. The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . De Rouge, Notice Soiiiinaire (1876), pp. 72, 79. M 2 746 The Night of the Gods. [The. sphere?^ The Man-Bird-God. 747 Babylonian, says Mr. Wallis Budge/ the spirit of the South-West wind, which brought disease and death with it. There are four images of this monster in the British Museum and another in Paris. This figure seems to be connected with another in the De Clercq collection which backs (and looks over the front of) a bronze plaque, the designs on which M. Clermont- Ganneau takes to be the Assyrian
. The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . De Rouge, Notice Soiiiinaire (1876), pp. 72, 79. M 2 746 The Night of the Gods. [The. sphere?^ The Man-Bird-God. 747 Babylonian, says Mr. Wallis Budge/ the spirit of the South-West wind, which brought disease and death with it. There are four images of this monster in the British Museum and another in Paris. This figure seems to be connected with another in the De Clercq collection which backs (and looks over the front of) a bronze plaque, the designs on which M. Clermont- Ganneau takes to be the Assyrian hell, but which appear to be heavenly, funereal, and infernal ; containing in the upper stratum or compartment the winged sphere side by side with the 8-spoked wheel, both being flanked with other emblems. In the second compartment is a row of Seven i long-robed figures, one arm up and ^^^^ ^^ one down, each owning the head of some animal. These are the heavenly genii called Igigis. They may parallel the Seven Kabirim. The plaque is engraved in Mr. Babelons book.^ As to the 4-winged animal-god or jinni whose back we see as he looks over the plaque, his face is that of
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