Bar, offspring of Ishtar declines to fight Zu, [541].
Bashtum, goddess in proper names of the 2d Bab. period, [169].
Battles of Yahwe, recalls Dibbarra epic, [534].
Bau, goddess, [51];
her attributes, [59]-60, [90], [678];
temple in Uruazagga, [59], [103];
Zag-muk, her festival, [59], [677];
consort of Nin-girsu, [59], [677];
identification with Gula, [60];
her sphere, [60];
daughter of Anu, [59]-60;
mother of Ea and water-deity, [61];
common features with Ga-sig(?)-dug, [61];
Bau not Hebr. bohu, [60];
her sons (Amiaud), [103];
in Gudea's pantheon, [106];
in incantations, [273];
Bau's ship, [655].
Ba'u-ukin = Dungi (Winckler), [65].
Baz, city in Babylonia, temple of Bel-sarbi, [242], [639].
Bel, see also [Marduk] and [Bel-Marduk];
god, temple of, [4];
temple at Nippur, [11], [37], [69], [51], [54], [151], [642], [644];
position in the Babylonian theology, [52];
oldest spelling and meaning of name, [52];
temple in Lagash, [53];
growth of his cult, [53];
blending with Marduk, [54], [145], [146], [148], [222];
phases of cult, [55];
associations and relations with Ea, [62];
associated with Allat, [104];
in Lugalzaggisi's and Gudea's pantheon, [110];
subordination to Marduk, [118];
transfers his name to Marduk, [140], [222], [439], [635];
god of earth par excellence, [140], [147], [432], [440], [497];
creator of mankind, [141], [441];
in the deluge story, [142], [497], [502], [504];
Bel and the triad, [107], [145]-9, [207], [677];
Bel in Hammurabi's pantheon, [145]-6, [162];
in Cassite period, [146];
temple at Dur-Kurigalzu, [146];
in the Assyrian pantheon, [146]-7, [225]-6;
in the neo-Bab. pantheon, [147];
epithets, [146], [222], [225], [227], [274];
relationship to the other members of the triad, [147], [226];
Bel (and Belit) decree fates, [150], [153], [538];
Dagan = Bel, [151], [154], [209], [225];
relationship to Zakar, [172];
lord of Annunaki and Igigi, [186];
husband of Ishtar, [205];
confused with Dagan, [151], [154], [209];
Ninib, first-born of Bel, [217];
Sin, first-born of Bel, [219], [462];
Nusku, messenger of, [221];
temple at Ashur, [225];
dwells in E-khar-sag-kurkura, [225];
associated with Anu and Belit, [226]-8;
consort of Ishtar, [205];
of Belit, [226];
B. and Belit, names of the northern gates of Sargon's II. palace, [237];
lays foundations, [237] (cf. Ninib);
associated with fire-god, [279], [286];
Bel made lord of the earth by Marduk, [432];
in the zodiacal system in conjunction with Nibir and Ea marks the three divisions of the year, [434]-5;
identified with north polar-star, [435], [460];
Nisan, sacred to Anu and B., [462], [677];
2nd Elul, sacred to Anu and B., [463];
Bel in 11th tablet of Gilgamesh epic, [496];
rivalry with Ea, [497], [507] ff.;
god of Dur-an-ki, [539];
on seal cylinders, [540];
robbed of tablets of fate by Zu, [540];
temple E-U-gal, [640];
figurines of Bel, [674];
Zagmuk, festival of, [678].
Bêl-epush, Babylonian prince, votive object, [671].
Bel-Marduk, see [Bel] and [Marduk].
Belili, deity, [417];
in incantations, [417];
sister of Tammuz, [575], [588];
in Allatu's court, [588], [593];
consort of Alallu, [589].