_The Burden of Isis_, pp. 22, 46.

[128] _Aspects of Religious Belief and Practice in Babylonia and Assyria_,
p. 137, and _Herodotus_, book i, 199.

[129] _The Burden of Isis_, p. 47.

[130] _Original Sanskrit Texts_, J. Muir, London, 1890, vol. i, p. 67.

[131] _Original Sanskrit Texts_, vol. i, p. 44.

[132] _Adi Parva_ section of _Mahabharata_ (Roy's translation), pp. 553,
555.

[133] _Ancient Irish Poetry_, Kuno Meyer (London, 1911), pp. 88-90.

[134] Translations from _The Elder Edda_, by O. Bray (part i), London, 1908.

[135] _Babylonian Religion_, L.W. King, pp. 160, 161.

[136] Tennyson's _A Dream of Fair Women._

[137] _Greece and Babylon_, L.R. Farnell (Edinburgh, 1911), p. 35.

[138] The goddesses did not become prominent until the "late invasion" of
the post-Vedic Aryans.

[139] _Greece and Babylon_, p. 96.

[140] _Jeremiah_, xliv.

[141] _Jeremiah, vii, 18._

[142] _Aspects of Religious Belief and Practice in Babylonia and Assyria_,
pp. 348, 349.

[143] _Jeremiah, vii, 17._

[144] _Nehemiah_, i, 1.

[145] _Esther_, i, 6.

[146] _Isaiah_, xiii, 19-22.

[147] _Indian Myth and Legend_, pp. 173-175 and 192-194.

[148] Or Rimush.

[149] _Genesis_, xiv.

[150] That is, the equivalent of Babylonia. During the Kassite period the
name was Karduniash.

[151] The narrative follows _The Seven Tablets of Creation_ and other
fragments, while the account given by Berosus is also drawn upon.

[152] The elder Bel was Enlil of Nippur and the younger Merodach of Babylon.
According to Damascius the elder Bel came into existence before Ea,
who as Enki shared his attributes.

[153] This is the inference drawn from fragmentary texts.

[154] A large portion of the narrative is awaiting here.

[155] A title of Tiamat; pron. _ch_ guttural.

[156] There is another gap here which interrupts the narrative.

[157] This may refer to Ea's first visit when he overcame Kingu, but did not
attack Tiamat.

[158] The lightning trident or thunderstone.

[159] The authorities are not agreed as to the meaning of "Ku-pu." Jensen
suggests "trunk, body". In European dragon stories the heroes of the
Siegfried order roast and eat the dragon's heart. Then they are
inspired with the dragon's wisdom and cunning. Sigurd and Siegfried
immediately acquire the language of birds. The birds are the "Fates",
and direct the heroes what next they should do. Apparently Merodach's
"cunning plan" was inspired after he had eat