We have seen that in accounting for these we are justified in assuming a higher phase of religious belief.

The dividing line between god and spirit becomes faint, and the numerous protecting patrons of the handicrafts that flourished in Babylonia and Assyria can hardly be placed in the same category with those we have so far been considering.

Still, to the popular mind the achievements of the human mind were regarded as due to the workings of hidden forces.

Strange as it may seem, there was an indisposition to ascribe everything to the power of the gods.

Ea and Nabu, although the general gods of wisdom, did not concern themselves with details.