The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 2); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . eturns; then a raven, and it does not return. Helca\-es the ship, pours out a libation, makes an offer-ing on the peak of the mountain. The gods smelleda savour, the gods smelled a sweet savour, the godsgathered like flies over the sacrificer. ? No one read-ing the Babylonian account of the Flood can deny itsintimate connexion with the narrative in Genesis, yet BABYLONIA 187 BABS :.ONIA the former is so intimately bound up with Babylonianmythol
The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 2); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . eturns; then a raven, and it does not return. Helca\-es the ship, pours out a libation, makes an offer-ing on the peak of the mountain. The gods smelleda savour, the gods smelled a sweet savour, the godsgathered like flies over the sacrificer. ? No one read-ing the Babylonian account of the Flood can deny itsintimate connexion with the narrative in Genesis, yet BABYLONIA 187 BABS :.ONIA the former is so intimately bound up with Babylonianmythology, that the inspired character of the Hebrewaccount is the better appreciated by the contrast. Religion.—The Babylonian Pantheon arose outof a gradual amalgamation of the local deities of theearly city states of Sumer and Akkad. And Baby-lonian mythology is mainly the projection into theheavenly sphere of the earthly fortunes of the earlycentres of civilization in the Euphrates religion, therefore, is largely a Sumerian,i. e. Mongolian product, no doubt modified by Semiticinfluence, yet to the last bearing the mark of its. Brick of Kurigalzu King of Babylon (about 1400B. c), British Museum Mongolian origin in the very names of its gods andin the sacred dead languages in which they wereaddressed. The tutelary spirit of a locality extendedhis power with the political power of his adherents;when the citizens of one city entered into politicalrelations with the citizens of another, popular imagi-nation soon created the relation of father and son,brother and sister, or man and wife, between theirrespective gods. The Babylonian Trinity of Anu,Bel, and Ea is the result of later speculation, dividingthe divine power into that which rules in heaven,that which rules on earth, and that which rules underthe earth. Ea was originally the god of Eridu on thePersian Gulf and therefore the god of the ocean andthe waters below. Bel was originally the chiefspirit (in Sumeria
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