r and Greece (p. 175)."

"... The Great Naga is the Akkadian god Ner-gal, and the Phoenician
god Sarrahu, or the Great Sar. His name among the Shuites, or the
worshippers of Susi-nag on the west of the Euphrates, is Emu, a name
which is letter for letter the same as that of the national god of
the Ammonites, Amun" (Sayce: Hibbert Lectures, 1887, III, p. 196,
note 1. "Amun means the builder, or architect, and is, like that of
the Egyptian god, formed of aman, to sustain" (Gesenius, Thesaurus,
p. 115). "He was the god of the house pole, who became in Egyptian
Thebes, Amen-Ra, the hidden, and it was the people who made the
house-pole the symbol of their ancestors, ... who brought to Egypt
as well as to Assyria and India, the custom of having cities for the
dead apart from those for the living.... It was from the rains of
the summer-solstice ... generated from the Naga snake that the
Phoenician sons of Kush were born, whose kings, like those of Egypt,
wore the Uraeus snake as a sign of royal authority. Their original
settlement, according to a tradition recorded by Theophrastus, was
at _Tulos_ or Turos, in the Persian Gulf, the modern Bahrein. This
was the holy island of Diloun, called Dilmun by the Akkadians.... It
was the settlement of Hindu navigators in the holy island of Dilmun
in the Persian gulf, and at Eridu, which first brought them in
contact with the Arabian star-gazers and merchants, and it was the
union, in the ancient city of Ur, of these races with the Hebrew
tribe of Gad (who built, not only the cities of Bashan, but also
those of Assyria and were the great builders of the ancient world),
which first formed the Semite race. It was the meridian pole, the
heavenly, revolving pole, the Tur of the Akkadians, which the
Dravidian traders of India brought with them to Eridu" (p. 292). "It
was these Tursena who, by developing the ancient organization of the
village and province in India, divided all the countries they
occupied into confederacies of cities, such as we find among the
Euphratean nations, the Egyptians, Canaanites and the people of Asia
Minor, Greece and Italy. It was they who were the fathers of Greek
and Latin civilization." (p. 296). "It was these people who brought
from India their village institution