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Myths of Babylonia and Assyria

Chapter 42: Q
By Donald A. Mackenzie
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This work presents a compact survey of Babylonian and Assyrian civilization and mythology, tracing racial origins and early city-states and then detailing major deities, rival pantheons, demons, and popular cults such as Tammuz and Ishtar. It retells foundational narratives including creation as Merodach’s dragon-slaying, famed hero-quests of Etana and Gilgamesh, and the flood and underworld traditions, and examines material culture, laws, temple and urban life, astronomical lore, and imperial history from regional ascendancies to Assyrian splendour and decline, highlighting how myth, religion, and shifting peoples shaped political and social institutions.

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Quarters, the four. See Four quarters.
Queen of Heaven, the, Ishtar as, 81; descent of to Hades, 95 et seq.; Bau-Gula as, 116; Etana and eagle legend and, 166; Ashur worshipped like, 352; Jehu worshipped, 412, 421.
Queen of Kish, the legendary Azag-Bau, 114; humble origin of, 115.

R

Ra (rä or rā), the Egyptian god, as chief of nine gods, 36; creative tears of, 45, 334; creative saliva of, 46; the "Eye" of blinded and cured, 46; as a destroyer, 63; in flood legend, 197; Paradise of, 209; Osiris and, 297; as old man, 314; as cat, ass, bull, ram, and crocodile, 329.
Races, languages and, 3; the Sumerian problem, 3; shaving customs of, 4; the Semitic blend, 10; culture promoted by fusion of, 42; god and goddess cults and, 105. See Armenoids, Mongolians, Mediterranean Race, Semites, Sumerians.
Rain gods, Enlil, Ramman, Indra, &c, as, 35, 57; Mitra and Varuna as, 55.
Rainy season in Babylonia, 24.
Ram, sun god as, 329; Osiris as, 85.
Rämă, the Indian demi-god, demon lover of, 67; colour of, 186. Ramayana (räm-ay´ăn-ă), the, 67; eagle myth in, 166.
Rameses I (räm´e-sēz or ra-mē´sēs), Hittites and, 364.
Rameses II, of Egypt, wars of in Syria, 365; the Hittite treaty, 366; Hittites aided by Aramaeans against, 378.
Rameses III, sea raiders scattered by, 379; Philistines and, 379.
Ramman (räm´män), the atmospheric and thunder god, 57; in Zu bird myth, 74; in demon war, 76; a hill god, 136; Merodach and, 159, 160; in flood legend, 192 et seq.; deities that link with, 261; called Mermer like Nebo, 303; month of, 309.
Rams, offered to sea god, 33.
Rassam, Hormuzd, xx, xxiii.
Ravens, demons enter the, 71; in folk cures, 234; as unlucky birds, 429.
Rawlinson, Sir Henry, xx, xxi.
Rebekah, Hittite daughters-in-law of, 266, 267.
Reed hut, Ea revelation to Pir-napish-tim in, 190, 191; and reeds in graves, 213.
Reformer, the first historic, Urukagina of Lagash, 121 et seq.
Rehoboam (rē-ho-bō´am), subject to Egypt, 402.
Rem, the Egyptian god of fish and corn, 29.
Rephaim (reph´ā-im), the, Hittites and, II, 12.
Rezin, King of Damascus, 449; Pekah plots with, 451; Tiglath-pileser IV and, 453.
Rhea, 103.
Rhone, the river, dragon of, 152.
Ribhus (rib´hüs), the elves of India, 105.
Ridgeway, Professor, on the Achaeans, 377.
Rim-Anum (rim-an´um), revolt of in Hammurabi Age, 242.
Rimmon (rim´mon), Enlil, Tarku, &c., as, 35, 57, 395.
Rim-Sin, struggle of with Babylon, 217; Hammurabi reduces power of, 249; put to death by Samsu-iluna, 249, 256.
Rim´ush. See Urumush.
Ripley, Professor W.Z., on Mediterranean racial types in Asia, 8.
Risley, Mr., on Naturalism in India, 291.
Rivers, worship of, 44; life principle in, 48; created by Merodach, 149.
Robin Goodfellow, the Babylonian, 66.
Roman burial customs, 207.
Rome, the death eagle of, 169.
Rose Garden, the Wonderful, 68.
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, the Lilith sonnet, 67.
Rudra (rood´rä), the Indian god, 64.
Rusas (rü´säs), King of Urartu, Sargon II routs, 460, 461.
Russia, the double-headed eagle of, 168; Persian and Armenian questions, 357.
Russian Turkestan, early civilization of and the Sumerian, 5.