شلاما
لقد وجدت في كتاب تاريخي اهمية المياه المقدسة التي كان يستعملها الاشوريين لرش الماء المقدس حول الميت واشجار النخيل وحول الملك وفي مدخل القصور والمعابد لطرد الارواح الشريرة
The florea of the assyrian monuments
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Then the operration of sprinkling holy water round their date trees , round the person of the king , and at the entrance of plaaces and temple s to scare away evil spirits ,seemed to be more rational
The act of distended arm , holding the sprinkler , we shall ,i think , find that this theory will fit all cases, and become more resonable than any other which has been yet imagined
Holy water in those days must have been one of the weapons by which demons were outwitted . Not only has the christian church inherited the notion of holy water with many other assyrian notions