Babylonian Influence on the Bible and Popular Beliefs; Tehôm and Tiâmat , Hades and Satan: A Comparative Study of Genesis I. 2

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... finally cast ont of God's universe, and the complete victory of the t}od of Light shall be for ever consummated. Thus the Cycle of Scripture comes full circle, and in manifestly designed harmony the solemn note sounded in its opening chapter dies away in the closing scene of the great Drama, re-echoed in a higher key. Across the ages of the world's history "Deep calleth unto Deep"--TShom to Tehom (Ps. xlii. 7)--ere it disappears and sinks for ever into the eternal calm. 8. The Watery Hades--Tartaros.--Akin to Tiamat, the watery waste, in the Babylonian mythology was Ea, "the Spirit of the Deep,"1 who eventually came to be identified with another divinity, of similar attributes, Mul-lilr the mighty lord of the ghost-world or Hades.2 Ea, the encircling oceanstream, "the water under the earth," was easily confused with the underworld beyond and beneath, to which it was believed to form the entrance. As inferits passed over into in/emus, sothe world of .Ea became the realm of Hades. It was Mul-lil, "the Gbost-lord,"* who according to the tablets caused the waters of the flood to come up upon the earth and destroy mankind,3 which shows how much he and deadly sting (1 Cor. xv. 55), which is Hosea's figure of Hades (Lxx. xiii. 14.) 1 Ziapsu (Sayce, Hib. Led., 233). - Sayce, Hib. Led., 145, 359. 3 "May he exorcise the sea-monster of Chaos" is part of a prayer to Ea. The queen of the infernal region, Allat, "lady of the lower abyss," was sometimes known as Tamti, thejprimordial deep (Lenormant, Chald. Magic, 116). Ea had in common. Both alike exercised control over the world of waters, both alike were lords of the monsters of the underworld, whether they be dragons and serpents as in the one case, or ghosts and demons as in the other. The ancient...