218.
[204] _Kosmologie_, p.

195.
[205] Rawlinson, i.

29, 16.
[206] This notion that the ground belongs to the gods, and that man is only a tenant, survives to a late period in Semitic religions.

The belief underlies the Pentateuchal enactments regarding the holding of the soil, which is only to be temporary.

See W.R.Smith, _Religion of the Semites_, pp.