"The fundamental principle of the Sumerian or Sumero-Akkadian religion was a crude shamanism: the belief in evil spiri…"

"The extraordinary quantity of divine beings, major and minor, with which the Babylonians populated the world, at firs…"

"He lives in the most sublime regions of the universe, in an atmosphere never disturbed by winds or storms, always pur…"

"The Assyrians saw in Asur the father and king of the other gods, the god of war, author of their victories, to whom t…"

"Ea is the main god of the most ancient phase of the Sumerian religion, which then passed into the Babylonian-Assyrian…"

"From his quality as king of the waters comes his wisdom, which makes him, as we read in various hymns, "the intellige…"

"Blacksmiths and goldsmiths, weavers, stone carvers, gardeners and farmers proclaimed him their patron and teacher; th…"

"Samas had precisely the office of bringing the light "of the wide space of the sky" to the gods and men during the da…"

"As a bringer of light, Samas was considered one of the greatest enemies of the powers of evil, born of darkness and w…"

"Like the other major deities of the Euphratic pantheon, Samas is named in imprecative formulas, where he appears not …"