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Title: The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Rawlinson, George, 1812-1902
Subjects: Mauritius Export Development and Investment Authority History, Ancient
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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Figure of >.in, the Fisli-Goii. ^ Fr. 1, § 3. To fxev o\ov aS^a I kutch rijs tov Ixdvos /cf0«X^y, koie^ov L)(6tios., VTTo he. ti)v KffpoXijv I TTohas ojjioiios dvOpconov, Tvapairtdiv-TrapaTr€,- ovpas tov lx^9voi. 168 THE FIRST MONARCHY. Chap. VII. and earth, he who, like the sun, the light of thegods, irradiates the nations. These phrases ap-pear to point to the Moon,or to some very brilliantstar, and are scarcely re-concilable with the notionthat he was the dark anddistant Saturn. Nins emblem in As-syria is the Man-Bull, theimpersonation of strengthand power. He guardsthe palaces of the Assyriankings, who reckon himtheir tutelary god, and givehis name to their capitalcity. We may conjecturethat in Babylonia hisemblem was the sacredfish, which is often seenunder different forms upon
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Kins emblem, the Man-Bul the cylinders. N The monuments furnish no evidenceof the early worship of Nin in Chaldaea.We may perhaps gather the fact fromBerosus account of the Fish-God as anearly object of veneration in that region,^as well as from the Hamitic etymologyof the name by which he was ordinarilyknown even in Assyria.^ The Fish-god (Qavvrjs) comes I not the Semitic Bar, or Barshem, isout of tlie Red Sea (Persian Gnlf) to proved by the traditions concerning instruct the settlers in Chalda-a. 1 Tliat the Assyrians commonlyused the Hamitic Nin, or Ninip, and Ninus, and by the name of theircapital city. Chap. Vll. BEL-MERODACH. 169 There he was always one of the most importantdeities. His temple at Nineveh was very famous,and is noticed by Tacitus in his Annals ; ^ and heliad likewise two temples at Calah (Nimrud), bothbuildings of some pretension. It has been already mentioned ^ that Nin was theson of Bel-Nimrod, and that Beltis was both his wifeand his mother. These relationship

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