The Chaldean account of Genesis : containing the description of the creation, the deluge, the tower of Babel, the destruction of Sodom, the times of the Patriarchs, and Nimrod, Babylonian fables, and legends of the gods : from the cuneiform inscriptions (1876)
Smith, George, 1840-1876 · New York : Scribner, Armstrong · leaf 334
d of Cannes, which must have beenone of the Babylonian stories of the Creation, has notyet been recovered. Besides this, there are evidently many stories ofearly times still unknown, or only known by merefragments or allusions. The fables which I have given in Chapter IX.form a series now appearing… … Cannes. From Nimroud Sculpture. CONCLUSION. 307 Most of the other stories, so far as I can judge,are fixed to the great period before the Flood, whencelestial visitors came backwards and forwards to theearth, and the inhabitants of the world were veryclearly divided into the good and bad, but the…
