscription G, cols, iii-vi.
[1472] Hardly 'roosters,' as Jensen (Kosmologie, p. 517) proposes.
[1473] See, e.g., Gudea, Inscription F, cols. iii, iv.
[1474] See on this general subject Marillier's admirable articles, "La Place du Totemisme dans l'evolution religieuse" (Revue de l'Histoire des Religions, xxxvi).
[1476] See Peters' Nippur, ll. 131, and Hilprecht, Cuneiform Texts, ix. pl. xiii.
[1477] See Ward, "On Some Babylonian Cylinders supposed to represent Human Sacrifices" (Proc. Amer. Oriental Soc. May, 1888, pp. xxvlii-xxx).
[1478] See, e.g., Layard, Monuments of Nineveh, 1st series, pls. 7, 23; Place, Nineve et l'Assyrie, pl. 46, etc.
[1479] "The Winged Figures of the Assyrian and Other Ancient Monuments," Proc. Soc. Bibl. Arch. xii. 383-393; see also Bonavia, "The Sacred Trees of the Assyrian Monuments," Babylonian and Oriental Record, vols. iii, iv, whose conclusions, however, are not always acceptable.
[1480] See [chapter xix], "Oracles and Omens."