53` He licks (it) seven times. He will recover."

If a man repeatedly shouts (or) laughs (while asleep) on his bed."

"Sleep-walking is referred to in ... ‘sleep omens’ : the sleeper rises from his bed (AMT 65/4, lines 10`-11`)".

p. 50

4 they deliver him (the demon) to Biduh, the chief door-keeper of the Underworld."

p. 52

VA 7525, col. III, lines 28-35 : dreameth that a town repeatedly falleth upon him, he sigheth,

30 "A lamassu ... fastened to his body."

34-35 "A very evil s^edu is fastened to his body."

p.

dreams

52

3` ... ‘the Hand of a Ghost of his Family’."

53

"The Mesopotamian medical texts dealing with epilepsy ... mention dreams or visions in a seizure, especially the section TDP, p. 196, Tab. 26 ..., lines 58-68 and 71-79. The invalid sees "(something) like" (kima) various animals, dead people, his daughter, and topographical features, all of which are connected with different diagnoses relating to epilepsy. In addition, the sufferer may ‘see’ the disease demons seizing him : e.g., BM 47753 ... rev. 14-15 (where he even talks with his attacker)."

p.

dream

62

"Hemerologies reveal that the ardat lili-demoness could pick a man as mate (ha^ru) : e.g., Iraq 21[1959], pls. 14-15, obv. 14, rev. 33 and 45."

64

85-86 ... whether in my dream(s) I have sex with my mother ..., (or) with <my> mother-in-law, (or) with my sister."

p.

deity

73

"The normal logogram for s^uttu, "dream", ... is MA’S^.GE6, but ... MA.MU’(.D) is used instead ... in Sumerian texts ... for ... references ... (i.e., to a personified and deified "dream") which place the god within the retinue of ... UTU ... ."

74

Mamu (is) a daughter of" UTU (sun-god).

77

"The correlation of ... the Sumerian Sisig ("the one who constantly blows" ...) amd the Akkadian Zaqiqu ("a breeze" ...) is reinforced by ZI [Zaqiqu Incantation], line 1, where the Akkadian manuscript has Zi-qi-qu, but the two Sumerian texts have SI.SI.IG and SIG.SIG". ["Zaqiqu is ... mentioned in the lexical texts, ... once as a gloss to Sisig." (p. 87)]

81

J. V. Kinnier Wilson [1957, p. 42] tentatively translated GIS^karan s^elebi(GES^TIN.KA5.A) as "solanum-(berries)"." {berry of Solanum mammosum (turkey berry), "Causing ... "dreams of death with violent weeping"" (SM).}

83

AN.ZAG.GA`R / AN.ZAG.GAR.RA : "In earlier studies this name was written dZA.GA`R (... ZAQ.QAR) yet, recently, ... the custom has been to write it as AN.ZA.GA`R. ... The lexical texts and God Lists ‘prove’ that Anzagar was a Dream God."

84

O Anzagar, the medium of Nannaru" (moon-god).

85

"the logogram AN.ZA.GA`R is rendered in Akkadian by dimtu, "tower". ... T. Jacobsen [1989, p. 274, n. 46] believed that Ilzakar ... derived from the verbal root zkr, "to remember"". {Alternatively, /ZAQ.QAR/ may be derived from /ZaQr/ ‘a species of hawk’ (LA-L, vol. 2, p. 244a) : in Kemian (antient Aiguptian), the falcon’s eye was the symbol for the lunar-phases [cf. Nannar], while the open human eye was the determinant-hieroglyph for the word ‘dream’. But whereas the falcon’s eye may see the dream, the falcon itself symbolizeth (BA 4:3:19) dreamless sleep.}

87

The "LI’L.LA’ ... logogram appears in the names of the demons ... lilitu(Mi’MI’L.LA’), and ardat lili^(KI.SIKIL.LI’L.LA’) ... succubi. ardat lili^ incantations also associate her with the zaqiqu wind demon : e.g., she is called a ziqiqu (YOS 11, No. 92, line 23 ...); and she emerges from the bit zaqiqi" [-- "the bit ziqiqi which is completely silent ... the town which is turned to the wind." (p. 225)] {Is this silence that of the country DuMah ‘Silence’ (Strong’s 1745-6), a name cognate with the Akkadian /DiMtu/?} {/ZiQiQu/ would be cognate with /ZaQaQ/ ‘to purify, to refine’ (Strong’s 2212), refining (of metal) being a frequent divine function in the Dead Sea Scrolls.}

"Note the mentions of a "ram of the storm" in two dream incantations, at ADRC, col. III lines 33 and 52." {"ram is the vehicle of the Indian fire and lightning god Agni" (MCH&J, p. 183)}

88

340 bellowed like a domesticated ox". {"Under the names Sumukan, Martu, and Amurru, Adad was recognized as ‘god of lightning’ and ‘god of mountains’. He can often be seen standing on a bull wielding lightning bolts. It has been argued that the bull, or the bull’s roar, was the symbol for the roar of thunder." (H&SGA)}

p.

charm

165

"7-8 [If a man] repeatedly sees dead people [in] his dream(s) : ata>is^u(-plant), the ‘dog’s tongue’(-plant), ... lace together with [arrabu] tendon."

166

14`-15` Seeds of the bus^anu-plant, ... tamarisk".

167

SIG7.SIG7 (urriqu-stone)

l.

text

BAM 315, col. IV lines 27-36 (duplicated by BAM 316, col. I limes 20`-24`)

27

"In order that (his) god and / or (his) goddess instruct him (lit., open his ears),

28-30

(and in order) to see a favourable dream : You place (pieces of) ... the nus.abu-plant, the aririanu-plant, the ‘dog’s tongue’-plant, the arantu-grass, (and of) a root of a baltu thorn-bush which (grows) over a grave".

32-33

"In order to ditto ... : You immerse (lit., bury) (pieces of) emesallu(-salt), pallurtu(-plant), silver, and (of) ‘proper’ gold in honey (and) ghee for three days."

SpTU 2, No. 22, col. IV lines 5-6

5

"So that a man will cause his personal god and / or his personal goddess to stand at his head (while he sleeps), and (also) in order to see a favourable dream :

6

You place (pieces of) the s^ubu^-stone, the hulalu-stone, (and of) the as^giku-stone".

p.

lines 65a-68 : dreams

lines 100-103 : meteors

222

65a take barley of 1 harbu.

100 take barley of 1 harbu.

66 a youth, who hath not known a woman, grindeth the barley.

101 a youth, who hath not known a woman, grindeth the barley.

66-7 sweep the floor in front of the Wain constellation.

102 in front of the Wain constellation,

67 set up a censer of juniper.

place a censer of juniper.

223

68 recite thrice the incantation to the Wain constellation

103 thrice recite, in front of the Wain constellation, the incantation to the stars of the Paths

p.

side col.:l.

text

291

obv I :13

"[If a man] saw an incorrect dream : Without having eaten

:14

... he recounts to a reed." {The barber of Midas went to "the river-bank and, first making sure that nobody was about, whispered ... . Then he ... went away, ... a reed sprouted from the bank and whispered the secret to all who passed." (GM 83.g) One variety of Tantrik initiation involveth the initiator whispering the mantra through a reed to the initiate.}

295

II :34

"May my personal god stand at my right!

:35

May my personal goddess stand at my! left!"

:40

Enlil; Ninlil

:41

"Ninurta, the eldest son of Ekur"

:42

"Nusku, the grand vizier of Enlil"

:43

"Nanna ..., the king of Ur!"

:44

"Utu, the king of the Land"

:45

Is^kur, "the king of heaven and earth"

:46

"Asalluhi, the eldest son of the Apsu"

297

III :3b

"you wash your hands (in) a bowl three times ... .

:3c

[While] you are washing, you recount that dream into the water three times ... .

:3d

"... may it take (the dream’s evil) from me!" You wash your hands three times". {cf. washing of his own hands by Pontius Pilatus}

298

rev III :33

"O ram of the storm, slaughter (the evil of the dream) with a sword of wind!"

300

:61

"If a man saw frightening dreams, (and) his dreams inflict misfortune upon him :

:62-3

... You place ... the ‘white plant’, and grains of emesallu-salt ... . ...

:67-8

[You place] an ostrich [egg]-shell, a green frog, (pieces of) iron, silver, (and) gold, (together with) ebony? powder".

IV :5-6

"You thread (beads of) jasper, the sahhu^-stone, the baltu-stone, the lamassu-stone, magnetite, (and) of ‘male’ copper onto a flax thread,

:7

(also) of the NI’G.URUDU.UD-stone : (these are all) stones to make ... dreams favourable."

301

:15-6

"(In order) to avert ... dreams : You place (pieces of) lupin, ... ‘male’ and ‘female’ nipiktu-(-plant)".

:17-8

"You place (pieces of) the qan s^alali-reed, ... ajartu-shell, the imhur-lim-plant".

:19

"You place (pieces of ) the harmunu-plant, the edu-plant, (and) seeds of the edu-plant".

:20

"You place (pieces of ) the edu-plant, the elkulla-plant, the as^lu-rush".

p.

l.

daimon

342

42

ilu lem-nu (DINGIR.MES^)

43

im-me-du

44

Nuri-ka (ZA’LAG-ka)

343

45

S^u-lak