Identifier: opencour_d155411caru (find matches)
Title: The Open court
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 Open Court Publishing company, Chicago
Subjects: Religion Religion and science
Publisher: Chicago : The Open Court Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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rd, of Ninib, of Marduk, of Ishtar, and of Nergal. They prostrate themselves before these superior masters, and the latter at times manifest their anger against the Igigi. They are sent out by the gods to do service. Their character is, on the whole, severe and cruel. They are not favorable to man, but rather hostile to him. Their brilliancy consumes the land. Their power is feared, and Assyrian kings more particularly are fond of adding the Igigi and Anunnaki to the higher powers—the gods proper—when they wish to inspire a fear of their own majesty. 2 The Story a/Extinct Civilisations, pp. 33-31- 3 Reproduced from Mitth. aus d. Or. Saininl. zu Berlin, XI., p. 23. Cf. Roschers Z^.rzV(7«,.V. Nebo. ; ,, SEVEN. 337 the Sun, covered with plates of gold; the fifth, Venus, pale yellow, by suitable bricks; the sixth, Mercury, blue, by vitrification, the whole stage having been subjected to intense heat after building; the seventh stage, the Moon, probably covered with plates of silver.
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The Seven-Storied Ziggurat at Babylon, Commonly Called Birs Nimrud. Restored after Perrot and Chipier. A reminiscence of the idea that the celestial bodies are governors is still preserved in the Old Testament, which in comparison Ziggurat means mountain peak. 338 THE OPEN COURT. with the cuneiform inscriptions of ancient Babylonia is a quite recent production. There we read in Genesis I. that God made two great lights, the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night, and he made the stars also ... to rule over the day and over the night, etc.—Gen. i. i6 and i8. The Syrian Gnosis, however, (if the scholarly investigation of Anz can be relied upon), has faithfully preserved the Babylonian traditions, for there the planetary spirits are still called the rulers (apxovres), and the soul must learn the secret of appeasing them in order to pass without molestation through the seven celestial spheres to the abode of eternal bliss. In the Zend Avesta as in Babylonia th

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