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...account of a seduction of man by a tempter has not yet come to light. Corresponding to the ten antediluvian patriarchs of Genesis, the Babylonians believed in ten kings whose reign had extended over a fabulous period of time. The deluge story, which is an episode in the national epic, is too similar to the version in Genesis for the two to be of different origin. The ruined tower of Borsippe, called Birs Nimrud, has long been associated with the Tower of Babel. Several stereopticon views of this magnificent ruin were shown, as well as views of the Assyrian carvings...
...Smith of the British Museum found a part of the great epic, in which the deluge is but an episode. Miss Wolfe of New York gave money for an expedition in 1884, and Dr. Peters of Philadelphia is now working near Babylon where he is excavating a temple or palace...
...chivalry, and the troublous times of the French revolution. The migration of the Germanic tribes brought about a great increase of race feeling; and a corresponding decrease of moral sentiment; it is a time of rapid expansion, and of unscrupulous accumulation. Out of such experiences the great epic traditions of a nation were born. These epics are not left intact. The Germans in the midst of this period adopted the Christian religion, and abandoned their own religious ideas; with the religious ideas went the poetic ideas, too. But the Icelanders preserved the old traditions better, and Professor Francke analyzed...
...papacy and the empire men as men did not exist; there was no such thing as individual liberty; a man existed only as a member of a body. And yet it was through these institutions that the nations breathed their sincerest faith and highest aspirations. The great epic of this period is the Nioelungen Leid, and it is as characteristic of this epoch as is the Elder Edda of the first...
...made by such records when taken in connection with the art remains is that of enormous power and enterprise. The politics of western Asia pass before us like a mighty panorama. The products of the imagination are partly mythical and partly legendary. The great poem known as the Izdubar epic seems to be a solar myth and contains as an episode a deluge story practically the same as in the book of Genesis. There are also tablets recording the adventures of the goddess of love, the story of creation and the wars of the god. From the religion...