V
- Valentine, St., mating day of, 430.
- Vărună, the Indian god, links with Ea-Oannes, 31, 34; sea fire of, 50, 51; Shamash the sun god and, 54; association of with rain, 55; Sumerian links with, 55, 56; worshippers of buried dead, 56; no human beings in Paradise of, 209; attire of deities in Paradise of, 212; the goat and, 333.
- Vas´olt, Tyrolese storm demon, 74.
- Vayu (vä´yu), Indian wind god, 35.
- Vedas (vay´dăs), astronomy of the, 318.
- Venus, the goddess, 17, 296; lovers of, 102.
- Venus, the planet, Ishtar as, 296; female at sunset and male at sunrise, 299; in sun and moon group, 301; rays of as beard, 301; as the "Proclaimer", 314; connection of with moon, 314; in astrology, 318, 324.
- Vestal virgins, 228, 229.
- Vishnu (vish´noo), the Indian god, like Ea, 27; Ea like, 38; eagle giant as vehicle of, 75; Sri or Lakshmi wife of, 101; sleep of on world serpent, 150; eagle and, 169, 347.
- "Vital spark", the, fire as, 49.
- Voice, the pure, in Sumerian spell, 46.
- Vulture, as deity of fertility, 429, 430; the Persian eagle legend and, 493; goddess of Egypt, 168; as protectors of Shakuntala, 423, 424.
W
- Wales, pig as the devil in, 293.
- Warad Sin, struggle of with Babylon, 217; the Biblical Arioch, 247, 248.
- Warka. See Erech.
- Water, control and distribution of in Babylonia, 23, 24; corn deities and, 33; essence of life in, 44, 45, 51.
- Water gods and demons, 27 et seq.
- Water of Life, Gilgamesh's quest of, 177 et seq.; in Alexander the Great myth, 186; in Koran legend, 186; in Gaelic legends, 186, 187; in Indian legends, 187, 210.
- Waxen figures, in folk cures, 234.
- Weapons in graves, 212.
- Weaving, in Late Stone Age, 14.
- Weeping ceremonies, the agricultural, 82 et seq.; the Egyptian god Rem, 29.
- Wells, worship of, 44.
- Westminster Abbey, Long Meg and, 156.
- Wheel of Life, the, Ashur, 334 et seq.; Ezekiel's references to, 344 et seq.; in Babylonian, Indian, Persian, and Hittite mythologies, 346-348 ; in Indian mythology, 346, 347; the sun and the, 348; "dot within the circle" and egg thorn, 352; Ahura Mazda's, 355.
- Wife of Merodach, 221; Amon's wife, 222.
- Wild Huntsmen, the, Asiatic gods as, 35, 64.
- "Will-o'-the-wisp", the Babylonian and European, 66, 67.
- Winckler, Dr. Hugo, Semitic migrations, 10; on Mitannian origins, 268, 269; Boghaz-Köi tablets found by, 280, 367.
- Wind, the south-west, demon of in Babylonia and Europe, 72, 73.
- Wind gods, Vayu, Enlil, Rarnman, &c, as, 35.
- Wind hags, Babylonia Shutu, Scottish Annie, English Annis, Irish Anu, 73; Icelandic Angerboda, 73; Tyrolese "wind brewers", 74; Artemis as one of the, 104.
- Winds, the seven, as servants of Merodach, 145.
- Wine seller who became queen, 114, 115; the female, 229.
- Wolf, Nergal-Mars as the, 303.
- Women, as rulers in Egypt and Babylonia, 16, 17; treatment of in early times, 15; Nomads oppressors of, 16; exalted by Mediterranean peoples, 16; Sumerian laws regarding, 16, 17; the Sumerian language of, 17; in goddess worship, 106-108 ; social status of, 108; position of in Hammurabi Code, 224 ei seq.; the marriage market, 224, 225; drink traffic monopolized by, 229.
- World hill, in Babylonian, Indian, and Egyptian mythologies, 332.
- World serpent, in Eur-Asian mythologies, 151.
- World Soul, the Brahmanic, 304, 328, 329.
- "World spike", star called, 332.
- "World spine", the, 332; the "world tree" and, 334; Ashur standard as, 335.
- World tree, symbol of "world spine", 334.
- Worm, the, dragon as, 151; the legend of the, 234, 235.
- Wryneck, goddess and the, 427 n.
X
- Xerxes, Merodach's temple pillaged by, 497.
Y
Z
- Zabium (za´bi-um), king in Hammurabi Age, 242.
- Zachariah, King of Israel, 449.
- Zamama (zä-mä´mä), god of Kish, Tammuz traits of, 126; identified with Merodach, 241.
- Zambia (zäm´bi-a), King of Isin, 133.
- Zedekiah, King of Judah, conspiracy against Babylonia, 490; punishment of, 491; the captivity, 491.
- Zerpanitum (zār-pä´nit-um), mother goddess, 100; as "Lady of the Abyss", 160; as Aruru, 160; Persian goddess and, 496.
- Zeus (to rhyme with mouse), the god, as sea-god's brother, 33; in Adonis myth, 90; an imported god, 105; in father and son myth, 158; eagle of, 168; deities that link with, 261; the "Great Bear" myth and, 296.
- Zi (zee´), the Sumerian manifestation of life, 291; "Sige the mother" as Ziku, 328 n.
- Zimri, revolt of in Israel, 405.
- Zodiac, Signs of the, 147, 301, 305; Babylonian origin of, 306; Hittites, Phoenicians, and Greeks and, 306; stars of as "Divinities of Council", 309; division of, 307; the fields of Ea, Anu, and Bel, 307; three stars for each month, 307-309 ; the lunar in various countries, 309; when signs of were fixed, 322.
- Zü bird, Garuda eagle and, xxvi; myth of, 74.
- Zuzu (zü´zü), King of Opis, captured by Eannatum of Lagash, 119.