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Notes on

150 S. G. M., ibid.

151 Die Sabien, I, 296.

152 Nineveh and Its Remains, vol. II, p. 239.

153 Nestorians and Their Rituals, vol. I, p. 117.

154 S. J. Curtis: Primitive Semitic Religion To-day, p. 96; J. A. O. S., vol. 8, 223.

155 Cf. Marti’s Die Religion des A. T., pp. 28-29.

156 The Hibbert Journal, ibid.

157 For different interpretation of the Yezidi New Year, see Brockelmann in Z. D. M. G., vol. 55, p. 388.