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269, 279, 285, 286, 290 Septuagint Version 37, 133, 134, 161, 215, 231, 241, 258, 259 Sin (moon-god), see Moon Sirius 98, 240 Sivan, month 303, 320 Smith, George 27, 30 South (darom, bright) 51 (negeb, desert) 51 Star of Bethlehem 393-400 Stars 75, 95-100 morning 59-61 royal 160 shooting 113 Triad of 253, 320 Statius 222 Stern, Prof. 261, 262 Strassmaier 274, 285 Sun 55, 63-78 -god (Samas) 67, 131, 174, 253, 323, 324 -stroke 72 Talmud 222, 279, 297, 311 Tammuz 66 Targum, the Jerusalem 190 Tavthê, see Tiamat Tehōm, see Deep Tennyson 36, 79, 80 Thales 345 Thiele, Prof. 15, 16 Tiamat, or Tiamtu 27-29, 32, 34, 201, 210, 234-235, 240-242 Tibullus 288 Tides 41, 53, 92 Tribes of Israel and the Zodiac 186-195 Tycho Brahé 96 Venus 90, 131, 132, 136, 137 Virgil 160 Vulgate 258, 259 Week and the Sabbath 283-292 West (mebō hasshemesh, going down of the sun) 51 (yam, the sea) 51 Winckler, Prof. H. 235 Winds 50, 51 Wormwood, the star 116 Xenophanes 71 Year 305-325 (shanah) 305 Yehoshua, Rabbi 297 Zeuchros 142, 249 Zif, month 85, 299 Zodiac, constellations of 141, 151, 152 sections of (mizrata) 243, 251 signs of 141, 245, 249 Zodiacal Light 117
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Ellipses match the original except in poetry quotations where a short line represents an ellipses.
Pages vi, 1, 48, 93, 101, 109, 128, 146, 147, 228, 267, 317, 321, and 349 are blank in the original.
The following corrections have been made to the text:
Page 29: not a Creation myth at all.[period missing in original]
Page 27: shows the god Anšar[original has the letter s with a breve]
Page 89: representing the sun[original has son] and moon
Page 140: place of an actual star into a horoscope;[semi-colon missing in original]
Page 176: gods and the spirits of heaven.[period missing in original]
Page 176: '[quotation mark missing in original]What, has a soul escaped?
Page 176: '[original has double quote]Thou sage of the gods, warrior
Page 206: "[quotation mark missing in original]I have given thee for meat
Page 260: "tail" of the Great Bear[original has extraneous quotation mark]
Page 374: and it was now noon,[comma missing in original] the noon
Page 389: fifteen Psalms (cxx.-cxxxiv.)[original has (cxx.-cxxxiv).]
Page 405: Allen, R. H. 221,[comma missing in original] 222
Page 405: "Alroy" 278[original has 221]
Page 407: Hommel[original has Hömmel], Dr. 240
Page 410: Tavthê[original has Tavthé], see Tiamat
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