The Chaldean Account of Genesis: Containing the Description of the Creation, the Deluge, the Tower of Babel, the Destruction of Sodom, the Times of the Patriarchs, and Nimrod, Babylonian Fables, and Legends of the Gods , from the Cuneiform InscriptionsSampson Low, 1880 - 337 pages |
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Accadian Agané Allat Anatu animals appears Assur-bani-pal Assyrian Babylon Babylonian cylinder Babylonian mythology belong Berosus birds bull called Chaldean chapter contained copies Creation cuneiform Damascius darkness deity Deluge Dibbara dragon dream dynasty early Babylonian Elam Elamite Epic Erech Eridu Etana evil father fifth tablet Flood fragment gate Genesis goddess gods Hades Hea-bani head heart heaven and earth hero illustrious inscriptions Istar Izdubar Izdubar legends kaspu Khumbaba king Kisar Larsa lines lost lord Merodach midst moon moon-god mountain mutilated myth mythology Nebo Nergal Nimrod Nipur Oannes opened his mouth original palace present probably Rawlinson reigned Rimmon Samas Sargon sari seat Semitic serpent seven ship Sir Henry Rawlinson sixth column Smith spirits story sun-god Tammuz temple thee thou didst thou dost Tiamtu Tower of Babel translation tree warrior waters weapon word worship Xisuthrus
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Page 71 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Page 66 - And God made two great lights ; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night : he made the stars also. 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth, 18 And to rule over the day, and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness : and God saw that it was good.
Page 66 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days,
Page 184 - And Cush begat Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Cain eh, in the land of Shinar.
Page 34 - ... with the heads of dogs ; men, too, and other animals, with the heads and bodies of horses, and the tails of fishes. In short, there were creatures in which were combined the limbs of every species of animals.
Page 34 - There was a time in which there existed nothing but darkness and an abyss of waters, wherein resided most hideous beings, which were produced of a two-fold principle.
Page 59 - In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void ; and darkness was upon the face of the deep, And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Page 37 - Xisuthrus sent out birds from the vessel; which not finding any food, nor any place whereupon they might rest their feet, returned to him again. After an interval of some days, he sent them forth a second time: and they now returned with their feet tinged with mud. He made a trial a third time with these birds; but they returned to him no more: from whence he judged that the surface of the earth had appeared above the waters. He therefore made an opening in the vessel, and upon looking out found...
Page 35 - All things being in this situation, Belus came, and cut the woman asunder: and of one half of her he formed the earth, and of the other half the heavens ; and at the same time destroyed the animals within her.
Page 33 - Babylonia, an animal endowed with reason by name Cannes, whose whole body (according to the account of Apollodorus) was that of a fish ; that under the fish's head he had another head, with feet also below, similar to those of a man, subjoined to the fish's tail. His voice too and language was articulate and human, and a representation of him is preserved even to this day.