[145] Sayce, p. 193.
[146] Jensen, p. 149.
[147] Sayce, p. 439.
[148] Sayce, "Hibbert Lectures," p. 190.
[149] Sayce, p. 280. There is a bas-relief in the British Museum showing this ceremonial.
[150] Sayce, p. 101.
[151] See "Guide to the British Museum," p. 71.
[152] Sayce, Hibbert Lectures, p. 33. Flinders Petrie, Nature, Aug. 9, 1883, p. 341.
[153] Sayce, op. cit., p. 135.
[154] One gets the idea, from reading Professor Sayce's work, that there might have been in the earliest times a north-star-worshipping race up the valley before Ía and Sun and Moon worship were established at Eridu; and that the addition of Ía to the Bīl-Anu-worship to make one triad, and the addition of Bīl to the Ía-Asari-worship to make another, were both compromises. See Sayce, pp. 320, 347, 400.