tamian

However, closer study of the festival shows that its real theme was the ex - planatory commemoration of the lordship of Marduk, the tutelary god of Babylon, over the other Mesopo - tamian gods, together with the propitiation of Marduk who was believed to determine the fate of the state at this time for another year.

RITUAL IN RELIGION S. G. F. BRANDON 1968

B.C. is our earliest evidence for the spread of Mesopo - tamian celestial omina (in this case lunar) to Egypt

ASTROLOGY DAVID PINGREE 1968

Though not properly astrological, but rather only that part of the Mesopo - tamian science of divination which is concerned with super-terrestrial phenomena, celestial omina are fre - quently combined with strictly astrological material in post-Babylonian sources; in the West they are often included under the rubric, “natural astrology.”

ASTROLOGY DAVID PINGREE 1968

Some other religions of the ancient Near East provided similar, but less well-constituted examples, namely, the Mesopo - tamian god Tammuz, and the better known figures of the Phrygian Attis and Adonis of Syria.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas S. G. F. BRANDO 1968

At death the shade of the individual descended to a wretched existence in the gloomy depths of Sheol, which was the Hebrew counterpart of the Mesopo - tamian kur-nu-gi-a, “the land of no-return.”

Dictionary of the History of Ideas S. G. F. BRANDO 1968

In the sister-civilization of Meso - potamia ideas of sin and salvation differed profoundly from the Egyptian concepts, because the Mesopo - tamian peoples did not believe that a happy lot after death could be achieved.

SIN AND SALVATION S. G. F. BRANDON 1968

[Greek: _alla kai pollois allokotom edokei to tamian onta proapostaenai tou archontos_].

A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885