[The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea by George Rawlinson]@TWC D-Link bookThe Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea CHAPTER VII 19/54
Some of these temples were very ancient, those at Warka and Niffer being built by Urukh, while that at Mugheir was either built or repaired by Ismi-dagon. According to one record, Beltis was a daughter of Ana.
It was especially as "Queen of Nipur" that she was the wife of her son Nin.
Perhaps this idea grew up out of the fact that at Nipur the two were associated together in a common worship.
It appears to have given rise to some of the Greek traditions with respect to Semiramis, who was made to contract an incestuous marriage with her own son Ninyas, although no explanation can at present be given of the application to Beltis of that name. HEA, or HOA. The third god of the first Triad was Hea, or Hoa, probably the Aus of Damascus.
His appellation is perhaps best rendered into Greek by the [--] of Helladius--the name given to the mystic animal, half man, half fish, which came up from the Persian Gulf to teach astronomy and letters to the first settlers on the Euphrates and Tigris.
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