Aspects of religious belief and practice in Babylonia and Assyria / by Morris Jastrow, Jr. ... with 54 illustrations and a map, and chronological lists of the rulers of Babylonia and Assyria.

  • Morris Jastrow, Jr.
Date:
1911
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    Nergal—Continued deity of Uruk, 80; type of sun’s destructive power, 107, 108, no, 134, 182; head of pantheon of lower world, 107, 224, 225, 310, 354, 368; identified with planet Mars, 108, 224, 232; “god” in omen tablets = Nergal, 185; ninth month associated with, 237; usurps rule of nether world, 369 Nether world, 128, 224 seq.; special pantheon for, 107, 363, 368, seq.] as home of demons, 310, 354; names of: Cuthah, 107, 354; E-Kur- Bad, 354; Irkallu, 333, 354; Aralfi, usual name, 348, 354; Ishtar’s descent, 347, 370 seq.-, Tammuz’s descent, 347 seq.-, character of, 353, 356, 373; life in, 353, 358, 371; parallel to Hades, 355; Ner- gal usurps rule, 369. See Life after death, Island of the Blest New Year’s day, see Festivals Nilcbadu’, 380 Nile, 46 Nimroud = Calah, q.v. Nineveh, 36, 47, 61, 137, 246, 283, 293, 294, 410; fall of, 43, 45; excavations, 47; intel- lectual and religious _centre, 50; various cults in, 53; Ishtar of, 128; later capital of Assyria, 273 Nin-gal, consort of Sin, 125 Ningirsu, patron deity of La- gash, 15, 18, 164, 204, 271, 277; shrine at Nippur, 18, 19; “the lord of Girsu, ” 80; sun-god, 15, 106, 340 Ningishzida, solar deity, fifth month associated with, 237; = Tammuz, 347; consort of Tammuz, 366, 367 Ninib, 53, 79, 81, 85, 87, 100, 102, 105, 119, 123, 125, 132, 174,242,271; solar deity, 38, 77,78, 80,83,86,92,98, 101, 106, no, 118, 122, 128, 130, 134; cult in Assyria, 53; = En-Mashtu, possibly Amor- itish, 76; replaced by Enlil, 76, 84, 94, 101, 224; son of Enlil, 76, 77; former head of pantheon, 78 seq., 106, 224; identified with other deities, 80; as creator, 98; typifying sun of springtime, no, 340; identified with Saturn, no seq., 224,232; fourth month associated with, 237 Nin-Kharsag, 15; = Ninlil, 19, 69 Ninlil, consort of Enlil, 19,124, 218, 271, 294; consort of Mardulc, 19; = Nin-Kharsag, 19, 69; as an Ishtar, 133 Nippur, early stronghold of Sumerians, n, 21,69,85,282; excavations, 13, 281, 282; seat of worship of Enlil, 15, 18, 36, 38, 40, 100, 218, 271, 277; old religious centre, 18, 39, 48, 68, 321; shrines of other gods at, 18 seq., 271; yields to Sargon, 23; yields to Sennacherib, 45; part of Ashurbanapal’s library from, 49; as burial place, 294 Nirvana, 352 Noah, 289, 364, 416 Nubta, 381, 383 Nfir-Sin, 380 Nusku, fire-god, 97, 123, 271, 304, 306, 312; = Ennugi, 88. See Purification 0 Oannes= Ea, 89 Offerings, 332, 336, 340, 342; votive, 16, 18, 282, 294; to demons, 316, 317; to gods in exorcism and purification,