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The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria

CHAPTER VI
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The theory, however, does not admit of consistent application.

There are gods, as Amiaud recognized, who cannot be brought under his scheme, so far at least as present testimony is concerned; and others can only by an arbitrary assumption be forced into accord with the theory.

Moreover, we should expect to find traces of this family idea in the later phases of the Assyro-Babylonian pantheon.

Such, however, is not the case.

A more reasonable and natural explanation of the relationship existing between many--not all--of the gods of Gudea's pantheon has already been suggested.


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