Chiromancers divide the hand into several regions, each presided by a planet. The thumb belongs to Venus, the index to Jupiter, the middle finger to Saturn, the annulary to the Sun, the auricular to Mercury, the centre of the hand to Mars, the remainder to the Moon. The direction of the line of life is still undecided by chiromancers; some placing it between the thumb and index, traversing the centre of the palm; […]

Some replace the patah under the letter hay with a kametz and say Elohoi to indicate this grammatical pause.

And in the cloud-headed days that followed, he struggled to make sense of this. Perhaps he was dreaming.

It had two zikurats, of which that on the north may, as Andrae supposes, have been dedicated to Anu, and that on the south to Adad.