Part 32

Xenophon leads the Retreat of the Ten Thousand, 2; passes by the runs of Calah and Nineveh, which he calls Larissa and Mespila, 3.

Xisuthros, the king of, Berosus' Deluge-narrative, 300. See Hâsisadra.

Yahveh, the correct form of "Jehovah," one of the Hebrew names for God, 354.

Zab, river, tributary of the Tigris, 17.

Zagros, mountain range of, divides Assyria from Media, 50; stone quarried in, and transported down the Zab, 50, 51.

Zaidu, the huntsman, sent to Êabâni, 305.

Zi-ana, see Ana.

Ziggurats, their peculiar shape and uses, 48; used as observatories attached to temples, 234; meaning of the word, 278; their connection with the legend of Paradise, 278-280; their singular orientation and its causes, 284-286; Ziggurat of Birs-Nimrud (Borsippa), 280-283; identified with the Tower of Babel, 293.

Zi-kî-a, see Êa.

Zirlab, see Sir-burla.

Zodiac, twelve signs of, familiar to the Chaldeans, 230; signs of, established by Anu, 265; represented in the twelve books of the Izdubar Epic, 318-321.

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