rongly tempted to see in the latter traces of tribal totems and to
connect the days of the week with the seven divisions of the population
and some established form of rotation, employed for the government of the
state, analogous to that I have found out in Ancient Mexico. With regard
to the regulation of the calendar by certain officials, the following
facts are important: Professor Sayce tells us that, "in Assyria, the
high-priest was the equal of the king and the king himself was a priest
and the adopted child of Bel." Under him were a number of grades of
officials and officers. The land was divided into provinces whose
"governors were selected from the highest aristocracy and who alone had
the privilege of sharing with the king the office of limmu or eponymous
archon after whom the year was named." This office, which finds its
analogy in China and Central America, is more clearly explained in the
following passage: "The Assyrians were endowed with a keen sense of
history and had invented a system of reckoning time by means of certain
officers called limmi, who gave their names to the year" (Sayce, _op.
cit._ p. 255).

Venturing to make a general statement, as a suggestion for future
investigation, I should say that the ultimate result of the institution of
two cults which were bound to grow in opposite directions, was the fall of
the Babylonian empire under the degrading growth of perversion and
depravity, linked to the cult of earth and night and bi-sexuality, and the
rise of the Assyrian empire with a cult in which the ideas of light and
darkness, night and day preponderated over those of sex. It may possibly
have been as a reaction and protest against the prevailing rites of
Babylonia that influenced the Assyrians in their adoption of two male
rulers, the high-priest and the king. On the other hand, there are
indications showing that possibly, in order to evade the ceremonial
obligations of their position as the representative of the principle of
fertility, several "goddesses" or female rulers of Babylonia transferred
their seat of government, or placed the reins of government into the hands
of a king. Thus Hammurabi tells us that he has restored the temple of the
"lady" or "great lady" of Hallabi, a town near Sippar and that she had
conferred upon him supreme authority over the Babylonian states, then
engaged in fighting with each other. It is obvious that, as soon as
concealment and mystery increasingly surround