There is none round which it has not cast its feelersno Semitic moneylender ever obtained a surer hold on his victim.

[Footnote 2: "Bar-ili," from "bar," gate, and "ili," of the godsBabel, Baboriginates from the Accadian word "bar," Semitic "bab;" thus Babel was originally called "bar-ili."

The chief raison d'être for "The Fair Hebrew: or, a True, but Secret History of Two Jewish Ladies, Who lately resided in London" (1729) was to gratify the prejudices of anti-Semitic readers, yet it is hardly distinguishable from her sentimental love stories.

Their monstrosity may have been meant, as it was certainly with the Mexican idols, and probably those of the Semitic races of Syria and Palestine, to symbolise the ferocious passions which they attributed to those objects of their dread, appeasable alone by human sacrifice.

On the other hand, I have exercised moderation in drawing comparisons with Aryan, Semitic, Egyptian and other Old World mythologies.

Outlines of the Fundamental American MythThe White Culture-hero and the Four BrothersInterpretation of the MythComparison with the Aryan Hermes MythWith the Aryo-Semitic Cadmus MythWith Osirian MythsThe Myth of the Virgin MotherThe Interpretation thus Supported.

OUTLINES OF THE FUNDAMENTAL AMERICAN MYTHTHE WHITE CULTURE-HERO AND THE FOUR BROTHERSINTERPRETATION OF THE MYTHCOMPARISON WITH THE ARYAN HERMES MYTHWITH THE ARYO-SEMITIC CADMUS MYTHWITH OSIRIAN MYTHSTHE MYTH OF THE VIRGIN MOTHERTHE INTERPRETATION

Or we can find another familiar myth, partly Aryan, partly Semitic, where many of the same outlines present themselves.

When we find that the name Cadmus is simply the Semitic word kedem, the east, and notice all this mythical entourage, we see that this legend is but a lightly veiled account of the local source and progress of the light of day, and of the advantages men derive from it.

The best thinkers of the Semitic race, for example, from Moses to Spinoza, have been in this respect far ahead of their often more generally enlightened Aryan contemporaries.

Yet philologists have discovered what appears to be a far-off link between the Berber and Semitic languages, and the Chleuhs of the Draa and the Souss, with their tall slim Egyptian-looking bodies and hooked noses, may have a strain of Semitic blood.

This antipathy he shared in common with all the Greek world, for already, as a result of the peculiar religion and customs of the Jews and their success in commercial pursuits, that which is known to-day as the anti-Semitic spirit was fully developed.

The one force throughout Semitic history that has bound together tribes and nations and made the Semite an almost invincible fighting power has been religion.

Estra, which appears in the Hebrew Esther, was the late Babylonian form of the name of the Semitic goddess Ishtar.

It was in this atmosphere and under the influence of these methods that the anti-Semitic spirit was born in ancient Alexandria.

In later days, when they were oppressed by cruel persecutions, they revived in modified form the dreams that had been current in the childhood of the Semitic race, and thought of a supernatural kingdom that was to be inaugurated after Jehovah and his attendant angels, like Marduk in the old Babylonian tradition of the creation, had overcome Satan and the fallen angels.

Furthermore, its roots went back to the old Semitic mythology.

The peasants know, of course, about those Semitic victories; but they know also that if the Semite has had his day of triumph and imposed, as was right and proper, his God and his Prophet on Roumeven on all mankind as many believed, and some may be found in remoter regions who still believehe has returned to his own place south of Taurus; and still Roum is Roum, natural indefeasible Lord of the World.

(Harvard Semitic series, v. 11) © 15Jan40; A137326.

Semitic mythology.

Semitic mythology.

Semitic mythology.

Excavations at Nuzi conducted by the Semitic Museum and the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University with the cooperation of the American School of Oriental Research at Baghdad.

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The script reads from left to right, like our own writing, and unlike that of the Semitic peoples and the primitive Greeks; and the rule for the placing of the characters is that all the 'wedges' point to the right or downwards and the arrow-head forms are open towards the right.