Assyria, Its Princes, Priests and People Part 12

Witches and wizards held in high repute, 121.

Woman's position in Accad and Babylonia, 139.

X.

Xisuthros, the Chaldaean Noah, sails in a s.h.i.+p containing others beside his own family, steered by a pilot; whilst the flood was at its height, sent out a raven, dove, and swallow, to ascertain how far the waters had abated; his vessel rested on Rowandiz, and Xisuthros, immediately after his descent, sacrificed to the G.o.ds, and was translated to the land of immortality, 81-2.

Z.

Zu, 'the divine storm bird,' who stole the lightning of Bel, the parallel of the Greek story of Prometheus, 78.