[116] Beowulf, translated by J.R.  Clark Hall (London, 1911), pp. 9-11.

[117] For Frey’s connection with the Ynglings see Morris and Magnusson’s Heimskringla (Saga Library, vol. iii), pp. 23-71.

[118] The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, p. 72.

[119] Langdon’s Sumerian and Babylonian Psalms, pp. 325, 339.

[120] Professor Oldenberg’s translation.

[121] Osiris is also invoked to “remove storms and rain and give fecundity in the nighttime”.  As a spring sun god he slays demons; as a lunar god he brings fertility.

[122] Like the love-compelling girdle of Aphrodite.

[123] A wedding bracelet of crystal is worn by Hindu women; they break it when the husband dies.

[124] Quotations from the translation in The Chaldean Account of Genesis, by George Smith.

[125] Langdon’s Sumerian and Babylonian Psalms, p. 329 et seq.

[126] The Burden of Isis, translated by J.T.  Dennis (Wisdom of the East series), pp. 24, 31, 32, 39, 45, 46, 49.

[127] 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.