The religion of Babylonia and Assyria especially in its relations to Israel . any others. Our chief source of information concerningthe gods of the first period of religious develop-ment before the days of Hammurabi () is the historic inscriptions of the earlykings and rulers. Many of these^describe votiveofferings of temples and treasures made to thegods, and all of them are religious in tone andfilled with ascription of praise to the these early texts Professor Jastrow1 hasextracted the names of the following deities,gods and goddessess. I reproduce his list as thebest yet
The religion of Babylonia and Assyria especially in its relations to Israel . any others. Our chief source of information concerningthe gods of the first period of religious develop-ment before the days of Hammurabi () is the historic inscriptions of the earlykings and rulers. Many of these^describe votiveofferings of temples and treasures made to thegods, and all of them are religious in tone andfilled with ascription of praise to the these early texts Professor Jastrow1 hasextracted the names of the following deities,gods and goddessess. I reproduce his list as thebest yet made, but keep in mind that some ofthe readings are doubtful and some were cer-tainly otherwise read by the Babylonians orSumerians, though we do not now know howthey ought to be read. The progress of theAssyrian research is continually providing cor-rected readings for words hitherto known tous only in ideograms. It is quite to be ex-pected that many of these strange, not to say 1 Morris Jastrow, Jr., Die Religion Babyloniens und Assyriens, i, , 52. Leipzig, 1902—.. FIGURE II.—LIST OF NAMES AND TITLES OF GODS British Museum, 4332 Size of the original, 8£ by 4| inches THE GODS OF BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA 79 grotesque, names will some day prove to bequite simple, and easy to utter: En-lil (El-lil,Bel) Belit, Nin-khar-sag, Nin-gir-su, who also ap-pears as Dun-gur, Bau, Ga-tum-dug, Nin-din-dug, Ea, Nin-a-gal, Gal-dim-zu-ab, Nin-ki, Dam-gal-nun-na, Nergal, Shamash, A or Malkatu, thewife of Shamash, Nannar or Sin, Nin-Urum,Innanna, Nana, Anunit, Nina, Ishtar, Anu,Nin-dar-a, Gal-alim, Nin-shakh, Dun-shagga,Lugal-banda, with a consort Nin-sun, Dumu-zi-zu-ab, Dumu-zi, Lugal-Erim, Nin-e-gal and Nin-gal, Nin-gish-zi-da, Dun-pa-uddu, Nin-mar, Pa-sag, Nidaba, Ku(?)-anna, Shid, Nin-agid-kha-du, Nin-shul-li, En-gubarra, Im-mi-khu(?), Ur-du-zi, Kadi, Nu-ku-sir-da, Ma-ma, Za-ma-ma,Za-za-ru, Im-pa-ud-du, Ur-e-nun-ta-ud-du-a,Khi-gir-nunna, Khi-shagga, Gur-mu, Zar-mu,Dagan, Damu, Lama, Nes
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