. The Catholic encyclopedia; an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline, and history of the Catholic Church . then a swallow, and itreturns; then a raven, and it does not return. Heleaves the ship, pours out a libation, makes an offer-ing on the peak of the moimtain. The gods smelleda savour, the gods smelled a sweet savour, the godsgathered like flies over the sacrificer. No one read-ing the Babylonian account of the Flood can deny itsintimate connexion with the narrative in Genesis, yet BABYLONIA he former is so intimately bound up with Babyloniannythology,
. The Catholic encyclopedia; an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline, and history of the Catholic Church . then a swallow, and itreturns; then a raven, and it does not return. Heleaves the ship, pours out a libation, makes an offer-ing on the peak of the moimtain. The gods smelleda savour, the gods smelled a sweet savour, the godsgathered like flies over the sacrificer. No one read-ing the Babylonian account of the Flood can deny itsintimate connexion with the narrative in Genesis, yet BABYLONIA he former is so intimately bound up with Babyloniannythology, that the inspired character of the Hebrewiccount is the better appreciated by the contrast. Religion.—The Babylonian Pantheon arose out)f a gradual amalgamation of the local deities of thelarly city states of Sumer and Akkad. And Baby-onian mytnology is mainly the projection into theleavenly sphere of the earthly fortunes of the early3entres of civilization in the Euphrates religion, therefore, is largely a Sumerian,. e. Mongolian product, no doubt modified by , yet to the last bearing the mark of its. Mongolian origin in the very names of its gods andin tlie sacred dead languages in which they wereaddressed. The tutelary spirit of a locality power with the political power of his adherents;when the citizens of one city entered into politicalrelations with the citizens of another, popular imagi-nation soon created the relation of father and son,brother and sister, or man and wife, between theirrespective gods. The Babylonian Trinity of Anu,Bel, and Ea is the result of later speculation, dividingthe divine power into that which rules in heaven,that which rules on earth, and that which rules underthe earth. Ea was originally the god of Eridu on thePersian Gulf and therefore the god of the ocean andthe waters below. Bel was originally the chiefspirit (in Sumerian Eti-lil, the okler designation ofBel, which is Semitic for chief or lor
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