. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . ich is by Faucher-Gudin, is reproduced from an intaglio in the Cabinet des Medailles ( it lélude du culte public et des mystères de Mithra en Orient et en Occident, pl. xvi., No. 7). 2 In Chaldsea, as in Egypt, nothing was supposed to have a real existence until it had received itsname : the sentence quoted in the text means practically, that at that time there was neither heavennor eartli (Haupt, Die Sumerischen Familiengesetze, pp. 31,32; Sayce,Eelig. of Anc. Babylonians, p. 385)- 3 Apsu has been transliterated Airatrwv in G
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . ich is by Faucher-Gudin, is reproduced from an intaglio in the Cabinet des Medailles ( it lélude du culte public et des mystères de Mithra en Orient et en Occident, pl. xvi., No. 7). 2 In Chaldsea, as in Egypt, nothing was supposed to have a real existence until it had received itsname : the sentence quoted in the text means practically, that at that time there was neither heavennor eartli (Haupt, Die Sumerischen Familiengesetze, pp. 31,32; Sayce,Eelig. of Anc. Babylonians, p. 385)- 3 Apsu has been transliterated Airatrwv in Greek, by the author an extract from whose works hasbeen preserved by Damascius {Bamascii Successoris Solutiones, Kuelles edition, pp. 321, 322). Hegives a different version of the tradition, according to which the amorphous goddess Mummu-Tiâmatconsisted of two persons. The first, Tauthe, was the wife of Apasôn; the second, Moymis (Mwv/j.(s~),was the son of Apasôn and of Tauthé. The last part of the sentence is very obscure in the Assyrian. 538 ANCIENT CEALDjEA. ages ; then Anshar and Kishar were produced after them. Days were added todays, and years were heaped upon years : Anu, Inlil, and Ea were born in theirturn, for Anshar and Kishar had given them As the generationsemanated one from the other, their vitality increased, and the personality ofeach became more clearly defined ; the last generation included none butbeings of an original character and clearly marked individuality. Anu, thesunlit sky by day, the starlit firmament by night ; Inlil-Bel, the king of theearth ; Ea, the sovereign of the waters and the personification of of them duplicated himself, Anu into Anat, Bel into Belit, Ea intoDamkina, and united himself to the spouse whom he had deduced fromhimself. Other divinities sprang from these fruitful pairs, and the impulseonce given, the world was rapidly peopled by their descendants. Sin, Sha-mash, and Bamman, who presided respectively ov
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