292.2 For similar practices, vide Cults, pp. 415-417.
292.3 Clem. Alex. Strom., p. 755, Pott.
293.1 Paus., 9, 33, 4.
293.2 For the facts vide Zimmern, K.A.T.3, p. 592.
294.1 Works and Days, l. 824.
294.2 Ib., l. 804.
294.3 Expositor, 1909, p. 156.
294.4 Vide Photius and Hesych., s.v. Μιαραὶ ἡμέραι.
295.1 Hell., 1, 4, 12.
295.2 Vide Cults, v. pp. 215-216.
295.3 Cults, iv. p. 259.
295.4 Vide supra, pp. 176-177.
296.1 Sumerian and Babylonian Psalms, p. 196.
296.2 King, Babylonian Religion, p. 196.
296.3 Vide Fossey, La Magie Assyrienne, p. 96.
297.1 Knudtzon, Assyrische Gebete an den Sonnengott, p. 78 (texts belonging to period of Asarhaddon, circ. 681).
297.2 Zimmern, Beiträge, etc., p. 161.
298.1 Zimmern, Beiträge, etc., p. 163.
298.2 Fossey, op. cit., p. 399.
298.3 iv. R. 56, 12; Fossey, op. cit., p. 401.
298.4 Expositor, 1909, p. 150, giving text from iv. R. 40.
299.1 Fossey, op. cit., p. 209.
299.2 Zimmern, Beiträge, p. 173.
299.4 Zimmern, op. cit., p. 169.
300.1 Zimmern, Beiträge, pp. 30-31; he mentions also the similar practice of tying up a sheepskin or a fillet of wool and throwing it into the fire.
300.2 Zimmern, op. cit., p. 33: note magic use of knots in general, vide Frazer, G.B.2, vol. i. pp. 392-403; Archiv. für Religionsw., 1908, pp. 128, 383, 405. The superstition may have prevailed in Minoan Crete (see A. Evans, Annual British School, 1902-1903, pp. 7-9) and was in vogue in ancient Greece.
300.3 W. Warde Fowler, The Religious Experiences of the Roman People, Gifford Lectures, p. 49.
301.1 Vide supra, pp. 248-249; Cults, iv. p. 191.
301.2 For the main facts relating to the Babylonian system and the “baru”-priests, vide Zimmern, Beiträge, etc., pp. 82-92; for the Hellenic, vide Cults, iv. 190-192, 224-231; also vol. iii. 9-12.
301.3 The documentary evidence, from a very early period, is given by Zimmern, Beiträge, etc., pp. 85-97.
301.4 L. 322: Clytemnestra speaks of pouring oil and vinegar into the same vessel and reproaching them for their unsociable behaviour.
302.1 We have also one example of an oracle of Ishtar (in plain prose), Keil. Bibl., ii. p. 179.
303.1 Zimmern, op. cit., p. 89.
303.2 Cults, iii. p. 297.
303.3 Lucian, De Dea Syr., 43.
303.4 Cults, iii. p. 297.
303.5 Vide Cults, iv. pp. 191-192; iii. p. 11.
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