Keywords

: dedications; offerings; Palmyra; religions

A

A: Abel; Abraham; abstractions; Acdestis; Achilles; acrostics; Adad; Adam; Adargatis; administration; Adonis; adoption; adultry; Ādurbād; age; ages; Agrath bath Mahlath; agreements; Ahiqar; alchemy; Alexander; Alexander Romance; Allat; alphabet; Amelius; ˀAnael; Anāhitā; ancestors; androgyny; angels; anger; animals; antediluvian age; ants; Aphrodite; Apollo; apples; Apsu; Arabic language; Aramaeans; Aramaic; Aramaic language; Arbela; archons; Ares; Ariadne; ark; armies; Artemis; ascent; Asclepius; assemblies; assimilation; Assyria; Assyrian; Assyrian Christians; Assyrian language; Assyrians; astrology; astronomy; Athena; ˁAthi; Atlantis; Atlas; Atrahasis; Attica; Attis; Audians

B

B: Baal; Baalbek; Babel; babies; Baβri; Babylon; Babylonia; Babylonians; Bactria; Balti; Bardesanes; battles; Behistun; Bel; Belti; Bēltīa; Berossus; Bethlehem; birds; birth; blood; bloodthirst; boats; body; Book of Tobit; books; borrowing; Borsippa; bridal chamber; bridges; bronze figurines; bronzes; Buddhism; building; Bulūqiyā; burials; Byblos; Byzantium

C

C: Cain; calendars; camel; Carthage; castration; catalogues; Chaeremon; Chaldean Oracles; Chaldeans; Charax; chariots; cheekpiece; Cherubim; children; chimaera; Christ; Christianity; Christmas; Cilicia; Circe; circle; cities; cold; colonies; comets; company; composite beings; constellations; correspondence; cosmic gates; cosmic womb; craftsmen; creation of mankind; creation of the universe; Crete; cross; crowns; cults; Cybele; cypresses; Cyprus; Cyrus

D

D: Dactyls; Dagon; Daphne; Dawānāy; death; debates; debt release; dedications; deeds of sale; Demeter; Democritus; demons; deportations; Derceto; descent; descriptions; destruction of mankind; destruction of the world; deyus; Dhu l-Qarnayn; Dinanukht; Dionysus; disputations; divination; divine radiance; diviners; divisions; dog with man; doves; dragons; dreams; drinking; Dumuzi

E

E: Ea; eagles; Easter; eating; Ecbatana; eclipse; Edessa; education; effeminates; effigies; Egal; Egypt; Egyptian language; Egyptians; Elagabalus; Elam; Elchesaites; end of times; Enmeduranki; Enoch; Epicureans; epigrams; epilepsy; Ereškigal; Etana; ethics; etymology; eulogy; eunuchs; Euphrates; Europa; Eve; extispicy; eyes

F

F: fables; fame; farmers; fate; festivals; figurines; fire; fish; flood; food; formulae; foundation deposits; foundlings; four elements; frenzy; friends

G

G: gardeners; gardens; garments; gates; Gello; gender; genealogy; geography; ghosts; giants; Gilgameš; glory; Gnosticism; goats; God; gods; Goliath; gondola of heaven; Gorgon; grammar; Great Mother; Greece; Greek language; Greek Orientals; Greeks; grief

H

H: Hanging Gardens; happiness; harps; Harran; Head in the sky; heaven; Hebrew language; Hecate; hegemony; Hekate; Heracles; Hermes; Herod; Hibil Ziwa; Hierapolis; Hippolytus; historiography; Hittite language; Hittites; Holy spirit; hoofs; horse harness; Horus; Humbaba; hunting

I

I: Iamblichus; Iamus; Ibn Waḥshīya; identifications; ideologies; idioms; illness; imitations; immortality; import; impotency; Inanna; incantations; India; initiation rites; inscriptions; insults; Intellect; intelligence; introductions; inventions; invincibility; Ionians; Ionitus; Iran; Iraqi folktales; Isaiah; Isis; Islam; Ištar

J

J: jānua deorum; jānua hominum; jealousy; Jebel Bishri; jewellery; Jews; Judaism; Julian; Jūrjīs; justice

K

K: Kay Kaus; Kewan; Khiḍr al-; Kidenas; kingdoms; kings; kingship; Kronos; Kurdish folktales; Kurdistan

L

L: Labyrinth; ladders; lakes; Lamaštu; Lamia; Land of Darkness; Land of Eternal Darkness; languages; laws; legal traditions; libraries; Lilith; linus; lion; lions; lists; litters; Liwet; lovers; Lugalbanda; Luristan; lutes; lyres

M

M: Macedonians; Magi; magic; Magousaians; Maiuma; man; Mana; Mandaic language; Mandeans; Manetho; Manichaeism; mankind; Mar Qardagh; Marduk; Mari; Marius Victorinus; marriage; Martyrius; Mary; mathematics; Medes; medicine; melammu; melothesia; merchants; Mercury; mercy; Mesopotamia; messengers; Midrash; Milqia; minerals; missiles; mistress of animals; Mithraism; monasticism; moon; Mopsos; Moses; Moses bar Kepha; mountains; Mullissu; music; Mycenaeans; mysteries

N

N: Nabû; naming; Nanaya; Nebuchadnezzar; necessity; necromancy; Neoplatonism; Nergal; netherworld; nets; new year; night; Nimrod; Nineveh; Ninsun; Ninurta; Ninus; Ninyas; Nippur; Nisibis; Nitocris; Noah; novels; numerology

O

O: oaths; obelisks; offerings; Ogygos; ointment; Okeanos; olives; omens; oneness of god; oracles; ordeal river; Origen; Osiris; overpopulation

P

P: paganism; paintings; palaces; paradise; Parthians; Paul; peace; pearls; Peleg; Persephone; Perseus; Persia; Persian language; Persians; personifications; Phoenicia; Phoenicians; Phrygians; physicians; physiognomy; Picus Zeus; pine trees; pipes; planets; plants; Platonism; poison; pomegranates; Posidonius of Apamea; postdiluvian age; poverty; power; prayers; pregnancy; presocratics; priests; primordial causes; primordial men; prison; processions; Prometheus; prophecies; prosperity; protection; punishments; puns; purification; purity; Pythagoras

R

R: reed hut; religions; resurrection; Rhea; Rhodes; riddles; rings; rituals; rivers; Rome; royal council; royal family; rubbing; Ruha

S

S: Sabians; sacred marriage; sacred prostitution; sages; salvation; Šamaš; Samos; Sanskrit language; Sardanalapus; Sardanapalus; Sargon; Šaršar; Saviour; sayings; scribes; script; scripts; Scythians; seas; Seleucid Empire; Selkups; Semiramis; Sennacherib; separation; Set; Seth; seven; seven rays; sexuality; shabbat; shadows; Shekhinah; shepherds; ships; siblings; Sidon; sieges; similes; Sinai; sins; size; skulls; sleep; slings; snakes; Socrates; Sogdian language; Sogdians; solstice; Son of Life; soul; speaking; speed; stars; statues; Stoicism; stones; strangers; stringing; stylites; substitution; success; Sumer; sun; sun-god; sundial; Suteans; symbolism; Syria; Syriac; Syriac language; Syrians

T

T: Tablet of Destinies; Tammuz; Tarsus; Tašmetu; taxes; temples; Tethys; theogony; theomachia; Theseus; thrones; Tiamat; Timaeus; time; Titans; tithes; titles; tower; tower of Babylon; trade; transmission; traps; travelling; Tree of Life; trees; triads; Tropic of Cancer; Troy; trust; tunnels; Tyche; Typhon

U

U: Ugarit; universe; uprisings

V

V: Venus; Verethraghna; vinegar; Virgin of Light; virginity; Vulgata

W

W: walls; warriors; wars; water; water pipe; water-clock; wealth; weapons; weather; weaving; weeping; widows; windows; winds; wine; wisdom; women; world; writing

Y

Y: Yezidis; yoke

Z

Z: Zeus; ziggurat; Ziz; Zoroaster; Zoroastrianism; Zurvanism