Genesis and Semitic tradition . figure in thepicture of any age, but who stands out in sharper reliefagainst the unembellishod background. Ximrod was morethan a mere link in the genealogical chain, serving onlyto mediate the succession ; he made history. He beganto be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunterbefore the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom wasBabel and Erech and Accad and Calneh in the land ofShinar. A counterpart to Nimrod exists in the person of thegreat hero of early Babylonian story, Avho is commonlyknown as Izdubar, or, as there is reason to pronounce thename, Gi
Genesis and Semitic tradition . figure in thepicture of any age, but who stands out in sharper reliefagainst the unembellishod background. Ximrod was morethan a mere link in the genealogical chain, serving onlyto mediate the succession ; he made history. He beganto be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunterbefore the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom wasBabel and Erech and Accad and Calneh in the land ofShinar. A counterpart to Nimrod exists in the person of thegreat hero of early Babylonian story, Avho is commonlyknown as Izdubar, or, as there is reason to pronounce thename, Gilgamesh. The history of the two celebrities isstrikingly similar. Both were kings who ruled in theland of Shinar and numbered Erech among their lived after the flood and traced their descent fromthe hero of that event. Both were noted hunters ; Izdu-bar being a slayer of wild beasts, whose encounters withanimals, not less than his exploits in war, were embodiedin a poem and formed a favorite subject for engraver and. IZDUBAR. Mural sculpture of Sargons Palace. Height of figure, thirteen feet and a half. THE MKillTY JIUNTKU 137 sculptor. But while the comparison of Izduhar and Nimrod is interesting, their identity has not been proven. In view of the possibility of such identity, however, the person of Izdubar requires a brief notice. The story For nearly ten years the chamiiion oi the identilieation ot Izdubar withNimrod has been Professor Hommel. His argument has been presented be-fore the Society of Biblical Arch;eology and is published in its Proceedings,voL viii., 11J ; xv., 2Jl ; xvi., 13. Stated brieily, the argument is that the patrondeity of Izdubar was Lugal-turda ; and that the wile of this god was Nin-gul, agoddess who is declared to be identical with the goddess Nin-gal, gid beingonly a somewhat later pronunciation of <jal, great: but the goddess Nin-galwas the wife of the moon-god Sin ; accordingly the moon-god Sin is one andthe same deity with Lugal-
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