The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . shrines were niimerons. She is often called thequeen of Babylon, and must certainly have had atemple in that city.* She had also temples atAsshur (Kileh-Sherghat), at Arbela, and atNineveh. It- may be suspected that hersymbol was the naked female form, which isnot uncommon upon the cylinders. She mayalso be represented by the rude images inbaked clay so common throughout the Mesopotamianruins, which are generally regarded as images ofMylitta. Ish
The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . shrines were niimerons. She is often called thequeen of Babylon, and must certainly have had atemple in that city.* She had also temples atAsshur (Kileh-Sherghat), at Arbela, and atNineveh. It- may be suspected that hersymbol was the naked female form, which isnot uncommon upon the cylinders. She mayalso be represented by the rude images inbaked clay so common throughout the Mesopotamianruins, which are generally regarded as images ofMylitta. Ishtar is sometimes coupled with Nebo in such a way as to suggest the notion thatshe was his wife. This,however, can hardly havebeen her real position inthe mythology, since Nebohad, as will presently ap-pear, another wife, Yaramit,whom there is no reason tobelieve identical with is most probable that theconjunction is casual and ac-cidental, being due to special and temporary causes.* last of the five planetary gods is Nebo, who. * Nebuchadnezzar speaks of hav-int;!; made the way of Nana inBabylon, by which he probablymeans a way or road to her temple.(See the Standard Inscription, asgiven in the authors Herodotus, p. 586.) * Loftus, (JJuddcea and Susiana,ch. xviii. p. 214 ; Layard, Ninevehand its Bemains, vol. ii. ch. 7. * The conjunction appears to be- long only to the time of Nebuchad-nezzar. Sir H. Rawlinson observesthat, as Nebuchadnezzar never oncementions Varamit, the true wife ofNebo, in his inscrijitions, it is evi-dent she was out of Javour with him,and that therefore Nana may havebeen tlirust temporarily into herplace. (See the authors Herodotus,vol. i. p. 037.) Chap. VII. NEBO. 177 undoubtedly represents the planet Mercury. Hisname is the same, or nearly so, both in Babylonianand Assyrian;^ and we may perhaps assign it aSemitic derivation, from the root nihhah, K33, toprophesy. It is his special function to preside overknowledge and learning
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