Part 31

Sorcerers believed in, 157.

Spirits, belief in good and evil, the first beginning of religion, 150; elementary, in the primitive Shumiro-Accadian religion, 153-155; evil, 155-157; allowed an inferior place in the later reformed religion, 236, 250; rebellion of the seven evil, their attack against the Moon-god, 290, 291.

Statues found at Tell-Loh, 88, 214.

Style, ancient writing instrument, 94, 109.

Synchronism, meaning of the word, 212.

Tablets, in baked or unbaked clay, used as books, 109; their shapes and sizes, 109; mode of writing on, 109-110; baking of, 110; great numbers of, deposited in the British Museum, 110-112; Chaldean tablets in clay cases, 112; tablets found under the foundation stone at Khorsabad, 113, 114; "Shamash tablet," 248.

Talismans, worn on the person or placed in buildings, 164.

Tammuz, see Dumuzi.

Taurus Mountains, 190.

Tell-Loh (also Tello), see Sir-burla.

Temples of Êa and Meridug at Eridhu, 246; of the Moon-god at Ur, ib.; of Anu and Nana at Erech, ib.; of Shamash and Anunit at Sippar and Agadê, 247; of Bel Maruduk at Babylon and Borsippa, 249.

Theocracy, meaning of the word, 235.

Tiamat, see Mummu-Tiamat.

Tin-tir-ki, oldest name of Babylon, meaning of the name, 216.

Triads in Babylonian religion, and meaning of the word, 239-240.

Tubalcain, son of Lamech, descendant of Cain, the inventor of metallurgy, 129.

Turanians, collective name for the whole Yellow Race, 136; origin of the name, ib.; the limitations of their genius, 136-139; their imperfect forms of speech, monosyllabic and agglutinative, 136, 137; "the oldest of men," 137; everywhere precede the white races, 138; omitted in Genesis X., 135, 139; possibly represent the discarded Cainites or posterity of Cain, 140-142; their tradition of a Paradise in the Altaï, 147; characteristics of Turanian religions, 180-181.

Turks, their misrule in Mesopotamia, 5-6; greed and oppressiveness of their officials, 7-8; one of the principal modern representatives of the Turanian race, 136.

Ubaratutu, father of Hâsisadra, 322.

Ud, or Babbar, the midday Sun, 171; hymns to, 171, 172; temple of, at Sippar, 247-248.

Uddusunamir, phantom created by Êa, and sent to Allat, to rescue Ishtar, 328, 329.

Ur (Mound of Mugheir), construction of its platform, 46; earliest known capital of Shumir, maritime and commercial, 200; Terah and Abraham go forth from, 201.

Ur-êa, king of Ur, 215; his buildings, 216-218; his signet cylinder, 218.

Urubêl, the ferryman on the Waters of Death, 311; purifies Izdubar and returns with him to Erech, 313.

Urukh, see Erech.

Uru-ki, or Nannar, the Shumiro-Accadian Moon-god, 240.

Vaults, of drains, 70; sepulchral, at Warka, 83, 85.

Warka, see Erech.