Purat = Euphrates, [27].
Purification, see [Rituals].
Purim, compared with the Bab. solar festival, 15th of Adar, [686];
not to be compared with Puru, [688].
Puru, a festival ceremony, [688].
Puzur-Shadu-Rabû, captain of the ship of Parnapishtim, [500].
Ra, Egyptian sun-god, [210].
Rabbinical literature, bearing upon B.-A. religion, [3], [697].
Races, of Mesopotamia, [24], [33].
Ramman, god, Shala his consort, [102], [161], [212];
associated with Anu, [154], [207], [212];
associated with Shamash, [145], [157]-8, [160], [211];
associated with Sin and Shamash, [158], [163];
associated with Nergal and Nanâ, [159], [164];
rivals of Marduk, [158];
ideographic and other readings of the name, [156]-7;
meaning of name, [156]-7;
extent of his cult, [159];
cult by Aramaeans, [159];
indigenous to Assyria, [159];
rival of Ashur, [161];
his two aspects as storm-god, [160];
epithets, [156], [158], [160], [212], [498];
in Hammurabi's pantheon, [162];
in Nebuchadnezzar's I. pantheon, [162];
= Martu, [166], [212];
popular in Assyria, [211];
his instruments of destruction, [212];
"the mightiest of the gods," [212];
name of one of the eastern gates of Sargon's II. palace, [237];
brings abundance, [237];
temple at Borsippa, [242];
temple at Kumari, [242];
11th month sacred to R., [463];
R. in the deluge, [500];
declines to fight Zu, [541].
Ramman-nirari I., king of Assyria, [155];
cult of Ramman, [159];
of Anunnaki and Igigi as spirits of earth and heaven resp., [185];
repels the Cassites, [199];
his pantheon, [237], [593].