[336] “Behold, his majesty the god Ra is grown old; his bones are become silver, his limbs gold, and his hair pure lapis lazuli.” Religion of the Ancient Egyptians, A. Wiedemann, p. 58.  Ra became a destroyer after completing his reign as an earthly king.

[337] As Nin-Girau, Tammuz was associated with “sevenfold” Orion.

[338] Babylonian and Assyrian Life, pp. 61, 62.

[339] Herodotus (ii, 52) as quoted in Egypt and Scythia (London, 1886), p. 49.

[340] Babylonian Magic and Sorcery, L.W.  King (London, 1896), pp. 43 and 115.

[341] Vedic Index, Macdonell & Keith, vol. ii, p. 229.

[342] Ibid vol. i, pp. 409, 410.

[343] Ibid vol. i, p. 415.

[344] Primitive Constellations, vol. i, p. 343.

[345] Custom and Myth, pp. 133 et seq.

[346] Dr. Alfred Jeremias gives very forcible reasons for believing that the ancient Babylonians were acquainted with the precession of the equinoxes. Das Alter der Babylonischen Astronomie (Hinrichs, Leipzig, 1908), pp. 47 et seq.

[347] Aspects of Religious Belief and Practice in Babylonia and Assyria, pp. 207 et seq.

[348] A History of the Babylonians and Assyrians, p. 93.

[349] Babylonians and Assyrians:  Life and Customs, pp. 219, 220.

[350] Primitive Constellations, vol. ii, pp. 147 et seq.

[351] The Aryo-Indians had a lunar year of 360 days (Vedic Index, ii, 158).

[352] A History of the Babylonians and Assyrians, p. 94.

[353] Twelfth Night, act ii, scene 5.

[354] Childe Harold, canto iii, v, 88.

[355] Genesis, x, 11.

[356] “A number of tablets have been found in Cappadocia of the time of the Second Dynasty of Ur which show marked affinities with Assyria.  The divine name Ashir, as in early Assyrian texts, the institution of eponyms and many personal names which occur in Assyria, are so characteristic that we must assume kinship of peoples.  But whether they witness to a settlement in Cappadocia from Assyria, or vice versa, is not yet clear.” Ancient Assyria, C.H.W.  Johns (Cambridge, 1912), pp. 12-13.

[357] Sumerian Ziku, apparently derived from Zi, the spiritual essence of life, the “self power” of the Universe.

[358] Peri Archon, cxxv.

[359] Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, p. 197 et seq.

[360] Julius Caesar, act iii, scene I.

[361] Isaiah, xiv, 4-14.

[362] Eddubrott, ii.

[363] Religion of the Ancient Egyptians, A. Wiedemann, pp. 289-90.

[364] Ibid., p. 236.  Atlas was also believed to be in the west.

[365] Primitive Constellations, vol. ii, p. 184.

[366] Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia, xxx, II.