Myths & Legends of Babylonia & Assyria
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Myths & Legends of Babylonia & Assyria is by Lewis Spence. The preface says the purpose of the book is to provide not only a popular account of the religion and mythology of ancient Babylonia and Assyria, but to extract and present to the reader the treasures of romance.
Legend says that Ninus, King of Assyria, having conquered the Babylonians, proceeded toward Armenia, with an army said to include 7,000,000 of infantrymen and 200,000 chariots equipped with scythes. Diodorus Siculus says that Ninus first beheld Semiramis during that campaign, and some writers aver that she was the daughter of the fish-goddess Ataryatis, or Derketo, and Oannes, the Babylonian god of wisdom. In later times in Babylonia Ramman seems to have typified the rain of heaven in its beneficent as well as its fertilizing aspect, though sometimes he was malevolent, causing thorns to grow instead of herbs.
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- Lewis Spence
- Pages
- 239
- Language
- English
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