The Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia, Vol. 1: Being Babylonian and Assyrian (Classic Reprint)

The object of the two volumes which form the present work is to supply the student of Assyrian Demonology withE nglish transliterations and translations, with the necessary notes, etc., of the documents printed in theS ixteenth andS eventeenth Parts of Cuneiform Texts fr07n Babylonian Tablets, etc., which have been recently issued by the Trustees of theB ritish Museum. An examination of these two Parts will show that they contain copies of all the Tablets belonging to theS eries Utukki Limnuti, A sakki Marsuti, and Ti i, i.e., Evil Spirits, Fever Sickness, and Headache, which have now been identified, together with the texts of a considerable number of compositions of a similar character. These collections of Evil Spirit Texts form large and important sections of the native literature concerning Babylonian and Assyrian Demonology, and there is reason to believe that the material now published represents about one-half of that belonging to the threeS eries mentioned above which was known to the scribes of A ssurbanipal.
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