Myths and legends of Babylonia & Assyria . theMost High admitted his domination over the wholeearth. Thus was the punishment of the boastercompleted. It has been stated with some show of probabilitythat the judgment upon Nebuchadrezzar was con-nected with that weird disease known as lycan-thropy, from the Greek words lukos, a wolf, andanthropos, a man. It develops as a kind of hysteriaand is characterized by a belief on the part of thevictim that he has become an animal. There are,too, cravings for strange food, and the afflictedperson runs about on all fours. Among primitivepeoples such a sei
Myths and legends of Babylonia & Assyria . theMost High admitted his domination over the wholeearth. Thus was the punishment of the boastercompleted. It has been stated with some show of probabilitythat the judgment upon Nebuchadrezzar was con-nected with that weird disease known as lycan-thropy, from the Greek words lukos, a wolf, andanthropos, a man. It develops as a kind of hysteriaand is characterized by a belief on the part of thevictim that he has become an animal. There are,too, cravings for strange food, and the afflictedperson runs about on all fours. Among primitivepeoples such a seizure is ascribed to supernaturalagency, and garlic or onion—the common scourgeof vampires—is held to the nostrils. The Last of the Babylonian Kings Nabonidus (555-539 ) was the last of theBabylonian kings—a man of a very religious dis-position and of antiquarian tastes. He desired torestore the temple of the moon-god at Harran andto restore such of the images of the gods as hadbeen removed to the ancient shrines. But first he40. Grant of Privileges to Ritti-Marduk, a famousBabylonian Captain, by Nebuchadrezzar I PJiolo W. A. ManscLl and Co.] 40 THE LAST OF THE BABYLONIAN KINGS desired to find out whether this procedure wouldmeet with the approval of the god Merodach. Tothis end he consulted the augurs, who opened theliver of a sheep and drew thence favourable on another occasion he aroused the hostilityof the god and incidentally of the priests of E-Sagilaby preferring the sun-god to the great Bel of tells us in an inscription that when restoring thetemple of Shamash at Sippar he had great difficultyin unearthing the old foundation-stone, and that,when at last it was unearthed, he trembled with aweas he read thereon the name of Naram-sin, who, hesays, ruled 3200 years before him. But destinylay in wait for him, for Cyrus the Persian invadedBabylonia in 538 , and after defeating the nativearmy at Opis he pressed on to Babylon, whichhe entered w
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